Western Strings - RAY PRICE's Cherokee Cowboys - 1965 Columbia CL2339 WLPRO rare

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Western Strings - RAY PRICE's Cherokee Cowboys - 1965 Columbia WLPRO CL 2339 - rare
One vintage vinyl LP record album from Columbia Records 
Radio Station promotional copy, white label, CL 2339
Produced by Don Law & Frank Jones Cover art - Tom Allen
Songwriter credit is absent from the cover and the labels, although Ray Price is given credit for arrangements on five of the twelve songs.
Ray Price vocals on Crazy Arms - many of the other songs are instrumentals, as the point of the album is to feature the band members.
Song listing:
Devil's Dream Linda Lou Crazy Arms Lil' Liza Jane Rubber Dolly Burnt Fingers
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Maiden's Prayer Your Old Love Letters Spanish Two-Step Liberty Bells Sing A Sad Song
The cover is EX+ or better, with no stress or seam splits, slight exterior wear and handling, negligent ring wear, no writing.  A large white paper timing strip approx 12" X 3" is glued onto the front at the bottom.
The disc is EX+ or better, almost unplayed, slight mark on side one, possibly attributable to a light arm drag, no spindle marks.  Runoff stamps are 1C / 1C.
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BACKGROUND:
Noble Ray Price (January 12, 1926 – December 16, 2013) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His wide ranging baritone has often been praised as among the best male voices of country music. Some of his well-known recordings include "Release Me", "Crazy Arms", "Heartaches by the Number", "For the Good Times", "Night Life", and "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me". He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996 and—even into his late 80s—continued to record and tour. Price, born in Perryville, Texas, served with the U.S. Marines from 1944–1946, and began singing for KRBC in Abilene, Texas during 1948. He joined the Big D Jamboree in Dallas in 1949. He relocated to Nashville in the early 1950s, rooming for a brief time with Hank Williams. When Williams died, Price managed his band, the Drifting Cowboys, and had minor success. 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.
In 1953, Price formed his band, the Cherokee Cowboys. Among its members during the late 1950s and early 1960s were; Roger Miller, Willie Nelson, Darrell McCall, Van Howard, Johnny Paycheck and Johnny Bush, Buddy Emmons, Pete Wade, Jan Kurtis, Shorty Lavender and Buddy Spicher. Miller wrote one of Ray Price's classics in 1958, "Invitation to the Blues", and sang harmony on the recording. Additionally, Nelson composed the Ray Price song "Night Life".
Price became one of the stalwarts of 1950s honky tonk music, with hit songs such as "Talk To Your Heart" (1952) and "Release Me". He later developed the famous "Ray Price Shuffle," a 4/4 arrangement of honky-tonk music with a walking bass line, which can be heard on "Crazy Arms" (1956) and many of his other recordings from the late 1950s.
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Members of The Cherokee Cowboys (1954-66):  Pete Wade (guitar, 1954-1958, 1960-63), Van Howard (guitar, harmonies, 1954-58), Little Red Hayes (fiddle, 1954-55, 1963-?), Jimmy Biggar (steel guitar, 1954-55), Tom Pritchard (double bass, 1954-55), Bob Heppler (fiddle, 1954-55), Bernie Annett (piano, 1954-?), Jimmy Dennis (drums, 1954-?), Tommy Hill (guitar, harmonies, 1954), Blackie Crawford (guitar, harmonies, 1954), Tommy Jackson (fiddle, 1955-66), Don Helms (steel guitar, 1955), Jimmy Day (steel guitar, 1956-62, 1964-66), Eddie Duncan (double bass, 1955), Billy Harlan (double bass, 1955), Johnny Manson (fiddle, 1955), Roger Miller (guitar, harmonies, 1958), Steve Bess (drums, 1959-62), Donny Young a.k.a. Johnny Paycheck (bass, harmonies, 1960-61), Buddy Emmons (steel guitar, 1961-66), Willie Nelson (bass, guitar, harmonies, 1961-62), Johnny Bush (drums, 1962-66), Darrell McCall (bass, guitar, harmonies, 1962-63), Jan Kurtis (drums, 1962-63), Ray Sanders (guitar, harmonies, 1962), Art Bishop (guitar, 1962), Bob Preston (drums, 1963), Wade Ray (fiddle, 1964-65), Keith Coleman (fiddle, 1964), Charlie Harris (guitar, 1964), Bobby Garrett (steel guitar, 1965), Jack Evins (steel guitar), Pete Burke (bass), Jimmy Belken (fiddle), Buddy Spicher (fiddle), Shorty Lavender (fiddle)
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