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American singer (1926–2013)

For other uses, see [Ray Price (disambiguation)](/source/Ray_Price_(disambiguation)).

Ray Price Price, ca. 1968 Background information Also known as The Cherokee Cowboy Born Noble Ray Price (1926-01-12)January 12, 1926 Wood County, Texas, U.S. Died December 16, 2013(2013-12-16) (aged 87) Mount Pleasant, Texas, U.S. Genres Country Western swing western honky-tonk traditional pop Occupations Singer songwriter musician Instruments Vocals guitar Years active 1948–2013 Labels Columbia Myrrh ABC Monument Dimension Viva Step One

Musical artist

**Noble Ray Price** (January 12, 1926 – December 16, 2013)[1] was an American [country music](/source/Country_music) singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His wide-ranging baritone is regarded as among the best male voices of country music,[2] and his innovations, such as propelling the country beat from 2/4 to 4/4, known as the "Ray Price beat", helped make country music more popular.[2]

Some of his well-known recordings include "[Release Me](/source/Release_Me_(1946_song))", "[Crazy Arms](/source/Crazy_Arms)", "[Heartaches by the Number](/source/Heartaches_by_the_Number)", "[For the Good Times](/source/For_the_Good_Times_(song))", "[Night Life](/source/Night_Life_(Willie_Nelson_song))", and "[You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me](/source/You're_the_Best_Thing_That_Ever_Happened_to_Me)". He was elected to the [Country Music Hall of Fame](/source/Country_Music_Hall_of_Fame) in 1996. He continued to record and tour into his 80s.

## Early life

Ray Price was born on a farm near the small former community of Peach, near Perryville, [Wood County, Texas](/source/Wood_County%2C_Texas).[3] He was the son of Walter Clifton Price and Clara Mae Bradley Cimini. His grandfather, James M. M. Price, was an early settler in the area. Price was three years old when his parents divorced and his mother moved to [Dallas, Texas](/source/Dallas%2C_Texas). For the rest of his childhood he split time between Dallas and on the family farm, where his father had remained.[1] Price's mother and stepfather were successful fashion designers and wanted him to take up that line of work, but it had little appeal to him.[4]

Price began singing and playing guitar as a teenager, but at first chose a career in [veterinary medicine](/source/Veterinary_medicine). He was attending [North Texas Agricultural College](/source/University_of_Texas_at_Arlington) in preparation for that career, when his studies were interrupted by America's entry into [World War II](/source/World_War_II).[1] Price was drafted in 1944 and served in the [United States Marine Corps](/source/United_States_Marine_Corps) in the Pacific Theater.[1] He returned to the college after the war, and in 1972, was honored as a distinguished alumnus.[5]

## Music career

### 1940s–1950s success

Price in a [Grand Ole Opry](/source/Grand_Ole_Opry) publicity picture

After the war and college, Price rethought his decision to continue schooling to be a veterinarian; he was considered too small to work with large cattle and horses, the backbone of a Texas veterinarian's practice then.[4] While helping around his father's ranch, he also began singing at various functions around the [Abilene, Texas](/source/Abilene%2C_Texas), area. This eventually led him to begin singing on the radio program *Hillbilly Circus* broadcast on Abilene's [KRBC](/source/KYYW) in 1948. He joined the *[Big D Jamboree](/source/Big_D_Jamboree)* on Dallas radio station [KRLD (AM)](/source/KRLD_(AM)) in 1949, and when the show was picked up for broadcast on the [CBS](/source/CBS) radio network soon afterward, Price had his first taste of national exposure. Around this time, Ray Price became friends with [Lefty Frizzell](/source/Lefty_Frizzell). The two first met at Beck Recording Studio in Dallas, and Price ended up writing the song "Give Me More, More, More of Your Kisses" for Frizzell's use. A few demonstrations recorded by Price at Beck's caught the attention of [Bullet Records](/source/Bullet_Records) in [Nashville, Tennessee](/source/Nashville%2C_Tennessee), and he was signed to his first recording contract.[6] His first single released on Bullet, though, "Jealous Lies",[6] failed to become a chart hit.

