Lol makes sense. If I remember correctly, a friend got Mom and Dad a Ray Stevens tape in the late 90's (I was probably about 3), and for some reason we ended up leaving it behind at Grandma's house, but for many years up until I was a teenager, we would watch it just about every time we came over there. Eventually Grandma's VCR broke sometime in the late 2000's, and when she got rid of that, she donated her VHS tapes, including the Ray Stevens tape. Oh well, good thing there's RU-vid.
My grandparents had this tape when my cousin and I were kids and we wore it out growing up. I haven’t thought about it in probably a good 25-30 years. I’m 40 now and my grandma passed away almost 4 months ago. This is bringing back great memories.❤️
As a kid this song freaked me out. As an adult it cracks me up picturing it going down. People do odd things when scared and situations unravel hilariously! Ray is a good one!
I had the tape this video appeared on when I was a kid, I watched it all the time. Some of the songs got funnier when I grew up and understood the jokes. Especially "It's Me Again Margaret."
Finding this made my day! im 23 but when i was a kid i remember having a vhs tape with a bunch of these videos on it and my father and i would watch this every night before bed :) hes past now but these bring back such great memories.
Sami Youngs omg! when I was little my family used to camp in our cabin on the Mississippi. Well me and my cousin would be board and would watch movies to pay the time. Of the 4 VHS we had this was one of them and we used to love watching it! You hit the nail on the head when you said it brings back memories! I'm going to have to go watch the rest now. 😊
What Ray Stevens sang about sitting up with the dead is true. I grew up in the South and I was in the 8th grade when my dad's aunt died. They had her body in a casket in her and my dad's uncle's house. I visited their house many times when I was growing up and it was a creepy feeling knowing that I have to sit up with a dead person in a house.
The tradition comes from the days before medical signs told you there was no life. So, you had to sit up with the body just in case the person wasn't truly dead. So, it's where the term "parlor" & "living room" came from
I remember going to people 's houses when the dead were brought into the parlor. The men would sit with the dead and the women sat in the kitchen. If there was a few kids we had to sleep cross way of the bed.
A lot of the very old houses used to have something called a"coffin door" that was only used at a death in the house to remove the coffin ⚰️ and body into the hearse. This was it's only purpose.
Ray Stevens is an awesome artist. Not only is he funny, but he's talented and kid-friendly, too! Still is and always will be one of my favorite arists.
His song Margaret has been my all time favorite my mom's name was Margaret there wasn't a time I couldn't sing that song she laugh. She passed with copd after my strokes. She She say are you baked when we try git her to take a bath. She gut tickled lived her some ray Steven's.
My parents would tell us stories about “sitting up with the dead” as they did it OFTEN growing up and even in their married 20s and 30s. The last time THEY sat up with a dead someone, it was a great uncle and it was 1965!!! So we particularly LOVED this song and it never ever failed to make my Mother laugh like a child. This moment, as I’m typing, I’m leaving my Mother’s memorial service. We are going to eat dinner at my aunt’s farm and I will play this for my family. They will love it. Ty Ray Stevens.
3:12 "You might as well come over here and sit down beside me, boy. Cuz I can see you ain't getting outta here tonight!" "...But I did." Best part of the whole song right there! ^_^
I'm 35 and your videos remind me of my dad who died 10 years ago. I remember when I was little dad would play the vhs of all these videos. Even all these years later, they make me laugh, and it's good to smile and remember my dad.
Yeah, my dad owned the album on CD when I was a kid, and regularly throughout the 90s and 00s he'd play it over the living room speakers at night. These songs remind me of simpler times sitting at the dinner table or in the living room. As well as the TV shows we'd watch when we were finished eating, like Star Trek: Voyager and Stargate: SG-1.
I LOVE RAY STEVENS! HE'S HILARIOUS & HAS GOD GIVEN TALENT TO MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH! THE FIRST SONG HE SONG I HEARD WAS THE STREAK WHEN I WAS A KID. WE SANG IT AND LAUUGHED & LAUGHED! STILL DO! LOL GOD BLESS YOU RAY STEVENS!❤🙏❤
I remember "The Streak", very well! But "Bridget The Midget" and "Ahab The Arab", "Everything Is Beautiful" were really popular too around that time!" I remembered "Ahab The Arab", because one of my older guy cousins used to sing it to us kids to make us laugh!
my favorite part was always the gravedigger part "you ain't gettin' outta here tonight"......BUT I DID!" XD If they do a Zombieland 3 They should use this as the opening credit song! It'd be perfect!
