Biography

Ray Peterson (April 23, 1939 – January 25, 2005) was an American pop music singer. 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 a friend. 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. Peterson scored a Top 10 hit with the teenage tragedy song, "Tell Laura I Love Her", and followed that success with "Corrine, Corrina" Peterson's dramatic ballad and "I Could Have Loved You So Well". His last charting hit was "Missing You". By the mid 1960s he had become something of a phenomenon on the west coast of the United States,