Today's Birthdays

one click shows all of today's celebrity birthdays

Browse All Birthdays

43,625    Actors
27,931    Actresses
4,867    Composers
7,058    Directors
842    Footballers
221    Racing drivers
925    Singers
9,111    Writers

Get FamousLikeMe on your website
One line of code gets FamousLikeMe on your website. Find out more.

Subscribe to Daily updates


Add to Google

privacy policy



Famous Like Me > Actor > P > Earl Palmer

Profile of Earl Palmer on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Earl Palmer  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 25th October 1924
   
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Earl Palmer (October 25, 1924) is a legendary drummer and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He started his career as a tap dancer in vaudeville.

Palmer is best known for playing on many legendary New Orleans recording sessions, including Fats Domino "The Fat Man" (and all the rest of Fats' hits), "Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard (and most of his Richard's hits), "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" by Lloyd Price, and "I Hear You Knockin'" by Smiley Lewis.

His playing on "The Fat Man" featured one of the first instances of the back beat that has come to be the most important element in rock and roll. Palmer said, "That song required a strong afterbeat throughout the whole piece. With Dixieland you had a strong afterbeat only after you got to the shout last chorus . . . It was sort of a new approach to rhythm music."

He left New Orleans for Hollywood in 1957. His career as a session drummer included work with Frank Sinatra, Phil Spector, Rick Nelson, Ray Charles, Eddie Cochran, as well as jazz sessions wsith Dizzy Gillespie and Count Basie.

Palmer married four times, producing seven children, Earl Cyril Palmer, Jr., Donald Alfred Palmer, Ronald Raymond Palmer and Patricia Ann Palmer from his first marriage to Catherine Palmer, Shelly Margaret Palmer and Pamela Teresa Palmer from his second marriage to Susan Joy Weidenpesch, and Penny Yasuko Palmer from his third marriage to Yumiko Makino. Palmer celebrated his 80th birthday last October 25, 2004, married his fourth wife Jeline Palmer in December 2004, and currently resides in California.

Quotation

  • "You could always tell a New Orleans drummer the minute you heard him play his bass drum because he'd have that parade beat connotation." -Earl Palmer.

Further reference

  • Backbeat: The Earl Palmer Story by Tony Scherman and Wynton Marsalis. ISBN 1560988444

This content from Wikipedia is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Earl Palmer