Noble Ray Price (January 12, 1926 – December 16, 2013) was an American coun… Read Full Bio ↴Noble Ray Price (January 12, 1926 – December 16, 2013) was an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. His wide-ranging baritone has often been praised as among the best male voices of country music. Some of his well-known recordings include "Release Me", "Crazy Arms", "Heartaches by the Number", "For the Good Times", "Night Life", and "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me". He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996 and—even into his late 80s—continued to record and tour.
Price, born in Perryville, Texas, served with the U.S. Marines from 1944–1946, and began singing for KRBC in Abilene, Texas during 1948. He joined the Big D Jamboree in Dallas in 1949. He relocated to Nashville in the early 1950s, rooming for a brief time with Hank Williams. When Williams died, Price managed his band, the Drifting Cowboys, and had minor success. He was the first artist to have a success with the song "Release Me" (1954), a top five popular music hit for Engelbert Humperdinck in 1967.
In 1953, Price formed his band, the Cherokee Cowboys. Among its members during the late 1950s and early 1960s were; Roger Miller, Willie Nelson, Darrell McCall, Van Howard, Johnny Paycheck and Johnny Bush, Buddy Emmons, Pete Wade, Jan Kurtis, Shorty Lavender and Buddy Spicher. Miller wrote one of Ray Price's classics in 1958, "Invitation to the Blues", and sang harmony on the recording. Additionally, Nelson composed the Ray Price song "Night Life".
Price became one of the stalwarts of 1950s honky tonk music, with hit songs such as "Talk To Your Heart" (1952) and "Release Me". He later developed the famous "Ray Price Shuffle," a 4/4 arrangement of honky tonk music with a walking bassline, which can be heard on "Crazy Arms" (1956) and many of his other recordings from the late 1950s.
During the 1960s, Ray experimented increasingly with the so-called Nashville sound, singing slow ballads and utilizing lush arrangements of strings and backing singers. Examples include his 1967 rendition of "Danny Boy", and "For the Good Times" in 1970 which was Price's first country music chart No. 1 hit since "The Same Old Me" in 1959. Written by Kris Kristofferson, the song also scored No. 11 on the popular music chart and featured a mellower Price backed by sophisticated musical sounds, quite in contrast to the honky tonk sounds Price had pioneered two decades before. Price had three more No. 1 country music successes during the 1970s: "I Won't Mention It Again", "She's Got To Be A Saint", and "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me." His final top ten hit was "Diamonds In The Stars" in early 1982. Price continued to have songs on the country music chart through 1989. Later, he sang gospel music and recorded such songs as "Amazing Grace", "What A Friend We Have In Jesus", "Farther Along" and "Rock of Ages."
In 2006, Price was living near Mount Pleasant, Texas and still performing in concerts throughout the country. In 2009, Price made two performances for the Fox News show Huckabee. The first was with the Cherokee Cowboys and host Mike Huckabee, and he performed "Crazy Arms" and "Heartaches By The Number". Weeks later he performed with the Cherokee Cowboys and Willie Nelson (again with Huckabee playing bass guitar). This time they performed duets of "Faded Love" and "Crazy."
Price worked on his latest album, Last of the Breed, with fellow country music singers Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. This album was released on March 20, 2007 by the company Lost Highway Records. The two-disc set features 20 country classics as well as a pair of new compositions. The trio toured the U.S. from March 9 until March 25 starting in Arizona and finishing in Illinois. This was Price's third album with Nelson and first album with Haggard. After the tour, Haggard remarked, "I told Willie when it was over, 'That old man gave us a goddamn singing lesson.' He really did. He just sang so good. He sat there with the mic against his chest. And me and Willie are all over the microphone trying to find it, and he found it."
