Editing Crooner (section)

==Country crooners==
Due to the country songs popularized by Bing Crosby, the crooning style of singing became an enduring part of [[country music]].<ref>Bing Crosby, "I'm an Old Cowhand," original mono recordings from 1933–1944, ASV Mono, Living Era, 1995.</ref> Crosby achieved a million seller with his 1940 rendition of the song "[[New San Antonio Rose|San Antonio Rose]]", originally recorded by [[Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys]]. In 1942, [[Perry Como]] had a smash hit with "[[Deep in the Heart of Texas]]"; Crosby, who had an enormous influence on Como, covered this song and took it to the number 3 position in the US chart that same year. [[Eddy Arnold]], [[Jim Reeves]] and [[Ray Price (musician)|Ray Price]] are especially well known for their country crooner standards.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1587136/nashville-skyline-remembering-eddy-arnold.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512152607/http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1587136/nashville-skyline-remembering-eddy-arnold.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 12, 2008|title=NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Remembering Eddy Arnold|last=Flippo|first=Chet|work=[[Country Music Television]]|date=8 May 2008|access-date=5 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6205510/a-tribute-to-country-crooner-jim-reeves-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-his-death|title=billboard.com: A Tribute to Country Crooner Jim Reeves on the 50th Anniversary of His Death|last=Dauphin|first=Chuck|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=1 August 2014|access-date=6 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/music/headlines/20131216-influential-country-crooner-ray-price-dies-at-87.ece|title= dallasnews.com: Influential country crooner Ray Price dies at 87|last=Wilonsky|first=Robert|date=16 December 2013|access-date=6 September 2014}}</ref>

[[Dean Martin]] is associated with the country music he recorded in the period when he was working for [[Reprise Records]], whilst his fellow [[Italian Americans|Italian-American]] crooner Como recorded several albums with country producer [[Chet Atkins]] in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]]. Regular, non-country crooners also scored hits with pop versions of country songs: [[Tony Bennett]] had a ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' number 1 hit in 1951 with his rendition of [[Hank Williams]]' "[[Cold, Cold Heart]]"; Como had a number 1 hit in 1953 with his version of "[[Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes]]", a chart-topping country hit for its author [[Slim Willet]] and a number 4 country hit for Ray Price; [[Guy Mitchell]] scored a number 1 in 1959 with "[[Heartaches by the Number]]", a country hit for [[Ray Price (musician)|Ray Price]]; and Britain's [[Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]] achieved a 1967 UK number 1 hit with "[[Release Me (1946 song)|Release Me]]", another song already made famous by Price in 1954. In 1970, Price had a number 1 US country hit and a number 11 [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]] hit with the song "[[For the Good Times (song)|For the Good Times]]", written by [[Kris Kristofferson]]; subsequently, Como's rendition reached number 7 in 1973 on the [[UK Singles Chart]].