The Best of Ray Stevens

The Best of Ray Stevens

ASIN: B000001FMY

Track Listings

1. Ahab the Arab

2. Funny Man

3. Harry the Hairy Ape

4. It's Been So Long

5. Speedball

6. Santa Claus Is Watching You

7. Butch Barbarian

8. Loved and Lost

9. Rock and Rock Show

10. Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasan

11. Bubble Gum the Bubble Dancer

Tracks:

Jeremiah Peabody's Poly Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green And 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 (The Queen Of The Blues)
Turn Your Radio On
The Streak
Moonlight Special
Misty
I Need Your Help Barry Manilow
Shriner's Convention
In The Mood

Album Description

The most complete hits collection available spotlighting the musical mayhem of Ray Stevens! Includes all of the pop/country/novelty artist's smashes between the years 1961 and 1977, plus newly penned liner notes from Dr. Demento.

Customer Reviews:

the best of ray stevens.......2007-02-07

i have always liked ray steven's music, eversences i was a small boy and listening funny songs.

Wrong version of Mr. Businessman?.......2006-07-06

I've got a copy of Mr. Businessman taped from the radio in the early 70's and I believe it's the original "hit" version. It matches the AMG sample from Jukebox Hits of 1968, Vol. 1, but it has a significantly different vocal (more forceful, different phrasing) from the version on this Rhino compilation (judging from the samples here and at AMG).

I thought we were supposed to be able to trust Rhino to either snag the originals or scrap the compilation. Anybody know what the story is with this one? Are there other tracks here that aren't the hit versions?

The best best of all of Ray Steven's Best of CD's (did that make sense?).......2006-03-15

I had a vinyl version of Ray Stevens greatest hits that came out in the early 1970's. This album was released before "The Streak" was even made, so Ray still had some hits yet to be made.

I knew that if anyone was going to be able to create a great "best of" CD of Ray Stevens, it'll have to be Rhino Records.

Rhino ruled the compilation CD genre back in the late 1980's and the 1990's. This CD of "The Best of Ray Stevens" was released about 1997. And, you know what? This CD sure is hard to find now. If fact, I've been trying to find it in your average CD store, because I turned a friend on to it, and he says that he can't find it in the stores either.

This CD mixes his comedy with his more serious songs. And they are in chronological order. I'm glad that they put it this way because I wouldn't want to hear all his comedy grouped together and then his serious songs grouped together. But, looking at these songs in it's original release order makes me wonder if Ray Stevens has had some struggles in his life. Perhaps, bouts of depression, suddenly expressing cynical remarks about real life, and maybe just not caring, at all, about anything anymore.

He starts his recording career with comedy. "Jeremiah Peabody's Poly Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pills", "Ahab the Arab", "Harry the Hairy Ape", and so on, then he starts to get serious. He's starting to show signs of a man that is entering into some dark disturbing thoughts. "Unwind" simply enough, is about a man who's exhausted with the everyday grind. Then we get songs like "Mr. Businessman", "Sunday Morning Coming Down", and "America, Communicated with Me". These songs are actually kinda sad, and thought provoking. Even taking a comical shot, mixed in with a little personal depression is his song "I Need Your Help Barry Manilow". This collection, track by track, reads like a man on a roller coaster with some struggles in his life.

But, that's his problem! My favorite's on this CD are "Harry the Hairy Ape", "Ahab the Arab", and "Gitarzan", but my absolute "big time" favorite's are "Along Came Jones", and "Bridget the Midget". Those two songs had to be here. If they were not, I would have to give this CD a miss with disgust.

But, Rhino Records seldom ever let me down on their CD's. Only when Rhino gives you a shorten version of a song, without mentioning it on the cover, do they actually disappoint me.

Rhino disappointed me a lot on the many "Have a Nice Day", and "Didn't it Blow Your Mind" CD's of Super Hits of the 70's. There were lots of butchered tracks. But, I sought therapy and got over it.

