Ray Price When Ray Price was inducted into the Country Music hall of Fame in 1996, he said, “It’s about time.” For an entertainer who spent 35 years on the charts, generating 46 Top-10 hits, including the 4th biggest song (Crazy Arms) in country music all-time, his induction was unquestionably justified. Price, who was born on January on 12, 1926 in Perryville, Texas, spent most of his youth in Dallas. It was there where he learned how to play guitar and sing. Following his high school graduation, he studied veterinary medicine at North Texas Agricultural College in Abilene before he left school for a stint with the Marines (1944–1946). Ray began singing on KRBC in Abilene, Texas in 1948 and joined the Big D Jamboree in Dallas in 1949. Circa 1949, Price cut his first record for Bullet in Dallas. In 1951, signed with Columbia Records. His first Top 10 hit was” Talk to Your Heart.” He moved to Nashville in 1951, rooming for a short time with Hank Williams. When Williams died in 1953, Price took over his band, the Drifting Cowboys. A couple of years later, Ray formed his first professional band, the Cherokee Cowboys. During the late 1950s and early 1960s members of his band included Roger Miller, Willie Nelson, Darrell McCall, Johnny Paycheck and Johnny Bush. Ray had a giant hit in 1956 with “Crazy Arms,” a driving honky-tonk song that soon became a country classic. The blockbuster hit spent an astonishing 20 weeks at No. 1. “Crazy Arms” surpassed the success of Elvis …