Mike Leech

Mike Leech (1941–2021) was a Memphis-born bassist and arranger, a member of the Memphis Boys house band at Chips Moman’s American Sound Studio in the late 1960s, where he played on Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds” and “In the Ghetto,” Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a Preacher Man” and Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline.” He moved to Nashville in the early 1970s and became a first-call session bassist and string arranger.