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. October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining. ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, showing Lake Erie in the background The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated, as the name suggests, to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential rock and... Tap dance was born in the United States during the 19th century, and today is popular all around the world. ... Vaudeville is a style of theater, also known as variety, which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ...

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. New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... Fats Domino, born Antoine Dominique (born February 26, 1928 in New Orleans, Louisiana), is a classic R&B singer. ... Little Richard (born Richard Wayne Penniman, December 5, 1932 in Macon, Georgia) is a pioneer of rock and roll though he says (quoted in Hamm 1979, p. ... Lloyd Price (born March 9, 1933 in Kenner, Louisiana) was an early rock and roll musician Along with his brother, Leo Price, Lloyd Price put together a band. ...

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." In popular music back beat is a percussion style or technique used in common time (4/4) where a strong rhythmic accent is sounded on the second and fourth beats of the bar, the backbeats, most often from striking a snare drum. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Dixieland or Dixie is a name for the south-eastern portion of the USA; see: U.S. Southern States, Dixie. ... In shoemaking, a last is a rounded oblong block used to approximate the form of the human foot used by a cobbler to help make or mend shoes. ...

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, as well as jazz sessions wsith Dizzy Gillespie and Count Basie. For other uses, see Hollywood (disambiguation) Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that runs from about Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to... Frank Sinatra in 1947 Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer who is considered one of the finest vocalists of all time, renowned for his impeccable phrasing and timing. ... Harvey Phillip Phil Spector (born December 26, 1940) is a highly influential record producer of some of the best-known popular music of the 1960s and 1970s. ... Eric Hilliard Ricky Nelson, alternately Rick Nelson (May 8, 1940 - December 31, 1985), was one of the first American teen idols. ... Ray Charles at the piano. ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... Dizzy Gillespie photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955 Dizzy Gillespie ( October 21, 1917 - January 6, 1993) was born John Birks Gillespie in Cheraw, South Carolina. ... William Count Basie ( August 21, 1904 - April 26, 1984) was a jazz pianist, organist, and bandleader. ...

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