FLOYD CRAMER 78 RPM BRAZIL UNCHAINED MELODY CHET ATKINS 1962 PIANO COUNTRY ROCK

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Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Cramer grew up in the small town of Huttig,Arkansas, teaching himself to play the piano. After finishing high school, he returned to Shreveport, where he worked as a pianist for the Louisiana Hayrideradio show.

In 1953, he cut his first single, "Dancin' Diane", backed with "Little Brown Jug", for the local Abbott label. During 1955 he played dates with an emerging talent who would later figure significantly in his career, Elvis Presley.[1][2]

Cramer moved to Nashville in 1955 where the use of piano accompanists in country music was growing in popularity. By the next year he was, in his words, "in day and night doing session".[3] Before long, he was one of the busiest studio musiciansin the industry, playing piano for stars such as Elvis Presley, Brenda Lee, Patsy Cline, the Browns, Jim Reeves, Eddy Arnold,Roy Orbison, Don Gibson, and the Everly Brothers, among others.[4] It was Cramer's piano playing, for instance, on Presley's first RCA Victor single, "Heartbreak Hotel". However, Cramer remained strictly a session player, a virtual unknown to anyone outside the music industry.

Cramer had released records under his own name since the early 1950s, and became well known following the release of "Last Date", a 45 rpm single, released by RCA Victor in 1960.[5] The instrumental piece exhibited a relatively new concept for piano playing known as the "slip note" style. The record went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 pop music chart, sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. The song was kept out of the No. 1 position by Elvis Presley's "Are You Lonesome Tonight".[6]

Of the characteristic "slip note" style, Cramer himself commented, "The style I use mainly is a whole-tone slur which gives more of a lonesome cowboy sound. You hit a note and slide almost simultaneously to another." But the exact origin of the style remains uncertain, seemingly first emerging at the 1960 session for Hank Locklin's hit "Please Help Me I'm Falling," where Cramer was asked by Chet Atkins to copy the unusual piano styling of songwriter Don Robertson, who had played on the original demo. Cramer also acknowledged, however, the influence of "Mother" Maybelle Carter's autoharp playing.[1]

In 1961, Cramer had a hit with "On the Rebound", which went to No. 4, and No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart.[7] ("On the Rebound" was later featured during the opening credits of the 2009 Oscar-nominated film An Education, which was set in England in 1961.) That same year Cramer also had a hit with "San Antonio Rose"

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