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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Ray Price

Oh look around you look down the barroom the lonely faces that you see
Are you sure that this is where you want to be
These are your friends but are they real friends do they love you the same as me
Are you sure that this is where you want to be
You seem in such a hurry to live this kind of life you caused so many tears and misery
Look around you take a good look and tell me what you see
Are you sure that this is where you want to be
[ steel ]
Don't let my tears persuade you I had hoped I couldn't cry
But lately teardrops seem a part of me
So look around you and take a good look at all the lonely used to be
Are you sure that this is where you want to be