Super Hits

by Ray Price

Overview

Columbia Records' Super Hits albums are discount-priced collections of ten of the biggest hits of individual artists. The Ray Price number in the series mixes up material originally released from 1956 to 1973, which is to say that his honky tonk '50s hits like "Crazy Arms" and "Heartaches by the Number" are juxtaposed uneasily with his Nashville Sound '70s ballads like "For the Good Times" and "She's Got to Be a Saint." You certainly get the two Ray Prices here, although much of the time they sound like two different artists. And there's one oddity. Somebody at the Columbia vault pulled the wrong version of "Release Me," which leads off the album. A sleeve note says, "Originally Released 1954," but the included recording is a much later Nashville Sound arrangement with heavy strings that seems to bear the influence of Engelbert Humperdinck's 1967 pop revival. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	03/29/2011
Label:	Gusto Records
UPC:	0792014221327
Rank:	108458

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Ray Price   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals

Technical Credits

Margie Hunt   Producer,Executive Producer
Carolyn Jean Yates   Composer
Dub Williams   Composer
Robert Yount   Composer
Bill Johnson   Art Direction
Michael Di Napoli   Composer
Bill Anderson   Composer
Bob Wills   Composer
Chuck Seals   Composer
Roger Miller   Composer
Eddie Miller   Composer,Composer
Lee Ross   Composer
Ralph Mooney   Composer
Braulio Paulini   Composer
Harlan Howard   Composer
Kris Kristofferson   Composer
Richard Lescallette   Mastering
Frederick Edward Weatherly   Composer
Cam Mullins   Composer
Beth Kindig   Art Direction