“I’m not saying this from ego, because if I had that much ego I’d be rich.”īlaine became renowned for his smooth touch and ability to work in a variety of styles - from mainstream pop to folk-rock to jazz to R&B. “Myself and guys like Scotty Moore and Hal Blaine - you don’t know how much these guys contributed to recording sessions,” said drummer Earl Palmer told the Los Angeles Times in 2000. “And I just automatically started calling us ‘The Wrecking Crew.'” In the Sixties, he became a crucial member of the Wrecking Crew, which served as producer Phil Spector’s studio band and helped shape his signature “wall of sound” approach - exemplified on the Ronettes’ 1963 hit “Be My Baby.” “The old timers, the guys that we kind of replaced, used to say these kids are going to wreck the business,” Blaine recalled in an NPR interview. From 1966 to 1971, he played on six consecutive Record of the Year Grammy winners. In his lifetime, he played on 40 Number One hits and some 150 singles that made it into the Top 10. No further details will be released at this time.” A cause of death was not revealed.īlaine was born Harold Simon Belsky in Holyoke, Massachusetts on February 5th, 1929. “The family appreciates your outpouring of support and prayers that have been extended to Hal from around the world, and respectfully request privacy in this time of great mourning. “May he rest forever on 2 and 4,” they wrote, referencing the backbeat that defines rock & roll. The musician’s family confirmed the news in a statement via Facebook. Robinson” as a member of the Wrecking Crew, a group of elite Los Angeles session players, died Monday at age 90. Hal Blaine, the venerated drummer who played on the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds and “Good Vibrations,” the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” and Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs.
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