Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour.
In the late Sixties a record producer was a more hands-on person. A record producer was often a skilled music arranger or an engineer or both.
He became the first member of a major pop group to win creative control of the records, ... He was the writer, the chief composer, the arranger and producer of The Beach Boys records in 1963. That was unprecedented.