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Earlier, Cramer had worked on the Hank Locklin session that had produced “Please Help Me, I’m Falling”; the composer, Don Robertson, had sent a demo on which he played piano, sliding up into a note from the one beneath, and that was the technique that Cramer incorporated into his style.
By the mid-1960s, Cramer was established as an album act, recording prolifically for RCA and touring widely with RCA labelmates Chet Atkins and saxophonist Boots Randolph.
Cramer stayed active in the studio for years thereafter, and he continued to do occasional concerts and record television-marketed albums until sidelined by cancer, which eventually took his life.
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 Floyd Cramer
Floyd Cramer was born on October 27th 1933 in Shreveport, Los Angeles.
The self-taught Cramer helped develop the "Nashville Sound" that carried country music to a wider audience and had the nation's most popular singers demanding his presence in the recording studio and on the bandstand.
Cramer, who had been diagnosed with cancer, died at the age of 64 and died at his home in Nashville on January 19th '98.
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 Floyd Cramer
Cramer had several more Top 40 singles over the next two years, "On the Rebound," another original, and a cover of Bob Wills' great hit, "San Antonio Rose." He became a staple of RCA's country catalog, recording an average of two albums a year for the next 14 years, all with Atkins as producer.
Cramer bumped the charts with a 1977 single, "Rhythm of the Rain," as "Floyd Cramer and the Keyboard Kick Band," which was really Cramer playing 8 different keyboard instruments through the magic of multitracking.
Cramer funded a music scholarship at East Tennessee State University and continued to help organize an annual music festival in Nashville until he was diagnosed with cancer in 1997.
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 Elvis Matters - Floyd Cramer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Floyd Cramer was born in Samti, LA on October 27, 1933.
Floyd Cramer played piano on the Louisiana Hayride which is where he first played piano for Elvis.
Floyd Cramer made a brilliant career for himself and recorded quite a few albums under his own name.
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The style and sound of Cramer's piano playing is arguably one of the biggest influences on post '50s’ country music.
Cramer was already a vastly experienced Nashville session player, playing on countless records during the '50s.
After dozens of albums Cramer was still making commercially successful recordings into the '80s, having a further hit in 1980 with the theme from the television soap-opera DALLAS.
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 Floyd Cramer MP3 Downloads - Floyd Cramer Music Downloads - Floyd Cramer Music Videos
A distinctive pianist whose unique, slip-note playing style came to typify the pop-oriented Nashville sound of the late '50s and early '60s, session and solo musician Floyd Cramer was born October 27, 1933, in Louisiana.
While Cramer cut a few solo sides in 1953, his most important work in the early '50s was as a session musician, where he first met Chet Atkins, who encouraged the pianist to move to Nashville.
By 1977, Cramer was exploring modern technology, and on the LP Keyboard Kick Band, he played a number of instruments, including a synthesizer.
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 Articles - Floyd Cramer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Floyd Cramer (October 27, 1933 - December 31, 1997) was an American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the "Nashville Sound."
However, Cramer remained a virtual unknown to anyone but music industry insiders until he recorded a 45rpm Single in 1960 called "Last Date." An instrumental, the music exhibited a relatively new concept for piano playing known as the "slip note" style.
Floyd Cramer passed away in 1997 and was interred in the Spring Hill Cemetery in the Nashville suburb of Madison, Tennessee.
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 37th Annual CMA Awards > Hall of Fame > 2003 Inductees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
And Floyd Cramer was Middle C shouldering most of the responsibility and progressive licks.
Born Oct. 27, 1933 near Shreveport, La., Cramer grew up in he sawmill town of Huttig, Ark. A self-taught piano player, he landed a job fresh out of high school in 1951 on the renowned "The Louisiana Hayride" on Shreveport's radio station KWKH, where he performed with a young Elvis Presley and Hank Williams Sr.
Cramer's biggest single came in 1961 with his No. 8 Country rendition of the Bob Wills classic "San Antonio Rose." By mid-decade, Cramer was established as an album act, recording prolifically for RCA Records while working recording sessions at a furious pace.
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 Yi-haa: Floyd Cramer
Floyd Cramer empezó su carrera en los 50 como músico de sesión en el programa de radio "The Louisiana Hayride", donde acompañó a grandes artistas como Jim Reeves, Faron Young, Webb Pierce e incluso, en su debut, a Elvis Presley.
En 1955, Cramer se plantó en esa ciudad y se convirtió en el pianista de la mayoría de grabaciones de RCA Records; así, tocó en cientos de sesiones y coincidió de nuevo con Elvis en discos como "Heartbreak Hotel".
Tal vez no pasará a la historia por sus propias obras, pero a Floyd Cramer se le recordará por haber adornado con su piano las grabaciones de algunas de las leyendas del country.
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 Artist Biography - Floyd Cramer
loyd Cramer was born October 27, 1933 near Shreveport, La., and grew up in the small sawmill town of Huttig, Ark. He balked at piano lessons but learned to play piano by ear at age 5.
Along with Chet Atkins, Boots Randolph and Owen Bradley, Cramer is credited with helping create "The Nashville Sound" in the 1950s and 1960s.
Cramer died on December 31, 1997, six months after being diagnosed with cancer.
