FLOYD CRAMER - Unchained Melody

[IAmCica]

I remember these tunes being played when I was a youngster... and grew to love them then... I still enjoy listening to his magical piano... both on the radio, and records.... and when my father played the tunes on our piano. Thank you, Floyd. RIP. We miss you!

[lovethosecartwrights]

Always have loved this song my the great Floyd Cramer thank you for posting it

[mackyphoo]

one of the greatest songs in all time music .thanks for posting iy.

[mr3walks]

I just had to add my thoughts as a massive Floyd fan from the UK since the early '60's. He is remembered in my country for On the Rebound. Last Date didn't hit. To me Floyd interpreted the words of a song and played them as notes on the piano. He did this superbly and became the best pianist in the world in my opinion.

I would like to hear the track "Rejoice" from this album to show his diversity. Any chance this track could be uploaded?

[0917gva]

I realized after writing a bit of this that I actually posted to this very song a bit ago. I am currently visible on this page toward the bottom. FLoyd Cramer did many a marvelous job on fantastic songs. I love the mellow sounds of days gone by. I do remember hearing this at some point in my life. The older I got, the greater my appreciation of this lovely, endearing, and enduring music. Thank you!!

[edlittletexas]

One of the top 10 songs of my lifetime, by the master.

[bdturner100]

Also reminds me of my mother. We used to dance in the living room to these records on the stereo. Happy days and fond memories. Rest in Peace Mom.

[thisistheshit100]

I learned the piano and that magical sound from countless times I listened to Floyd Cramer. His magic on the piano still captures my soul even until now. It also has been the same for my son. For use both, we play one of his songs every time we sit at a piano. We miss Floyd but his music will forever be in our heart.  Joey Mills

[Araido1968]

EPIC... I dont know how its possible for music.. . to evoke emotion and say as much as this song says.. and not even have one spoken word in it.. this rendition of Unchaned Melody by Floyd Kramer.. is one of the most powerful arrangements I have ever heard in my life.. and I am a musician .. Floyd was truely the greatest.. from the time when I was a little kid in the 70s' till now.

[gva0917]

A beautiful rendition of a lovely classic. Unchained Meloday gives me chills every time I listen to it. It is because it seems filled to the brim with sincere emotion. This song can reach right in and touch your truest essence. Thank you for this wonderful post.

[chkjns]

@gva0917 You]re right Gayle, this is one of 30 trax on my Floyd Cramer playlist, but I could hear it 1000 times and still want to hear it again -thanks for thinking of me! I JUST learned what's in this that gives you those chills, it just jumped out at me days ago! Hear that extra resonance on some of those piano notes? Floyd's backed up with a VIBRAPHONE that only plays on certain notes, listen again & you'll hear the magic as never before! I'm up to 621 playlists now !!!Nearly 400 artists! chk

[ibJabbo]

Actually folks, "Unchained Melody" was originally done as a vocal by a gentleman named Hibler to minor acclaim. It wasn't until Bill & Bobby redid the arrangement and made a few nickels with it.



[uptownana]

Piano music at it's best.. brings tears to my eyes..My teen years in the 60's .. mixed emotions/ good times, bad times..love, broken heart..but I always had my music.. Floyd C. albums that got worn out and got me through. I STILL love Floyd C.'s music!! brings back so many memories.. like it was yesterday ! ♥♥♥

[donnyp1966]

My mothers favorite pianist was Floyd Cramer.His music was a mainstay at our house. Her favorite album of his was the one you have dislplayed. Hearing his version of Unchained Melody brings back a flood of memories. As I write this, tears are flowing because Mom passed on in'02. Thank you for posting this.

[cherylclair]

Wish I could find him playing the theme from Dallas. I use to have it and lost it. It was FANTASTIC

[ADonovan43]

Beautiful music will lift us beyond the bounds of daily strife.Take care ADonovan43

[AmericanEvita]

Absolutely beautiful....I didn't know that this came first. Most people assume that the Righteous Brothers guy sang this song first but he merely added lyrics to this original instrumental piece by Floyd Cramer. Gorgeous, emotional, romantic...eternal classic...

[HeathRobinsonII]

@AmericanEvita The song had lyrics from the beginning. It started life in an obscure 1955 convict movie named "Unchained," hence its name. Todd Duncan sang it on the soundtrack. But the melody itself is so beautiful that many performers have recorded it purely as an instrumental, besides those who have sung it.

[wsst1000]

I can't believe this being considered a "filler cut". I grew up in the late 60's and early 70's listening to my mom's copy of this song. I was shocked to hear that the melody had lyrics when I found it on a 20 cent Righteous Brothers album.

[ebfan41]

Beautiful , absolutely beautiful rendition of this song. 5*****

[flaviosgoncalves]

Ele era "O Cara" É mesmo o som do coração.

[Janfan76]

Thank you Mr. Floyd

[whisperhopestbls]

I haven't heard his music for a long time. What happened to him? What a talent.

[jmsseal]

@whisperhopestbls Floyd passed from lung cancer in 1997.

[TheTexn]

I could have lived in another age in a different part of the world. How blessed I have been. What great music it is.

[aklanpinoy1]

awesome instrumental! thank you!

[HoneynSage]

@aklanpinoy1 This is one fantastic piece of music

[sparwood8]

Takes me WAYY back. What a great musician !!

[zivoderac]

Bye,bye life...bye,bye happynes...helou...(oh my God...)

[hrpman]

Slip notes, grace notes - whatever! This is the unmistakable sound of the great Floyd Cramer at his best.

[suet95]

Last Date is a memory of that slow dance with the one you loved and will always love

[suet95]

where are you Harold....This is ours...timeless, endless no matter how many years

[kjboogie]

ahhhhh, Cramer is just wonderful on this timeless classic. Nothing better than this.

Thank you,

ken

[SuperClubpenguinz]

I am just growing up and I used to be one who listened to rap and punk music and well my grandmother got out the floyd cramer cds and I love playing on our piano and I was like, He was a very great piano player and I enjoy listening to his music. I love listening to him and he inspires me to play my piano.

[tunesmith09]

Loved Mr. Cramer...Mr. Atkins...Mr. Randolph...what nobody seems to appreciate is the background singers on all these great hits from that era and before...the Anita Kerr Singers...the best ever...known earlier as the "Little Dippers" on their hit of "Forever"...as Anita and the So & So's on "Joey Baby"...and backup on "Jingle Bell Rock" (Bobby Helms)..."Rockin Around The Christmas Tree" (Brenda Lee)...need I go on?

[rosesredvioletsblue]

great pianist! my parents listened to his

music. just beautiful. thank you.

[warlordtom]

Well,I'm in my 60's and his music takes me back to my teens and I remember his music and slow dancing with my girl and we all thought we would live forever.How wrong we were.Sometimes I think I'm the only one left from our group.Lost 2 buds in Nam,other friends to illness and some like smoke just sort of drifted away never to be seen again except when I hear music from this era and relive memories from the past.

[suet95]

Oh I know what you mean...This takes me back and the loss of friends and my greatest love.

[trowska]

Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for bringing back such fond memories. Wish we had more music like that today.

[Quadrider50]

wow! Thank you for posting. There was another big hit around the early 60's on the radio. Do you know the name of it? Maybe his first hit?

thanks,  Michael

[eenlover306]

"Last Date"

[rick7531]

I grew up listening to all the wonderful music that my Mom and Dad listened to, and still enjoy what I term talented, inspired musicians. The music now is so very nauseating,

[NVanWendy]

Ah, you could tell ol' Floyd's slip notes a block away!

[pianoman1812]

Grace notes, the term is grace notes.

[awol2602]

the term 'slip notes' was ascribed to F C to describe his particular distinctive style of grace notes

[pianoman1812]

@awol2602 I don't see how the term could be for him; He plays grace notes the way are supoosed to be played.

[awol2602]

I guess you're right - the term was maybe made up and applied to him because his style was so distinctive, and those grace notes happened to be a main feature of his unmistakeable style. There are many such duplicating terms in the vernacular of the non academic world of music aren't there?

[Arbitrage31]

The best arrangement ever of this song.....and that is saying a lot.

[tut001x]

Simply Beautiful.. Thanks

[GadeTerbob]

Thanks! I appreciate this.