Ray Griff

John Raymond David Griff (April 22, 1940 – March 9, 2016) was a Canadian country music singer and songwriter, born in Vancouver and raised in Toronto. His songwriting credits reached over 2500 songs, many of which were recorded by Nashville's top recording artists. and raised in Winfield, Alberta. He began songwriting in the early 1960s and had early cuts by Johnny Horton, Jim Reeves, and others.

Griff had battled throat cancer in his later years,

Discography Albums

Singles Year Title Peak chart positions AlbumCAN CountryCAN ACUS Country 1965 "Weeping Willow Tree"A 6 — — Non-album song "Don't Lead Me On" 10 — — "Golden Years" 2 — — 1967 "Your Lily White Hands" — — 49 A Ray of Sunshine 1968 "A Ray of Sunshine" — — — "The Sugar from My Candy" 14 — 50 1969 "Wanderin' Through the Valley" 18 — — The Entertainer "The Entertainer" 6 — — 1970 "Patches" 13 30 26 Ray Griff Sings! "Ain't Nowhere to Go" 42 18 — Non-album song 1971 "Wait a Little Longer" — — — Ray Griff Sings! "The Morning After Baby Let Me Down" 12 — 141972 "It Rains Just the Same in Missouri" 19 — 62 Songs for Everyone 1973 "A Song for Everyone" 38 78 66 "What Got to You (Before It Got to Me)" 5 — 46 "Darlin'" 26 — 42 1974 "That Doesn't Mean (I Don't Love My God)" 12 — 65 Expressions "The Hill" 18 — 911975 "If That's What It Takes" — — 65 Non-album song "You Ring My Bell" 40 — 16 Ray Griff 1976 "If I Let Her Come In" 1 — 11 "I Love the Way That You Love Me" 36 — 40 "That's What I Get (For Doin' My Own Thinkin')" 9 — 24 The Last of the Winfield Amateurs "The Last of the Winfield Amateurs" 11 — 27 1977 "You Put the Bounce Back into My Step" — — flip "A Passing Thing" 20 — 28 "A Cold Day in July" 33 — 69 Raymond's Place "Raymond's Place" 41 — 52 1978 "Canada" 22 — — Canada 1979 "Betty Mitchell" 43 — — "Friends and Neighbours" 55 — — 1981 "Jimmy, Luke and Me" 48 — — Maple Leaf "Draw Me a Line" 24 — 87 You Can Count on Me 1982 "Things That Songs Are Made Of" 30 — 95 1983 "If Tomorrow Never Comes" 8 — 86 "You Can Count on Me" 33 — — 1984 "So Close" 30 — — You "You" — — — "Diamond in the Rough" 52 — — You Can Count on Me 1985 "A Light in the Window" 48 — — The Sky's the Limit "I Did" 51 — —1986 "What My Woman Does to Me" 50 — 71 "I Can't See Me" — — — 1987 "That Old Montana Moon" 40 — — My Kind of Country 1988 "Damned If I Do, Damned If I Don't" — — — "Light as a Feather" (with Glory-Anne Carriere) 37 — — Ray Griff & Friends:Honest to Goodness Amigos "Honest to Goodness Amigos" (with Ronnie Prophet) 86 — — 1989 "Flames" 78 — — Non-album song 1990 "Daybreak" 47 — —

A"Weeping Willow Tree" also peaked at number 39 on the Canadian RPM Top 40 chart.