Hollywood Hal Blaine, wildly prolific session drummer that worked with Sinatra & Elvis dies at 90

[basquebromance]

According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which inducted him in 2000, Blaine played on 40 No. 1 singles. In 2015, Terry Gross estimated that Blaine had appeared on approximately 8,000 records.And Blaine himself told us in 2000 that over his career he’d collected no fewer than 263 gold or platinum plaques — and “made literally a couple of million bucks.” But the most impressive of Blaine’s many numbers might be … six. That’s how many times Blaine’s playing helped a song win record of the year at the Grammys between 1966 and 1971 — a remarkable stretch that illustrates just how in demand the drummer was by pop’s elite in those days.

 

[Harry Dresden]

the guy played with a lot of people.....

List of recordings of songs Hal Blaine played on - Wikipedia