tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post7095977298852386217..comments2024-02-03T16:24:42.023-08:00Comments on 1410 OakWooD: Ray PriceGunnar Berghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-13339710051610098012011-02-17T11:08:33.954-08:002011-02-17T11:08:33.954-08:00My brother took my mother to hear Roy Orbison in h...My brother took my mother to hear Roy Orbison in his prime. They said when he finished his first song, Crying, it was dead silence for a while before the applause began. People just needed to catch their breath.Gunnar Berghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17451985764040900726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2695748260936745505.post-82215081868796684542011-02-17T09:56:41.005-08:002011-02-17T09:56:41.005-08:00In 1965 I was working for a man in Corpus Christi,...In 1965 I was working for a man in Corpus Christi, Texas selling house trailers. That was my first "get out of California" experiment. We went to a trailer show in Dallas, Texas and while there went out partying one night. This place was a real dive. Low ceiling, post on the dance floor to hold the ceiling up and smokey. It was a beer drinking pill poppin' place full of belt buckles and women with big hair. There was not a soul in there that was not high on something including yours truly. Lots of so called dancing. All of a sudden there was this voice singing and quickly all the buckle polishing stopped and the entire place went quite. It was Ray Price and when he sang these cowboys, whores and truck drivers all stopped to listen many with their eye closed. I might add with reverence. He held us in his grip for about an hour. It was like a church in there. It was an experience I will never forget. <br />Was I impressed? When I hear him now I can close my eyes and I'm back on that dance floor with all the smells and textures of the evening just as if it was yesterday. I guess I was.Oldfoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14688289425207257034noreply@blogger.com