On November 6, 2012, Ray Price confirmed that he was fighting pancreatic cancer. Price told the San Antonio Express-News that he had been receiving chemotherapy for the past six months. An alternative to the chemo would have been surgery that involved removing the pancreas along with portions of the stomach and liver, which would have meant a long recovery and stay in a nursing home. Said Price, "That's not very much an option for me. God knows I want to live as long as I can but I don't want to live like that." The 87-year-old Country Music Hall of Famer also told the newspaper, "The doctor said that every man will get cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it – I ain't old!" Price retained a positive outlook and hoped to play as many as a hundred concert dates in 2013.
As of early February 2013, the cancer appeared to be in remission. Sometime in May 2013, Price was hospitalized with severe dehydration. On December 2, 2013, Price entered a Tyler, Texas, hospital in the final stages of pancreatic cancer, according to his son, then left on December 12 for home hospice care. Price died at his home in Mt. Pleasant, Texas, on December 16, 2013.
Price, born in Perryville, Texas, served with the U.S. Marines from 1944–1946, and began singing for KRBC in Abilene, Texas during 1948. He joined the Big D Jamboree in Dallas in 1949. He relocated to Nashville in the early 1950s, rooming for a brief time with Hank Williams. When Williams died, Price managed his band, the Drifting Cowboys, and had minor success. He was the first artist to have a success with the song "Release Me" (1954), a top five popular music hit for Engelbert Humperdinck in 1967.
In 1953, Price formed his band, the Cherokee Cowboys. Among its members during the late 1950s and early 1960s were; Roger Miller, Willie Nelson, Darrell McCall, Van Howard, Johnny Paycheck and Johnny Bush, Buddy Emmons, Pete Wade, Jan Kurtis, Shorty Lavender and Buddy Spicher. Miller wrote one of Ray Price's classics in 1958, "Invitation to the Blues", and sang harmony on the recording. Additionally, Nelson composed the Ray Price song "Night Life".
Price became one of the stalwarts of 1950s honky tonk music, with hit songs such as "Talk To Your Heart" (1952) and "Release Me". He later developed the famous "Ray Price Shuffle," a 4/4 arrangement of honky tonk music with a walking bassline, which can be heard on "Crazy Arms" (1956) and many of his other recordings from the late 1950s.
During the 1960s, Ray experimented increasingly with the so-called Nashville sound, singing slow ballads and utilizing lush arrangements of strings and backing singers. Examples include his 1967 rendition of "Danny Boy", and "For the Good Times" in 1970 which was Price's first country music chart No. 1 hit since "The Same Old Me" in 1959. Written by Kris Kristofferson, the song also scored No. 11 on the popular music chart and featured a mellower Price backed by sophisticated musical sounds, quite in contrast to the honky tonk sounds Price had pioneered two decades before. Price had three more No. 1 country music successes during the 1970s: "I Won't Mention It Again", "She's Got To Be A Saint", and "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me." His final top ten hit was "Diamonds In The Stars" in early 1982. Price continued to have songs on the country music chart through 1989. Later, he sang gospel music and recorded such songs as "Amazing Grace", "What A Friend We Have In Jesus", "Farther Along" and "Rock of Ages."
In 2006, Price was living near Mount Pleasant, Texas and still performing in concerts throughout the country. In 2009, Price made two performances for the Fox News show Huckabee. The first was with the Cherokee Cowboys and host Mike Huckabee, and he performed "Crazy Arms" and "Heartaches By The Number". Weeks later he performed with the Cherokee Cowboys and Willie Nelson (again with Huckabee playing bass guitar). This time they performed duets of "Faded Love" and "Crazy."
Price worked on his latest album, Last of the Breed, with fellow country music singers Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. This album was released on March 20, 2007 by the company Lost Highway Records. The two-disc set features 20 country classics as well as a pair of new compositions. The trio toured the U.S. from March 9 until March 25 starting in Arizona and finishing in Illinois. This was Price's third album with Nelson and first album with Haggard. After the tour, Haggard remarked, "I told Willie when it was over, 'That old man gave us a goddamn singing lesson.' He really did. He just sang so good. He sat there with the mic against his chest. And me and Willie are all over the microphone trying to find it, and he found it."
