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)
Each time I see your picture
A flood of memories starts
And the blue tide that's rising around my feet
Is breaking inside my heart.
And though I fight with all of my might
The burning desire remain
For each time I see your picture
I lose my heart again.
--- Instrumental ---
I hide the frame to shut out the pain
Then wake up searching the dark
Oh, I just can't rest until I caress
The cold glass that's holding my heart.
I haven't yet learned how to forget
And the burning desire remain
For each time I see your picture
I lose my heart again...