Ray Stevens

One of the most popular novelty artists of all time, Ray Stevens' remarkably long career, with a stretch of charting singles -- some of them major hits -- spanned four decades. Stevens is a gifted singer and producer who also performed straight country and pop (1968's Even Stevens and 1995's The Serious Side of Ray Stevens), scoring the occasional serious hit (most notably 1970's "Everything Is Beautiful"), as well as producing sessions for other artists. But comic novelty songs are his bread and butter, and his brand of humor somehow managed to endure seismic shifts in popula...