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Floyd Cramer - Floyd Cramer Plays Mac Arthur Park (2018) [Hi-Res]

Floyd Cramer - Floyd Cramer Plays Mac Arthur Park (2018) [Hi-Res]

BAND/ARTIST: Floyd Cramer

  • Title: Floyd Cramer Plays Mac Arthur Park
  • Year Of Release: 1968 / 2018
  • Label: RCA Records Label
  • Genre: Pop, Easy Listening
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks) [192kHz/24bit]
  • Total Time: 32:17 min
  • Total Size: 1.17 GB
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Tracklist:

01. Mac Arthur Park (4:46)
02. Autumn Of My Life (2:56)
03. Our Winter Love (2:32)
04. For Lovers' Sake (2:23)
05. Turn Around, Look At Me (2:29)
06. Sleep Safe And Warm (Lullaby From Rosemary's Baby) (2:50)
07. Do You Know The Way To San Jose (2:21)
08. The Odd Couple (From The Motion Picture The Odd Couple) (2:47)
09. The Impossible Dream (From The Man Of La Mancha) (2:58)
10. Don't Give Up (2:58)
11. This Guy's In Love With You (3:15)

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, where he first met Chet Atkins, who encouraged the pianist to move to Nashville. He did in 1955, rejoining Atkins as the house pianist at RCA Records to begin developing what would ultimately be recognized as the Nashville sound, a style shorn of the elements associated with traditional country and honky tonk instead favoring a more polished, progressive sheen. With Atkins behind the production boards, Cramer began to perfect his unique style of playing, a method not dissimilar to guitar-picking in that he would hit one key and then slide his finger onto the next, creating a blue, lonesome sound. Under Atkins' guidance, Cramer played on hundreds of sessions, including many for Presley, among them "Heartbreak Hotel."

Hello Blues In 1957, Cramer released his own solo debut, That Honky-Tonk Piano, and in the next year scored a minor pop hit with the single "Flip, Flop and Bop." As his solo career was largely secondary in relation to his session work, he recorded his own music sporadically, but in 1960 notched a significant country and pop hit with the self-penned instrumental "Last Date." The follow-up, a cover of Bob Wills' "San Antonio Rose," reached the Top Ten of both charts. He also released an LP a year between 1960 and 1962, starting with Hello Blues and followed by Last Date and I Remember Hank Williams.

Chet, Floyd & Boots From 1965 to 1974, Cramer annually released a Class Of... album, a collection of the year's top hits done in his own inimitable style. In 1971, he also teamed with Atkins and saxophonist Boots Randolph for the album Chet, Floyd and Boots. By 1977, Cramer was exploring modern technology, and on the LP Keyboard Kick Band, he played a number of instruments, including a synthesizer. In 1980, he released his last significant hit, a recording of the theme from the hit TV drama Dallas. Though largely quiet for most of the decade, in 1988 Cramer released three separate albums -- Country Gold, Just Me and My Piano!, and Special Songs of Love. He died December 31, 1997. ~ Jason Ankeny


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  • mufty77
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Many thanks for HD tracks.
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Thank you so much!!!
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Thanks a lot for HiRes