Buddy Harman, the percussion heartbeat of Music Row and Nashville's best-known and most-recorded drummer, died Thursday evening. He was 79, and suffered from congestive heart failure.
A native Nashvillian born Murrey Mizell Harman Jr., Mr. Harman played drums on more than 18,000 recordings, including Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman," Patsy Cline's "Crazy," Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire," Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man," Ray Price's "Crazy Arms" and Elvis Presley's "Little Sister." He was the first staff drummer on the Grand Ole Opry and the first prominent drummer in country music history, and his work helped secure country's place as a viable, popular and modern art form.
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― dad a, Friday, 22 August 2008 20:15 (seventeen years ago)
Good lord, what a resume. RIP and then some, what a life.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 August 2008 20:24 (seventeen years ago)
Also on lots of Everly Brothers stuff. Check "Gone Gone Gone."
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 22 August 2008 21:54 (seventeen years ago)
Rest in peace.
RIP
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 24 August 2008 04:38 (seventeen years ago)
rip. love that loping swing.
― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 24 August 2008 05:04 (seventeen years ago)
18,000! RIP.
― briania, Sunday, 24 August 2008 16:04 (seventeen years ago)
Wow
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 24 August 2008 16:30 (seventeen years ago)