 A session or a recording date, as they called it, would be three hours long. Now, the musicians would go to work many times not knowing what they were recording or whom they were recording with. Most of the time, the music was just written out, but many times they would have to come up with ideas that worked for a song. In 1968, Jimmy Webb gave my father a charm modeled like a tiny Grammy Award as a thank you gift. My father asked, what is this for?