# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hal-blaine
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:18:30.076Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hal-blaine"
name: "Hal Blaine"
slug: "hal-blaine"
description: "Hal Blaine was an American drummer and session musician, thought to be among the most recorded studio drummers in the music industry, claiming over 35,000 sessions and 6,000 singles. His drumming is featured on 150 US top 10 hits, 40 of which went to number one."
tagline: "American drummer (1929–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hal_Blaine_in_1995.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1929-02-05"
deathDate: "2019-03-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.15
  momentum:             0.6187903085236186
  historical:           19.438624
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "halblaine"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/HalBlaine"
    handle:    "HalBlaine"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086149/"
    handle:    "nm0086149"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://halblaine.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "هال بلين"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Blaine"
    title: "Hal Blaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Blaine"
    title: "Hal Blaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Blaine"
    title: "Hal Blaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hal Blaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "האל בליין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hal Blaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Blaine"
    title: "Hal Blaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ハル・ブレイン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hal Blaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Blaine"
    title: "Hal Blaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Blaine"
    title: "Hal Blaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Blaine"
    title: "Hal Blaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Blaine"
    title: "Hal Blaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Blaine"
    title: "Hal Blaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Blaine"
    title: "Hal Blaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Blaine"
    title: "Hal Blaine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump