Country Singer Ray Price Dead at 87

AP via ABCNEWS ^ | 12/16/13 | AP

[Vendome]

“Don’t look so sad,

I know it’s over....”

Rest in Peace.

[billhilly]

“Ray was for the ages. He could sing anything, and he did. I loved evrything he did, don’t think he ever made a bad recording. The world is definitely a bleaker place without this classy, elegant man in it.”

Well said.

[lakecumberlandvet]

Great singer. He made this world a better place through his incredibly great music. There will never be another like him.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I always preferred the Homer & Jethro parody version - “Fer the Good Times”

[NKP_Vet]

He was inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996.

He was a great singer, one of the last remaining connections to the great Hank Williams. They were friends and after Hank died Ray tried to sound like him. Then 10 years later that god-awful Nashville Sound ruined country music. Ray could sing it with the best of them, but I am a honky tonk fan.
RIP Ray Price, who was also a WW2 veteran.

[NKP_Vet]

Billy Jack passed away yesterday also.

[NKP_Vet]

This old man can’t listen to this version of Faded Love without this tearing up. Wish Ray had sang it by himself. Not a Willie fan.

[Rodamala]

A football field of violins... if only there were honest DJs these days.

[Dartman]

One of the smoothest singers ever. Somewhere there is an old Waylon song where he sings about listening to “Ray Price gold”. That’s what I say every time I play a Ray Price CD or album.

R.I.P. Ray.

[billhilly]

It was a metaphor, not a literal statement. It was also during the 1960s.

[PghBaldy]

This is a shame. A very talented man, whose music I listen to often. RIP.

[beelzepug]

Seriously? After all these years and they only just got around to it? That’s disgraceful.

[South40]

It is disgraceful. He barely lived to see it and depending on his mental state back in August, may not have.

His voice was a common sound in our home when I was a kid. I'm thankful to my mother for being a fan and exposing me to this great music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebEXAWa_Kxo

[beelzepug]

That’s the way I felt about Patsy Cline.