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 Engelbert Humperdinck in 1967. 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.
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A Way To Survive Lyrics

Ray Price

I look at your picture too often it helps keep your mem'ry alive
It's not healthy they say to relive yesterday but for me it's the way to survive
I must cling to what's gone if I've to go on I can't face the future I've tried
Perhaps for the rest looking back isn't best but for me it's the way to survive
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When my heart aches I read all your letters and the words make our love seem alive
They say I can't last if I live in the past but for me it's the way to survive
I must cling to what's gone...