Carol Kaye

Carol Kaye (born March 24, 1935) is one of the most prolific and widely heard bass guitarists in history, playing on an estimated 10,000 recording sessions in a 55-year career. Throughout the 1960s, she played bass on a significant percentage of records that appeared on the Billboard Hot 100, though almost wholly unknown to the general public. One of the most popular albums Carol contributed to was the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. She is credited with the bass tracks on several Simon & Garfunkel hits, film scores by Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin and contributed bass tracks on several of the Monkees hits. Her tracks for Quincy Jones so impressed him, that he said in his 2001 autobiography that "... women like... Fender bass player Carol Kaye... could do anything and leave men in the dust."

The world's best known, unknown bass player.