EARL PALMER "DRUMSVILLE" 1961 LIBERTY RARE OOP PROMO/AUDITION LP VG+/VG

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TWO YEARS AGO I LOST ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS TO CANCER, HE WAS A COOL MUSICIAN A DRUMMER BY TRADE, ORIGINALLY FROM SEATTLE, BUT RELOCATED TO L.A. IN 1985, HE AMASSED A VERY LARGE MUSIC COLLECTION, AND HAD KILLER TASTE FOR ROCK & ROLL, SADLY I AM SELLING OFF A LOT OF HIS COLLECTION ON BEHALF OF HIS WIDOW TO HELP PAY OFF DEBTS INCLUDING HOSPITAL BILLS, TAXES AND STORAGE UNIT FEES. I AM NOT TAKING ANYTHING FOR THIS SERVICE, DOING IT FOR MY FRIEND (MISS YOU DAVE!). THIS ITEM IS FROM HIS COLLECTION.

THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY, HAVE A LITTLE GLARE, SOME REFLECTIONS OR IN SOME CASES YOU MAY SEE SPECKS OF DUST. BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING. BUT I DO NOT ACCEPT “BEST OFFERS”, THE MONIES GO TO MY FRIENDS WIDOW.

THESE ARE VISUALLY & PLAY GRADED.

ARTISTS: EARL PALMER (ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME DRUMMER)

TITLE: “DRUMSVILLE”

TRACK LISTING: SEE PHOTO'S & BELOW

LABEL: LIBERTY RECORDS

CAT.#: LRP-3201

YEAR: 1961

RECORD CONDITION:THE RECORD IS IN VG/VG+ CONDITION. NO VISIBLE WEAR, SCRATCHES, LINES, BLEMS ETC. BOTH LABELS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER TO THE VINYL. THERE IS SOME VERY VERY LIGHT WEAR IN A COUPLE OF PLACES ON THE VINYL, SOUND WISE, THERE IS JUST SOME VERY LIGHT BACKGROUND SOUND ON THE LEAD IN GROOVES AND BETWEEN THE TRACKS, BUT THE SONGS PLAY REALLY GOOD, NICE CLEAN MONO SOUND.

SLEEVE CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN VG/VG- CONDITION THERE'S NO WRITING ON THE JACKET. NICE STRAIGHT EDGES. NO TEARS/NO SEAM SPLITS, SUPER CLEAN. THERE'S AN OLD PRICE STICKER IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER (SEE PHOTO) THERE'S LIGHT RING WEAR, MAINLY IN THE FRONT BOTTOM (AGAIN SEE PHOTO). SOME LIGHT BROWNISH-NESS ON THE TOP BACK ALONG THE EDGE.

MORE INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. THIS IS A RARE “AUDITION RECORD” THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SENT OUT MAINLY TO RADIO STATIONS AND MUSIC MEDIA BACK IN 1961, HAS THE SPECIAL LIBERTY “AUDITION” LABELS, PLUS IT'S STAMPED ON THE BACK OF THE JACKET.

MORE INFO ON THE ARTISTS/RELEASE:

Earl Cyril Palmer (October 25, 1924 – September 19, 2008) was an American rock and roll and rhythm-and-blues drummer. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 

Palmer played on many recordings, including Little Richard's first few albums and many other well-known rock and roll records. According to one obituary, "his list of credits read like a Who's Who of American popular music of the last 60 years.

Biography

Born into a show-business family in New Orleans and raised in the Tremé district, Palmer started his career at five as a tap dancer, joining his mother and aunt on the black vaudeville circuit in its twilight and touring the country extensively with Ida Cox's Darktown Scandals Review. His father is thought to have been the local pianist and bandleader Walter "Fats" Pichon. 

Palmer was 12 when he headlined a floor show at the Rhythm Club in New Orleans, "a very beautiful spot where one can enjoy a floor show, headed by Alvin Howey and Little Earl Palmer."  

Palmer served in the United States Army during World War II and was posted in the European theatre. His biographer wrote,

Most Negro recruits were assigned to noncombatant service troops: work gangs in uniform. "They didn't want no niggers carrying guns," says Earl; they carried shovels and garbage cans instead. Earl's job, loading and handling ammunition, was relatively technical, but his duty was clear: to serve white infantrymen.

After the war ended Palmer studied piano and percussion at the Gruenwald School of Music in New Orleans, where he also learned to read music. He started drumming with the Dave Bartholomew Band in the late 1940s. Palmer was known for playing on New Orleans recording sessions, including Fats Domino's "The Fat Man" and "I'm Walkin" (and several more of Domino's hits), "Tipitina" by Professor Longhair, "Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard (and most of Richard's hits), "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" by Lloyd Price, and "I Hear You Knockin'" by Smiley Lewis.

His playing on "The Fat Man" featured the backbeat 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." Reportedly, he was the first to use the word funky, to explain to other musicians that their music should be made more syncopated and danceable. 

Palmer left New Orleans for Hollywood in 1957, initially working for Aladdin Records. He soon started working with the Wrecking Crew, a loose-knit group of session musicians who recorded nonstop during their heyday from 1962 to 1968.

The musicians union tracked Palmer playing on 450 dates in 1967 alone.

For more than 30 years he played drums on the soundtracks of many movies and television shows. Amongst the many artists he worked with were Frank Sinatra, Phil Spector, Ricky Nelson, Bobby Vee, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Eddie Cochran, Ritchie Valens, Bobby Day, Don and Dewey, Jan and Dean, the Beach Boys, Larry Williams, Gene McDaniels, Bobby Darin, Neil Young, the Pets, The Byrds when they were still known as The Beefeaters and B. Bumble and the Stingers. He also played in jazz sessions with David Axelrod, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Bostic, Onzy Matthews, and Count Basie, and he contributed to blues recordings by B. B. King.

Palmer played drums in a recording session with the West Coast folk singer-songwriter Jim Sullivan around 1969 or 1970. The album was released twice with different audio mixes. On the Monnie Records album, U.F.O., Palmer's drumming can be clearly heard, but on the Century City Record, Jim Sullivan, the drums, percussion and bass were moved back in the mix. 

He remained in demand as a drummer throughout the 1970s and 1980s, playing on recordings for albums by Randy Newman, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, Tim Buckley, Little Feat and Elvis Costello. 

In 1982, Palmer was elected treasurer of the Local 47 of the American Federation of Musicians. He served until he was defeated in 1984. He was re-elected in 1990. 

A biography, Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story, by Tony Scherman, was published in 1999.

In later years, Palmer played with a jazz trio in Los Angeles. 

Palmer died in September 2008, in Banning, California, after a long illness. He is buried at Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California.

Editorial Reviews

Includes: New Orleans Medley One Mint Julip Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On What'd I say Teen Beat Raunchy Honky Tonk Dream Lover Let the Good Times Roll Rip it Up Hound Dog Till I Kissed You Take 12 of the greatest rock and roll hits, add one drummer named Earl Palmer, and you've got Drumsville, a driving, swinging demonstration of the rock in rock and roll.

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