Terry
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Listen to Last Date- (well, some of it) Floyd Cramer Floyd Cramer - THE top Country
/ R & R pianist. Listen to Elvis's Earlier hits. Any piano? Probably
Floyd - including the little solo on "Heartbreak Hotel". Jim
Reeves? Most of Jim's hits after '53 have Floyd on them. He was signed
to RCA by Chet Atkins in '58 and most of the piano "bits"
on Nashville type records on the label (for the next ten or so years)
were Floyd. Happier in the studio than on stage his first big hit was
"Last Date" (got nowhere in the UK but #2 in the US pop charts).
The follow up "On the rebound" got to #1 in the UK and #4
in the US.
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Floyd Cramer (1933-1997)
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