Well, I think it's a shame that she and Hal can't get along. Carol is getting older, like all of those musicians . . . and there is simply no way she can keep the details straight on all those producers, performers, and sessions, which took place 50 or more years ago. No one could.
She is not going to be happy about my book.
In all of the documentation that survives at AFM Local 47 (musicians union), her name appears on only one contract for a Jan & Dean session, and that was in 1965. However, I was able to illustrate that Jan paid her for an undocumented session in 1962. There could have been multiple such sessions.
I told Carol about the documentation, and I asked if she would be kind enough to check her log books for Jan & Dean dates. I told her I wanted to make sure she got credit if her name was left off of the AFM contracts for some reason. I could have easily matched her dates with known sessions. She said she would check and get back to me . . . but she never did.
That doesn't mean she doesn't have Jan & Dean dates in her log book. But it was disappointing.
Her public feud with Hal is something else. Here's what Hal told the L.A. Record in 2009:
"Well, today of course I’m very upset with that goddamn Carol Kaye. She’s just so full of garbage. I saw her at the musicians union and I screamed expletives at the top of my lungs—‘Don’t you come near me, you son of a bitch!’ I laid it on her something terrible. She ran away. I haven’t seen her or talked to her since, and I wouldn’t anyway. She should have been tried for treason."
