The whole band Paul Revere and the Raiders had Vox guitars, amps and a Vox Continental organ. The Vox bass was seen quite a bit, the organ was pretty much always there, but the guitars got ditched as quick as they could. I had some buddies who toured with them for a short period and they used to joke about it quite a bit.
Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones had a Vox bass named after him that he didn't play a whole lot. There were a bunch of less popular but big at the time bands that Vox sponsored that did the same thing. They would pose for promo stuff all decked out with whatever Vox would give them but when it was time to play , all you would see was the Super Beatles.
There was a local music store, back in the day, that was a huge Vox distributor so I got to see a lot of this. the majority of the big name bands were playing through Super Beatles but the guitars and basses were only in pictures . On stage and in the studio in was nothing but Gibson and Fender.
Rick
So basically, the usual suspects. Don't forget James Brown with his twin bass players on Phantoms. Show Biz, baby!
It's good that the Raiders could joke about it, pretty much THEY were considered a joke by guys of my generation. Probably didn't wear those outfits off stage either. It's not very easy to balance a Phantom or Teardrop on your lap in the studio. Though I don't think they did that much studio stuff anyway, it's the Wrecking Crew on all the great singles. Possibly John Entwhistle might have let Gibson name the RD as his signature bass but by the time they brought it to him he didn't need something he didn't like with his name on it. Wyman barely made any money into the '70s with the Stones, it's in his book.
As far as studio work in general, major label studio engineers and producers preferred to work with instruments they were familiar with. Fenders and Gibsons were a known quantity. Tommy Tedesco might be given some latitude, an unknown had better take direction.
I posted this Vox in part to show that the originals are legit instruments. Very few of the Brit ones got to the States, the vast majority we see here are the pillowbacks. Unfortunately Vox outsourced their gits and basses to EKO to cut costs and gain market share. Luckily they didn't do the same with the AC30.
Thunderbirds, LP basses and RDs also got little love back in the day. Not to mention Grabbers and Rippers.