Ogdin's piano playing was synchronized with archival footage of Presley's vocal performance on "Unchained Melody" in the 2022 motion picture, Elvis directed by Baz Luhrman.

[1] He worked his way up to become an in-demand studio musician for scores of major artists[4] including Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, The Judds, Travis Tritt, George Jones, Kenny Chesney, Ray Charles, Barbara Mandrell, Dan Hill, Amy Grant and Ronnie Milsap.

[5] Ogdin was chosen as his replacement primarily by Briggs and by Elvis' record producer Felton Jarvis, seconded by Bob Beckham.

After the warm-up acts finished, TCB Band members along with the Joe Guercio Orchestra from Las Vegas took their places and began the overture with a dramatic build-up as Elvis appeared and pandemonium followed.

[10] Elvis continued on the piano but his playing lacked the polish of a studio musician; nevertheless, Jarvis said the vocal was "the best thing 'The King' had done in years"[10] and wanted to save it.

Working with engineer Al Patchucki,[10]: 143  Jarvis asked Ogdin to come up with a smooth, synchronized piano track to follow Presley's vocal.

"This was no easy task", said fellow musician Norbert Putnam, who was there that day waiting to add his bass part after Ogdin finished.

[10]: 144  With these two essential parts finished, Jarvis subsequently added many additional musicians and singers; it amounted to creating a new band, one instrument at a time.

[10]: 142  The final product was first released as a single, then on the album Moody Blue, which shot up on the record charts after Presley's death and ultimately sold two million copies.

[12] Four decades later Ogdin's piano part was used with archival footage of Presley's vocal performance on Unchained Melody in Baz Luhrman's 2022 motion picture, Elvis.

On the day Presley died, August 16, 1977, Ogdin was waiting at a private airport in Nashville along with Felton Jarvis, Randy Cullers, J.D.

[1] Ogdin said that Jarvis had just been on the phone with Colonel Tom Parker and "act of God" was a phrase from the musicians' contracts that dealt with financial obligations if some disastrous event occurred.

They chose primarily studio musicians including Ogdin, bassist Bob Wray, drummer James Stroud, and guitarists Rusty Milner and Ken Mimms.

Ogdin played in the group for five years (1983-1988)[15] and recorded the album Still Holdin' On which yielded two country chart singles, "Hangin' Out in Smokey Places" (No.

Gene and Dean Ween, built a cult following with their oddball musical parodies in various genres; however, their recordings, said the New York Times, sounded "homemade".

This time they used seasoned session players including Charlie McCoy, The Jordanaires, Hargus Robbins, Russ Hicks, and Bobby Ogdin.

[1] Barry Beckett, one of the founders of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and later a Nashville record producer, was asked in an interview, "Who would you use for keyboards?"