Ray T. Peterson (April 23 1935 - January 25 2005) was an American pop music… Read Full Bio ↴Ray T. Peterson (April 23 1935 - January 25 2005) was an American pop music singer.
Ray Peterson was born in Denton, Texas. Blessed with a 4-octave singing voice, he idolized the vocal sounds of fellow Texan, Roy Orbison. Peterson moved to Los Angeles, California where he was signed by RCA Victor Records in 1957. He recorded several songs that were minor hits until "The Wonder of You" made it into the Billboard Top Thirty list. The song would later be recorded by Elvis Presley with whom he became close friends.
In 1960 Ray Peterson scored a Top 10 hit with "Tell Laura I Love Her," and followed that success with "Corrina, Corrina, and I Could Have Loved You So Well." By the mid-1960s he had become something of a phenomenon on the west coast of the United States, appearing live in numerous rock concerts with Paul McCartney lookalike, Keith Allison.
His performances at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, produced by Fred Vail, beginning in 1963 helped fuel a revival of "The Wonder of You" as well as launch his new relationship with MGM Records, an alliance that produced two albums, "The Very Best of Ray Peterson" featuring most of the Dunes singles, and "The Other Side of Ray Peterson", which included many of his nightclub songs. He later moved to Nashville, Tennessee and by the 1970s when the hit records stopped coming, Peterson became a Baptist Church minister and occasionally played the oldies music circuit.
Ray Peterson died of cancer in 2005 in Smyrna, Tennessee and was interred in the Roselawn Memorial Gardens cemetery in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Ray Peterson was born in Denton, Texas. Blessed with a 4-octave singing voice, he idolized the vocal sounds of fellow Texan, Roy Orbison. Peterson moved to Los Angeles, California where he was signed by RCA Victor Records in 1957. He recorded several songs that were minor hits until "The Wonder of You" made it into the Billboard Top Thirty list. The song would later be recorded by Elvis Presley with whom he became close friends.
In 1960 Ray Peterson scored a Top 10 hit with "Tell Laura I Love Her," and followed that success with "Corrina, Corrina, and I Could Have Loved You So Well." By the mid-1960s he had become something of a phenomenon on the west coast of the United States, appearing live in numerous rock concerts with Paul McCartney lookalike, Keith Allison.
His performances at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, produced by Fred Vail, beginning in 1963 helped fuel a revival of "The Wonder of You" as well as launch his new relationship with MGM Records, an alliance that produced two albums, "The Very Best of Ray Peterson" featuring most of the Dunes singles, and "The Other Side of Ray Peterson", which included many of his nightclub songs. He later moved to Nashville, Tennessee and by the 1970s when the hit records stopped coming, Peterson became a Baptist Church minister and occasionally played the oldies music circuit.
Ray Peterson died of cancer in 2005 in Smyrna, Tennessee and was interred in the Roselawn Memorial Gardens cemetery in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
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The Wonder of You - The Very Best of Ray Peterson 1957 - 1962
Ray Peterson Lyrics
Be My Girl Me and you together that's fly Girl you're an angel from…
Come And Get It When you're ready come and get it Na na na na When…
Corinna, Corinna Corinna, Corinna Ray Peterson (Parish-Chapman-Williams) I l…
I Could Have Loved You So Well I know I can't make you stay And as you're walkin'…
I'm Gone I never thought that it would be That anyone could capture…
Missing You Missin you Can't help but wish that you Were in my arms…
My Blue Angel Why wish I so fool is And may Heart so blind Why…
Suddenly Then suddenly I'm breaking past the lies It's something magi…
Sweet Little Kathy Kathy, Kathy I love you More than I can say; But…
Tell Laura I Love Her Laura and Tommy were lovers He wanted to give her everything…
The Wonder of You When no one else can understand me When everything I do…
We're Old Enough to Cry (Old enough to cry) They say That we're to young to fall…
What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For? As you look around this room tonight Settle in your seat…
You Thrill Me How come you do me like you do do do? How…