Tommy Morgan (1932–2022)

Chances are if you hear a harmonica on a pop recording made within the last fifty or so years, you’re hearing Tommy Morgan. Variety has an obituary.

Here’s a tour de force with multiple instruments. Here’s the Beach Boys’ “I Know There’s an Answer” (Brian Wilson–Terry Sachen–Mike Love), with Morgan’s bass harmonica solo. And here’s “My Jeanine” (Van Dyke Parks), from the Parks–Brian Wilson album Orange Crate Art, also with Morgan on bass harmonica.