Ray Price discography explained

Artist:Ray Price
Studio:51
Compilation:20
Singles:116
2Option:9
2Option Name:No. 1 Singles

Here is a detailed discography for American country music artist Ray Price.

Studio albums

1950s – 1960s

TitleDetailsPeak chart
positions
US CountryUS
Ray Price Sings Heart Songs
Talk to Your Heart
  • Release date: April 1958
  • Label: Columbia Records
Faith
  • Release date: September 1960
  • Label: Columbia Records
Ray Price Sings San Antonio Rose
  • Release date: May 1962
  • Label: Columbia Records
Night Life
  • Release date: April 1963
  • Label: Columbia Records
1
Love Life
  • Release date: August 1964
  • Label: Columbia Records
3
Burning Memories
  • Release date: March 1965
  • Label: Columbia Records
8
Western Strings
  • Release date: 1965
  • Label: Columbia Records
18
The Other Woman
  • Release date: September 1965
  • Label: Columbia Records
3
Another Bridge to Burn
  • Release date: July 1966
  • Label: Columbia Records
1
Touch My Heart
  • Release date: January 1967
  • Label: Columbia Records
1129
Danny Boy
  • Release date: April 1967
  • Label: Columbia Records
3106
Take Me as I Am
  • Release date: March 1968
  • Label: Columbia Records
5
She Wears My Ring
  • Release date: December 1968
  • Label: Columbia Records
6
Sweetheart of the Year
  • Release date: June 1969
  • Label: Columbia Records
37
You Wouldn't Know Love
  • Release date: December 1969
  • Label: Columbia Records
12
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1970s

TitleDetailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales threshold)
US CountryUSCAN
For the Good Times
  • Release date: August 1970
  • Label: Columbia Records
12833
  • US: Platinum
I Won't Mention It Again
  • Release date: May 1971
  • Label: Columbia Records
14946
The Lonesomest Lonesome
  • Release date: June 1972
  • Label: Columbia Records
3145
She's Got to Be a Saint
  • Release date: March 1973
  • Label: Columbia Records
4161
You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
  • Release date: 1974
  • Label: Columbia Records
24
This Time, Lord
Like Old Times Again
  • Release date: 1975
  • Label: Myrrh Records
7
If You Ever Change Your Mind
  • Release date: June 1975
  • Label: Columbia Records
33
Say I Do 29
Rainbows and Tears
  • Release date: June 1976
  • Label: ABC / Dot Records
45
Hank'n Me
  • Release date: September 1976
  • Label: ABC / Dot Records
42
Reunited
  • Release date: April 1977
  • Label: ABC / Dot Records
47
Precious Memories
How Great Thou Art
  • Release date: 1978
  • Label: Word Records
There's Always Me
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s

TitleDetailsPeak chart
positions
US Country
Town and Country 17
Somewhere in Texas
  • Release date: December 1982
  • Label: Dimension Records/RCA Records
Master of the Art 48
Welcome to Ray Price Country
Portrait of a Singer
  • Release date: December 1985
  • Label: Step One Records
56
A Revival of Old Time Singing
  • Release date: September 1986
  • Label: Step One Records
The Heart of Country Music
  • Release date: December 1986
  • Label: Step One Records
Just Enough Love
  • Release date: March 1988
  • Label: Step One Records
64
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s – 2010s

TitleDetailsPeak chart
positions
Sales
US CountryUS
Step One Records' Hall of Fame Series
  • Release date: October 15, 1991
  • Label: Step One Records
Sometimes a Rose
  • Release date: March 20, 1992
  • Label: Columbia Records
The Old Rugged Cross
  • Release date: November 16, 1993
  • Label: Arrival Records
Prisoner of Love
  • Release date: May 16, 2000
  • Label: Justice Records
Time
Beauty Is... The Final Sessions
  • Release date: April 15, 2014
  • Label: AmeriMonte Records
22143
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Christmas albums

TitleDetails
The Ray Price Christmas Album
  • Release date: November 1969
  • Label: Columbia Records
A Christmas Gift for You
  • Release date: November 1987
  • Label: Step One Records

Collaborations

TitleDetailssPeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales threshold)
US CountryUSCAN Country
San Antonio Rose
(with Willie Nelson)
  • Release date: May 1980
  • Label: Columbia Records
3701
  • US: Gold
Memories That Last
(with Faron Young)
  • Release date: October 10, 1991
  • Label: Step One Records
Run That by Me One More Time
(with Willie Nelson)
  • Release date: July 1, 2003
  • Label: Lost Highway Records
62
Last of the Breed
(with Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson)
  • Release date: March 20, 2007
  • Label: Lost Highway Records
764
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

TitleDetailsPeak chart
positions
Certifications
(sales threshold)
US CountryUS
Ray Price's Greatest Hits
  • Release date: March 1961
  • Label: Columbia Records
The Same Old Me
Ray Price's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
  • Release date: July 1967
  • Label: Columbia Records
17
The World of Ray Price
  • Release date: June 1970
  • Label: Columbia Records
18
Make the World Go Away
Welcome to My World
  • Release date: October 1971
  • Label: Columbia Records
21146
Ray Price's All-Time Greatest Hits
  • Release date: June 1972
  • Label: Columbia Records
7165
  • US: Gold
The Best of Ray Price
  • Release date: May 1976
  • Label: Columbia Records
25
Help Me
  • Release date: May 13, 1977
  • Label: Columbia Records
A Tribute to Willie and Kris
  • Release date: February 13, 1981
  • Label: Columbia Records
59
The Honky-Tonk Years (1951-1957)
Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
  • Release date: June 1986
  • Label: Step One Records
Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
  • Release date: June 1986
  • Label: Step One Records
Greatest Hits, Vol. 3
  • Release date: June 1986
  • Label: Step One Records
American Originals
  • Release date: June 13, 1989
  • Label: Columbia Records
By Request – Greatest Hits, Vol. 4
  • Release date: July 15, 1989
  • Label: Step One Records
The Essential Ray Price 1951-1962
  • Release date: October 29, 1991
  • Label: Columbia Records
Super Hits
  • Release date: August 12, 1997
  • Label: Columbia Records
16 Biggest Hits
The Essential Ray Price
  • Release date: May 29, 2007
  • Label: Legacy Recordings
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

1950s

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
Album
US Country
[2]
US
1952"Talk to Your Heart"3
"Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes"4The World of Ray Price
1954"I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)"2rowspan="3"
"I'm Much too Young to Die"13
1956"Run Boy"5
"Crazy Arms"127Ray Price's Greatest Hits
"I've Got a New Heartache"2
1957"I'll Be There (When You Get Lonely)"12
"My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You"163
1958"Curtain in the Window"3The Same Old Me
"City Lights"171Ray Price's Greatest Hits
"That's What It's Like to Be Lonesome"7
1959"Heartaches by the Number"2Ray Price's Greatest Hits
"The Same Old Me"1
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

1960s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country
US
CAN Country
[3]
1960"One More Time"5Ray Price's Greatest Hits
"I Wish I Could Fall in Love Today"5rowspan="2"
1961"Heart Over Mind"5
"The Twenty-Fourth Hour"13Night Life
"Soft Rain"3115The Same Old Me
1962"I've Just Destroyed the World (I'm Living in)"12
"Pride"5Night Life
"Walk Me to the Door"7Burning Memories
1963"Make the World Go Away"2100
"Night Life" 28Night Life
1964"Burning Memories"2Burning Memories
"Please Talk to My Heart"71Love Life
"A Thing Called Sadness"38Burning Memories
1965"The Other Woman (In My Life)"2The Other Woman
"Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)"11
1966"A Way to Survive"7Touch My Heart
"Touch My Heart"3
1967"Danny Boy"960Danny Boy
"Crazy"73
"I'm Still Not Over You"616Take Me as I Am
"Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go)"83
1968"I've Been There Before"1135She Wears My Ring
"She Wears My Ring"67
"Set Me Free"51
1969"Sweetheart of the Year"118Sweetheart of the Year
"Raining in My Heart"14You Wouldn't Know Love
"April's Fool"14
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1970s

YearSinglePeak chart positionsAlbum
US Country
US
US AC
[4]
CAN Country
CAN
CAN AC
1970"You Wouldn't Know Love"815You Wouldn't Know Love
"For the Good Times"1111021310For the Good Times
1971"I Won't Mention It Again"14241I Won't Mention it Again
"I'd Rather Be Sorry"27027427
1972"The Lonesomest Lonesome"21092The Lonesomest Lonesome
"She's Got to Be a Saint"1932She's Got to Be a Saint
1973"You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me"182237You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me
1974"Storms of Troubled Times"25
"Like a First Time Thing"15
"Like Old Times Again"45Like Old Times Again
1975"Roses and Love Songs"32
"The Farthest Thing from My Mind"1746
"If You Ever Change Your Mind"3145If You Ever Change Your Mind
"Say I Do"4034Say I Do
1976"That's All She Wrote"34Rainbows and Tears
"To Make a Long Story Short"41
"A Mansion on the Hill"1416Hank 'n Me
1977"Help Me"38Help Me
"Different Kind of Flower"28Reunited
"Born to Love Me"2136
1978"Feet"1922There's Always Me
1979"There's Always Me"3034
"That's the Only Way to Say Good Mornin'"1844
"Misty Morning Rain"4350
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1980s – 1990s

