Hal Blaine

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Wiggy 02:27 Tools
Wiggy (edit) 02:12 Tools
Dance To The Surfing Band 02:07 Tools
Love-In (December) 02:17 Tools
Wiggy (November) 02:14 Tools
Hallucinations (April) 02:21 Tools
Kaleidoscope (March) 02:20 Tools
Flower Society (May) 02:27 Tools
Vibrations (August) 02:22 Tools
Trippin' Out (June) 02:36 Tools
Soulful (September) 02:18 Tools
Inner-Space (October) 02:18 Tools
Freaky (January) 02:22 Tools
Flashes (February) 02:20 Tools
Love In (December) 02:17 Tools
Tune In-Turn On (July) 02:14 Tools
Freaky (January) Or Flashes (February) 02:24 Tools
Jazz Bop 03:42 Tools
Tune In - Turn On (July) 02:14 Tools
Topsy '65 02:09 Tools
Wiggy [Edit][Instrumental] 02:12 Tools
Wiggy (Novermber) 02:27 Tools
(Dance With The) Surfin' Band 02:07 Tools
Love-In 02:17 Tools
Drummer Man 03:20 Tools
Secret Agent Man 02:30 Tools
Hallucinations 02:21 Tools
Rat in a Pawn Shop 01:37 Tools
Freaky 02:22 Tools
Rumble 03:03 Tools
Freaky (January) Or Flashes [February] 02:21 Tools
Love In 02:19 Tools
California Sun 02:19 Tools
Over the Rainbow 02:56 Tools
Trippin' Out 02:36 Tools
Dance With The Surfin' Band 02:07 Tools
Cannonball 01:53 Tools
Wooly Bully 02:25 Tools
The Phantom Driver 02:31 Tools
Gear Stripper 02:24 Tools
Deep Drum 02:14 Tools
Soulful 02:21 Tools
Inner-Space 02:18 Tools
Vibrations 02:15 Tools
The Beat Goes On 02:41 Tools
Land of 1000 Dances 03:45 Tools
Midnight at Pinks 02:42 Tools
Money 02:22 Tools
Wiggy [Edit] 00:32 Tools
Oo Poo Pah Doo 02:25 Tools
Invaders 02:41 Tools
Drums A-Go-Go 02:36 Tools
Challenger II 02:15 Tools
Jazz Bop (feat. Hal Blaine) 02:49 Tools
Flashy 02:23 Tools
The Swinger 02:14 Tools
Wiggly [45 Mix] 03:16 Tools
Drums A Go Go 03:16 Tools
The Invaders 02:37 Tools
La Bamba 00:00 Tools
Bang Bang Rhythm 02:42 Tools
Green Monster 02:09 Tools
Gear Change 02:16 Tools
Topsy 02:15 Tools
Whiskey A-Go-Go 00:00 Tools
Pop The Chute 02:27 Tools
''It's That Simple...'' 02:15 Tools
Hawaii 1963 02:13 Tools
Whiskey a Go Go 02:18 Tools
Drum Brakes 02:16 Tools
Tune In- Turn On 02:14 Tools
Tune In Turn On (July) 02:16 Tools
Drum Overture 01:52 Tools
Mr. Eliminator 02:10 Tools
Wiggy (45 Mix) [1967] 02:09 Tools
Drummers 01:52 Tools
Bulldog Drummin' 02:36 Tools
East Side Story 02:16 Tools
Jazz-Bop 02:36 Tools
Hal Blaine / Love In (December) 02:15 Tools
Flashes 02:15 Tools
The Traps 02:20 Tools
Money (That's What I Want) 08:50 Tools
08 - Golfer with a Girdle 00:31 Tools
Wiggy (Edit) [Hal Blaine] 02:15 Tools
02 - $20 for Dry Cleaning 02:28 Tools
04 - Subway Encounter 00:44 Tools
Big T 02:06 Tools
The Drummer Plays For Me 01:00 Tools
Wiggly 02:15 Tools
Nashville Coupe 02:21 Tools
Golden Urinal 02:21 Tools
01 - Introduction 05:19 Tools
The Dip 02:21 Tools
Mutiny On The Bongos 01:49 Tools
Git It 01:55 Tools
10 - The “F” Word 01:33 Tools
Playing the Straight 8 Feel 08:50 Tools
What's Your IQ? 02:36 Tools
03 - Two Parrots 01:43 Tools
Drummer Man (2006 Digital Remaster) (Feat. Hal Blaine) 08:50 Tools
You Take It From Here 02:22 Tools
Playing the Shuffle Feel 04:02 Tools
Let's Play Drums 01:16 Tools
How Come I Love You So Much 01:16 Tools
Bo Diddley Toms 01:55 Tools
I'm Polish Too 02:36 Tools
05 - Doctors & Drugstores 00:45 Tools
09 - Blind Golfers 00:55 Tools
Accordion Player 01:20 Tools
Flashy (February) 02:27 Tools