I just watched some of Ray Steven's DVD video collection called "Ray Stevens: Complete Comedy Video Collection". These videos are songs that were done in the 1990's (long after his better comedy years). Boy, was that a big disappointment to sit through. Only if you are a bonefide country bumpkin, or you are at least 71 years old and older, you may like this video collection.

I see Ray's female backup singers are trying to hang on to their youth in their recording career too. They are probably about 60 years old each, yet trying and hoping to look like spry young 48 and a half year olds. Country music generally appeals to the elderly anyway, don't it?

Comic singer who could sing serious songs.......2004-10-03

Ray originally tried to establish himself as a serious singer but he met without success until he started recording comic material. The best of his comic songs from the sixties and seventies are here including Ahab the Arab, Gitarzan, Along came Jones, Bridget the midget and The streak.

Having established himself as a comic singer, Ray eventually had some success with more serious songs including Mr Businessman, Sunday morning coming down, Everything is beautiful and Turn your radio on.

One of Ray's best recordings is his cover of Misty. Johnny Mathis recorded this song in the fifties as a tender ballad with lush orchestration, but Ray interprets it as an up-tempo country song.

As the seventies progressed, Ray's fortunes declined. He did a very strange cover of Glenn Miller's In the mood, in which he posed as a group of chickens. After some quiet years, he had some success with comic songs in the eighties but Shriner's convention is the only eighties song included here. You must look elsewhere for Mississippi squirrel revival, The haircut song, It's me again Margaret and his other songs from that period.

This serves as a wonderful introduction to Ray's music.

Nice career overview of this multi-talented performer.......2004-06-14

He is the #1 novelty recording artist of the past 40 years. He placed nearly 40 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop charts and for over two decades was a fixture on Billboard's Top Country Singles chart. And the man could croon with the best of them! Ray Stevens certainly made his mark on the American music scene. Much like the late Charlie Rich, another incredibly gifted and versatile performer, Ray Stevens might have achieved even greater commercial success had he concentrated on just one or two genres. But there were simply too many sides to Ray Stevens to allow that to happen. And he was a very gifted songwriter to boot.
This 1997 disc from Rhino is the most comprehensive Ray Stevens collection I have found. It includes many of the best known novelty recordings you would remember like "Ahab The Arab", "Gitarzan", "The Streak" and the hilarious "Bridget the Midget". One of my favorite Ray Stevens tunes is here as well, 1968's "Unwind". And if you are not convinced that there is a serious side to Ray Stevens listen to his moving performance of Kris Kristofferson's "Sunday Mornin" Comin' Down". That one just might bring a tear to your eye. You will also find his Grammy award winning #1 hit from 1970 "Everything Is Beautiful" and my all-time favorite Ray Stevens tune "Misty". And just for good measure there is the little known 1979 recording "I Need Your Help Barry Manilow". If you have never heard that one be prepared to smile....you are in for a real treat! Rhino has done it's usual fine job with the included 16 page booklet. Because Rhino has managed to include material from 5 different record labels, it is unlikely you will ever find a more comprehensive collection of Ray Stevens work. I suggest you pick this one up while it is still available and enjoy the work of a truly talented artist. Highly recommended.

20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Ray Stevens

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Skimpy Collection
Original early singles
12 of Ray's best

20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens
Manufacturer: Hip-O Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Jeremiah Peabody's Poly Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast
Acting Pleasant Tasting Green And Purple Pills
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

Customer Reviews:

Skimpy Collection.......2007-04-27

Although all of these tracks were hits, this collection is far from comprehensive and there are many better compilations available. Still, it might be the right place to start for the casual investigator as it contains the characteristic blend of styles that comprises the work of Ray Stevens.

There are the comic novelty songs like Ahab (1962), Harry The Hairy Ape (1963), Gitarzan (1969) and The Streak (1974), pop ballads like the upbeat Everything Is Beautiful (1970) and the serious Mr Businessman (1968), gospel like Turn Your Radio On (1972) and the country/bluegrass hit Misty from 1975.