On November 6, 2012, Ray Price confirmed that he was fighting pancreatic cancer. Price told the San Antonio Express-News that he had been receiving chemotherapy for the past six months. An alternative to the chemo would have been surgery that involved removing the pancreas along with portions of the stomach and liver, which would have meant a long recovery and stay in a nursing home. Said Price, "That's not very much an option for me. God knows I want to live as long as I can but I don't want to live like that." The 87-year-old Country Music Hall of Famer also told the newspaper, "The doctor said that every man will get cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it – I ain't old!" Price retained a positive outlook and hoped to play as many as a hundred concert dates in 2013.
As of early February 2013, the cancer appeared to be in remission. Sometime in May 2013, Price was hospitalized with severe dehydration. On December 2, 2013, Price entered a Tyler, Texas, hospital in the final stages of pancreatic cancer, according to his son, then left on December 12 for home hospice care. Price died at his home in Mt. Pleasant, Texas, on December 16, 2013.
Gone Again
Ray Price Lyrics
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Alexander Biggs The fangs that you love to Sink into my neck Do not…
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C-One Coming at you one more one gone Southern playas…
Chris Trapper Well, I was a little boy sitting in the back…
Curt Smith He's gone again Pulls me with him each time I should ask…
Dan Whitaker I got a feeling in my bones that I want…
Ereez You've been listening to the wrong advice You been walk…
Evans Blue Please don't bother There's time for all this changing I'v…
Fred Neil I woke up this morning With an aching pain deep down I…
Hambi & The Dance I'm waiting for the train darling And I don't know where…
Heavy things L′m falling in love then out again The pictures in the…
Indigo Girls Think I'll bag that trip for two Pack it up to…
James House and The Blues Cowboys She's every beautiful woman so far away and she can't be tou…
Kevin Garrett Can we cut to the chase here? 'Cause we've both been…
Lucy Yeghiazaryan He's gone again Maybe not for long, but he's gone again And…
Otis Redding The sun is gone away It is dark in the day No…
Patti Smith Hey now man's own kin We commend into the wind Grateful arms…
Pink Cream 69 I'm waiting for the train darling And I don't know where…
QMS You ask me why my mind goes to wanderin', And how…
Quicksilver Messenger Service You ask me why my mind goes to wanderin', And how…
Shtar Say goodbye cause I'm gone again Don't ask why, cause I've…
Shye Where we live, where we grow Is not what or who…
Sweethearts Of The Rodeo I'm packing bags making plans to leave oh Lord that…
The Residents Amusement parks are caked with sounds A solid hunk of meat A…
TWENTY24FOUR Life get bumpy like them Bissonnet roads Had to learn not…
Vika & Linda Well, I hate it when I do it, I miss…
Vika and Linda Bull Well, I hate it when I do it I miss it…
X.I.L Coming at you one more one gone Southern playas…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Ray Price:
02-lonely street I'm looking for that Lonely Street I've got a sad…
08. There's No Fool Like A Young Fool There's no fool like a young fool with wild and…
A Cold Day In July When I left the trees had no green leaves like…
A Fallen Star A star fell from Heaven Right into my arms The brightest sta…
A Girl in the Night She lives her life in honky tonks and the crowded…
A Legend In My Time If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game I'd be…
A Maiden's Prayer Twilight falls, Evening shadows find, There 'neath the st…
A Mansion In The Hill Tonight down here in the valley I'm lonesome and oh…
A Thing Called Saddness (It's a thing called sadness) It's been here since you've be…
A Way To Free Myself What strange power do you have that ruins this life…
A Way To Survive I look at your picture too often It helps keep your…
Across the Wide Missouri My true love stands across the river far across the…
After Effects Nights are longer when you're blue and all alone Seems etern…
All Right I've tried so hard to keep our home alive but…
