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Kimberlea Weeks
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My goodness. This is off subject. But what a performer.
When GMCMI was at DuQuoin we missed him by a week.
Truly a legend and a gentle man.* As reported on the internet:*
MOUNT PLEASANT, Texas (AP) — Country Music Hall of Fame member Ray Price
was remembered at a memorial service on Saturday in his East Texas hometown
as a musical innovator and a gentleman.
Hundreds of people packed the service in Mount Pleasant, the town about 110
miles northeast of Dallas where Price had lived for 31 years.
At the service, long-time country radio personality Bill Mack of Fort Worth
read a statement from Willie Nelson.
Nelson wrote that, "Without a Ray Price, there wouldn't have been a Willie
Nelson." Price gave Nelson his first big break when he hired Nelson to play
bass in his band, The Cherokee Cowboys, after Donald Lytle, better known as
Johnny Paycheck, quit.
"He asked me, 'Can you play bass?'" wrote Nelson. "I said, 'Who can't play
bass?'"
"Well, he found out I can't play bass," said Mack, as he finished Nelson's
anecdote.
Price died from pancreatic cancer on Monday at the ranch he owned with his
wife, Janie, outside Mount Pleasant. He was 87.
The Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune reported that during the memorial service
inside the First Baptist Church, a country music quartet played various
Price songs, including "In the Garden", "Danny Boy" and "Let's Make a
Memory Today."
Dallas Wayne, a SiriusXM satellite radio DJ for the country channel
Willie's Roadhouse, said Price was a gentleman off the stage as well as on
it, possessing "heart and soul, grace, dignity, elegance and character."
Eddie Stubbs, a radio host with the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville offered his
condolences from the county music industry, the newspaper reported.
"He was as good as any of his contemporaries," Stubbs said, "and no one was
his superior."
Over his career, Price earned the respect of his colleagues by constantly
perfecting his craft, Stubbs said.
"As a result, his voice is just as fresh today as it was 65 years ago," he
said.
Price is credited with changing the sound of country music as he
collaborated with the genre's biggest stars, and he remained relevant for
more than half a century.
He recorded more than 100 hits and is perhaps best known for his version of
the Kris Kristofferson song, "For the Good Times."
A funeral is planned for Dec. 28 in Dallas.
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*Kimberlea Weeks*
VP Administration and Convention Manager
612.501.4600 | f.866.519.0047 | www.gmcmi.com
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*Mark these dates on your calendar today!*
*GMCMI 2014 Spring Convention* | Friday, March 21 to Thursday, March 27
Lake Conroe Event Center & KOA | Montgomery, Texas
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Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds | Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
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