PRICE, RAY
(*1926)
PRICE, RAY (b. R. Noble P., Perryville, Tex., January 12, 1926) Ray Price has had a long career in country music, from his beginnings as a HONKY-TONK singer in the HANK WILLIAMS mold in the early 1950s, through the height of the NASHVILLE SOUND in the 1960s, when he transformed himself into a histrionic crooner. Still, Price has always been somewhat controversial, pushing the envelope of country music—sometimes in a decidedly pop-schlock direction. Along the way he nurtured the careers of many…