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  • Oct 20, 1958
    Ray Price's "City Lights" becomes the first song written by Bill Anderson to hit #1 on the Billboard country singles chart
    Nov 18, 1958
    Ray Price records Bill Anderson's "That's What It's Like To Be Lonesome" in a midnight session at the Bradley Film & Recording Studio in Nashville
    Dec 1, 1958
    Columbia releases Ray Price's "That's What It's Like To Be Lonesome"
    Jan 1, 1959
    Ray Price founds the Pamper Music publishing company with Hal Smith and Claude Caviness. It develops songwriters Hank Cochran, Willie Nelson and Harlan Howard, yielding such titles as "Make The World Go Away," "Crazy" and "I Fall To Pieces"
    Jan 29, 1959
    Ray Price records "Heartaches By The Number" in the evening at the Bradley Film & Recording Studios in Nashville
    Mar 8, 1959
    Country stars gather for a pair of concerts at Louisville's Freedom Hall to raise money for the newly-founded Country Music Association. On the bill: Johnny Cash, Ray Price, Ernest Tubb, Minnie Pearl, Carl Smith and Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
    Apr 6, 1959
    Columbia releases Ray Price's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Aug 31, 1959
    Ray Price records "The Same Old Me" and "Under Your Spell Again" in an evening session at the Bradley Recording Studio in Nashville
    Sep 7, 1959
    Columbia releases Ray Price's double-sided single "The Same Old Me" and "Under Your Spell Again"
    Dec 7, 1959
    Ray Price nabs a #1 country single in Billboard with "The Same Old Me"

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