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Harold Ray Ragsdale (born January 24, 1939), [1] known professionally as Ray Stevens, is an American country [2] and pop singer-songwriter and comedian. [3] [4] He is best known for his Grammy-winning recordings "Everything Is Beautiful" and "Misty", as well as novelty hits such as "Gitarzan" and "The Streak".
Ray released a direct-to-video collection of these videos in 1992 called Ray Stevens Comedy Video Classics, which won Billboard Home Video of the Year in 1993. In 1995, Stevens released his film Get Serious! which consisted of several music videos.
"Everything Is Beautiful" was responsible for two wins at the Grammy Awards of 1971: Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for Ray Stevens and Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance for Jake Hess. Stevens's recording was the number 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in summer 1970.
I Never Made a Record I Didn't Like is Ray Stevens' twenty-fifth studio album and his fifth release under MCA Records, issued in 1988. The album includes two singles: "Surfin' U.S.S.R." and "The Day I Tried to Teach Charlene Mackenzie How to Drive." The single "Surfin' U.S.S.R." was accompanied by Stevens' second music video.
Carl Raymond Stevens [2] (September 5, 1935 – May 3, 1996), better known as Ray "the Crippler" Stevens or Ray "Blond Bomber" Stevens, was an American professional wrestler. Stevens was a wrestling superstar since the early years of the television era until his retirement during the early 1990s.
In 1975, singer Ray Stevens released an up-tempo country rendition of this song. It is the title track of his twelfth studio album. Stevens recounted that the song was recorded on the second take when experimenting in the studio. His version won a Grammy in the category of Music Arrangement of the Year. [18]
All-Time Greatest Hits is a collection of 23 songs that were previously recorded by Ray Stevens, released in 2001.Like many collections of Stevens' music, it concentrates 99% on recordings that were made for the record labels of Monument and Barnaby.
This Is Ray Stevens is the second album by Ray Stevens.It was released in 1963 by Mercury Records on the catalog numbers of MG 20828 (Mono LP) and MG 60828 (Stereo LP). [1] Like Stevens' previous album, 1,837 Seconds of Humor, all of the songs were written by Ray Stevens and published by Lowery Music Company, Inc. (BMI).