Ray Stevens
Harold Ray Ragsdale (born January 24, 1939), known professionally as Ray Stevens, is an American country and pop singer-songwriter and comedian, known for his Grammy-winning recordings "Everything Is Beautiful" and "Misty", as well as comedic hits such as "Gitarzan" and "The Streak". He has worked as a producer, music arranger, songwriter, television host, and solo artist; been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, and the Christian Music Hall of Fame; and received Gold Albums for his music sales.
Early life
Stevens was born in Clarkdale, Georgia. While attending high school, Stevens formed his first band, a rhythm and blues group named The Barons. Following his graduation, Stevens enrolled in Georgia State College as a music major.
Career
Early career
At 16, Stevens signed to Capitol Records' Prep Records division in 1957, and produced the singles "Silver Bracelet" and a cover of "Rang Tang Ding Dong", which met with a positive review from Billboard. The latter was originally recorded by doo-wop group The Cellos in 1957.
Ray Stevens (wrestler)
Carl Ray Stevens (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 he retired during the early 1990s. His performances and hard bumping style inspired generations of heel wrestlers who have attempted to emulate his ability to provide high quality and heat generating matches that continuously bring in huge crowds of fans. He was well known for using two different finishing moves in his many victories: the "Bombs Away" knee drop (a diving knee drop from the top rope to the throat) and the piledriver. Stevens wrestled as both a singles performer and in tag team matches with a variety of partners. In 2006, he was inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Professional wrestling career
Early career
Stevens began his four decade-long career in 1950 at the age of 15. One of Stevens's mentors was the "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers, a former NWA World Heavyweight Champion. When commenting on the ability of his longtime friend, Rogers consistently said "Ray was one of the most talented and graceful wrestlers I've ever watched and been a part of. He won titles at the youngest age of any wrestler I've ever known and was a credit to the game" (Page 3 of Whatever Happened To...?, Issue Number Twenty One, May 1996).
Ray Stevens (badminton)
Ray Stevens (born 23 June 1951) is a former English badminton player. A winner of numerous English national championships and international titles in both singles and doubles, his strengths were his power, tenacity, and concentration.
In 1977 Stevens won a bronze medal in the World Championships in men's doubles. He is also won nine medals in the European Badminton Championships, including two gold medals in men's doubles. He was also twice a runnerup in men's doubles at the prestigious All-England Championships with longtime partner Mike Tredgett.
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Ray Stevens (politician)
Raymond Alexander "Ray" Stevens (born 1 February 1953) is an Australian politician who is the Leader of Opposition Business in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.
Born in Townsville, Stevens is married with two children. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Finance and Economics from James Cook University and Macquarie University, and was admitted to the Australian Association of Accountants in 1974, being employed by Price Waterhouse in Sydney. He returned to the family station, "Doncaster" in Richmond, before moving to the Gold Coast in 1979. He ran local businesses in the area and was a councillor on Albert Shire Council from 1988 to 1994, serving as Mayor in 1994. After the amalgamation of Albert and Gold Coast, he was mayor of the latter from 1995 to 1997.
Stevens, as member of the Liberal Party, was elected to state parliament in 2006 as the member for Robina, succeeding former state Liberal leader Bob Quinn. At this time he was also appointed as the Shadow Minister for Public Works and Housing from 2006–2009, with a brief stint from 2007–2008 as the Shadow Minister for Information and Communication Technology.
Ray Stevens (disambiguation)
Ray Stevens or Raymond Stevens may refer to:
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Ray Stevens
ALBUMS
- Greatest Hits (The 50th Anniversary Collection) released: 2008
- The Very Best of... released: 2007
- Box Set released: 2006
- The Collection released: 2003
- Ear Candy released: 2000
- Ray Stevens: Collector's Edition released: 1997
- Guitarzan released: 1996
- The Best of Ray Stevens released: 1993
- Ahab the Arab released: 1992
- Greatest Hits released: 1990
- His All-Time Greatest Comic Hits released: 1990
- Greatest Hits released: 1987
- Surely You Joust released: 1986
- I Have Returned released: 1985
- Misty released: 1975
- Boogity Boogity released: 1974
- Great Gospel Songs released:
- The Very Best of Ray Stevens released:
- 1,837 Seconds of Humor / This Is Ray Stevens released:
- 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Ray Stevens released:
- Classic Ray Stevens released:
- Lend Me Your Ears released:
- Serious Side of Ray Stevens released:
- Collector's Series released:
- All-Time Greatest Hits released:
- Gitarzan released:
- Collection released:
- 20 Comedy Hits released:
- He Thinks He's Ray Stevens released:
- Ray Stevens Christmas: Through a Different Window released:
- Crackin Up released:
- Ray Stevens Greatest Hits, Volume 2 released:
- Hum It released:
- I Never Made a Record I Didn't Like released:
- Osama-Yo'-Mama released:
- Mississippi Squirrel Revival released:
- #1 With a Bullet released:
- Get Serious! The ORIGINAL Movie Soundtrack released:
- At His Best released:
- The Best of... released:
Box Set
Released 2006- It's Me Again, Maragret
- Too Drunk to Fish
- Misty
- Freudian Slip
- Sittin' Up With the Dead
- Everything Is Beautiful
- Power Tools
- Driver's Education
- Hang Up and Drive
- Ahab the Arab
- The Ballad of the Blue Cyclone (The Beginning)
- Blue Angel
- The Ballad of the Blue Cyclone (The End?)
