Studio session bass player, one of the Wrecking Crew of Los Angeles-based session musicians. It is Osborn you hear on the memorable and melodic bass lines on the last verse of
Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and throughout "Only Living Boy in NY" from the Bridge Over Troubled Water" album, as well as "MacArthur Park" by
Richard Harris, "California Dreaming" by
The Mamas and the Papas, and
The Carpenters' recording of the 1971 Best Song Academy Award-winner "For All We Know" from the film
Lovers and Other Strangers (1970).