He relocated to Nashville in the early 1950s, rooming for a brief time with [Hank Williams](/source/Hank_Williams).[6] When Williams died, Price managed his band, the [Drifting Cowboys](/source/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](/source/Engelbert_Humperdinck_(singer)) in 1967.[6] In 1953, Price formed his band, the Cherokee Cowboys.[6] Among its members during the late 1950s and early 1960s were [Roger Miller](/source/Roger_Miller), [Willie Nelson](/source/Willie_Nelson), [Darrell McCall](/source/Darrell_McCall), [Van Howard](/source/Van_Howard), [Johnny Paycheck](/source/Johnny_Paycheck), [Johnny Bush](/source/Johnny_Bush), [Buddy Emmons](/source/Buddy_Emmons), and [Buddy Spicher](/source/Buddy_Spicher).[6] Miller wrote one of Ray Price's classics in 1958, "Invitation to the Blues", and sang harmony on the recording.[7] 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"](/source/Release_Me_(Eddie_Miller_song)).

### 1960–2000s: Nashville sound to gospel

Price in 2009

During the 1960s, Ray experimented increasingly with the so-called [Nashville sound](/source/Nashville_sound), singing slow ballads and using lush arrangements of strings and backing singers.[6] Examples include his 1967 rendition of "Danny Boy", and the [Kris Kristofferson](/source/Kris_Kristofferson) composition "For the Good Times" in 1970,[6] which was Price's first country music chart number-one hit since "The Same Old Me" in 1959. The song also scored number 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.[6] Price had three more number-one country music successes during the 1970s: "[I Won't Mention It Again](/source/I_Won't_Mention_It_Again)", "She's Got To Be A Saint", and "[You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me](/source/You're_the_Best_Thing_That_Ever_Happened_to_Me)" (the last of which was a pop hit in Canada, and would gain greater fame a year later when [Gladys Knight and the Pips](/source/Gladys_Knight_and_the_Pips) covered it).[4]

Price's final top-10 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](/source/Amazing_Grace)", "[What A Friend We Have In Jesus](/source/What_A_Friend_We_Have_In_Jesus)", "[Farther Along](/source/Farther_Along_(song))", and "[Rock of Ages](/source/Rock_of_Ages_(Christian_hymn))". Price briefly made national news again in 1999 when he was arrested for possession of marijuana. According to Price in a 2008 interview, old friend Willie Nelson — no stranger to marijuana arrests — phoned and told him he had just earned $5 million in free publicity with the drug bust.[4]

In 2009, he made two performances for the Fox News show *Huckabee*. The first was with the Cherokee Cowboys and host [Mike Huckabee](/source/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](/source/Faded_Love_(Bob_Wills_song))" and "Crazy". Price worked on his last album, *[Last of the Breed](/source/Last_of_the_Breed_(album))*, with fellow country music singers Willie Nelson and [Merle Haggard](/source/Merle_Haggard). This album was released on March 20, 2007, by [Lost Highway Records](/source/Lost_Highway_Records). The two-disc set features 20 country classics and two new compositions. The trio toured the U.S. from March 9 until March 25, starting in [Arizona](/source/Arizona) and finishing in [Illinois](/source/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[rophone] against his chest. And me and Willie are all over the microphone trying to find it, and he found it."[8]

## Cancer and death

On November 6, 2012, Price confirmed that he was fighting [pancreatic cancer](/source/Pancreatic_cancer). Price told the *[San Antonio Express-News](/source/San_Antonio_Express-News)* that he had been receiving [chemotherapy](/source/Chemotherapy) for the past six months.[9] An alternative to the chemo would have been surgery that involved removing his pancreas along with portions of the stomach and liver, which would have meant a long recovery and stay in a nursing home. He said, "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."[9] He 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!"[9]

Although in February 2013, the cancer appeared to be in remission, Price was hospitalized in May 2013 with severe dehydration.[10][11] On December 2, 2013, Price entered a [Tyler, Texas](/source/Tyler%2C_Texas), hospital in the final stages of pancreatic cancer, according to his son, then left on December 12 for home hospice care.[12] Price died at his home in [Mt. Pleasant, Texas](/source/Mt._Pleasant%2C_Texas), on December 16, 2013, at age 87.[13][14] Price was interred at Restland Memorial Park in [Dallas](/source/Dallas).