The greatest omissions are the beautiful ballads Sunday Morning Coming Down and America Communicate With Me, the buoyant ditty Bridget The Midget which was a UK number 2 hit in 1971 and later songs from the 1980s like It's Me Again Margaret and The Mississippi Squirrel Revival.

So this one does provide a good cross-section of Stevens' styles and some big hits, but for those who want more of this talented and versatile artist, there are numerous Best Of and Hits collections that offer all of the aforementioned songs plus much more.

Misty: The Very Best of Ray Stevens

Ray Stevens - All-Time Greatest Hits

Original early singles.......2005-12-13

The important thing to note about this collection is that it contains the original Mercury singles of Ahab The Arab and Harry The Hairy Ape. However, this does not contain the original single version of Freddie Feelgood, as the one included here has a dubbed laugh track (although otherwise it is the same version). It's too bad that if you want a complete collection of Ray's original recordings from the Sixties, you have to bite the bullet and buy two CDs, but this one sounds great and is the less pricey alternative for the original Ahab and Harry.

12 of Ray's best.......2004-03-17

like most of the other Millennium Collection titles, this one did on Ray Stevens is also essential because it captures 12 of the comedian's best known songs. being a Ray Stevens nut like i am, i'd prefer obscure and little known album tracks too because they were just as good as the singles. but the 12 compiled here are chart dictated: only two singles didn't reach Top-40 status, 1966's #91 pop hit "Freddy Feelgood" and the closing song called "Would Jesus Wear a Rolex?" from 1987 fell one position short, peaking at #41 on the country chart. ironically, this CD doesn't have "Mississippi Squirrel Revival" or "It's Me Again, Margaret"...two of his most requested songs and the squirrel song actually hit the Top-40 too: peaking at #20 in early 1985. Ray's pop hits dominate the CD since the bulk of his classic singles of the '60s and '70s charted pop. it wasn't until the mid '70s that he started hitting the country chart with more frequency, and having bigger hits with that format as the decade closed. "Shriner's Convention", his final Top-10 hit released in 1980, reached #7 and it's ALSO one of his most requested songs. that hilarious story that made Bubba, Coy, and Room 321 catch-phrases is track 11. the obvious hit singles are here: "Ahab the Arab", "Gitarzan", "Everything is Beautiful", "The Streak", "Misty", and his big 1971 gospel hit "Turn Your Radio On". all in all, this is a great CD for people to have, even though the songs are available on other collections out there. for those that don't want album tracks, no matter how good they might be, this is the CD for you to have!

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early '60s madness!!!

The Best of Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Ahab, The Arab
Funny Man
Harry The Hairy Ape
It's Been So Long
Speed Ball
Santa Claus Is Watching You
Butch Barbarian
Loved And Lost
The Rock And Roll Show
Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green And Purple Pills
Bubble Gum The Bubble Dancer

Customer Reviews:

