Ray Peterson is tagged as: 60s, oldies, rock and roll, pop, rock n roll Ray T. Peterson (April 23 1939 - January 25 2005) was an American pop music singer. Ray Peterson was born in Denton, Texas. Blessed with a 4-octave singing voice, he idolized the vocal sounds of fellow Texan, Roy Orbison. Peterson moved to Los Angeles, California where he was signed by RCA Victor Records in 1957. He recorded several songs that were minor hits until “The Wonder of You” made it into the Billboard Top Thirty list. The song would later be recorded by Elvis Presley with whom he became close friends. In 1960 Ray Peterson scored a Top 10 hit with “Tell Laura I Love Her,” and followed that success with “Corrina, Corrina, and I Could Have Loved You So Well.” By the mid-1960s he had become something of a phenomenon on the west coast of the United States, appearing live in numerous rock concerts with Paul McCartney lookalike, Keith Allison. His performances at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, produced by Fred Vail, beginning in 1963 helped fuel a revival of “The Wonder of You” as well as launch his new relationship with MGM Records, an alliance that produced two albums, “The Very Best of Ray Peterson” featuring most of the Dunes singles, and “The Other Side of Ray Peterson”, which included m... Read More About Ray Peterson Biography...  Send Ray Peterson ringtones to your cell
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