Ray Stevens News

One of the most popular novelty artists of all time, Ray Stevens enjoyed a remarkably long career, with a stretch of charting singles -- some of them major hits -- that spanned four decades.

What was it Ray Stevens said in his song? DON'T LOOK MABLE...too late, Mable looked.

If you're engrossed in the tabloid Internet-gossip that has come to define the celebrity world, then John Mayer's latest CD, "Battle Studies," could provide enough fodder to fill at least a dozen Perez Hilton blog posts or at least one story in Us Weekly.

Kenny Chesney has made the very hard work of dominating country music look easy.

Vertical Horizon found platinum success in 1999 with the hit single "Everything You Want" but after an unhappy relationship with their record label, the band split ways.

Renegade music producer, record executive, song hunter and promoter Shelby Singleton Jr., a Shreveport-reared music upstart who helped fuse country and R&B music in the 1960s and perpetuated the Sun Records label since 1969, died Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn.

"American Idol" Season 7 winner David Cook is having the time of his life. If someone would have told him a year or so ago that he would be touring the world in support of an album released by a major label with hits on the radio, he may not have believed it.

BeBe and CeCe Winans are looking to show their family remains strong as they launch their first album in 15 years while dealing with the loss of their father and BeBe's upcoming court date in a misdemeanor assault case.

Nelly Furtado's last record, the multiplatinum, dance-flavored "Loose" was mostly recorded at night.

As a boy, Ray Stevens wanted to be an architect. Instead, he became a builder of wacky novelty songs.

Multiplatinum recording artist, songwriter and Grammy award winner Ray Stevens is celebrating 50 years in the music business this year.

Indie pop/rocker Landon Pigg received his informal musical education via his father's record collection.

Dear Jerry: A few years ago you gave the longest song titles in each of several categories, such as charted hits, non-charted songs, medleys, with and without subtitles, etc.

Several musical legends were mentioned in Saturday's article on the heartbeat of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame: Usher, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, James Brown, Otis Redding, Lena Horne and Johnny Mercer.

Suzi Ragsdale is many things, but conventional isn't one of them. She's done the kinds of things harried people are always saying they wish they could squeeze in: She's run an artsy, international store , taught yoga, moved to London, cooked ambitious dishes .

That is All a ' Naked truth: Beach trip, anyone? "He's just as proud as he can be, of his anatomy, he goin' give us a peek ..." a ' Ray Stevens Did y'all hear about the naked guy? Yesterday we reported the tail, er, tale of a Shannon man accused of breaking into the Lumber Bridge Town Hall on Saturday while stark naked.

Songwriter and recording artist Ray Stevens, best know for the 1973 novelty song "The Streak," recently released a new CD, One for the Road .

Ray Stevens recently turned 70. It's an age when many people start slowing down, thinking about retirement.

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Last week I began the true story, amazingly similar to the famous song by Ray Stevens, "Mississippi Squirrel Revival." Stevens sang about "the day the squirrel went berserk in the First Self-Righteous Church in the sleepy little town of Pascagoula." But what Pastor Butch Knight saw happened a few years ago in the First Baptist Church in the sleepy ...