- Pledging My Love
- The Woogie Boogie
- Love Will Beat Your Brains Out
- The Haircut Song
Ray Stevens: Collector's Edition
Released 1997- The Streak
- Moonlight Special
- Misty
- Indian Love Call
- Jeremiah Peabody
- Freddie Feelgood
- Turn Your Radio On
- A Mama and a Papa
- All My Trials
- Everything is Beautiful
- Gitarzan
- Young Love
- Harry the Hairy Ape
- Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
- America, Communicate with Me
- Mr. Businessman
- Along Came Jones
- Bridget the Midget
- Unwind
- Ahab, the Arab
The Best of Ray Stevens
Released 1993- Bridget the Midget
- Turn Your Radio On
- Indian Love Call
- Gitarzan
- Saturday Night at the Movies
- Young Love
- Along Come Jones
- Harry the Hairy Ape
- Misty
- Everything Is Beautiful
- The Streak
- Ahab the Arab
- Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasand Tasting Green & Purple Pills
- Moonlight Special
- Lady of Spain
- Mr. Business Man
Ahab the Arab
Released 1992- Ahab the Arab
- Further More
- Funny Man
- The Deodorant Song
- Harry the Hairy Ape
- Just One of Life's Little Tragedies
- Speed Ball
- Bubble Gum the Bubble Dancer
- My Dad
- Jeremiah Peabody's Poly-Unsaturated Quick Desolving Fast Acting Pleasent Tasting Green and Purple Pills
- The Rock and Roll Show
- Game Show Love
I Have Returned
Released 1985- Thus Cacked Henrietta (aka Also sprach Zarathustra)
- Hugo (The Human Cannonball)
- Vacation Bible School
- Armchair Quarterback
- The Ballad of the Blue Cyclone, Part 1
- The Ballad of the Blue Cyclone, Part 2
- Kiss a Pig
- The Haircut Song
- The Pirate Song (I Want to Sing and Dance)
- Punk Country Love
- Santa Claus Is Watching You
The Very Best of Ray Stevens
- Bridget the Midget
- The Streak
- Everything Is Beautiful
- Turn Your Radio On
- Yakety Yak (live)
- Gitarzan (live)
- Along Came Jones (live)
- Ahab the Arab (live)
- The Moonlight Special
- Unwind
- Mr. Businessman
- Indian Love Call
- Bye Bye Love
- Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
- A Mama and a Papa
- She Belongs to Me
- Young Love
- Something
- A Time for Us (Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet)
- Sunday Morning Coming Down
- Leaving on a Jet Plane
- Misty
1,837 Seconds of Humor / This Is Ray Stevens
- Ahab the Arab
- Saturday Night at the Movies
- Popeye and Olive Oil
- The Rockin' Boppin' Waltz
- Pfc. Rhythm and Blues Jones
- Scratch My Back (I Love It)
- The Rock and Roll Show
- Julius Played the Trumpet
- Jeremiah Peabody's Poly-Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pills
- Furthermore
- A Hermit Named Dave
- Harry the Hairy Ape Man
- Just One of Life's Little Tragedies
- The Weekend
- Funny Man
- Loved and Lost
- The Deodorant Song
- The Great Sebastian
- Little Stone Statue
- Speed Ball
- Teen Years
- Soap Opera
- It's Been So Long
- Santa Claus Is Watching You
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Ray Stevens
- Jeremiah Peabody's Poly Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pill's
- Ahab the Arab
- Harry the Hairy Ape
- Freddie Feelgood (And His Funky Little Five Piece Band)
- Mr Businessman
- Gitarzan
- Everything Is Beautiful
- Turn Your Radio On
- The Streak
- Misty
- Shriner's Convention
- Would Jesus Wear a Rolex
Classic Ray Stevens
- If Ten Percent Is Good Enough for Jesus (It Ought to Be Enough for Uncle Sam)
- The Higher Education of Old Blue
- The Bricklayer's Song
- Little League
- Meanwhile
- Super Cop
- If You And Yo' Folks Like Me And My Folks
- The All-American Two Week Summer Family Vacation