13 - Draft Dodger 01:20 Tools
Drums a Go-Go 02:36 Tools
Phillzie's Friend 01:46 Tools
Autobiography 02:21 Tools
The Naked Jogger 01:46 Tools
18 - FBI Candidates 01:50 Tools
12 - The Boar War 01:00 Tools
Tune In-Turn On 00:44 Tools
Ooh Poo Pah Doo 02:13 Tools
Bamba 02:37 Tools
Topsy 65 02:37 Tools
The Firing Squad 01:46 Tools
Whisky A-Go-Go 02:37 Tools
11 - Golf Funeral 00:40 Tools
The Magic Golf Ball 01:46 Tools
Return To Italy 02:21 Tools
19 - Firing Squad 01:03 Tools
Topsy '65 (live) - HB 02:15 Tools
The Gondola Singer 02:15 Tools
Challenger Li 02:15 Tools
09 vibrations (august) 02:37 Tools
Lawrence Welk 02:21 Tools
Shaker Rock 02:21 Tools
20 - Good & Bad News 01:46 Tools
The Happy Marriage 01:46 Tools
Calling For Mrs. 01:46 Tools
Tex & The Waitress 01:46 Tools
Hal Blaine - Wiggy (Edit) 02:37 Tools
Wooly Buuly 02:37 Tools
Swinger 02:36 Tools
Canonball 01:52 Tools
06 flower society (may) 01:52 Tools
$20 for Dry Cleaning 01:52 Tools
22 - Pope’s Crossword Puzzle 00:59 Tools
The Magic Pill 01:46 Tools
Lyle Smiles 01:52 Tools
The Rescue 01:52 Tools
Wooly Bully (live) - HB 02:25 Tools
Whiskey a Go-Go - HB 01:49 Tools
Big "T" 01:49 Tools
The “F” Word 01:49 Tools
The Nashville Audition 01:49 Tools
27 - Kamikaze 01:49 Tools
Strangers In The Night 01:49 Tools
23 - Jerry Fielding 01:49 Tools
Cannibals 01:49 Tools
The Deaf Wife 01:46 Tools
31 - Prostate Condition 01:46 Tools
Texans 01:46 Tools
Money - HB 02:36 Tools
Love-In (December) [Single Version] 01:46 Tools
Introduction 01:46 Tools
Tune in tune on (July) 01:46 Tools
21 - Uncle Morris 01:46 Tools
08 tune in-tune on (july) 01:46 Tools
Surfin' Band 01:46 Tools
10 soulful (september) 01:46 Tools
12 wiggy (november) 01:46 Tools
26 - I’m Tuning 01:46 Tools
Dawg Show 01:46 Tools
Interview 01:46 Tools
Vega-tables 01:46 Tools
24 - Shirley & the Dogs 01:46 Tools
28 - Like Animals 01:46 Tools
Talking Drums 01:46 Tools
Deuces, T's, Roadsters and Drums 01:46 Tools
38 - St. Peter 01:46 Tools
Topsy Part 2 01:46 Tools
Drums-A-Go-Go 01:46 Tools
La Bamba - HB 01:46 Tools
Love (In December) 01:46 Tools
Solo 01:46 Tools
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Hal Blaine (born Harold Simon Belsky, February 5, 1929) is an American drummer and session musician. He is most known for his work with the Wrecking Crew in California. Blaine played on numerous hits by popular groups, including Nancy Sinatra, Jan and Dean, Elvis Presley, John Denver, the Ronettes, Simon & Garfunkel, Carpenters, the Beach Boys, the Grass Roots, the 5th Dimension, the Monkees, the Partridge Family, and Steely Dan. He has played on 40 number one hit singles, 150 top ten hits and has performed on, by his own accounting, over 35,000 recorded tracks. He is widely regarded as one of the most prolific drummers in rock and roll history, having "certainly played on more hit records than any drummer in the rock era". Blaine is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum, and the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2010. Blaine was born to Jewish Eastern European immigrants, Meyer and Rose Belsky, in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Hal Blaine Strikes Again is a rubber stamp used by Blaine to mark music scores and places where he has played. Drummer and author Max Weinberg, in his