early '60s madness!!!.......2004-03-09

for those of you out there who want mostly the original versions of songs, look no further than this 11 song compilation. originally released on Mercury in 1970, this Polygram re-issue surfaced in 1987/1989 in first cassette and then CD format. "Ahab the Arab" is NOT the original version...instead, the one we hear is a live recording from 1964 {?} on a Ralph Emery program {Ralph introduces Ray, by the way}. The remaining 10 tracks are all originals. This era in Ray's career was rooted in zany R&B and pop-novelty songs and most of the performances on here are short, and Ray's fast-paced delivery on some of the songs have caused some critics to say that this style was an early version of rap music...you be the judge! all i can say is that Ray's under-rated R&B hits are here: "Harry the Hairy Ape" made #17 pop and #14 R&B in 1963; "Speed Ball" hit #59-pop but reached #29 R&B in 1964; "Santa Claus is Watching You" was a #45 pop hit in 1962...even Ray's first hit from 1961, the #35 pop "Jeremiah Peabody's Green and Purple Pills", is found on here. some rarities include "Butch Babarian", "Bubble Gum the Bubble Dancer", and "Loved and Lost". Ray's performances of "Funny Man" and "It's Been So Long" show the world Ray's true singing style and how he may have given the likes of Paul Anka, Roy Orbison, or Neil Diamond a run for their money had Ray been marketed as a strictly teen-idol/ballad singer in the early '60s and not as a novelty artist. the thing that will strike a listener as fascinating is Ray's willingness to satirize the music he was grouped with at the time. for example, on "The Rock and Roll Show", he spoofs the sounds of the era: the R&B female singer with the male back-up vocalist singing like a cross between Lesley Gore and Shelley Fabares is called Sally Smash; the nonsense singer called Tommy Jimmy is an obvious Elvis satire, complete with hound-dog/wolf howls; the third act is a character named Wayne Twang with his twangy guitar...it's a parody of Duane Eddy for those who don't know rock/pop history. on "Harry the Hairy Ape" Ray takes aim at rock music in general as the ape tries his luck at scaring people but near the end a nearsighted DJ mistakes Harry for a rock singer! Harry makes a record and it becomes a hit and it's nothing but ape calls! this song is a biting commentary on how the real rock audience had a reputation for accepting virtually ANYTHING that might have a good beat and you could dance to it. then, "Bubble Gum the Bubble Dancer" satirizes the bubble gum sound in pop music PLUS it adds in a satire on burlesque houses where girls would dance and prance around holding up a large circle covering their anatomy! all in all, this 11 song sampling serves as a reminder or an introduction to Ray's early recordings for Mercury. The songs range from 1961 through 1965 and this is the only project that contains all of these songs in one place and they can't be found hardly anywhere else {unless you also have them on vinyl like i do!}. this is a must-have!!

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"Beside Myself" re-released

At His Best
Ray Stevens
Manufacturer: Mca Special Products
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002QJ7
Release Date: 1995-01-01

Tracks:

Your Bozo's Back Again
Another Fine Mess
Marion Michael Morrison
Butterfly Inside A Coupe De Ville
There'a A Star Spangled Banner
I Saw Elvis In A U.F.O.
The Woogie Boogie
Stuck On You
Bad Dancin'
I Used To Be Crazy

Customer Reviews:

"Beside Myself" re-released.......2003-09-23

"At His Best" is simply an eight track album re-issue of his 10 song 1989 MCA album "Beside Myself". The songs left off this CD are "Bad Dancin" and "I Used to Be Crazy".This CD is for people who don't have the longer 1989 album. "There's a Star Spangled Banner" is an original song. I don't know why many people confuse it with the old 1940's hit "There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere". I saw the song listed as such on Amazon's album details page...Ray's song ISN'T that one...Ray's song goes like this: "may there always be a star spangled banner...flying high for Liberty...over every school and courthouse from sea to shining sea...". Ray's is a great patriotic song recorded during the troubles in Panama and Beirut.five of the songs are serious and the other three are comedy. The serious ones range from patriotic to MOR to jazzy. "Another Fine Mess" is the MOR song, with it's easy-listening saxophone intro and that instrument's overall domination of the song...Ray's intentionally mellow voice makes you think of his late '70s Warner Brothers material. "Marion Michael Morrison" is a tribute to John Wayne...in case you didn't know, Marion Morrison, was the Duke's birth name. "Your Bozo's Back Again" is the jazzy number with harmonica and caliope. as for the comedy songs, "Stuck on You" is about a guy who buys Instant Wonder Glue from an infomercial. well, he spills the stuff and suddenly he's stuck to almost everything in sight...the big hit is "I Saw Elvis in a U.F.O." even though it didn't hit the charts. Through word of mouth and it's inclusion on numerous concerts post 1989, it's become a "hit" song because of fan acceptance. The song deals with a hapless man who claims to have seen a U.F.O with Elvis, Jimmy Hoffa, Liberace, and others heading for outer space. "The Woogie Boogie" is about a Tennessee Indian tribe from "down around Chattanoogie". Everyday the Woogie's get together and do "The Woogie Boogie". There's a great hook on this and it's the woogie's chant: "oogie, oogie, oogie" repeated numerous times and in multiple vocal ranges. The two songs left off "At His Best" are "Bad Dancin", which is about a yuppie couple who, as Ray puts it, "they gonna waddle like a duck, sa-shay like a moose, twist their somethin' bodies anyway but loose...Bad Dancin' look at those white folks go!". the other missing track is "I Used to Be Crazy", which was the most demented track on the entire original 'Beside Myself' CD. On that song, Ray ponders why people thinks he's crazy simply because he likes to do impressions of ducks, dogs, and cows...he informs us "I Used to Be Crazy {chicken clucking} but i'm a whole lot better now!". He ends the song with wild impersonations of John Wayne and Walter Brennan...i give "At His Best" four stars because they left off "I Used to Be Crazy"...if MCA was going to re-issue "Beside Myself" minus two songs like they did here with "At His Best", "I Used to Be Crazy" should've been one of the ones considered for inclusion on the CD, not left off as it's been...

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Comedy, country, pop and ballads
The title is right: it's the very best available!
proper title

Misty: The Very Best of Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens
Manufacturer: Empire Music Coll.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000038A2Q
Release Date: 1999-12-28

Tracks:

Bridget the Midget (The Queen of the Blues)
Streak
Everything Is Beautiful
Turn Your Radio On
Yakety Yak [Live]
Gitarzan [Live]
Along Came Jones [Live]
Ahab the Arab [Live]
Moonlight Special
Unwind
Mr. Businessman
Indian Love Call
Bye Bye Love
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
Mama and a Papa
She Belongs to Me
Young Love
Something
Time for Us (Love Theme) (Romeo and Juliet)
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Misty

Customer Reviews:

Comedy, country, pop and ballads.......2007-04-27

Best known for his comedy hits, Ray Stevens is also an accomplished balladeer and pop artist with a long career that started in the early 1960s. These 22 tracks contain most of his hits (not always the original vesions) and display his mastery of a variety of styles, including country, gospel and catchy pop.

The novelty numbers include the bubbly Bridget The Midget (a cute take on go-go dancing) and The Streak, plus live versions of Gitarzan and Along Came Jones (a humorous look at the hero rescuing the damsel in distress).

The best of the ballads are Mr Businessman, Kristofferson's Sunday Morning Coming Down, John Denver's Leaving On A Jet Plane and Bob Dylan's She Belongs To Me, whilst the cheerful Everything Is Beautiful is prime 70s pop and there's also gospel in the form of Turn Your Radio On and country in the form of Misty which was a huge hit in 1975.

This is a most enjoyable album with something for everyone, especially if you like the pop music of the 1960s and 1970s. And those novelty numbers still bring a smile to the face.

20 Comedy Hits Special Collection

Ray Stevens - All-Time Greatest Hits

The title is right: it's the very best available!.......2006-04-21

I bought this CD 6 years ago and since I found it such a terrific
compilation I still keep on buying Ray Stevens CD's to see if
I can be lucky as I was then. No way! This one is absolutely the
best not only because of the song selection but also because of
the sound quality. It's impossible to match all hits on 1 CD
but here they mixed quality with all of Ray Steven's musical
styles. It has everything: Rock ?n Roll incl. a Jerry Lee Lewis
gimmick (Moonlight Special), Doo-Wop (Indian Love Call), Country
(Misty), Pure Comedy (most of the songs), Gospel like (Turn
Your Radio On plus # 1 top hits (Everything's Beautiful and The
Streak) In total 21 songs covering Ray's hits from the 60's & 70's

