Ray Price - Complete Singles As & BS 1950-62 (CD)

Ray Price was one of the most popular and respected singers in country music, with a fine baritone voice and a very wide vocal range, which gave him a reputation as one of the very best singers in country during the '50s and '60s. He came to fame during the early '50s as a contemporary of the likes of Hank Williams and Lefty Frizzell, and during ac hart career that lasted forty years racked up more than 75 hits. This great-value 78-track 3-CD collection, which includes thirty-six of those chart entries, focuses on the first important decade and more of his career, and comprises every A & B side which he released from his 1950 debut through to 1962. It was an era when he enjoyed some of his biggest successes and made some of his most memorable records with No. 1 hits like "Crazy Arms", "My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You", "City Lights" and "The Same Old Me" along with other landmark songs like "Heartaches By The Number" and "Release Me". It is an entertaining and comprehensive overview of the formative and significant early career of one the country music's biggest names, and a fine showcase for his distinctive vocal style.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Jealous Lies
2. Your Wedding Corsage
3. If You're Ever Lonely, Darling
4. You've Got My Troubles Now
5. I Saw My Castles Fall Today
6. Hey la la
7. Until Death Do Us Part
8. Heart Aching Blues
9. I Made a Mistake and I'm Sorry
10. Weary Blues
11. I've Got to Hurry, Hurry, Hurry
12. Talk to Your Heart
13. I Know I'll Never Win Your Love Again
14. The Road of No Return
15. I Can't Escape from You
16. Won't You Please Be Mine
17. I Lost the Only Love I Knew
18. Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes
19. You're Under Arrest
20. My Old Scrapbook
21. That's What I Get for Loving You
22. The Price for Loving You
23. Cold Shoulder
24. You Weren't Ashamed to Kiss Me
25. Wrong Side of Town
26. Who Stole That Train

Disc: 2

1. Leave Her Alone
2. You Always Get By
3. I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)
4. Release Me
5. I'm Much Too Young to Die
6. I Love You So Much I Let You Go
7. What If He Don't Love You
8. I Could Love You More
9. Oh Yes Darling
10. If You Don't Somebody Else Will
11. One Broken Heart
12. I'm Alone Because I Love You
13. Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes
14. Let Me Talk to You
15. A Man Called Peter
16. Call the Lord and He'll Be There
17. I Can't Go Home Like This
18. I Don't Want It on My Conscience
19. Run Boy
20. You Never Will Be True
21. You Done Me Wrong
22. Crazy Arms
23. Wasted Words
24. I've Got a New Heartache
25. Please Don't Leave Me
26. I'll Be There When You Get Lonely

Disc: 3

1. My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You
2. Don't Do This to Me
3. Curtain in the Window
4. It's All Your Fault
5. City Lights
6. Invitation to the Blues
7. That's What It's Like to Be Lonesome
8. Kissing Your Picture
9. Heartaches By the Number
10. Wall of Tears
11. Same Old Me
12. Under Your Spell Again
13. One More Time
14. Who'll Be the First
15. I Can't Run Away from Myself
16. I Wish I Could Fall in Love Today
17. Heart Over Mind
18. The Twenty-Fourth Hour
19. Here We Are Again
20. Soft Rain
21. I've Just Destroyed the World
22. Big Shoes
23. I'm Walkin' Slow
24. Pride
25. Walk Me to the Door
26. You Took Her Off My Hands