Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Cramer was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and grew up in the small town of Huttig, Arkansas.He taught himself to play the piano.After finishing high school, he returned to Shreveport, where he worked as a ragtime pianist for the radio show Louisiana Hayride, with a banjo-bass-and-drums combo.
"Last Date" is a 1960 instrumental written and performed by Floyd Cramer. It exemplifies the "slip note" style of piano playing that Cramer made popular. It peaked at number 11 on the country chart [1] and at number two on the Hot 100 behind "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley. [2]
"Java" is an instrumental adaptation from a 1958 LP of piano compositions, The Wild Sounds of New Orleans, by Tousan, also known as New Orleans producer/songwriter Allen Toussaint. As was the case of the rest of Toussaint's LP, "Java" was composed in studio, primarily by Toussaint.
The Million Dollar Band was an all-star group of session musicians that often performed on the Hee Haw television variety show from August 1980 through November 1988.. The group's members included some of Nashville's most well-known virtuosos at their respective instruments: Chet Atkins, Boots Randolph, Floyd Cramer, Charlie McCoy, Danny Davis, Jethro Burns and Johnny Gimble, along with Hee ...
The second single was released in December 1960 called, "My Last Date (With You)". The song reached #5 on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Songs, while also reaching the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1961. [4] The songs became her second and third Top 10 hits as a solo artist.
Accompanied by Bob Moore on bass, Chet Atkins on guitar, Farris Coursey on drums, Floyd Cramer on piano, with vocal backing by The Jordanaires, [4] the song went to number 1 in 1957 on the Country music chart and number 12 on the Pop chart. [5] In Canada, the song reached number 12 on the CHUM Charts, co-charting with the Jim Lowe version. [6]
Cramer was a regular session musician at the Nashville studios, playing with a multitude of artists including Elvis Presley and Brenda Lee, helping to define the "Nashville Sound" that Atkins had also helped develop. The trio briefly toured together. Chet, Floyd & Boots was originally released on RCA's budget label, RCA Camden.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Floyd Cramer songs" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 ...