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D. J. Fontana
MUSICIAN
1931 - 2018
D. J. Fontana
Dominic Joseph Fontana (March 15, 1931 – June 13, 2018) was an American musician best known as the drummer for Elvis Presley for 14 years. In 1955, he was hired to play drums for Presley, which marked the beginning of a 15-year relationship. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of D. J. Fontana has received more than 406,478 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). D. J. Fontana is the 1,594th most popular musician (down from 1,293rd in 2019), the 8,002nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,402nd in 2019) and the 584th most popular American Musician.
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Among musicians, D. J. Fontana ranks 1,594 out of 3,175. Before him are Nujabes, Neal Hefti, Bronisław Kaper, Richard Bonynge, Barry McGuire, and Michael Anthony. After him are Neal Schon, Alice Tegnér, Ola Brunkert, Thomas Ravenscroft, Lyle Mays, and Hank Snow.
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DATE August 16, 2002 ACCOUNT NUMBER N/A
TIME 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM AUDIENCE N/A
NETWORK NPR
PROGRAM Fresh Air
Interview: Peter Guralnick discusses Elvis Presley's early career
BARBARA BOGAEV, host:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Barbara Bogaev, sitting in for Terry Gross.
On today's archive edition of FRESH AIR, we pay tribute to Elvis Presley, who
died 25 years ago today. We'll hear interviews with Sam Phillips, the man who
discovered Elvis, and two members of his band, drummer D.J. Fontana and
guitarist Scotty Moore.
First, we'll hear an interview Terry recorded with Peter Guralnick, the author
of what is generally acknowledged to be the definitive two-part biography of
Elvis. Terry spoke with Guralnick in 1994 after the first volume, "Last Train
to Memphis," came out.
When Elvis was 18, he went to the fledgling Sun Records in Memphis, where, for
3.98 plus tax, you could make your own record. He recorded a ballad, thinking
it would give him an in at Sun Records, but no one paid much attention. So he
hung around the studio for several months, hoping to get Sam Phillips, the
founder of the company, interested in making another recording. In 1954,
Phillips finally called him in to do a session.
Mr. PETER GURALNICK (Author): What he s
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D. J. Fontana
American drummer (1931–2018)
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| Birth name | Dominic Carpenter Fontana |
| Born | (1931-03-15)March 15, 1931 Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | June 13, 2018(2018-06-13) (aged 87) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Genres | Rock and knock down, rockabilly, drumming and suggestive, country |
| Occupation | Drummer |
| Years active | Early 1950s – 2018 |
| Formerly of | The Blue Laze Boys |
Musical artist
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