Hal Blaine played on rock hits like "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "Good Vibrations" Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and ...

Drummer Hal Blaine, whose smooth backbeat anchored many of the greatest hits of the '60s and '70s, including the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations," the Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man" and Simon & Garfunkel's ...

Hal Blaine may well be the most profilic drummer in rock and roll history. 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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Hal Blaine, the Hall of Fame session drummer ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 ...

He played on six consecutive Grammy award-winning Record of the Year performances from 1966 through to 1971, as a key member of The Wrecking Crew (the name coined by Blaine for a group of successful ...

Drummer Hal Blaine, whose smooth backbeat anchored many of the greatest hits of the ’60s and ’70s, including the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations,” the Byrds’ “Mr. Tambourine Man” and Simon & Garfunkel’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Drummers Jim Keltner, Hal Blaine and Chad ...