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Floyd Cramer
Biography
Born
1933 in Samti, LA

Died
December 31, 1997

Years Active:
50s | 60s | 70s | 80s | 90s

 
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. After a childhood spent largely in Arkansas, he returned to his home state in 1951 and began appearing on the radio program The Louisiana Hayride, where he performed with the likes of Jim Reeves, Faron Young, Webb Pierce, and, in his debut, Elvis Presley.

While Cramer cut a few solo sides in 1953, his most important work in the early '50s was as a session musician, wher
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