Fact #128804
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At United Western Studio, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, Freddy Cannon records Action, the theme song to the new tv show Where The Action Is, with legendary session musicians the Wrecking Crew as his backing group.
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Freddy Cannon : Dick Glasser (record producer) calls me at home and asks me to come down to the Burbank Studios. So I go down there and he says, 'I'm going to play you something and see if you like it. If you do like it, Dick Clark's office sent it over for a television show, and they're going on air in ten days. So, if you can do it, we're going to have to run to the studio and cut it right away.' So he put the song on – it's Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart singing Action. The second time he played that record, I was singing it. He said, 'Freddy, let's go cut this record.' I was excited because this was going to be a television theme. If I could pull it off, I'd be on the air every week on television again.
They (Wrecking Crew session players [Glen Campbell, James Burton, Leon Russell, Hal Blaine and David Gates] listened to the little cassette in the control room, went back out to the studio and in two takes they had the record. Two takes – I never saw any musicians do things so fast, and how good they were. It was so quick, it was the fastest record I ever had. It became a hit and on television, all in ten days.
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They (Wrecking Crew session players [Glen Campbell, James Burton, Leon Russell, Hal Blaine and David Gates] listened to the little cassette in the control room, went back out to the studio and in two takes they had the record. Two takes – I never saw any musicians do things so fast, and how good they were. It was so quick, it was the fastest record I ever had. It became a hit and on television, all in ten days.