proper title.......2003-01-31

i don't mind record labels that call compilations 'GREATEST HITS' or 'THE VERY BEST OF...'. this CD is nonetheless properly titled because 'very best' doesn't make a statement that everything will be a hit single. the liner notes are by a person named Fred Dellar and it's an import from Europe, which you will notice right away in the overall wordings that Dellar uses. the CD's only draw-back is that they use the 1969 version of "Ahab the Arab" instead of the 1962 original. everything else is great. the CD even includes "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head", the song he originally turned down in 1969 in order to record "Sunday Morning Coming Down". legend has it that B.J. Thomas would eventually record "Raindrops..." for the Butch Cassidy-Sundance Kid movie and would sell millions of singles in the process. Ray, on the other hand, took "Sunday Morning..." to #81 pop and #55 country. here's the irony, Johnny Cash would come along a few months later and take "Sunday Morning Coming Down" all the way to #1! Ray recorded "Raindrops..." in 1970. a rare treat is "Something", the Beatles song...yes, Ray knows of no sacred cows and everyone's songs are up for grabs for him to either change the melody or change instrumentation and to Stevenize them. one of the more emotional is "Leaving On a Jet Plane". that arrangement even SOUNDS lonely! i love this CD's ability to delve into the protest-era of Ray's career and spotlight "She Belongs To Me", "A Time For Us", and "A Mama and a Papa" along side his famed novelty songs. "Misty" closes the CD and the hilarious "Bridget the Midget" opens things up. for those of you raised on the up-tempo "Young Love" by either Tab Hunter or Sonny James, take a listen to Ray's version. it's slown way down and delivered so monotone that it's hilarious...even though it's serious. as far as i know, this CD can only be found on-line and it isn't in stores. it's on the Music Club label.

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Misty: The Very Best of Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000025AW3
Release Date: 1999-10-20

Tracks:

Bridget the Midget (The Queen of the Blues)
Streak
Everything Is Beautiful
Turn Your Radio On
Yakety Yak [Live]
Gitarzan [Live]
Along Came Jones [Live]
Ahab the Arab [Live]
Moonlight Special
Unwind
Mr. Businessman
Indian Love Call
Bye Bye Love
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
Mama and a Papa
She Belongs to Me
Young Love
Something
Time for Us (Love Theme) (Romeo and Juliet)
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Misty

Album Description

Mid-priced collection featuring 22 hits, both his country-tinged smashes and novelty classics. Includes 'The Streak', 'Everything Is Beautiful', 'Bridget The Midget', 'Turn Your Radio On' and 'Misty'. 1999 release.

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Superhits: 1970
Melanie , The 5 Stairsteps , R. Dean Taylor , The Tee Set , Anne Murray , Brian Hyland , Eddie Holman , The Partridge Family , Edison Lighthouse , and Sugarloaf
Manufacturer: Time Life Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000S35E2I

Product Description

SONG LIST :1- Ain't No Mountain High Enough- Diana Ross 2- Green-Eyed Lady- Sugarloaf 3 3 Make It with You- Bread 4 - Your Song- Elton John 5 - Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)- Melanie 6 - I Think I Love You- The Patridge Family 7 - O-O-H Child- The 5 Stairsteps 8- Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)- Edison Lighthouse 9- Gypsy Woman- Brian Hyland 10- Hey There Lonely Girl- Eddie Holman 11- Rainy Night in Georgia -Brook Benton 12 - In the Summertime- Mungo Jerry 13 - Share the Land -The Guess Who 14- Candida Dawn 15 - Indiana Wants Me- R. Dean Taylor 16- Ma Belle Amie -The Tee Set 17- One Less Bell to Answer- The 5th Dimension 18- Everything Is Beautiful -Ray Stevens 19- Snowbird -Anne Murray 20- Patches- Clarence Carter 21- I'll Never Fall in Love Again- Dionne Warwick 22 - I'll Be There The- Jackson 5

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Biggest & the Best
Ray Stevens
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002XNFGG
Release Date: 2004-01-06

Album Description

Mid-priced 1997 release, a 20 track collection of his best:seven top 40 hits, including the #1 smashes 'The Streak' &'Everything Is Beautiful' and the top 10s 'Ahab The Arab' &'Gitarzan', plus his top 20 cover of the standard 'Misty',his top 30 cover of Leiber & Stoller's Coasters classic'Along Came Jones', the top 30 'Mr Businessman', his coverof Kris Kristofferson's 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' & more!A running time of 72:16! A Carlton Sounds release.

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