Official Sites, View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. In his lifetime, he played on 40 Number One hits and some 150 singles that made it into the Top 10. [7], From 1949 to 1952, Blaine learned drums from Roy Knapp, who had also taught jazz drummer Gene Krupa. [11], Blaine played less session work from the 1980s onwards as computers and electronics began to be used in studios, and producers began to bring in younger players. Tedescos son, Denny Tedesco, made a documentary about Blaine and his fellow studio musicians in 2008, titled The Wrecking Crew, and promoted it for more than a decade, putting Blaine back in the spotlight. | Family members linked to this person will appear here. And his influence opened doors for other members of the musicians union. His other rock standards included such Beach Boys hits as Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda and I Get Around. He recorded Everybody Loves Somebody with Dean Martin and Half Breed with Cher. Blaine, who has died aged 90, was a musician of expert technique and considerable imagination, but he knew when to keep it simple in order to make a song distinctive when played on the radio. [8] He began his professional career playing overnight sessions in Chicago strip clubs, which allowed him to practice and perfect his sight reading skills. He was the primary drummer for producer Phil Spector in the early 1960s, making him partly responsible for Spector's famous Wall of Sound. There was an error deleting this problem. Unlike many highly trained session musicians, the members of the Wrecking Crew were not musical snobs. The Wrecking Crews motto was TTMAR: Take the money and run. But they and Blaine not least seldom closed the studio door behind them without having left something of themselves on the recording tape. Hal Blaine (Harold Simon Belsky), drummer, born 5 February 1929; died 11 March 2019, Be My Baby to Bridge Over Troubled Water: Hal Blaine's greatest performances, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. He was 90-years-old. While relatively unknown to the music audience, the Wrecking Crew were viewed with reverence by industry insiders. Please enter your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password code. Probably the biggest hit record he worked on was The Ronettes' million-selling "Be My Baby" from 1963, with the famous "thump, thump, thump, BOOM!" Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? Hal Blaine: Yeah. Drummer Hal Blaine, one of the most recorded musicians in pop music history died of natural causes at his home in Palm Desert, California age 90.As a member of the The Wrecking Crew his drumming can be heard on songs such as Presley's 'Return to Sender,' the Byrds' 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' The Beach Boys 'Good Vibrations,' Simon & Garfunkel's 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' and dozens of hits . Session musicians made good money in the 60s as long as they could turn up on time, could add a little magic to a song and did not make trouble. Hal Blaine, who died on Monday at 90, was the greatest and most prolific session drummer during the turbulent Sixties crescendo from pop to psychedelia, keeping the nation's heartbeat through. When Tommy went into the service I started traveling with Patti Page. So was the riveting introduction to the Ronettes Be My Baby, a brusque bom bom-bom BANG! 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But he also enjoyed the emerging "rock and roll" of the 1950s, and performed as a session musician in rock recordings.In the 1960s, Blaine served as a core member of "the Wrecking Crew", a loose collective of session musicians working in Los Angeles. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. Blaine played on dozens of chart-topping singles in his career, including the Byrds' version of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man," the 5th Dimension's "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In," Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were." Discover today's celebrity birthdays and explore famous people who share your birthday. Hal Blaine, one of the most revered and prolific session drummers of all time has died, aged 90. He became interested in music as a child, and started playing drums as a hobby when 8-years-old. Blaine gave the Wrecking Crew their name, a reference to the older musicians the ones he called the blue-blazer guys who feared that the new generation would usurp their opportunities and destroy their comfortable living. Ms. Blaine grew up in the Los Angeles music scene, traveling with her dad around the world to various exotic locations and studios. She was more at home on the sound stages of Warner Brothers than behind a drum kit.She has a Bachelor's degree in Motion Picture and Television Communications and her Master's in Media Studies. Then he started working with the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, the Mamas and the Papas, the Grass roots, Sonny and Cher, Jonny Rivers, Frank Sinatra, Herb Alpert, among many others, all of which helped increase his net worth by a large margin. The news was announced on his . I fell down laughing, and we became very good friends.. Hal Blaine, the Hall of Fame session drummer and virtual one-man soundtrack of the 1960s and '70s who played on the songs of Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and the Beach Boys and laid down one of. Homes - Celebrity - Entertainment - Musicians Links: en.wikipedia.org By: tlp333 Drummer Hal Blaine, who died Monday at his Palm Desert home, has been credited with playing on more gold and platinum recordings than anyone. