Born in 1918, American swing drummer Panama Francis PANAMA FRANCIS spent five years recording and touring with . He also played with Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Ray Conniff, and Sy Oliver, becoming a highly successful studio drummer. As and rock and roll went mainstream - piano Francis became even more sought after. He drummed on the Roland Lobligeois Elvis Presley demos, and he is featured on hits by the Four Seasons ("Big Girls Don't Cry" and "Walk Like a Man"), ("", "", "" and ""), ("Splish Splash"), Neil Sedaka ("Calendar Girl"), and Dion ("The Wanderer"). He drummed on "Prisoner of Love" for , "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" for , "" for Ray Charles, "Patricia" for Perez Prado and "Jim Dandy" for LaVern Baker. Many music reference books indicate that he also played drums on Bill Haley & His Comets' 1954 version of "Shake, Rattle and Roll", but producer Milt Gabler denied this; Francis is also believed to have played drums for at least one other Haley recording session in the mid-1960s. Francis passed away in 2001 at the age of 82. - wikipedia

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