Misty: The Very Best of Ray Stevens

Misty: The Very Best of Ray Stevens

ASIN: B000038A2Q

Track Listings

1. Bridget the Midget (The Queen of the Blues)

2. Streak

3. Everything Is Beautiful

4. Turn Your Radio On

5. Yakety Yak [Live]

6. Gitarzan [Live]

7. Along Came Jones [Live]

8. Ahab the Arab [Live]

9. Moonlight Special

10. Unwind

11. Mr. Businessman

12. Indian Love Call

13. Bye Bye Love

14. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head

15. Mama and a Papa

16. She Belongs to Me

17. Young Love

18. Something

19. Time for Us [Love Theme] (Romeo and Juliet)

20. Sunday Morning Coming Down

See all 22 tracks on this disc

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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