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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Invitation To The Blues Lyrics

Ray Price

(Roger Miller)
I couldn't sleep last night just walked the floor
Don't know how I stand this anymore
Lonely are the times since I lost you
Recieved your invitation to the blues.
I don't know why you caused me such pain
I just hope I'll never go through this much again
Thanks for sending something I can't use
Recieved your invitation to the blues.
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You took the laughter from this world of mine
Thanks to you the sun will never shine
Walk the floor so much wore out my shoes
Recieved your invitation to the blues.
I don't know why, I don't know why you caused me such pain
I just hope I'll never go through this much again
Lonely me, I don't know what to do
Recieved your invitation to the blues...