Ray Stevens

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 1995

First Recording: 1969

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Ray Stevens
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys

Country Music Hall of Fame: 2019

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Everything Is Beautiful (1970)

Ray Stevens @ Wikipedia

Will Ray Stevens be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Stevens

As I've said many times before:

You CAN'T induct Weird AL without inducting RAY STEVENS first. He was doing the comedy thing in music DECADES before Al was ever even HEARD OF !

Anybody out there remember GITARZAN ? (a Top 10 Hit)

How about THE STREAK ? (A #1 Hit)
And there was the Top 10 1962 smash "AHAB the ARAB".

And the Top 20 hit "HARRY The HAIRY APE"

Not to mention his very FIRST hit, from 1961
(with the longest title of ANY song in HISTORY...
"Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills".
[WHEW]
RAY STEVENS has had no less than 11 Grammy Award nominations, and has won two of them , one of which was for his worldwide #1 smash, "EVERYTHING'S BEAUTIFUL" (probably his only "serious" hit.
RAY STEVENS has been around since the 1950's , and has amassed an impressive string of Gold Singles and Albums, including: (and this is from Wikipedia:)

1969: Gold Single – "Gitarzan"

1970: Gold Single – "Everything Is Beautiful"

1970: Grammy – "Everything Is Beautiful" (Best Male Pop Vocal Performance)

1974: Gold Single – "The Streak"

1975: Grammy – "Misty" (Best Arrangement of the Year)

1980: Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame induction

1980: Georgia Music Hall of Fame induction

1984: Gold Album – He Thinks He's Ray Stevens

1985: Gold Album – I Have Returned

1986–94: Music City News Comedian of the Year

1986: No. 1 Country Album Plaque from Billboard – I Have Returned (week ending March 15, 1986)

1987: Platinum Album – Greatest Hits

1987: Gold Album – Greatest Hits, Volume Two

1990: Gold Album – All-Time Greatest Comic Hits

1992: No. 1 Home Video Plaque from Billboard – Comedy Video Classics

1992: Ten Times-Platinum Home Video – Comedy Video Classics

1993: Billboard Home Video of the Year

1993: Platinum Home Video – Ray Stevens Live!

1995: Platinum Home Video – Get Serious!

1995: Country Weekly Golden Pick Award for Best Comedian

2001: Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame induction

2002: Gold Single – "Osama Yo' Mama"

2009: Christian Music Hall of Fame induction

He has charted on the Pop,Country,and Christian Music charts, and has won several BMI Songwriters awards.
He is a writer, producer, music publisher, and multi-instrumentalist.
His songs have charted worldwide - in The U.S. , Canada, the U.K. , and Australia .

Look him up in Wikipedia , and I think that you'll agree:

Ray Stevens FIRST...THEN Weird Al !!!

Posted by Bill G. on Saturday, 08/29/2015 @ 17:18pm


Bill G.
Another excellent post this time Ray Stevens. My Grandma used to listen to Ray Stevens,Kenny Rogers, Lionel Richie, George Strait. Few groups or artists passed muster with her. She wasn't in to the real bang your head or loud music. Ray Stevens might not make the RRHOF but you bring up some good points with his gold albums & hits plus his ability to have success in Christian, Country Music and other genres. Songs like The Streak & Everything's Beautiful were big hits. He has a long music career and deserves some consideration. With the RRHOF created logjam of deserving artists waiting induction, I'm afraid that Ray Stevens will be waiting too. KING

Posted by KING on Saturday, 08/29/2015 @ 19:50pm


Essential Songs:

"Ahab the Arab" (1962)
"Gitarzan" (1969)
"The Streak" (1974)

Posted by Bookhouse on Monday, 03/27/2023 @ 12:09pm


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