NEW YORK (AP) — Carol Kaye, a prolific and revered bassist who performed on hundreds of songs within the Sixties together with hits by the Seashore Boys, Simon & Garfunkel and Barbra Streisand, advised The Related Press on Friday that she desires no a part of the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame.
“I’ve declined the rrhof. Completely,” the 90-year-old Kaye mentioned in an e mail to the AP. She mentioned she has despatched a letter to the Corridor saying the identical factor.
Her remarks come two days after a Fb submit — since deleted — during which she mentioned “NO I won’t be there. I am declining the RRHOF awards show.”
Kaye was set to be inducted in November in a category that additionally consists of Joe Cocker, Chubby Checker and Cyndi Lauper.
She mentioned in her deleted submit that she was “turning it down because it wasn’t something that reflects the work that Studio Musicians do and did in the golden era of the 1960s Recording Hits.”
Kaye’s credit embody the bass traces on Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound,” the Seashore Boys’ “Good Vibrations” and the Monkees’ “I’m a Believer.”
Together with drummer Hal Blaine and guitarist Tommy Tedesco, she was a part of a core of closely used studio musicians that Blaine later dubbed “The Wrecking Crew.”
Kaye hated the title, and urged in her Fb submit that her affiliation with it was a part of the rationale for declining induction.
“I was never a ‘wrecker’ at all,” she wrote, “that’s a horrible insulting title.”
Kaye’s inductee web page on the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame web site makes no point out of the moniker.
Corridor representatives had no quick remark.
Many artists have been inducted of their absence or after their loss of life, and in 2006 the Intercourse Pistols grew to become Corridor of Famers regardless of rejecting their induction.
In 2022, Dolly Parton initially declined her induction, saying somebody extra related to rock ‘n’ roll ought to get the distinction. However she was satisfied to alter her thoughts and embrace the distinction.
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Dalton reported from Los Angeles.
