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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Four Walls Lyrics

Ray Price

(George Campbell - Marvin Moore)
(Four walls to hear me four walls to see)
(Four walls too near me closing in on me.)
Out where the bright lights're glowing
You're drawn like a moth to a flame
You laugh while the wine's overflowing
While I sit and whisper your name.
Four walls to hear me four walls to see
Four walls too near me closing in on me.
Sometimes I ask why I'm waiting
My walls have nothing to say
I'm made for love not for haiting
So here where you left me I'll stay.
One night with you is like heaven
And so while I'm walking this floor
I listen for steps in the hallway
And wait for your knock on the door.
Four walls to hear me four walls to see
Four walls too near me closing in on me.
Closing in on me...