Dingo40
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On accordion ?
Another?
Another?
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Mike t.
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It’s played with that same feel as “Last Date” by Floyd Cramer, my folks must of really love this style, so it is stuck in my memories or maybe riding in the back, backseat, backwards in the family station wagon listening to the old eight track warped my mind to love this stuff!
Dingo40
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To me, it's a lot like this (Jerry Nicolato, "Please Release Me"): love it!
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Mike t.
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I think I could get pretty close with the regular stradella bass… don’t need no stinking free bass, don’t have the money!
A-a-a-h!
The old adage: "Close enough is good enough for gummint work"
or "good enough for ministry work" as an ex-navy friend used to say
KeysFla
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The famous “slip note style” which Floyd Kramer used on many recording sessions. He was my idle in the 60’s, which I put much interest in this style.
Ventura
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for those of you not familiar with Floyd Cramer,
the Piano video above is not really in his style,
as his "slip note" signature sound typically were whole note slips,
not black key to white generic 1/2 step slides like everyone else did
Floyd was also the go-to session player for Chet Atkins
when he ran the RCA record label/Studio in Nashville
the Piano video above is not really in his style,
as his "slip note" signature sound typically were whole note slips,
not black key to white generic 1/2 step slides like everyone else did
Floyd was also the go-to session player for Chet Atkins
when he ran the RCA record label/Studio in Nashville
Ignacchitti
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I agree, the videos above look more like the average honky tonk piano style used to play country music. Not Floyd's specific signature style or anyone's.
I was going to say it looks more like Jerry Lee Lewis than Floyd Cramer, but Jerry inserted a lot more flourishes.
Nice tunes though and they go well with an accordion!
KeysFla
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Even did many sessions with Elvis Presley. Think that was studio B?
boxplayer4000
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Dingo40: A sizeable part of my playing in the last 40/50 years has been to please dancers who were from the ‘big-band’ era. ie. Pre Beatles and Elvis. Ballroom dancing was taken to great heights, and catered to by bands such as Victor Silvester etc. etc. Couple dances Quicksteps, FoxTrots, Slow FoxTrots, Modern Waltzes, Tangos, Cha-Chas etc. etc. topped the bill. They were so popular that the basic steps of those dances were incorporated into sequence dances which often followed repetitive 16 or 32 bar patterns. Their popularity was strongest in Britain but also in its world-wide spheres of influence. The influence is very strong in Australia.
This is a typical set of tunes I played in strict tempo, at 116BPM, to suit sequence dances such as the Melody FoxTrot and Saunter Together.
I have recorded them, solo, since retiring, on my Hohner 1VM with midied bass/chords. I enjoy trying to arrange bass/chords, simple harmonies and counter-melodies. The tunes are ‘Love Letters in the Sand (Pat Boone era), Cheatin’ Heart and Blueberry Hill.
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This is a typical set of tunes I played in strict tempo, at 116BPM, to suit sequence dances such as the Melody FoxTrot and Saunter Together.
I have recorded them, solo, since retiring, on my Hohner 1VM with midied bass/chords. I enjoy trying to arrange bass/chords, simple harmonies and counter-melodies. The tunes are ‘Love Letters in the Sand (Pat Boone era), Cheatin’ Heart and Blueberry Hill.
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boxplayer4000
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Here's some of the tunes that served me well for decades from the era pre Beatles/Elvis etc.
I'm curious what MW, SF, PG etc. mean?
boxplayer4000
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Those abbreviations are dance types:
MW Modern Waltz (sometimes referred to as a 'jazz' waltz).
SF Slow Foxtrot
PG Palais Glide
QS Quickstep
Miss Mississippi Dip This sequence dance had absolutely nothing to do with Mississippi and was devised in Edinburgh, Scotland, between
the wars. Popular tunes then such as 'Swanee' may well have inspired the dance.
MW Modern Waltz (sometimes referred to as a 'jazz' waltz).
SF Slow Foxtrot
PG Palais Glide
QS Quickstep
Miss Mississippi Dip This sequence dance had absolutely nothing to do with Mississippi and was devised in Edinburgh, Scotland, between
the wars. Popular tunes then such as 'Swanee' may well have inspired the dance.
I knew them all except the Miss.
It must have remained "darn sarf" as it never reached Arbroath and beyond to my knowledge
boxplayer4000
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Pipemajor:
It's reached well past Arbroath. They're doing it here in Dufftown:
It's reached well past Arbroath. They're doing it here in Dufftown:
Dingo40
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Never heard of the Miss Mississippi Dip but it looks very similar to what we had here: the popular "Military Two Step"!
Ahh, I must have escaped before then. I left Scotland in 1959
boxplayer4000
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Dingo40: From online activity I sense that ballroom/big-band/quickstep/Foxtrot/Old-time sequence type dancing is popular in Australia. Like here (UK) it's very age based so there's every chance it's influence is receding. However dance clubs, such as 'The Melbourne Colonial Dance Club' suggest it's still going. I found the Australian film entitled 'Strictly Ballroom' based on rivalry in the dance scene very entertaining.