## Personal life

After leaving Nashville, Price lived his time off the road on his [East Texas](/source/East_Texas) ranch near Mount Pleasant, continuing to dabble in raising game fowl, cattle, and horses.[4] Ray Price married twice. His first wife and he divorced in the late 1960s. Price married his second wife Janie on June 11, 1970, and they remained together until his death.[4] A son from his first marriage, Cliff Price, also survives.[1]

## Discography

Main article: [Ray Price discography](/source/Ray_Price_discography)

## Industry awards

**[Academy of Country Music](/source/Academy_of_Country_Music)**

- 1970 Album of the Year – *[For the Good Times](/source/For_the_Good_Times_(Ray_Price_album))*

- 1970 Single of the Year – "[For the Good Times](/source/For_the_Good_Times_(song))"

**[Country Music Association](/source/Country_Music_Association)**

- [1971 Album of the Year](/source/Country_Music_Association_Awards) – *[I Won't Mention It Again](/source/I_Won't_Mention_It_Again_(album))*

**[Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum](/source/Country_Music_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum)**

- [Inducted in 1996](/source/Inductees_of_the_Country_Music_Hall_of_Fame)

**[Grammy Awards](/source/Grammy_Awards)**

- [1971 Best Male Country Vocal Performance](/source/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Male_Country_Vocal_Performance) – "For the Good Times"

- [2008 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals](/source/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Country_Collaboration_with_Vocals) with [Willie Nelson](/source/Willie_Nelson) – "[Lost Highway](/source/Lost_Highway_(Leon_Payne_song))"

## See also

- [Country Music Association](/source/Country_Music_Association)

- [Academy of Country Music](/source/Academy_of_Country_Music)

- [Inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame](/source/Inductees_of_the_Country_Music_Hall_of_Fame) (1996 Inductee)

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## External links

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- [The "Ray Price Shuffle" with audio examples](http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2012/01/ray-price.html)

- [at the Country Music Hall of Fame](https://web.archive.org/web/20100402183010/http://www.countrymusichalloffame.org/full-list-of-inductees/view/ray-price)

- [Allmusic Ray Price with Biography, Discography, Charts](http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ray-price-p1771)

v t e Ray Price Studio albums Ray Price Sings Heart Songs (1957) Talk to Your Heart (1958) Ray Price Sings San Antonio Rose (1962) Night Life (1963) Love Life (1964) Burning Memories (1965) The Other Woman (1965) Another Bridge to Burn (1966) Touch My Heart (1967) Danny Boy (1968) Take Me as I Am (1968) She Wears My Ring (1969) For the Good Times (1970) I Won't Mention It Again (1971) The Lonesomest Lonesome (1972) She's Got to Be a Saint (1973) You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me (1974) Like Old Times Again (1974) San Antonio Rose (1980) Last of the Breed (2007) Songs "I Can't Escape from You" "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" "I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)" "Release Me" "Crazy Arms" "I've Got a New Heartache" "Curtain in the Window" "Invitation to the Blues" "City Lights" "Heartaches by the Number" "The Same Old Me" "Under Your Spell Again" "I Wish I Could Fall in Love Today" "Pride" "Make the World Go Away" "Night Life" "Please Talk to My Heart" "Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)" "Touch My Heart" "Danny Boy" "Crazy" "She Wears My Ring" "For the Good Times" "I Won't Mention It Again" "She's Got to Be a Saint" "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" "Faded Love" "San Antonio Rose" "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You" "All the Way" "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" "Looking Back" Related articles Discography

