Ray Peterson (April 23, 1939 – January 25, 2005) was an American pop singer who was best remembered for singing "Tell Laura I Love Her" and "Corrine, Corrina" in the 1960s.
Ray T. Peterson was born in Denton, Texas.As a boy he had to overcome polio. Blessed with a four-octave singing voice, Peterson moved to Los Angeles, California, where he was signed to a recording contract by RCA
Victor Records in 1958. He recorded several songs that were minor hits until
"The Wonder of You" made it into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 15, 1959. The song would later be recorded by Elvis Presley, with whom Peterson
became friends. Peterson scored a Top
10 hit with the teenage tragedy song, "Tell Laura
I Love Her",.
In 1960, Peterson created his own record
label with his manager Stan Shulman, called Dunes Records,
and enlisted the help of record
producer Phil Spector. with "Corrine, Corrina" Peterson's dramatic ballad, "I Could Have Loved You
So Well", written by Barry
Mann and Cynthia Weil and produced by Spector, only reached
#57 on the U.S. chart.
His last charting US-Top-30 hit was "Missing You". By the mid 1960s he had become
something of a phenomenon on the west coast of the United States, appearing live in
numerous concerts with Paul
McCartney lookalike Keith
Allison.
Peterson died of cancer in 2005, in Smyrna, Tennessee, aged 65. He left a widow and four sons and three daughters. He was interred in the Roselawn
Memorial Gardens cemetery in Murfreesboro,
Tennessee.
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