Crazy Arms – Ray Price Lyrics
17 Oct 2008


Album: It was a single
Genre: Country
Released: 1956
In the 1950s, rock and roll music was becoming a huge influence, even for other genres including the country music. This song was an answer for this situation. The idea behind this song was to introduce a musical style to reach America’s youth. The song became a hit in 1956, especially in the American honky tonks, which are a type of bar with musical entertainment that is common in the Southwestern and Southern United States. “Crazy Arms” reached #1 on the Billboard magazine country music charts, spending 20 weeks there. Also, according to Billboard, it was the No. 1 country single of 1956. With this song, Ray Price introduced to the American fans to his special style with fiddle, pedal steel guitar, walking electric bass and swinging 4/4 rhythm.

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