MEMPHIS, Tennessee -- D.J. Fontana, the drummer who helped launch rock 'n' roll as Elvis Presley's sideman, has died at 87, his wife said Thursday. Karen Fontana told The Associated Press that her ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — D.J. Fontana, a rock ‘n’ roll pioneer who rose from strip joints in his native Shreveport, Louisiana, to the heights of musical history as Elvis Presley’s first and longtime ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Hal Blaine, the Hall of Fame session drummer and virtual one-man soundtrack of the 1960s and ’70s who played on the songs of Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and the Beach Boys and laid ...

Ronnie Tutt, drummer for Elvis Presley and an original member of the TCB Band, has died at 83. In a Facebook post early Sunday, Terie Tutt confirmed that her father died at home surrounded by his ...

D.J. Fontana, whose simple but forceful drumming behind Elvis Presley helped to shape the early sound of rock ‘n’ roll, died Wednesday at a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 87. D.J. Fontana, ...