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 Floyd Cramer and Carl Smith Inducted To Country Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The late Floyd Cramer and Carl Smith have been selected to join the Country Music Association's Hall of Fame.
Floyd Cramer was a pianist who was very much in-demand as a session player early in his career.
Cramer died December 31, 1997, after a battle with cancer.
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 AP Worldstream: Floyd Cramer, Carl Smith to be inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Floyd Cramer, Carl Smith to be inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame
Dateline: NASHVILLE, Tennessee Floyd Cramer and Carl Smith will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame during the 37th annual CMA Awards later this year.
Cramer, who died in 1997, will be the first inducted into the new category of "Recording and-or Touring Musician Active Prior to 1980." Smith will be inducted in the annual "Open"...
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 CMT.com : Floyd Cramer : Floyd Cramer Will Receive Rock Hall Induction
The late Floyd Cramer, whose slip note piano style helped define the "Nashville Sound" during the early 1960s, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the “sidemen” category.
Known for his 1960 hit, “Last Date,” Cramer was a successful solo performer, but his work as a Nashville studio musician included sessions with Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, the Everly Brothers and many top country acts.
Cramer, who died in 1997 at the age of 64, is not a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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 Cramer, Floyd Music Web Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Countrypolitan.com: Floyd Cramer - Biography by Sherry Anderson, January 2001.
Space Age Pop: Floyd Cramer - Biography and discography of the country pianist.
And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cramer, Floyd "Excellence is in the details.
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 Floyd Cramer Discography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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FLOYD CRAMER A distinctive pianist whose unique, slip-note playing style came to typify the pop-oriented Nashville sound of the late '50s and early '60s,...
THIS IS FLOYD CRAMER (39/-), RCA Victor VPS-6031, 1970...
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 Amazon.ca: Music: The Essential Floyd Cramer [Best of]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Cramer was as well-known as a sideman as he was a solo artist, and even if Essential contains none of his session work, it contains a good portion of his very best recordings, making it a fine introduction to one of the most influential pianists in country and pop history.
Floyd, who died from cancer on New Year's Eve 1997, was at last inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2003.
The "Essential Floyd Cramer" is a mixed bag of instrumental country.
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 Oldies.com : Floyd Cramer
The style and sound of Cramer's piano-playing was arguably one of the biggest influences on post-50s country music.
His delicate rock 'n' roll sound was achieved by accentuating the discord in rolling from the main note to a sharp or flat, known as "slip note".
With Atkins, Cramer remained Nashville's most prolific musician until his death from cancer in 1997.
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 The Floyd Cramer record, "Forever Floyd Cramer"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Floyd was the piano player on all of the early RCA hits by Elvis Presley,
While selling used copies is legal, please E MAIL Jaded Bum Music should you find any online or brick and mortar retailer who is currently selling new copies of this or any other SOR release...thanks...
Floyd Cramer passed away from cancer December 31st, 1997
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Floyd Cramer was born October 27, 1933 in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Throughout his long career, Floyd Cramer received and was nominated for many awards from the Country Music Association.
Floyd Cramer was clearly one of the most influential musicians
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 PR Newswire: CMA Announces Newest Members of Country Music Hall of Fame; Floyd Cramer and Carl Smith to Be Inducted on ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
PR Newswire: CMA Announces Newest Members of Country Music Hall of Fame; Floyd Cramer and Carl Smith to Be Inducted on the CMA Awards in November.@ HighBeam Research
CMA Announces Newest Members of Country Music Hall of Fame; Floyd Cramer and Carl Smith to Be Inducted on the CMA Awards in November.
Cramer, who died in 1998, is the first to be inducted in the new "Recording and/or Touring Musician Active Prior to 1980" category, while Smith is...
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 Floyd Cramer Inducted Into Country Music Hall of Fame
Floyd Cramer will be the first person to be inducted in the new "Recording and/or Touring Musician Active Prior to 1980" category in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Cramer and Carl Smith will be formally inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame during "The 37th Annual CMA Awards," airing live on the CBS Television Network on November 5, 2003.
Floyd Cramer at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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 Amazon.com: The Distinctive Piano Style Of/The Magic Touch Of: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I'd easily give this disc five stars because I think that the ten songs that comprise "The Magic Touch Of Floyd Cramer" are really good and the sound quality on these particular tracks ranges from good to excellent.
A lot of Floyd's finest performances are included here, but why not pick two of his more cohesive RCA efforts like the two organ albums or two from the "Class Of..." series or an excellent title like "Country Piano, City Strings"?
The few actual stereo recordings from the bunch could have been included here in stereo ("Shrum" is in true stereo on "The Essential Floyd Cramer") but they're mono.
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 Floyd Cramer sheet music : Floyd Cramer music scores   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Floyd Cramer: Last Date - Easy Piano Composed by Floyd Cramer.
Floyd Cramer: Last Date Composed by Floyd Cramer.
Floyd Cramer - Georgia On My Mind Performed by Floyd Cramer.
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 Floyd Cramer: The Distinctive Piano Style Of/The Magic Touch Of CD : Preise und Angebote
Floyd Cramer: The Distinctive Piano Style Of/The Magic Touch Of CD : Preise und Angebote
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Floyd Cramer performance live in 1971 on DVD 
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