What is up with the new Ray Stevens song “We the People”?”
Ray Stevens (born Harold Ray Ragsdale, January 24, 1939,[1] Clarkdale, Georgia) is an American country music, pop singer-songwriter who has become known for his novelty songs as well as more serious works. He was born in Clarkdale, a small town west of Atlanta. Contents [hide] * 1 Career o 1.1 Early career o 1.2 The 1970s o 1.3 The 1980s and after o 1.4 Videos * 2 Grammy awards * 3 Other awards * 4 Discography * 5 References * 6 External links [edit] Career [edit] Early career Stevens’ recording career began in the mid-1950s with two singles released on Prep Records. He then signed a contract with Capitol Records with the help of Atlanta, Georgia music maven Bill Lowery. In 1958, Stevens joined Lowery’s National Recording Corporation (NRC), playing numerous instruments, arranging music, and performing background vocals for its band. After NRC filed for bankruptcy, he signed with Mercury Records with whom Stevens recorded a series of hit records in the 1960s that included songs such as
Country singer Ray Stevens, known for his 70s era song,”The Streak” is a teapartier who wants the “freedom” for himself and the rest of America to continue to suffer from untreated medical conditions due to lack of affordable health insurance. Stevens and other teapartiers want the “freedom” to go bankrupt from the inability to pay catastrophic medical bills. And like other tea party members, Stevens says he has suddenly “awakened” to pork-barrel spending and runaway government. But for some reason, Stevens and the other teapartiers were asleep during the last eight years of the Bush administration, when Bush ran up a huge deficit, abused the rule of law and our constitution and lied to the American public in order to invade Iraq.
