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Robert Ford Ogdin (born September, 1945) is a Nashville-based recording session pianist. He is best known as a member of Elvis Presley's TCB band . He performed on 20 of Presley's recordings and accompanied him on 45 live shows until Presley's death in 1977.
Bobby Ogdin-piano player. bio. Sigma Chi / University of Tennessee.
The TCB Band is a group of musicians who formed the rhythm section of Elvis Presley 's band from August 1969 until his death in 1977. [1] ( Depending on the context, the nickname may also extend to Presley's background vocalists during that same period: the Imperials, the Sweet Inspirations, and JD Sumner and The Stamps Quartet ).
Born in Detroit, Bobby Ogdin began studying piano and violin the ages of 4 and 6, training to become a classical concert artist. Moving to Knoxville TN at the age of 8, he continued classical training, appearing several times with the Knoxville Symphony as a piano and violin soloist .
The core of that first iteration of West End was Kirk, Bobby Ogdin, Jon Goin, and David Humphreys. Ben Harris at GroundStar Laboratories engineered and mixed the first two songs, and soon after Travis Turk became, and remains to this day, the chief engineer for West End.
Bobby Ogdin has a decades-long career as one of the most successful keyboard players in the Nashville music industry. He was encouraged and assisted by Tom Collins to move to Nashville in the late 1960s and since then has recorded with Elvis Presley, Kenny Rogers, The Judds, Ronnie Milsap, Jerry Garcia, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash to name a few.
The distinctive piano lick on "Romeo's Tune" was done by former Elvis Presley pianist Bobby Ogdin, a well-known Nashville session piano player. In live performances, Forbert plays the lick on a neck-mounted harmonica .