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
Album
US Country
CAN Country
1981"Getting Over You Again"28Town and Country
"It Don't Hurt Me Half as Bad"6
"Diamonds in the Stars"922
1982"Forty and Fadin'"187
"Wait Till Those Bridges Are Gone"62Somewhere in Texas
"Somewhere Down in Texas"55
1983"Willie Write Me a Song"7242Master of the Art
"Scotch and Soda"70
"Coors in Colorado"
1985"(She's Got a Hold of Me Where It Hurts)
She Won't Let Go"
7753Welcome to Ray Price Country
"I'm Not Leaving (I'm Just Getting Out of the Way)"81
"Five Fingers"67
1986"You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You"60Portrait of a Singer
"All the Way"73
"Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone"86
"When You Gave Your Love to Me"55Just Enough Love
1987"Just Enough Love"52
1988"Big Ole Teardrops"68
"Don't the Morning Always Come too Soon"55
"I'd Do It All Over Again"83
1989"Love Me Down to Size"79Step One Records' Hall of Fame Series
1992"A Way to Free Myself"Sometimes a Rose
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other singles

Collaborations

YearSingleArtistPeak chart
positions
Album
US Country
CAN Country
1954"If You Don't Somebody Else Will" The Cherokee Cowboys8
1980"Faded Love" Willie Nelson33San Antonio Rose
"Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)" 118
1983"One Fiddle, Two Fiddle"Johnny Gimble and
the Texas Swing Band
70Honkytonk Man (soundtrack)
1984"A New Place to Begin" The Cherokee Cowboys87rowspan="3"
"Better Class of Loser"73
"What Am I Gonna Do Without You" 77
1992"A Whole Lot of You" Faron YoungMemories That Last
"She's in Paris" Step One Records' Hall of Fame Series
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Guest singles

YearSingleArtistPeak chart
positions
Album
US Country
CAN Country
1959"One Way to Give and Take"Billy Walker
1982"Old Friends" Roger Miller and Willie Nelson1918Old Friends
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Christmas singles

YearSingleAlbum
1969"Jingle Bells"The Ray Price Christmas Album
1987"For Christmas"Christmas Gift for You

Charted B-sides

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
Original A-side
US Country
US
1954"Release Me"6"I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)"
1956"You Done Me Wrong"7"Crazy Arms"
"Wasted Words"4"I've Got a New Heartache"
1958"It's All Your Fault"flip"Curtain in the Window"
"Invitation to the Blues"392"City Lights"
1959"Under Your Spell Again"5"Same Old Me"
1960"I Can't Run Away from Myself"23"Wish I Could Fall in Love Today"
1961"The Twenty-Fourth Hour"13"Heart Over Mind"
"Here We Are Again"26"Soft Rain"
1962"Big Shoes"22"I've Just Destroyed the World (I'm Living in)"
"You Took Her Off My Hands
(Now Please Take Her Off My Mind)"
11"Walk Me to the Door"
1963"Night Life"28"Make the World Go Away"
1964"That's All That Matters"34"Burning Memories"
1966"I'm Not Crazy Yet"28"A Way to Survive"
1970"Grazin' in Greener Pastures"flip"For the Good Times"
1972"That's What Leaving's About"66"The Lonesomest Lonesome"
1976"We're Getting There"47"To Make a Long Story Short"
1983"San Antonio Rose"
(with Johnny Gimble and the Texas Swing Band)
flip"One Fiddle, Two Fiddle"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Notes and References

  1. News: Country Album Chart Report For May 13, 2015 . Matt Bjorke . May 13, 2015 . Roughstock . Sales figure given here
  2. Book: Whitburn, Joel. Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. 2008. 332–334. 978-0-89820-177-2.
  3. Search results for "Ray Price" (Canadian Chart Positions). RPM. January 17, 2009.
  4. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p1771/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}} Billboard Chart Positions - singles]. allmusic. January 17, 2009.