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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(Bill Howard)
Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars.
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby kiss me
Fill my heart with song
Let me sing forever more.
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you.
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Fly me to the moon
Let me sing among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars...