In 1953, Price formed his band, the Cherokee Cowboys. He was the first artist to have a success with the song "Release Me" (1954), a top five popular music hit for Engelbert Humperdinck in 1967. When Williams died, Price managed his band, the Drifting Cowboys, and had minor success. He relocated to Nashville in the early 1950s, rooming for a brief time with Hank Williams. However, his first single released on Bullet, "Jealous Lies", failed to become a chart hit. A few demos recorded by Price at Beck's caught the attention of Bullet Records in Nashville, Tennessee, and he was signed to his first recording contract. The two first met at Beck Recording Studio in Dallas, and Price ended up writing the song "Give Me More, More, More Of Your Kisses" for Frizzell's use. It was around this time Ray Price became friends with Lefty Frizzell. He joined the Big D Jamboree on Dallas radio station KRLD (AM) in 1949, and when the show was picked up for broadcast on the CBS radio network soon afterward Price had his first taste of national exposure. This eventually led him to begin singing on the radio program Hillbilly Circus broadcast on Abilene's KRBC in 1948. While helping around his father's ranch he also began singing at various functions around the Abilene, Texas, area. Price featured on a Grand Ole Opry publicity portraitĪfter the war and college, Price rethought his decision to continue schooling to be a veterinarian he was considered too small to work with large cattle and horses, the backbone of a Texas veterinarian's practice. He returned to the college after the war and, in 1972, was honored as a distinguished alumnus. Price was drafted in 1944 and served in the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater.
He was attending North Texas Agricultural College in preparation for that career when his studies were interrupted by America's entry into World War II. Price began singing and playing guitar as a teenager but at first chose a career in veterinary medicine. Price's mother and step-father were successful fashion designers and wanted him to take up that line of work but it had little appeal to him. For the rest of his childhood he split time between Dallas and on the family farm, where his father had remained. Price was three years old when his parents divorced and his mother moved to Dallas, Texas. He was the son of Walter Clifton Price and Clara Mae Bradley Cimini.
Ray Price was born on a farm near the small former community of Peach, near Perryville, Wood County, Texas.
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