# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/floyd-cramer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:28:08.116Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/floyd-cramer"
name: "Floyd Cramer"
slug: "floyd-cramer"
description: "Floyd Cramer was an American pianist who became famous for his use of melodic \"whole-step\" attacks. He was inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His signature playing style was a cornerstone of the pop-oriented \"Nashville sound\" of the 1950s and 1960s. Cramer's \"slip-note\" or \"bent-note\" style, in which a passing note slides almost instantly into or away from a chordal note, influenced a generation of pianists. His sound became popular to the degree that he stepped out of his role as a sideman and began touring as a solo act. In 1960, his piano instrumental solo, \"Last Date\" went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 pop music chart and sold over one million copies. Its follow-up, \"On the Rebound\", topped the UK Singles Chart in 1961. As a studio musician, he became one of a cadre of elite players dubbed the Nashville A-Team and he performed on scores of hit records."
tagline: "American pianist (1933–1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Floyd_Cramer_(1965).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1933-10-27"
deathDate: "1997-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4095167340134452
  historical:           17.22132266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump