Music Deaths: Hal Blaine, Drummer for Wrecking Crew

HAL BLAINE, 90

Died March 11, 2019

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer played on about 40 #1 songs and roughly 150 Top Ten.  Played on Beach Boy's "Pet Sounds" album as well as with Elvis Presley, Sonny & Cher, Mamas and Papas, Simon & Garfunkel and the Byrds.

His drumming was also a key part of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound.

Some of the songs he played drums on:

Mr. Tamborine Man--  Byrds
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In--  Fifth Dimension
Bridge Over Troubled Water--  Simon & Garfunkel
The Way We Were--  Barbra Streisand
Strangers In the Night--  Frank Sinatra
Good Vibrations and California Girls--  Beach Boys