Last Date by Floyd Cramer

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Verse

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Intro

• F – C – G – C
  IV – I – V – I

Verse 1

• C – C7 – F (×3)
  I – I7 – IV
• C – G7 – C7 – F
  I – V7 – I7 – IV
• C – G7 (×2)
  I – V7

Verse 2

• C – C7 – F (×3)
  I – I7 – IV
• C – G7 – C7 – F – C – G7 – C
  I – V7 – I7 – IV – I – V7 – I

Bridge

• F – G – C – C7 (×2)
  IV – V – I – I7
• F – G – C – Am – F – Dm7 – G
  IV – V – I – vi – IV – ii7 – V

Verse 3

• C – C7 – F (×3)
  I – I7 – IV
• C – G7 – C7 – F – C – G7 – C – F – C – G – C
  I – V7 – I7 – IV – I – V7 – I – IV – I – V – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to F.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0788, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.