In 1961, Stevens recorded “Jeremiah Peabody’s Poly Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pills,” which reached #35 on the pop charts. The song's success ...

Ray Stevens celebrated the release of his memoir, 'Ray Stevens' Nashville,' by performing to a sold-out crowd on Saturday (July 19) at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Stevens was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980. His hits include 'Ahab the Arab,' 'Everything Is Beautiful,' 'Gitarzan,' 'Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick ...

By this week in 1974, Ray Stevens had cashed in on America's current fad at the time known as "streaking." Seems that one small word had come to define what was a passtime to some but a horror to ...

In 1961, he landed his first Top 40 hit with the novelty song "Jeremiah Peabody's Poly Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pills." ...

Ray Stevens is no one hit wonder though and was tremendously successful in Australia from the early 60s to the mid 70s. He released his first song in 1957, but it was the single Jeremiah Peabody’s ...

Stevens made his Billboard Hot 100 debut a year earlier than that, with “Jeremiah Peabody’s Poly Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pills,” which ...

Ray left school during his junior year and in 1961 recorded a song called “Jeremiah Peabody’s Poly Unsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pills.” ...

Almost 50 years after Ray Stevens scored a No. 5 hit with his song "Ahab, the Arab," the comedian-musician could be seen parading in a video wearing a keffiyeh -- that traditional Arab headdress. B… ...