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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Letters Have No Arms Lyrics

Ray Price

(Cindy Walker)
I just got your letter, dear sweetheart
And darling, I miss you oh, so much
Your letter has cheered me but I'm lonesome
Lonesome just to feel your loving touch.
Letters have no arms dear to hold me
Kisses on paper are so cold
These sweet things you write in your letter
I wanna be with you dear when told.
Letters never bring me the touch of your hand
Or none of your sweet loving charms
I get so lonesome for you darling
And you know that letters have no arms.
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Letters have no arms dear to hold me
Kisses on paper are so cold
These sweet things you write in your letter
I wanna be with you dear when told.
Letters never bring me the touch of your hand
Or none of your sweet loving charms
I get so lonesome for you darling
And you know that letters have no arms...