Am I That Easy to Forget They say you've found somebody new but that won't stop…
Amazing Grace What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and…
An Eye for an Eye Just because you lost your heart Did you lose your conscienc…
Another Bridge To Burn I've had to burn most every bridge I've crossed It seems…
April's Fool April's Fool April doesn't shower her sweet love on me What…
Are You Sure Oh look around you look down the barroom the lonely…
Better Class Of Losers I said, I'm through with honky tonks, they only bring…
Beyond the Last Mile I'm watching the clock tick the hours away They say that…
Black And White Lies Black and white lies from left to right Are in the…
Blues Stay Away From Me Blues stay away from me Blues why don't you let…
Body & Soul My heart is sad and lonely for you I sigh…
Born to Lose Born to lose I've lived my life in vain every…
Bridge Over Troubled Water When you're weary feeling small when tears are in your…
Bright Lights And Blonde Haired Women I'm gettin' tired of roamin' around I'm gettin' tired of…
Bubbles in My Beer Tonight in a barroom I'm sitting apart from the laughter…
Burning Memories (Burning mem'ries, burning mem'ries Memories of you that I c…
Burnt Fingers When a man plays with fire, he gets burnt fingers When…
City Lights A bright array of city lights (ooh) As far as I…
Cold Cold Heart Ice cold love Your love is cold as ice cold I wish…
Crazy Crazy crazy for feeling so lonely I'm crazy crazy for…
Crazy Arms Now blue ain't the word for the way that I…
Curtain in the Window These lyin' lips said, they'd forget Those same lovin' arms …
Danny Boy Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen…
Deep Water I'm drifting into deep water I'm starting to care for you An…
Diamonds In The Stars Here comes more tears to cry Here comes more heartaches by H…
Don Your hand is like a torch each time you touch…
Don't Do This To Me I've tried hard in pleasin' You tell me you leavin' I must…
Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes Don't let the stars get in your eyes don't let…
Don't Tempt Me Your hand is like a torch each time you touch…
Don't You Believe Her Don't You Believe Her Lyrics She can give you a reason…
Don't You Ever Get Tired Of Hurting Me You make my eyes run over all the time and…
Don't You Know Me Any More Please don't leave me anymore darlin' Partings are so sad my…
Driftwood On The River I'm just driftwood on the river floating down the tide I…
Each Time Each time I see your picture a flood of memories…
Faded Love As I look at the letters that you wrote to…
Faith You must have faith in everything you do Faith will help…
Fallin' Fallin' Fallin' My heart is breakin', darlin', and many tears are fallin' Fa…
Farther Along Oh well, I'm tired and so weary But I must go…
Fly Me To The Moon (Bill Howard) Fly me to the moon Let me play among the…
For The Good Times Don't look so sad I know it's over But life goes on And…
Forgive Me Heart Forgive Me My Heart Hello heart it's me again do you…
Four Walls (Four walls to hear me four walls to see Four walls…
Funny How the Time Slips Away Well hello there my it's been a long long time How…
Funny How Times Slips Away Hello there my it's been a long time How am I…
Go Away Make the world go away and get it off of…
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen God rest ye merry gentlemen let nothing you dismay Remember …
Gone Hold back the rushing minutes make the wind stand still Don'…
Gonna Burn Some Bridges Tonight I'm going out and burn some bridges but only…
Grazin' In Greener Pastures Grazin' In Greener Pastures Anytime the love's waters grow …
Greensleeves I walked one day neath the summer sky and my…
Hang Your Head in Shame Oh don't your conscience ever bother you everytime you hear…
Hang Your Head in Shame /Outro Oh, don't your conscience ever bother you Everytime you hear…
Happy Birthday to You Our Lord Happy birthday to you our Lord Happy birthday to you our…
Hark the Herald Angels Sing Hark the herald angels sing glory to the new born…
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Charles Wesley - Felix Mendelssohn) Hark the herald angels…
Healing Hands Of Time They're working while I'm missing you those healing hands of…
Heart of Mind I love you so much that I can't leave you Even…
