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 A DELIGHT November 21, 2009
Heather Marshall Negahdar (Bridgetown, Barbados)
I could not wait to receive my Floyd Cramer's cd after I listened to the samples. There were a lot of the songs I knew long ago but I did not assocoate them with this artiste instrumentally. Now I know. This Cramer music will live on through the years mainly appreciated by people in their late forties and onwards. Kramer performes with such sweet and nostalgic passion on this cd, making it ideal entertainment at a dinnertime at a soft volume. Consider this s wonderful gift for someone close to you. Highly recommended!!!
Reviewed by Heather Marshall Negahdar (SUGAR-CANE 21/11/09)
 the essential floyd cramer January 24, 2008
Irish Angel
just what i wanted and as it was a gift also what the recipient wanted
"Anywhere, Anytime, Always FLOYD" (stars are not enough) December 24, 2007
D'ASTE FRANCO (Italy)
This CD flows like a stream of pure crystal-clear water, it's out of Time/Space. You can play it anytime,as front or beautiful back ground everchanging music...just brings joy&hapiness.
Original good quality recordings,all stereo excluded "Flip Flop and Bop" but good quality anyway.
At first instance I would have prefered all more uniform mellow songs just like Owen stated in his review but no, this is much better. Young kids just love it also as background music home or in the car. I made my own compilation of the mellow songs combining(5)FC CD's but I tend to play this CD more,it's just happier.
One last comment...Floyd is UNIQUE, he does not play a piano he plays HIS PIANO!
Ciao,
Franco
It IS Skimpy July 30, 2007
I have to agree with the observation that this CD leans towards the skimpy side, perhaps not for exactly the same reasons as stated by another reviewer, but nevertheless wanting in one respect.
The hit 78 rpm and then 45 rpm single is what made stars out of recording artists back then, and Floyd Cramer had 11 of them on the Billboard Hot 100 between his first in 1958 [Flip Flop And Bop - # 87] and his last in early 1963 [Java - # 49]. Two of those 11 hits crossed over to the R&B and Country charts, and from 1967 to 1980 he added four more to the Adult Contemporary [AC] charts, two of which also crossed to the Country listings [one of those, Stood Up, is here]. In 1977 he also had a # 67 Country with the old Cascades hit, Rhythm Of The Rain, in conjunction with The Keyboard Kick Band.
What we do not get in this "essential" volume, in terms of hit singles are: Hang On [the flip of Your Last Goodbye and a # 95 in 1961]; Let's Go [the B-side to Chatanooga Choo Choo and # 90 in 1962]; Hot Pepper [# 63 in 1962]; Java [# 49 in 1963]; By The Time I Get To Phoenix [# 32 AC in 1968]; Theme From Two-Twenty-Two [# 39 AC in 1970]; Dallas [# 32 Country/# 34 AC in 1980; and the above-mentioned Rhythm Of The Rain.
Also, in the excellent five pages of liner notes written by Colin Escott (which also contains a complete discography of the contents except for chart performances), we learn that, in addition to backing everyone from Elvis to Jim Reeves to Hank Locklin to Don Gibson to The Browns - to name just a few - he also recorded Fancy Pants with backing by The Louisiana Hayride Band way back in 1953 for the Abbott label and it too charted at # 28 on the Pop listings. Including that in this essential CD would have been a nice touch, but instead we get a 1958 RCA re-recording.
Not that there is anything wrong with this particular rendition, but it seems to me that producer Paul Williams could have used just a little more imagination in putting this one together. including adding maybe another 5 tracks.
Floyd, who died from cancer on New Year's Eve 1997, was at last inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2003.
San Antonio Rose, Last Date March 9, 2007
Kurt Buehring
This songs you cannot buy in Europe. Good to find them here
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