Talk:Ray Peterson

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Met him[edit]

I first met Ray Peterson in Sacramento in the mid-60s. Sacramento was one of Ray's favorite performing locations because for a while there he was able to pack out the local Memorial Auditorium in the shows produced by Fred Vail. He performed with a number of other popular singers as well, including Keith Allison and George Romero. He was also involved in the Mather AFB Celebrity Golf Tournament in 1967, which featured Jimmy Rodgers and Fred MacMurray among others. The last time I saw him he was doing country'n'western songs at a place called The Roadhouse outside Sacramento. This was when he was still living in southern California. He was the naming recipient of The Ray Peterson Humanitarian Award which was presented to him in Reno Nevada by H.M.S. Productions. The only other recipient of the award was Tommy Roe (of Sheila fame)

Billy Marshall Stoneking

I got to meet one of my favorite singers, Ray Peterson, when I discovered that he was a customer of the bank that I had just become president of. He had not sung his songs for several years while in the ministry and was going to go back to the music business again. This was in 1984 and he was living in Houston.

He and his wife Claudia came to our house and did a concert for a room full of our friends. The media attended as well and gave him some very nice press coverage. Ray and I became friends. I visited him at his house in TN. He showed me a photo that had recently been taken of him along with Roy Orbison.

Ray was full of life and loved his family very much.

Tom Britton

Date of birth[edit]

Was he not born in 1935 (not 1939) ?!

About the only way to determine his real date of birth is to get it off a birth certificate or census records. Bobby H. Heffley (talk) 03:39, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Missing info on personal life[edit]

No mention of the physically abusive relationship between Peterson and his manager Stan Shulman. 58.8.141.169 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:22, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]