[3] Palladino was born on March 29, 1920, in Ashley, Pennsylvania but his family moved to Southern California when he was two years old.
[1][4] From 1940 to 1942 Palladino served in the Army Air Force, where he was an arranger and later a radio operator before being discharged due to illness and returning to Los Angeles.
[1][5][6] where he met his future wife, Evelyn Blanchard, who did disc dubbing, tape editing, and later was a recording engineer.
[6] he did not always agree with the move in the 1960s towards multitracking and overdubbing instruments one at a time, preferring to record all the musicians playing live simultaneously.
[13] As an A&R man he worked with artists such as Quicksilver Messenger Service, Steve Miller, Sons of Champlin, and Joy of Cooking.