v t e CMA Album of the Year 1967−1970 There Goes My Everything – Jack Greene (1967) Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison – Johnny Cash (1968) Johnny Cash At San Quentin – Johnny Cash (1969) Okie from Muskogee – Merle Haggard and the Strangers (1970) 1971−1980 I Won't Mention It Again – Ray Price (1971) Let Me Tell You About a Song – Merle Haggard and the Strangers (1972) Behind Closed Doors – Charlie Rich (1973) A Very Special Love Song – Charlie Rich (1974) A Legend in My Time – Ronnie Milsap (1975) Wanted! The Outlaws – Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser (1976) Ronnie Milsap Live – Ronnie Milsap (1977) It Was Almost Like a Song – Ronnie Milsap (1978) The Gambler – Kenny Rogers (1979) Coal Miner's Daughter – Various artists (1980) 1981−1990 I Believe in You – Don Williams (1981) Always on My Mind – Willie Nelson (1982) The Closer You Get – Alabama (1983) A Little Good News – Anne Murray (1984) Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind – George Strait (1985) Lost in the Fifties Tonight – Ronnie Milsap (1986) Always And Forever – Randy Travis (1987) Born to Boogie – Hank Williams Jr. (1988) Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1989) Pickin' on Nashville – The Kentucky Headhunters (1990) 1991−2000 No Fences – Garth Brooks (1991) Ropin' the Wind – Garth Brooks (1992) I Still Believe in You – Vince Gill (1993) Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles – Various artists (1994) When Fallen Angels Fly – Patty Loveless (1995) Blue Clear Sky – George Strait (1996) Carrying Your Love with Me – George Strait (1997) Everywhere – Tim McGraw (1998) A Place in the Sun – Tim McGraw (1999) Fly – The Dixie Chicks (2000) 2001−2010 O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Various artists (2001) Drive – Alan Jackson (2002) American IV: The Man Comes Around – Johnny Cash (2003) When the Sun Goes Down – Kenny Chesney (2004) There's More Where That Came From – Lee Ann Womack (2005) Time Well Wasted – Brad Paisley (2006) It Just Comes Natural – George Strait (2007) Troubadour – George Strait (2008) Fearless – Taylor Swift (2009) Revolution – Miranda Lambert (2010) 2011−2020 My Kinda Party – Jason Aldean (2011) Chief – Eric Church (2012) Based on a True Story... – Blake Shelton (2013) Platinum – Miranda Lambert (2014) Traveller – Chris Stapleton (2015) Mr. Misunderstood – Eric Church (2016) From A Room: Volume 1 – Chris Stapleton (2017) Golden Hour – Kacey Musgraves (2018) Girl – Maren Morris (2019) What You See Is What You Get – Luke Combs (2020) 2021−2030 Starting Over – Chris Stapleton (2021) Growin' Up – Luke Combs (2022) Bell Bottom Country – Lainey Wilson (2023) Leather – Cody Johnson (2024) Whirlwind – Lainey Wilson (2025)

