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The Decca-era song I lookt into last week was "Don't Cry for Me." I wrote out the bass part and put the guitar chords above the staff:
The guitar part has this little lick during the first two measures:
The tildes (~) indicate glissandi.
According to what I figured out, the bass part is usually the root note of whatever chord it's beneath (with the notable exception of a D note underneath an F major, essentially making an F major 6th [although writing it out made me question my accuracy there]), which is why it's so baffling to me that in The Zombies: Hung up on a Dream (p. 138), Claes Johansen says that the song is "driven along by Grundy's excellent drumming and Chris White's increasingly innovative bass-playing." I think Chris White's a great bass player (although I'm obviously biased), but I have to say: this isn't the most interesting bass part.
