The legendary session musician labeled by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as perhaps "the most prolific drummer in rock and roll history" died on March 11. He was 90.
Blaine's death was announced in a statement on his Facebook page.
Blaine - who was born Harold Simon Belsky on Feb. 5, 1929, to Lithuanian and Polish immigrants in Holyoke, Massachusetts - played on more than 40 No. 1 and 350 Top 10 tracks, he said in his 1990 memoir, Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew.
Among those were songs for artists like Sam Cooke, Sonny & Cher, the Mamas & the Papas and John Lennon - not to mention classic tracks like "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds, "Strangers in the Night" by Frank Sinatra, "The Way We Were" by Barbra Streisand and "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel.