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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Hey La La Lyrics

Ray Price

Oh, come hear my story, I'll tell it to you
My heart is all broken, I'm sad and I'm blue
I just lost my darling, her name was La La
As pretty as a picture and oh, twice as fair.

Hey! La La, Oh! La La, my true La La-aa
Hey! La La, Oh! La La, my true La La.

A grave on the hillside all covered with snow
A heart broken lover with head bending low
With tears in his eyes, he placed a red rose
On the grave of his darling up there in the snow.

REFRAIN

Oh! God up in heaven, please tell her for me
My hopes are all shattered, oh! say can't you see
Just tell her I'm waiting to meet her up there
I'll look at her picture and send her a prayer