My 100 Favorite Charted Country Songs: Crazy Arms
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86910)
United States
September 25, 2024 10:56am CST
Yes, it’s another headache-inducing-if-you-don’t-like-country-music flat-out COUNTRY music song to counterbalance the Spinners song I just posted. I really do listen to all of this. Plus, to scare you even more, I’ve spent a lot of time lately listening to Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. But country IS my soul. With that in mind, welcome back to the list this gentleman.
Crazy Arms - Ray Price
And welcome back Tommy Jackson on the fiddle. And OOOOH, those harmonies.
While Ray Price had enjoyed some success earlier in the 50s, originally fronting the Drifting Cowboys after Hank Williams died, his own Cherokee Cowboys laid the blueprint for what was not only his best music but some of the greatest music of the 1950s. This was the first of eight #1 songs for Price. Oddly enough, he had four #1s in the 50s and four in the 70s, with no #1 songs in the 60s. (That was Buck Owens’ decade. 
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And if you’re wondering about the name of his band, yes, he really was part Cherokee Indian. His given name was Noble Ray Price.
Today, we just call him a legend.
Crazy Arms
Written by Ralph Mooney and Chuck Seals
Recorded by Ray Price
Released as a single, 1956
Peak chart position: #1
Today’s rock song: “Games People Play (They Just Can’t Stop It)”
Please take the treasured dreams I have:
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And if you’re wondering about the name of his band, yes, he really was part Cherokee Indian. His given name was Noble Ray Price.
Today, we just call him a legend.
Crazy Arms
Written by Ralph Mooney and Chuck Seals
Recorded by Ray Price
Released as a single, 1956
Peak chart position: #1
Today’s rock song: “Games People Play (They Just Can’t Stop It)”
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@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
26 Sep 24
Okay, we’ll try (and fail) again tomorrow. 
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@RasmaSandra (98127)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
25 Sep 24
Yup this one I have always liked,
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@LindaOHio (222898)
• United States
26 Sep 24
I'm familiar with Crazy Arms. Have a good day.
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@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
26 Sep 24
Huh??? WHAT???? The song or just arms that go crazy on roller coasters? 
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@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
27 Sep 24
@LindaOHio — don’t listen to this to try to find out, you’ll be calling 911 for the headache after two notes from that fiddle.
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@LindaOHio (222898)
• United States
27 Sep 24
@FourWalls lololol I don't think it was this version though.
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@FourWalls (86910)
• United States
27 Sep 24
Oh, like Geddy Lee or Steve Perry always sing? 
I understand: real country isn’t most people’s taste in country. And, honestly, it’s like a friend said about the Clash’s three-album set Sandinista!: “Could you REALLY listen to that album if it was nothing but Joe Strummer singing for six sides?” And, truthfully, that’s what rubbed me wrong about Ray Price when I was a kid. I grew to appreciate him.
I understand: real country isn’t most people’s taste in country. And, honestly, it’s like a friend said about the Clash’s three-album set Sandinista!: “Could you REALLY listen to that album if it was nothing but Joe Strummer singing for six sides?” And, truthfully, that’s what rubbed me wrong about Ray Price when I was a kid. I grew to appreciate him.1 person likes this
@porwest (112933)
• United States
28 Sep 24
@FourWalls Well, for me I guess it's the hiccups. Or whatever it is that they do. I can definitely tell the difference between a tenor and a twanger. lol
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