Tag: Floyd Cramer

• True Heartbreak

  

  Heartbreak Hotel was based on a newspaper story about the suicide of a lonely man who jumped from a hotel window.

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  January 27, 2022

  HIT SONGS

  1956, ‘Heartbreak Hotel’, Billboards Top 100, Chet Atkins, Elvis Presley, Floyd Cramer, Mae Boren Axton, RCA Victor, The Blue Moon Boys, Tommy Durden, TRUE STORY

• Floyd Cramer master of the ‘slip note’

  

  Floyd Cramer’s unique slip-note style became a key “Nashville sound” of the 1950s and 1960s and influenced a generation of pianists.

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  December 30, 2021

  FAMOUS MUSICIANS

  ’Last Date’, ’Slip-note’ piano style, Billboard hits, Elvis Presley, Floyd Cramer, Nashville