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Ray Peterson (April 23, 1935 – January 25, 2005) was an American pop music singing who is best remembered for singing "Tell Laura I Love Her". He also scored numerous other hits, including "Corrine, Corrina" and "The Wonder of You".
In 1960, Peterson created his own record label with his management Stan Shulman, called Dunes Records, and enlisted the help of record producer Phil Spector with "Corrine, Corrina".No. 9 on December 19, 1960; produced by Spector; cover of a 1931 Red Nichols hit Peterson's dramatic ballad, "I Could Have Loved You So Well", songwriter by Barry Mann and Gerry Goffin and produced by Spector, only reached No. 57 on the U.S. chart. He then tried another death disc, "Give Us Your Blessing", but this time the record only made No. 70 in the Hot-100. (The later song was covered by the Shangri-Las five years later and became a Top 30 hit.)
His last charting US-Top-30 hit was "Missing You".No. 29 on June 29, 1961 By the mid-1960s he had become something of a phenomenon on the west coast of the United States, appearing live in numerous with 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 launching his new relationship with MGM Records, an alliance that produced two albums: The Very Best of Ray Peterson which featured most of the Dunes singles, and The Other Side of Ray Peterson, which included many of his nightclub songs. He later moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and by the 1970s when the hit records stopped coming, Peterson became a Baptist Church minister and occasionally played the classic hits music circuit. In 1981 he released a Christian folk rock album called Highest Flight, which was also released as My Father's Place.
Peterson was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
Peterson died of colon cancer on January 25, 2005, in Smyrna, Tennessee, aged 69. He left a widow, four sons, and three daughters. For publicity reasons, he had shaved four years off his age, leading many sources to list his age as 65. He was interred in the Roselawn Memorial Gardens cemetery in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
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