As we’ve mentioned before, many early rock hits were remakes of the standards. These guys went one step further with a May 1961 rocked-up version of “Flight Of The Bumblebee.” Guitarist René Hall, drummer Earl Palmer and sax man Plas Johnson (all New Orleans natives) formed the nucleus of an L.A. session group called B. Bumble and the Stingers. They became part of the famed Wrecking Crew of first-call studio musicians, each playing on literally hundreds of records, i.e., Johnson played sax on Henry Mancini’s “Pink Panther” theme. Ernie Freeman was on piano here.
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