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Price was born Noble Ray Price near Perryville , Texas . Some of his more famous songs include "Crazy Arms," "Heartaches By the Numbers," "City Lights," and "Danny Boy." He was elected to the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1996 . Price hit Nashville in the early 1950s , rooming for a short time with Hank Williams. When Williams died, Price took over Williams' band, the Drifting Cowboys, and had minor success. He was the first artist to have a hit with "Release Me" ( 1953 ), a song made famous by Englebert Humperdink in the early 1970s . However, Price became one of the stalwarts of the grinding, honky tonk music that became even more popular in the early 1950s with such singers as Hank Williams , Lefty Frizzell , Webb Pierce and others. Price developed the famous "Ray Price Shuffle Beat" that is heard on "Crazy Arms," which served as the beat for many honky-tonk classics since then. In 1953 , Price formed his famous band, the Cherokee Cowboys. Among its members in the late 1950s and early 1960s were Roger Miller , Willie Nelson and Johnny Paycheck . In fact, Miller wrote one of Ray Price's classics in 1958 , "Invitation to the Blues," and sang harmony on the recording. In addition, Nelson penned the Ray Price classic, "Night Life." Price disappeared off the country music scene in the 1960s , but emerged with another hit, the Kris Kristofferson classic, "For the Good Times," which featured a more mellow Price backed up by sophisticated musical sounds, quite the opposite from the honky-tonk sounds Price pioneered two decades before. Today he is singing Gospel music and has recorded such songs as "Amazing Grace," "What A Friend We Have in Jesus," "Farther Along," and "Rock of Ages" {Link without Title} . In 2005 , Price was living near Dallas and still travelling to concerts throughout the country. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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