Piano Trivia

[Jolly]

What was the first hit song to feature the Nashville slip-note style and who was the pianist?

[Larry]

Don Robertson wrote a song called "please help me I'm falling". Floyd Cramer played the piano on the finish cut, and copied the style from Robertson who played it first, on the demo.

[Jolly]

Yep, song was sung by Hank Locklin. I didn't know the part about Robertson. IIRC, Chet Atkins also worked on the record.

The song Last Date didn't come out until later in the year.

[kluurs]

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[Jolly]

Hank singing his hit. I'm not sure if that's Floyd on the piano, I'm guessing it is.

Link to video

[Jolly]

BTW...Something I found pretty amazing...I saw a video of Hank singing that song ten years or so before he died. He had to be in his mid-70's or maybe a little older.

Same key.

[Larry]

If Don Robertson had had any range, he could have been "Mr. Piano" instead of Floyd. Unfortunately, "please help me im falling" was a hot screaming barn burner compared to the rest of his catalog, with most of it sounding like he was falling asleep.....

[Jolly]

Larry, you remember Tommy Wells?

Tommy helped me when I bought my son his first set of drums...

[Larry]

@Jolly said in Piano Trivia:

Larry, you remember Tommy Wells?

Tommy helped me when I bought my son his first set of drums...

I had to think a minute, but yes I remember him. Great drummer.