Who are the Unsung Heroes in music?
 

If you have seen the film/documentary Standing In The Shadows Of Motown you will know what I am getting at, basically I am looking for the guys/girls who appear on tracks you love but have never got the credit they deserve.

2 examples for me immediately come to mind:

1) I absolutely loved Damien Rices album "O" and the thing that really caught my ear every time I listened to it was a wonderful female singer. I later discovered that it was an Irish singer called Lisa Hannigan and while her solo material imo never lived upto her performances on the Damien Rice album, it was nice to put a face and a name to her voice I had heard so many times.

Lisa Hannigan begins singing @ 1.17.

Damen Rice - Cold Water live on Jonathan Ross - YouTube

2) For years I loved Jay-Z's Girls, Girls, Girls Pt.2 (remix) track which appears on The Blueprint album. It was only earlier this week that I discovered it was produced by Kanye West and the sample used was a song called "trying girls out" by The Persuaders. Ok, so Kanye West is very well known and isnt an unsung hero in the music industry, but what if that track was arranged by an unknown person, these are the people I want to discover in this thread.

Jay-Z - Girls, Girls, Girls, pt. 2 (remix) - YouTube

So what guitar lines? Backing vocals? Drum beats?...Anything, really catch your ear? Let's try and find out the people/s responsible.

I'm going to say that the producers and mixers are the unsung heroes.

Another snippet that I have just thought of is the watery guitar part in Busta Rhymes and Janet Jacksons "what's it gonna be?!"

Will try and find out out who is responsible for these sounds. I'm sure there must be a core of widely used session musicians.

The part I am on about starts @ 23 seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4PFClnMkOU

I DONT SUPPOSE ANYONE HAS THE ACTUAL ALBUM THIS IS ON AND CAN CHECK THE LINER NOTES TO SEE IF THE GUITARIST WAS CREDITED?

Two Words: Bill Laswell

the left banke, highly underappreciated 60s pop band

Checked these out, thanks for that!

Looked him up, what an impressive CV/Resume.

Neglected this thread a bit so wanted to get the ball rolling again.

In the photo in my avatar on the Left hand side is a guitarist called Robert White

He composed the guitar riff to My Girl that starts @ 4 seconds & runs throughout the whole track, and played on many other Motown hits as part of the labels studio band called The Funk Brothers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_White_(guitarist)


My Girl - YouTube

Carol freakin' Kaye.
http://www.carolkaye.com/www/assets/...e_1974-lib.jpg

Hands down, in my opinion, the best session bassist to have ever lived, and the best thing about this song: