My dad was very well known In musical history ...he always got standing ovation for last date .. as any musical instrument he owned each song his way ... Rip to my dad .. Charlie O'Bannon went to heaven August 24 2021 .. Forever etched into our hearts 💕

One of the prettiest piano pieces ever recorded

It was this song that inspired me to buy my first piano 40 years ago.

If you want to learn this song right - you've come to the right place. I found this video and I said, "That's it!" ... I believe this may be the only video on KZfaq that will show you how to play this song the way it's supposed to be played. Excellent job and thank you!

Thanks for your very clear tutorial. Am 70 and Inlove Floyd Cramer style. I wish I could play it like in your tutorial.

Beautiful!

My favorite piano song of all time thank you so much for the tutorial.

Hi, I always follow up this wonderful Floyd Cramer piece with Skeeter Davis's singing it. Have been loving it since my childhood. Thks !

I have loved this song my entire life; you make it look so easy!

Guitar player here - I've heard this for 60+ years and never knew the "tricks" behind it; Thanks!

Kent, you have painted this evening to me in the light tone of nostalgia - when, in the late 50 - ies I started trying to play this style on piano; whereas in Russia no one and nowhere didn't play this music , there was no vinyl - only radio and Floyd Cramer. Since then for country piano I always kept in my heart a warm corner

Really nice tutorial, thank you

Beautiful, Kent! This was played at my grandpa’s funeral. I still can’t hear it without getting a little water in my eyes.

A very spiritual song that will live forever, and you really did it justice. Thanks so much Kent!!

PLEASE do a dissection of Billy Powell’s work on “T For Texas” !!!

Thanks for this tutorial + pdf !! Great explanation of the grace notes ! It helped me a lot ! Thx, Ben

One of the best tutorials for Last Date that I've listened to ...Thank U so much !

Great lesson ! Thanks very much ! Great music ! martin

You have taught me so much.God bless you always...

This was my first piece of sheet music... I think in 1960. This is a beautiful arrangement. I downloaded it and am working on all the grace notes. Thank you so much for the explanations in all your videos. I’m not at all good with jazz because I cannot walk and chew gum at the same time, but this one I think I can conquer. I do, however, enjoy your jazz tutorials.

It's so fantastic to see how it actually done. I heard it when it firs came out in 1960s and heard about the slip notes. So thank you very much.

I loved this song as a 10 year old and I am so grateful for the tutorial. You give wonderful guidance for playing it. Thank you!

great tutorial and notation sheets - thank you very much - Kent did a really great job on this!

Love this ! Love the clear demo that you provided ! May take a month but I hope to play it recognizably! Thx. Kent!

Absolutely brilliant, so nostalgic

Thanks for the tutorial...this song is one of my favorite.. .hope to get more songs..

I am a self-taught musician as well and when I look at Kent tutorials I am very fascinated he is just a complex genius with a grateful heart to help others I'm learning lick between 251 this instructor is awesome as a self-taught musician when you look at Kent tutorials you can see in hear what you are missing to be a proficient musician

great

Great song ,great breakdown. Thanks!

Kent. Thank you for this! I’m a guitarist (fingerstyle) and found this very helpful. I had heard Floyd had listened to steel guitar (which I’m into) when he developed his style.

Very good and instructive! Thank you!

GOOD PLAYING

Great song!

I love this song. Me and my sisters use go skating our parents would take us. The last song was this song

well done sir i did not go in to country very much i love it thank you

Sooooooo good I'm going to learn this thanks for sharing 😃🎹

oh, you made me goose bumps!!

Beautiful . I learned how to slow any tune till I learn it, then set it back to normal again thanks to Kent. For info he provided . Thanks. Ken in VA 22405.

What's going on Kent? I start playing Floyd Cramer and there you are! You's the man!!

Bravo, best tutorial ever. now maybe I'll learn this damn thing.

Beautiful🎹

Sounds great!

Enjoyed your presentation! I have always enjoyed hearing the music; not sure if I shall ever learn to play it however!! ha

Thanks as always, Kent! Could you do some more country tunes? I love this.

Thanks for this. I got to see Floyd Cramer's grandson Jason Coleman perform this piece a few years back.

It's over, our love affair, Too late now I find I care Her sweet love, never more I'll share She's gone, I'm alone, I was wrong, should have known Took her home after our last date. I searched for a simply way To tell her what I had to say I kissed her then I turned away Set her free, foolishly, destiny, misery Tragedy, on our last date. Took my ring from her trembling finger Brushed the tears from my baby's eyes Walked away, didn't know That I'd soon miss her so I guess I was too young to realize. So blind I couldn't see How much she really meant to me And that soon she would always be On my mind, in my heart, I was blind from the start Lost her love on our last date... This is the lyrics to the song "Lost our Love on our Last Date". Conway Twitty and Emmylou Harris sings it. As close to "Last Date" as you'll find.

Thank you Kent!

Great piano number well played thanks

Thank you!!! I found the sheet music to this in an old pile of music. I just could not get it to sound correct until I watched this explanation. You do a much better job of explaining the grace notes then the score does--good job. Either way, it is still tough to bring the hands together.

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Brother I’ve found a lot of versions helpful with rhythm and general style education. This is it though. This is what I’m workin towards on this piece. Thank you!

Lovely song. I like the grace notes.

The main reason why I enjoy your tutorials so much is, that you're able to go through various genres (jazz, blues, country) in such complexity in a few minute video. As a self-taught piano player, it really gives me a different perspective on things - I'm able to see things in context, see the rules, that I somehow hear, but wasn't able to comprehend in such detail. I was wondering, if you could maybe do an analysis on a Matt Rollins' piano solo in the intro of I've Been To Memphis by Lyle Lovett. In the studio version, there's this really cool jazzy-bluesy-ragtime intro full of licks and great ideas. It also appears in the middle of the song and the outro. He also works with some weird time-signature, which I'm unable to understand when just listening to it. I'd be very much interested in your thoughts about it.

Wah bagus sekali..terimakasih untuk tutorialnya.. i'm from Indonesia

Conway Twitty wrote words for it and it was recorded by him and Emmy Lou Harris....and others. Nice video...Great job. Thanks for sharing.

Great Lesson, Lee

Thanks Kent very interesting.

Cramer played with such style & simplicity... it is a genius composition... that grace note thing stands out on his studio work with other musicians. It’s his trademark.

Oh yeah, laying down on the back window deck of my Uncle's Buick heading home after a long day at South Beach, Staten Island. Faa-get-a-bout-it! No way.

Thank you for the video and the sheet :) Cheers from Maracaibo (Venezuela) -Silv

Oh, thank-you so much!

Yow …. You are talented!!! Perfect … just as Floyd played it.

Best dance music

I'm sure you've done the research.. I am getting the diminished scale down. I see a nice patern .. it seems the diminnished is is the dominant seven followed by the dimished in f.

Thank you!

Yes just great great great and wellgreat love that solo piano here this on loads of country albums and it's great to see how it's played and performed do you have a web site and any dvd instruction I think I can probably play this after watching you sir and I'm a rockibilly bass player but play have and play a few instruments thank you for posting all your videos such an inspiration to keep pedling g away thanks Tony

Bonjour kent, Could we have a "jerry lee tutorial" ? "you win again" or "lucky old sun" ? That would be great. ( i secretly hope a "tennessee waltz" ) Big thanks from Paris. XC

Is the country that simple? I thought it was so complex. But now I will practice it... Thx for the tutorial... 😊😊😊😊

Nice job.. I like to play this style.. I never realized it.. but you can hear .. and I tried and and I tried I can't get.. who knew .. the Stones would have some of the same progression as last Dance.

Dam this one is a doozy. Slowly but surely im getting it. Got the main riff down

there are words to this song , i used to have a copy of them some years back

this song is why I started playing the piano when I was a kid. but that all stopped in 2009 when I had 3 strokes in 1 1/2 years.

Hey!! Thanks for this wonderful class. I couldn’t find the score thou, is it still available?

A nice one Kent thanks for sharing, Another Country type song is Crippled Inside by John Lennon.

I for one do like it slowed down and you talking at the same time...I think most do. .. that might be a good question to ask viewers..

Is there a longer version and more in depth on how you play in the beginning. I am teaching myself this song from this video.

Hi Kent! Love ur arrangement. I've searched ur website & I'm unable to locate the sheet music. Is it still available?

dear ken --- 4months later a recognizable facsimile finally emerges!! may i consider myself a pretty good player??? thx for the vid--joe

Nice arrangement. Unfortunately, when I go to download the music, I get no response when I hit the download button. In fact, I get no response on any of the download buttons that I’ve chosen such as the blues walking baseline. Possibly, you can tell me what I’m doing wrong? Thanks again. Nice clear tutorial.

cute song.

I am a rocker but this song so reminds me of riding around in my Dads car on a Saturday morning

actually I don't know if he wrote it but there are 2 other versions one is a woman and hw other is Conway and it has some very sweet words .. Floyd Cramer definitely played the most popular

great tutorial..really enjoyed it..but i can't find the score for it..is there a seperate link? thanks

Do you have this in sheet music the way you play this song?

Hi, is there any rules on the usage of the grace notes?

Only Floyd can make a piano Twangy

I wish you had played it a little slower, because you did say it was worthy of good players, well most of us who view the tutorials are not experts, but keen to improve, so perhaps you can slow it down and add what fingers you find best to play the licks in the video, Other than that well played.

there are lyrics to this sung by Skeeter Davis

On the printed sheet the first bass note after the intro is a G should this not be a C.

Thank you I'm working on it slowly....very slowly

great tutorial but can't see the score on your website, kent.

Reminds of Fats Domino and others of that pop Era.

How do I get the sheet music?

Conway Twitty did last date with lyrics!

Hello Kent. Excellent tutorial! I'm trying to learn country piano techniques. I do not see the score on your site to download. Is there a way I can get to it? Thanks!

I like the lesson, but this version is different that the arrangement on your site.

I may be wrong but I think the first version had lyrics.

My nana said once i play this for shell think ima good piano player

My favorite Floyd Cramer song. However you played it too fast!

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