I haven't thought about this in years. When I was younger, my grandpa and grandma gave me a collection of Ray Stevens music videos on a VHS, and I laughed so hard. A lot of the jokes became long-running jokes in my family over time. My grandpa (papa) sadly passed away in 2003, and grandma now has stage 2 dementia. Ray Stevens will always remind me of them and the good moments my family managed to find between all the messed up trauma. Ray also reminds me of my dad (and weirdly looked just like him) during his rare good moments and the humor he has. Funny how one man singing funny songs brought some light into such a troubled family like we had.
I ran through my parents glass front door after my dad died Oct 2017. He came home n died about 5hrs later, this was in 2017 I was 29, well he passed and everyone was sitting there talking n I looked over n dads leg raised up n I ran all over my mom, uncle, husband n thru that glass door I went lol I thought they had left it open but apparently not 😂😂
Wow my grandparents had this on vhs. used too watch this all the time.. brings back good memories.. i wouldnt mind finding his live from branson dvd.. would love too show it to my kids..
And that preacher nearly knocked me down, he said "OOOHHHH, I'm headin out that kitchen door. AHE!!!". I hollered "Fred, that kitchen ain't got no door in it," he said "Don't worry son, it will have in a minute" I AIN'T NEVER SEEN SO MUCH JUMPING AND SHOVIN BEFORE. Cracks me up every time...
He was my first cassette, found it in the seats of my dad's 80's Jaguar when I was about four or five. His eyes lit up when I showed him! Told me I'll never forget these songs. He was right. I'm 25 now and he was the soundtrack to some of my best memories. I'd love to hear dad laugh to these songs again.
Why in the World would it be necessary to sit up with the dead, if anything else happens, what can you do! "Hello, I'm Death, I've come for your Uncle, you can, however, if you wish, fight me, for your Uncle's Soul, if you win, He returns to life, if you lose, I get you, BOTH". ME; "Sorry, Uncle, too bad you're dead!, Cause, I AIN'T FIGHTING NOBODY, TONIGHT!"
Mr Stevens.. I wanted to say thank You for all of your entertainment and songs you have made... You have been a great part of my fondest memories of childhood and you brought great amusement to my family with your creative songs and videos. God bless you sir, and i thank you from the bottom of my heart.. Adam Gibbons
I'm 20 years old I love this music saw this vhs more then 100 times my grandparents raised me to love the good ol oldies and I love ray stevens song and all different kind of oldies
He knew how to tell a good story and make you LoL. Good clean comedy with no foul language!! Goes to show how much times have changed. Bless you Mr. Stevens!! ❤❤
I've heard dozens of Ray Stevens songs since I was a little kid. Guess we didn't have this album, 'cause this is my first time hearing this spOoOoOoky song. What a trip!
Yes, I'm with you! I grew up with Ray!!I'll love him till I die! Maybe he'll sit up with me one day! I promise I won't move, just sing to me all night! 😊
I had this on a VHS tape when I was a kid, I could watch every skit on the tape except this one, especially the part where arthritic uncle Fred opens his eyes and looks like he's screaming. No matter how many happy skits I watched after than I still had nightmares!
I grew up on this man’s music. There hasn’t been many songs of his that didn’t at least make me smile. This isn’t my favorite song by Ray but it still cracks me up. My favorites are usually The Streak, Elvis in a UFO, or Power Tools. Keep making us laugh Ray. The world sure needs some people to lighten moods with the way things are at the moment.
Man it took so long for me to find this again, I remember visiting family or going on road trips with my Dad, he got the Ray Stevens box set as a gift for Christmas and we both loved listening to the songs, years later and I'm living in another part of the state and he's living near the capital and I just remembered looking at something, I don't remember what and one of the Ray Stevens songs came up, I didn't remember all the words but I felt that pang of nostalgia and desperately seeking out the name of who made sung these songs. Finally I was like"was it Ray Stevens?.. yes it was Ray Stevens, I remember now!" And I couldn't be any happier seeing this again.
Saw Ray Stevens in Branson, MO a number of years ago! His show was wonderful especially if you want to take children! I have an autographed picture hanging on the wall by my computer! My grandchildren love The Day The Squirrel Got Loose!
I remember watching this on a compilation tape every time I went to my grandparents house when I was a kid. It's been years since I last saw this video.
i had this on vhs when i was like 3 ! my dad showed me a full collection of this guy , said he was great ! 15 years later and i still recognize him by this one song :D
This brings back memories. I used to get scared as hell at this video, especially seeing Uncle Fredd at the end. I always turned it off before that part lol.
One has to question the wisdom of cutting through a cemetery when you think that you've just had an encounter with a reanimated corpse. I love this video all the same.
i have this one on my ray stevens dvd,man i fell over laughing when i saw it.i remember him from when i was a kid.my daughter heard harry the hairy ape and fell in love with the song.i remember the first time the streak came out and when the first time someone streaked a live baskeball game on tv in 1975 wearing only a pair of tennis shoes.man those were the good days.