v t e Members of the Grand Ole Opry Current members Trace Adkins Lauren Alaina Bill Anderson Kelsea Ballerini Bobby Bare Mandy Barnett Dierks Bentley Clint Black Suzy Bogguss Garth Brooks T. Graham Brown Steven Curtis Chapman Henry Cho Terri Clark Luke Combs John Conlee Dailey & Vincent Diamond Rio Steve Earle Sara Evans Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers Crystal Gayle Vince Gill Emmylou Harris The Isaacs Alan Jackson Chris Janson Jelly Roll Jamey Johnson Alison Krauss Lady A Little Big Town Patty Loveless Dustin Lynch Barbara Mandrell Kathy Mattea Martina McBride Ashley McBryde Del McCoury Charlie McCoy Scotty McCreery Reba McEntire Ronnie Milsap Eddie Montgomery Craig Morgan Lorrie Morgan Gary Mule Deer The Oak Ridge Boys Old Crow Medicine Show Brad Paisley Jon Pardi Dolly Parton Carly Pearce Jeanne Pruett Rascal Flatts Riders in the Sky Darius Rucker Blake Shelton Ricky Van Shelton Ricky Skaggs Connie Smith Mike Snider Marty Stuart Pam Tillis Randy Travis Travis Tritt Josh Turner Carrie Underwood Keith Urban Rhonda Vincent Steve Wariner Gene Watson The Whites Mark Wills Lainey Wilson Trisha Yearwood Chris Young Former members Roy Acuff David "Stringbean" Akeman Jack Anglin Eddy Arnold Ernest Ashworth Chet Atkins DeFord Bailey Bashful Brother Oswald Humphrey Bate Binkley Brothers' Dixie Clodhoppers Margie Bowes Rod Brasfield Jim Ed Brown The Browns Carl Butler and Pearl Archie Campbell Bill Carlisle Martha Carson The Carter Sisters Maybelle Carter Johnny Cash June Carter Cash Roy Clark Zeke Clements Patsy Cline Jerry Clower Stoney Cooper Wilma Lee Cooper Cowboy Copas Charlie Daniels Skeeter Davis The Delmore Brothers The DeZurik Sisters Little Jimmy Dickens Joe Diffie Danny Dill Jimmy Driftwood Roy Drusky The Duke of Paducah Holly Dunn The Everly Brothers Lester Flatt Red Foley Curly Fox Lefty Frizzell Troy Gentry Don Gibson Billy Grammer Jack Greene The Gully Jumpers Theron Hale Tom T. Hall George Hamilton IV Sid Harkreader Hawkshaw Hawkins George D. Hay Hoot Hester Goldie Hill David Houston Jan Howard Ferlin Husky Stonewall Jackson Sonny James Norma Jean Jim & Jesse Johnnie & Jack George Jones Grandpa Jones The Jordanaires Doug Kershaw Hal Ketchum Bradley Kincaid Pee Wee King Hank Locklin Lonzo and Oscar Bobby Lord The Louvin Brothers Charlie Louvin Ira Louvin Bob Luman Loretta Lynn Uncle Dave Macon Rose Maddox Mel McDaniel Jesse McReynolds McGee Brothers Bill Monroe George Morgan Moon Mullican Willie Nelson Jimmy C. Newman Bobby Osborne Sonny Osborne Johnny Paycheck Minnie Pearl Stu Phillips Webb Pierce Ray Pillow Ray Price Charley Pride Del Reeves Jim Reeves Leon Rhodes Tex Ritter Marty Robbins Johnny Russell Rusty and Doug Don Schlitz Earl Scruggs Jeannie Seely Jean Shepard Mississippi Slim Carl Smith Fiddlin' Arthur Smith Hank Snow Red Sovine Ralph Stanley Texas Ruby B. J. Thomas Uncle Jimmy Thompson Mel Tillis Tompall & the Glaser Brothers Ernest Tubb Justin Tubb Leroy Van Dyke Porter Wagoner Billy Walker Charlie Walker Kitty Wells Dottie West Keith Whitley† Slim Whitman The Wilburn Brothers Don Williams Hank Williams Boxcar Willie The Willis Brothers Chubby Wise Del Wood Marion Worth Johnnie Wright Tammy Wynette Faron Young †Honorary former member; was scheduled to be invited, but died before the invitation was extended

v t e Country Music Hall of Fame 1990s Tennessee Ernie Ford (1990) Felice and Boudleaux Bryant (1991) George Jones (1992) Frances Preston (1992) Willie Nelson (1993) Merle Haggard (1994) Roger Miller (1995) Jo Walker-Meador (1995) Patsy Montana (1996) Buck Owens (1996) Ray Price (1996) Harlan Howard (1997) Brenda Lee (1997) Cindy Walker (1997) George Morgan (1998) Elvis Presley (1998) E.W. "Bud" Wendell (1998) Tammy Wynette (1998) Johnny Bond (1999) Dolly Parton (1999) Conway Twitty (1999)

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