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Archive Home > 2008 > September > 22 > Drummer Earl Palmer, 83, played with Little Richard

Drummer Earl Palmer, 83, played with Little Richard

By Claire Noland / The Bulletin
September 22, 2008

Earl Palmer, a New Orleans drummer who provided the distinctive backbeat for seminal rock ’n’ roll songs by Fats Domino and Little Richard, then traveled west to become one of Hollywood’s busiest session musicians, has died. He was 83.

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