introduction to the chapter on Blaine in his book, writes: Eleven years later our band played Wembley Arena, near London. After the show, while we were relaxing backstage, Bruce asked me to come into his dressing room. I went in, he pointed to the wall and said, "Look at that." I looked at the wall but didn't see anything except peeling wallpaper. "Look closer," he said. Finally, I got right down on the spot he was pointing to. and right there, in a crack in the paper, rubber stamped to the wall, it said HAL BLAINE STRIKES AGAIN. When asked to explain about the stamp Blaine replied, "I always stamp my charts. And there's a reason why I started that; it wasn't all ego." He went on to describe that occasionally he would need to find a particular chart amidst "five hundred pieces of music in a pile" and he needed some mark to do so. "Eventually I had a rubber stamp made up, and from that day on I've always stamped every piece of music I play, whether it's a demo or something I play at a friend's house." Another drummer, Mike Botts, then with the band Bread, recalled: "Every studio I went to in the late sixties, there was a rubber stamp imprint on the wall of the drum booth that said, 'Hal Blaine strikes again.' Hal was getting so many studio dates he actually had a rubber stamp made. He was everywhere!" Grammy Awards A little known Grammy Awards record held by Blaine is that he played on 6 consecutive Record of the Year winners: Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in 1966 for "A Taste of Honey"; Frank Sinatra in 1967 for "Strangers in the Night"; The 5th Dimension in 1968 for "Up, Up and Away"; Simon & Garfunkel in 1969 for "Mrs. Robinson"; The 5th Dimension in 1970 for "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"; and Simon & Garfunkel in 1971 for "Bridge over Troubled Water". #1 hits "Johnny Angel" – Shelley Fabares (03/03/62) "He's a Rebel" – The Crystals (10/06/62) "Surf City" – Jan & Dean (06/22/63) "Everybody Loves Somebody" – Dean Martin (07/11/64) "Ringo" – Lorne Greene (11/07/64) "This Diamond Ring" – Gary Lewis & the Playboys (01/23/65) "Help Me, Rhonda" – The Beach Boys (05/01/65) "Mr Tambourine Man" – The Byrds (06/05/65) "Eve of Destruction" – Barry McGuire (08/28/65) "My Love" – Petula Clark (01/15/66) "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" – Nancy Sinatra (02/05/66) "Monday Monday" – The Mamas & the Papas (04/16/66) "Strangers in the Night" – Frank Sinatra (07/02/66) "Poor Side of Town" – Johnny Rivers (10/08/66) "Good Vibrations" – The Beach Boys (10/29/66) "Somethin' Stupid" – Frank & Nancy Sinatra (03/25/67) "The Happening" – The Supremes (04/15/67)[8][9] "Windy" – The Association (06/03/67) "Mrs. Robinson" – Simon & Garfunkel (05/04/68) "Dizzy" – Tommy Roe (03/15/69) "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" – The 5th Dimension (04/12/69) "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" – Henry Mancini (05/24/69) "Wedding Bell Blues" – The 5th Dimension (10/04/69) "Bridge Over Troubled Water" – Simon & Garfunkel (02/14/70) "(They Long to Be) Close to You" – The Carpenters (06/27/70) "Cracklin' Rosie" – Neil Diamond (08/29/70) "I Think I Love You" – The Partridge Family (10/31/70) "Indian Reservation" – The Raiders (05/29/71) "Song Sung Blue" – Neil Diamond (05/13/72) "Half Breed" – Cher (09/01/73) "Annie's Song" – John Denver (06/15/74) "Top of the World" – The Carpenters (10/20/74) "The Way We Were" – Barbra Streisand (12/22/74) "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" – John Denver (04/05/75) "Love Will Keep Us Together" – Captain & Tennille (05/24/75) "I'm Sorry"/"Calypso" – John Denver (08/30/75) "Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" – Diana Ross (01/24/76) Discography 1963 "Deuces, T's, Roadsters and Drums 1966 Drums! Drums! A Go Go 1967 Psychedelic Percussion 1968 Have Fun!!! Play Drums!!! Hal Blaine's drums can be heard as part of the Wall of Sound on the Ronettes' 1963 No. 2 hit "Be My Baby", produced by Phil Spector at Hollywood's Gold Star Studios. Max Weinberg wrote, "If Hal Blaine had played drums only on the Ronettes' "Be My Baby", his name would still be uttered with reverence and respect for the power of his big beat." Rolling Stone magazine listed the song as No. 22 on The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In March 2000, Hal Blaine was one of the first five sidemen inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (One of the other inductees was Hal's long-time friend and drumming colleague, Earl Palmer.) Some of the famous musicians with whom Blaine has worked include: The 5th Dimension Alessi Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Nancy Ames America Paul Anka The Association Frankie Avalon Hoyt Axton Baja Marimba Band The Beach Boys Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans Pat Boone Elkie Brooks Sam Butera and the Witnesses The Byrds J.J. Cale Glen Campbell Freddy Cannon Captain & Tennille The Carpenters Mel Carter The Cascades Johnny Cash Rosanne Cash David Cassidy Ray Charles Cher Petula Clark Leonard Cohen Nat King Cole Sam Cooke Johnny Crawford The Crystals Bobby Darin James Darren Sammy Davis, Jr. Doris Day John Denver Jackie DeShannon Neil Diamond Patty Duke Judith Durham Duane Eddy The Everly Brothers Jose Feliciano Connie Francis Frizzell and West Art Garfunkel Bobby Gentry Lesley Gore The Grass Roots Lorne Greene Roosevelt Grier Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds Albert Hammond Emmylou Harris Richard Harris Neal Hefti The Hondells Thelma Houston Jan and Dean Jay and the Americans Frankie Laine Michael Landon John Lennon Gary Lewis and the Playboys Jerry Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis Bob Lind Jackie Lomax Trini Lopez Love The Mamas & the Papas Henry Mancini Ann-Margret The Marketts Dean Martin Barry McGuire Scott McKenzie The Monkees Hugo Montenegro Gerry Mulligan Juice Newton Wayne Newton Jack Nitzsche Roy Orbison Patti Page The Partridge Family Bernadette Peters Elvis Presley Louis Prima Gary Puckett & The Union Gap Helen Reddy Paul Revere & the Raiders The Rip Chords Johnny Rivers Howard Roberts Tommy Roe The Ronettes Diana Ross The Sandpipers Tommy Sands Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel Frank Sinatra Nancy Sinatra Keely Smith Sonny & Cher Spanky and Our Gang Dusty Springfield Steely Dan Barbra Streisand The Supremes Tanya Tucker Ike and Tina Turner Leslie Uggams Jerry Vale Bobby Vee The Ventures The Vogues Shelly West Andy Williams Mason Williams Read more on Last.fm. 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