Who is floyd cramer

Streams Videos All Posts. My Profile. Advanced Search. Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny. Born October 27, in Samti, LA. Died December 31, in Nashville, TN.

Genre Country Easy Listening. Also Known As Floyd Cramer. Cramer relocated to Nashville in , at a time when piano accompaniment on country music songs was becoming popular, and he found more work than he could handle.

He soon became one of the busiest session musicians in the business, playing on the records of such luminaries as Brenda Lee , Patsy Cline , Eddy Arnold , Elvis Presley--he played piano on "Heartbreak Hotel"--and Roy Orbison , among others.

It was during these sessions that Cramer developed the practice of "slip notes", in which a note would flow effortlessly into the next--a sea change from the "percussive" style of piano playing prevalent at the time. Although he was a top studio musician in Nashville, few people outside of the music business knew who he was.

He had been recording and releasing his own records since the early '50s, but recognition didn't come for him until , when he released the mournful instrumental "Last Date", which was a classic example of his "slip note" style of playing. The record hit 2 on the Billboard Top chart and wound up selling more than one million copies. Malone, Bill C. Country Music U. Austin: University of Texas Press, Type Person.

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Cramer grew up in the small sawmill town of Huttig, Arkansas. He learned piano by ear, and, after graduation from high school in , he moved to Shreveport and found a job on the Louisiana Hayride.