- The Ballad of Jake McClusky
- The Motel Song
All-Time Greatest Hits
- Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
- Ahab the Arab
- Harry the Hairy Ape
- Funny Man
- Freddy Feelgood (And His Funky Little Five Piece Band)
- Unwind
- Mr. Businessman
- Isn't It Lonely Together
- Gitarzan
- Along Came Jones
- Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
- Have a Little Talk With Myself
- Everything Is Beautiful
- America, Communicate With Me
- Bridget the Midget (The Queen of the Blues)
- All My Trials
- Turn Your Radio On
- Nashville
- The Streak
- Everybody Needs a Rainbow
- Misty
- Indian Love Call
- Young Love
Collection
- The Streak
- Shriner's Convention
- The Mississippi Squirrel Revival
- Gitarzan
- Ahab the Arab
- It's Me Again Margaret
- Santa Claus Is Watching You
- The Ballad of the Blue Cyclone
- Would Jesus Wear a Rolex
- Freddie Feelgood (And His Funky Little Five Piece Band)
- Surfin' U.S.S.R.
- I Saw Elvis in a U.F.O.
- The Haircut Song
- Everything Is Beautiful
20 Comedy Hits
- The Streak
- Shriner's Convention
- Gitarzan
- Ahab, the Arab
- Bridget the Midget (The Queen of the Blues)
- Super Cop
- The All-American Two Week Summer Family Vacat
- The Ballad of Jake McClusky
- The Motel Song
- Teenage Mutant Kung Fu Chickens
- Tabloid News
- Back in the Doghouse Again
- A Little Blue-Haired Lady
- Sittin' Up With the Dead
- Jack Daniels, You Lied to Me Again
- Help Me Make it Through the Night
- Used Cars
- Barbeque
- Where Do My Socks Go?
- This Ain't Exactly What I Had in Mind
He Thinks He's Ray Stevens
- I'm Kissin' You Goodbye
- It's Me Again, Margaret
- The Mississippi Squirrel Revival
- Ned Nostril (And His South Seas Paradise, Put Your Blues on Ice, Cheap at Twice the Price Band, Ikky-Ikky, Ukky-Ukky)
- Fred
- Erik The Awful
- The Monkees (Theme From)
- Joggin'
- Happy Hour (Is the Saddest Time of the Day)
- Furthermore
Ray Stevens Greatest Hits, Volume 2
- Would Jesus Wear a Rolex
- Can He Love You Half as Much as I
- The Ballad of the Blue Cyclone
- I Need Your Help Barry Manilow
- Mama's in the Sky With Elvis
- Mr. Businessman
- The Haircut Song
- Jeremiah Peabody's Poly Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pills
- Freddie Feelgood (And His Funky Little Five Piece Band)
- In the Mood
The Best of...
- Jeremiah Peabody's...Purple Pills
- Ahab the Arab
- Santa Claus Is Watching You
- Harry the Hairy Ape
- Unwind
- Mr. Businessman
- Gitarzan
- Along Came Jones
- Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
- Everything Is Beautiful
- America, Communicate With Me
- Sunset Strip
- Bridget the Midget
- Turn Your Radio On
- The Streak
- Moonlight Special
- Misty
- I Need Your Help Barry Manilow
- Shriner's Convention
- In the Mood
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Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
by: Ray StevensDo you know what it means to miss New Orleans
And miss it each night and day
I know I'm not wrong, the feeling's getting stronger
The longer I stay away
Miss the moss-covered vines, tall sugar pines
Where mockingbirds used to sing
I'd love to see that old lazy Mississippi
Hurrying into Spring
The moonlight on the bayou
A Creole tune that fills the air
I dream about magnolias in bloom
And I'm wishin I was there
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans
When that's where you left your heart
And there's one thing more, I miss the one I care for
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