An ever-adaptable, jazz-rooted drummer esteemed by Shelly Manne and Charlie Watts, Palmer made a distinctive contribution to innumerable records, among them Nat Cole's Ramblin' Rose, Little Richard's Tutti Frutti, Elvis Costello's King of America, the Righteous Brothers' You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Ike and Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High.
Other artists who used him were the Beach Boys, Neil Young, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Tom Waits, Randy Newman, and Barbra Streisand.
In 1957 Palmer went to Los Angeles, where he reworked Fats Domino numbers with Ricky Nelson as part of an elite array of session musicians which included Leon Russell, Barney Kessel and Glen Campbell, who became best known playing on all of Phil Spector's hits as the "wrecking crew".
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