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a sideman in 2000, inducted into the the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2010, and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.In 2019, Blaine died in Palm Desert, California, due to unspecified "natural causes". According to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, he played on 40 No. No animated GIFs, photos with additional graphics (borders, embellishments. He was 90-years-old. Beatles drummer Ringo Starr called him an influence on his own playing. In the Sixties, he became a crucial member of the Wrecking Crew, which served as producer Phil Spector's studio band and helped shape his signature "wall of sound." Hal Blaine: Love Life \u0026 Divorces: https://youtu.be/EYG4qe02JWAHal Blaine talks about Brian Wilson: Their Last Recording Session Together: https://youtu.be/frTDGpHOY-4Hal Blaine Talks Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, The Beach Boys, Simon \u0026 Garfunkel, Elvis \u0026 More! His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. "Mrs. Robinson" and "Bridge over Troubled Water" with Simon and Garfunkel in 1969 and 1971, respectively. Writer-publicist Frank Furino showed the film at his CSUSB Palm Desert Osher Lifelong Learning class this January and Blaine was scheduled to appear with it. It's just one of those things that sometimes happens.". Out of so many notable sessions, his signature moment was the attention-grabbing "on the four" solo Bum-ba-bum-BOOM that launched the classic "Be My Baby," a hit for the Ronettes in 1963 that helped define Spector's overpowering "Wall of Sound" productions. . Profiled in the 1991 book "The Big Beat--Conversations with Rock's Great Drummers", edited by Max Weinberg. Robinson in 1969 and Bridge over Troubled Water in 1971, among others. There was a problem getting your location. The "Wrecking Crew" name became popularized thanks to Hal Blaine's memoir in 1990, and comes from a tongue-in-cheek jab at the older professional musicians of the time who believed the Crew would "wreck" the music industry (due to their leanings towards rock and roll music and their sloppy t-shirt-and-jeans dress code).Rock and roll was a dirty word to many old-school musicians of . His beat propelled the Mamas and the Papas California Dreamin, the Byrds Mr Tambourine Man, the Beach Boys Good Vibrations, the Crystals Then He Kissed Me, Richard Harriss MacArthur Park, Barry McGuires Eve of Destruction and Sonny and Chers I Got You, Babe. Hal Blaine, the Hall of Fame session drummer and virtual one-man soundtrack of the 1960s and 70s who played on the songs of Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and The Beach Boys, has died aged 90. Cremated. Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? Born Harold Simon Belsky, he was an American drummer and session musician who will best be remembered for his work with a group of musicians who recorded on many hits from artists such as Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Johnny Rivers, Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Diamond, The Carpenters, John Denver, Barbra Streisand, Captain & Tennille and many more. As Spector made a roomful of musicians go through 40 or 50 takes of a two-minute song until, as someone once said, they were exhausted enough to play what he wanted rather than what they wanted, Blaine was one who never flagged. | Most of them had formal training in both jazz and classical music, and provided their music skills to record companies producing various rock, pop, and rhythm and blues recording of this era. 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Palmer had arrived from New Orleans, where he was schooled in jazz but had learned to play rocknroll, giving him a special status in studios where the raw sound of the new music was in demand. All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. Close to You is the second studio album by American duo Carpenters, released on August 19, 1970.In 2003, the album was ranked number 175 on Rolling Stone ' s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list. Hal Blaine. He's certainly played on more hit records than any drummer in the rock era, including 40 #1 singles and 150 that made the Top Ten. This would have been 1952, 53. Blaine was the archetype of that open-mindedness. Her current projects include a feature drama co-written with Richard Whitley of Rock and Roll High School fame and feature length romantic comedy, and a television series. Hal Blaine, who died Monday at age 90, was one of the most prolific drummers in the history of rock 'n' roll. [6] The dates given are when each song reached number one:[27], Bronson, Fred, The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, Billboard Books, 1992, Brotherhood of Electric: Operational Directives, Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To), List of recordings of songs Hal Blaine played on, "Hal Blaine, prolific 'Wrecking Crew' drummer who worked with Frank Sinatra and Elvis, dies at 90", "Hal Blaine, Wrecking Crew Drummer, Is Dead at 90", "Hal Blaine, celebrated as 'the most recorded drummer in history,' dies at 90", "4 Things You Didn't Know About Hal Blaine", "The Wrecking Crew's Hal Blaine: my 11 greatest recordings of all time", "Hal Blaine, Wrecking Crew Drummer, is dead at 90", "Hal Blaine, Pop Music's Go-To Studio Drummer, Is Dead at 90", "Hal Blaine, drummer who dominated mid-century pop, dies aged 90", "Hal Blaine, most honored drummer in rock history, dies at Palm Desert home", "Hal Blaine, Wrecking Crew Drummer, Dies at 90", "Hal Blaine: Every No. Records may include photos, original documents, family history, relatives, specific dates, locations and full names. This account has been disabled. Blaine was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, a planned city that was once famed for its paper mills. [25], In addition to playing on 150 US top 10 singles, Blaine played drums on 39 recordings that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100. His former colleague Brian Wilson (1942-) commemorated his death with statements of praise for Blaine's music skills. [2], Blaine died of natural causes on March 11, 2019, at the age of 90 in Palm Desert, California. Some of Blaine's colleagues corroborated his account, while guitarist and bassist Carole Kaye contends that the Clique was the term used. He was a great drummer. Some of them had come up through jazz, but most had a background in various forms of pop music, including country music and rocknroll. Hal Blaine. Julianne Raymond (31 December1971 - 1973)( divorced), Lydia Marie Pellegrin (July 1962 - 1969)( divorced)( 2 children), Joy Lanter (5 May1958 - 26 June1959)( divorced), Wanda Stegall (Vickie Young) (8 March1955 - 1957)( divorced). Most of them had formal training in both jazz and classical music, and provided their music skills to record companies producing various rock, pop, and rhythm and blues recording of this era. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. Profile: Studio drummer and percussionist, born 5 February 1929, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA; died 11 March 2019 in Palm Desert, California. His drumming got featured on the 150 United States top-10 singles. Drummer Hal Blaine, who propelled dozens of major hit records during the '60s and '70s as a member of the "Wrecking Crew," Hollywood's elite, ubiquitous cadre of first-call studio musicians,. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. Hal taught me a lot, and he had so much to do with our success - he was the greatest drummer ever. The drum machine, an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion, became popular in the music industry. drum line repeated twice at the very beginning of the song. In 2019, Blaine died in Palm Desert, California, due to unspecified "natural causes". Randi told the trade publication, Variety, He was a trend setter for rock and roll drumming., Guitarist Bob Brown, a prolific recording artist of jingles in the Coachella Valley, said, Most of us of a certain age who labor in recording studios owe as much to Hal as jazz guys owed Satchmo (Louis Armstrong). You can always change this later in your Account settings. Include gps location with grave photos where possible. Hal Blaine, the venerated drummer who played on the Beach Boys ' Pet Sounds and "Good Vibrations," the Ronettes ' "Be My Baby" and Simon and . [10][17] He is widely regarded as one of the most in-demand drummers in rock and roll history, having "certainly played on more hit records than any drummer in the rock era". In 1943, the 14-year-old Blaine and his family moved to California. John Denver brought Blaine on tour in the mid-1970s. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/hal-blaine-mn0000662463, Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of 'Smile' (2004). 1 Hit The Wrecking Crew Drummer Played On", "Americanheritage.com The Wrecking Crew", "Modern Drummer's Readers Poll Archive, 19792014", "Tina Turner To Queen: 2018 Recording Academy Special Merit Awards", "Why Elvis Presley's Drummer Found His Friends 'Really Disturbing', https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hal_Blaine&oldid=1136495913, This page was last edited on 30 January 2023, at 16:22. He may be the only drummer to back Presley, Sinatra and John Lennon. Blaine was married five times. An email has been sent to the person who requested the photo informing them that you have fulfilled their request, There is an open photo request for this memorial. . These guys were always in the beautiful three-piece suits, Blaine told The Desert Sun in December2013. Failed to remove flower. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. LOS ANGELES (AP) Hal Blaine, the Hall of Fame session drummer and virtual one-man soundtrack of the 1960s and '70s who played on the songs of Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and the Beach Boys and laid down one of music's most memorable opening riffs on the Ronettes' "Be My Baby," died Monday. Hal Blaine obituary Legendary drummer who played on 40 No 1 hits, including Good Vibrations and Be My Baby, but lost his fortune in divorce settlements Wednesday March 20 2019, 5.00pm , The Times Blaine is married to film composer Andrew Johnson. The Wrecking Crew! This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. Rizzo, who was a session saxophonist in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 80s, said Blaine was in a different league than even the late prolific studio trumpeter Steve Madaio. Try again later. More: Hal Blaine traded hits for schtick in Palm Desert, More:Soap opera star Jed Allan dies in Palm Desert, known for '90210,' 'Days Of Our Lives', We had some fun in the studio doing stuff for some BBC programs and putting (Variety) Radiothon elements together, Brown said. He started out as a jazz musician. I call them the Blue Blazers. Hal never had good jazz chops [technique], Palmer wrote in his autobiography, but that dont make him not a hell of a drummer for what he did. If Hal Blaine had played drums only on Be My Baby, the E Street Bands Max Weinberg declared in his book on rocknroll drumming, his name would still be uttered with reverence and respect for the power of his big beat. Your email address and we will send you an email with a reset password.... Beat -- Conversations with Rock 's Great drummers '', edited by Max Weinberg Vibrations. With her dad Around the world to various exotic locations and full names commemorated his death with of! 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