I hope you had a great thanksgiving Holiday with your friends and family, this week's episode is something pretty special. So it's on a VERY special and rare occasion that I do interviews on my podcast, sometimes I do them, but most of the time I don't, but whenever I do, I try to bring in interesting guests, and most of the time it's someone from the 60's, and why I bring in a music industry figure from the 60's is so that way they can share the story behind the songs they helped create, but they can also share a lot of cool memories about their time in the music industry back in the 60's, but it's also because in 10-15 years, most of these people will be gone and a lot of their stories will not be told unless they go on a podcast to talk about their life in the music industry back in the 60's, and since this is an internet podcast, this will live on the internet forever and will never go away, so future generations will be able to listen to these interviews and see what it was like to be in the music industry back in the 60's, and many times there are learning lessons from these people as they often were taken advantage of by other industry people and many of them did not profit from the massive success they had back then. so hopefully the long lasting systemic trend of people getting royally screwed in the music industry ends at some point, and hopefully these interview episodes will help make that happen, and this podcast episode, I have someone on that shares one of those stories, and it's familiar, but it also shines a light on the unfair treatment women specifically were given in the entertainment industry at that time (even though honestly, men got screwed over too, but women often got the worst of it a lot of times) and it's honestly has been a long time since I had a woman guest on my podcast, but I hope this opens your eyes to some of the awful things that women went through in the music industry at that time, and that just because someone was involved in making hit records, that doesn't mean that they were millionaires as people imagined them to be, cause often times, someone was making a HUGE profit on these records, but was it the people behind the scenes?, most certainly not. Session musicians were like constructions workers. they clocked in, did their work, got paid , they clocked out then they left the studio they were at cutting records, and came home. but instead of building houses or bridges, they were sight reading charts & blasting out songs every thirty or so minutes during 3 hour union sessions at major recording studios, and then hearing their songs they played on on Top 40 radio in their cars just months and weeks and sometimes even days after they played on them, and this week's guest was one of those people. you never saw her name on records, but trust me, she was there and will always be there no matter how many times you hear the songs she played on even after she is no longer here with us. She played some AMAZING flute parts on records that were HUGE and she was also a piccolo player too, so I'm very excited to have her on this week, and if your wondering when I"m gonna do this again, very soon I'll be doing more interviews. Often times I go through long Dry spells of not doing any interviews, then a bunch more come up and I do a bunch more. But to give you some context of exactly what we talk about during this interview, here are the links to some of the songs that we talked about. I will be putting these into the official playlists for this podcast, but don't be afraid to stop and listen to these songs when listening to this interview then come back to listening to this interview, it will help you get better context as to what is being talked about here....