Ray Stevens audio clip: "City Lights"...

Hello all fans of Ray Stevens!! The current album from Ray, Great Country Ballads, is just the first of four upcoming digital downloads. The second new album will hit in a couple of weeks. I'm sure most of you, if not all of you, have made your way over to YouTube and listened to the songs on Ray's current album. Curb Records uploaded all of the songs for your listening pleasure on YouTube. I also purchased the album through an on-line store. In this blog entry I decided to include the audio of "City Lights" which had been a huge country music hit for Ray Price from the pen of Bill Anderson. The single had also become a big hit for Mickey Gilley. In interviews Bill spoke about some of the inspiration behind the song...he was looking outside a window and seen a street of lights that lined the city blocks and they seemed to go on and on for miles but yet no such lights existed outside city limits. He created a story of how bright and pretty those lights were and how they can be seductive to certain kinds of people and how some fall prey to the allure of those lights (honky-tonking/drinking). Anyway, I had heard both of their versions of "City Lights" but I hadn't heard the renditions by other recording artists. The Ray Stevens version of "City Lights" is unlike the familiar performances by Ray Price and later, Mickey Gilley. "City Lights" is one of twelve songs found in the current Ray Stevens release...