Heartaches By the Number Heartache number one was when you left me I never knew…
Help Me Make It Through The Night Take the ribbon from your hair Shake it loose and…
Help Through My Unbelief The wondrous gift that Jesus offers me if I but…
Here Comes My Baby Here comes more tears to cry here comes more heartaches…
Hey La La Oh, come hear my story, I'll tell it to you…
Home in San Antone Well, I haven't got a worry, I haven't got a…
How Big Is God Though man may strive to go beyond the reach of…
How Great Thou Art I come to the garden alone while the dew is…
How Long Is Forever I fell too hard and much too deep in love…
I When you're all alone and blue no one to tell…
I Can There's too much lipstick on my collar I'm spent down to…
I Can't Escape From You I've tried and tried to run and hide To find a…
I Can't Go Home Like This There's too much lipstick on my collar I'm spent down to…
I Can't Help It Today I passed you on the street and my heart…
I Can't Run Away from Myself The day you left me I left town that night I…
I Can´t Escape from You I've tried and tried to run and hide To find a…
I Don Yesterday brought love as sweet as clover Every kiss was fre…
I Fall to Pieces I fall to pieces each time I see you again I…
I Gotta Have My Baby Back Baby, baby, I miss you so very much, it hurts…
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day I heard the bells on Christmas Day their old familiar…
I Know I Day and night I worry over you I'm payin' now for…
I Know I'll Never Win Your Love Again Day and night I worry over you I'm payin' now for…
I Lie A Lot I say that I don't miss you if they ask…
I Lost the Only Love I Knew You ask me why my heart's so sad, And why the…
I Love You Because I love you because you understand dear every single thing…
I Love You So Much It Hurts (Floyd Tillman) I love you so much it hurts me darling That'…
I Sail My Ship Alone We've been sweethearts for so long Now you say we're thru Th…
I Saw My Castle Fall Today I saw my castles fall today and crumble into dust…
I Told You So So your new love let your feelings sad and blue And…
I Want To Hear It From You If all our love is through if you found someone…
I Wish I Was 18 Again At a bar down in Dallas an old man chimed…
I Won I know you're tired of being all I ever wanted You…
I'd Fight The World Now I don't care what anybody thinks of me My pride…
I'd Rather Be Sorry If you hurt me you won't be the first or…
I'll Be There I'll Be There (if You Ever Want Me) There ain't…
I'll Go To A Stranger With someone else perhaps in time I'll find a little…
I'll Keep on Loving You If the world keeps on turning as I'm sure it's…
I'll Sail My Ship Alone We've been sweethearts for so long Now you say we're thru Th…
I'm Alone Because I Love You Today I passed you on the street and my heart…
I'm Not Leaving Today I made a point to go somewhere I knew…
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Hear the lonesome whippoorwill He sounds too blue to fly The…
I'm Still Not Over You Today I made a point to go somewhere I knew…
I'm Tired Well I'm standin' on the corner of a busy street A…
I've Got A New Heartache You're back in town again spreadin' talk around That I'm sti…
I've Got to Hurry Hurry Hurry Now I got the cutest baby that you ever did…
I've Got To Know You're back in town again spreadin' talk around That I'm st…
I've Gotta Have My Baby Back Baby, baby, I miss you so very much, it hurts…
I've Just destroyed The World The sun just went behind the clouds There's darkness all aro…
i´ll be there I'll Be There (if You Ever Want Me) There ain't…
ICE COLD HEART Ice cold love Your love is cold as ice cold I wish…
If It's Love You could build a wall around you now no one…
If She Could See Me Now I saw the one I loved and lost last night…
If You Sure I understand Of course, I'll be fine You had to chang…
If You Don't Somebody Else Will If you don't wanna kiss me, say so baby Somebody else…
If You Don´t Somebody Else Will If you don't wanna kiss me, say so baby Somebody else…
If You Think You're Lonely It's just me by myself and I'm sure missing you There's…
If You're Ever Lonely Darling If you're ever lonely darling Think of all that I've…
If Your Ever Lonely Darling If you're ever lonely darling think of all that I've…
