Crazy Arms

"Crazy Arms"
"Crazy Arms"
Single by Ray Price
B-side	"You Done Me Wrong"
Released	April 1956
Recorded	March 1, 1956
Studio	Bradley Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre	Country
Length	2:35
Label	Columbia 21510
Songwriter(s)	Ralph Mooney, Charles Seals
Ray Price singles chronology

"Crazy Arms" is an American country song which was a career-making hit for Ray Price. The song, released in May 1956, went on to become a number 1 country hit that year, establishing Price's sound, and redefining honky-tonk music. It was Price's first No. 1 hit.

The song was written in 1949 by pedal steel player Ralph Mooney and Charles "Chuck" Seals.^[2]

In 1999, "Crazy Arms" by Ray Price was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.^[3]

^ "New Folk Releases". Billboard. April 21, 1956. p. 47.
^ Horstman, Dorothy (1975). Sing Your Heart Out, Country Boy. Nashville, Tennessee: Country Music Foundation Press. p. 148. ISBN 0-915608-19-7.
^ "GRAMMY HALL OF FAME AWARD". www.grammy.com. Retrieved 2023-07-18.

[1] "New Folk Releases". Billboard. April 21, 1956. p. 47.

[2] Horstman, Dorothy (1975). Sing Your Heart Out, Country Boy. Nashville, Tennessee: Country Music Foundation Press. p. 148. ISBN 0-915608-19-7.

[3] "GRAMMY HALL OF FAME AWARD". www.grammy.com. Retrieved 2023-07-18.

[1]

[2]

[3]