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

(Johnny Green - Edward Heyman - Robert Sour)
My heart is sad and lonely;
For you I sigh, for you dear, only;
Why haven't you seen it?
I'm all for you, Body and Soul.
I spend my days in longing
And wondering why it's me you're wronging;
I tell you I mean it;
I'm all for you, Body and Soul.
I can't believe it, it's hard to conceive it
That you'd turn away romance;
Are you pretending?
It looks like the ending
Unless I could have one more chance to prove, dear;
My life a wreck you're making;
You know I'm yours for just the taking;
I'd gladly surrender
Myself to you, Body and Soul.
--- Instrumental ---
My life a wreck you're making;
You know I'm yours for just the taking;
I'd gladly surrender
Myself to you, Body and Soul...