In My LIfe There are places I'll remember all my life though some…
In The Garden I come to the garden alone while the dew is…
Intro Night Life When the evening sun goes down You will find me hangin'…
Intro San Antonio Rose Deep within my heart lies a melody A song of old…
Introduction And Theme Introduction (Ray Price - Willie Nelson) When the evening s…
Invitation to the Blues I couldn't sleep last night, just walked the floor Don't…
It If I don't act myself when I'm around you and…
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear It came upon the midnight clear, that glorious song of…
It Should Be Easier Now Now that I've made up my mind you're gone it…
It's Only Love If I don't act myself when I'm around you and…
I´ll Be There There ain't no chains strong enough to hold me Ain't no…
Jambalaya Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh Me gotta…
Jesse Younger Little Jesse Younger was a well respected lad Doin' all he…
Jingle Bells Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh O'er…
Just As I Am (Just as I am just as I am) Just as I…
Just for the Record I know our love is over you've made it plain…
Kiss The World Goodbye I never had no regrets boys not for nothing I've…
Last Letter Why do you treat me as if I was only…
Let Me Talk to You Just one more dance just one more chance so I…
Let Your Heart Decide When your alone at night with the world locked outside Have…
Letters Have No Arms I just got your letter dear sweetheart and darling I…
Li'l Liza Jane I no a girl thet you don't no Lil liza jane Comes…
Lincoln Park Inn My name's in the paper where I took the boy…
Little Green Apples And I wake up in the morning with my hair…
Lonely Street I'm looking for that lonely street I've got a sad, sad…
Lonely World Lonely world without you around me loneliness is all I…
Love Lifted Me When you're all alone and blue no one to tell…
Loving Her Was Easier I have seen the morning burning golden on the mountain…
Maiden When the evening falls twilight shadows find There beneath t…
Make Me Wonderful Every night I bow my head And say a prayer for…
Make The World Go Away Make the world go away and get it off of…
Mansion on the Hill Tonight down here in the valley I'm lonesome and oh…
Many tears ago Many tears ago you said you love me oh how…
Move On in and Stay There's an empty spot inside my heart for someone just…
My Confession Sweetheart I'm all alone tonight thinking about my wasted pa…
My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You I may say that I don't care Hold my head up…
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@twinPaula12
Wow - what a sexy voice Ray is one of the greatest artists to ever come along. I have been a fan of his since I first heard him sing around 1960. All of his old songs are wonderful and the albums I have of his are getting kind of worn. I love this song. Ray's always very classy looking and he does such a great show when he does personal appearances. We saw him in concert about 5 years ago here and his voice was still captivating. He's the man. Thank you for posting this treasure. - Paula
@robbiesgranny
I remember my father and mother listening to Mr. Price many years ago. I have to agree. Most beautiful voice.
@patchambers5711
i used to listen to him on our Chicago station in the 70’s.. fell in love with him then.. love his voice
@DaveWollenberg
Hit #28 in Billboard, 5-23-81. Haven't heard this 1 since it was on 'American country countdown',. Thanx for postin' it, Libby. God bless!
@atmailcalltoday
Ray Price - magnificent, this is how a song should be sung - this is how a man should look!! thank you.
@KLUNKET
Although Ray Price has enjoyed world wide fame, I still do not believe that he gets all the recognition that he deserves. This man is a TRUE legend, and has more talent in his pinky finger than the top ten country artists of today have combined.
@VernetGerard.8502
Ray Price a voice born for the country classic , with him Buddy was absolutly perfect // comme nous disons en France l'Art de chanter la nostalgie oui.. mais avec une magnifique subtilité 👍
@handy335
Absolutely the best! Thanks, Libby! Great stuff!!
@donnatyner4674
Absolutely beautiful.
@carolbiggs722
Ive been going through his songs lovely voice