Kent Hartman is a
Portland, Oregon
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-based author. His book ''
The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret'' won the
Frances Fuller Victor
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Oregon Book Award
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in 2013 and was a ''
Los Angeles Times
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'' bestseller.
Hartman spent decades in
Los Angeles
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, and worked with a variety of famous recording artists. He produced a nationally syndicated radio program, ''The Classic Comedy Break''. As of 2012 he teaches marketing at
Portland State University
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.
''The Wrecking Crew'' book was inspired by a conversation between the author and
Larry Knechtel
Lawrence William Knechtel (August 4, 1940 – August 20, 2009) was an American keyboard player and bassist who was a member of the Wrecking Crew, a collection of Los Angeles-based session musicians who worked with such renowned artists as Simon & ...
, a member of the band
Bread, and previously a member of
the Wrecking Crew, an informal group of studio musicians who played anonymously on many 1960s and 1970s music hits.
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Writers from Portland, Oregon
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Writers from Los Angeles
Portland State University faculty