Ray Stevens - Along Came Jones

[@matthewvanlandingham2944]

We use to listen to Ray Stevens songs on road trips with my grandma. Miss you grandma. Laughing with you and singing these songs will forever be in my mind.

[@kellyb7005]

My grandfather introduced me to the fabulous Ray Stevens. I AM STILL A FAN TO THIS DAY!!!!

[@stpvtrick5943]

The saxophone solo lives rent free in my head.

[@bustyrandit]

Might interest you to know that Ray performed this on an Andy Williams special. Little Jimmy Osmond was "Jones" walking across stage in a cowboy outfit and "Mama" Osmond was playing the sax. Check it out on Ray s Y T channel.😅😂

[@matthewvanlandingham2944]

I remember listening to these songs on road trips with my grandma. Love you grandma.

[@Lilmizmayniak]

Im 14 and think that this song is really cool to let loose to when your having a bad day just put this and start dancing like crazy! I love it!

[@I_was_a_Bullfrog]

I was the same age 6 years agp and agree

[@LadyDonegan]

God bless you young one may you always listen to ray Stevens

[@suzi7385]

Never gets old!!!

[@neversaygoodbye4]

He’s tying me up again!! 😂😂

[@bcgrote]

I adore this song!

[@getthedrum11]

Im still a fan 2021! And only 27 years old

[@herrams]

Nice version!

[@mrmjb1960]

This was the flip to his "Yakety Yak" 45,a double Coasters cover tribute!

[@lgndnhswnmnd]

Thanks for this post! Grateful for KZbin!

[@mcfrdmn]

Lovely song and musical performance !

[@lawrencegatt4515]

Great job mate from Australia 🇦🇺

[@sauquoit13456]

On this day in 1965 {February 10th} the Coasters performed "Along Came Jones" on the ABC-TV program 'Shindig!'... Six years earlier on May 18th, 1959 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #9 and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100... It reached #14 on the Billboard's R&B Singles chart... On June 28th, 1969 Ray Stevens charted with it; his version peaked at #27 on the Top 100 and stayed on the Top 100 for 8 weeks... R.I.P. Jimmy O'Neill {Shindig's host, 1940 - 2013}...

[@musicmandon1]

this was my first exposure to Ray Stevens when his version of the song was on the charts. it took a few years to find out it had been a Coasters original a decade earlier, when about every prime time TV show was a western.

[@thejackal007]

I first heard this from a tape my parents had (I think it was a Greatest Hits). I had no idea this song went back this far!

[@Nomadcreations]

GREAT!!!! Time-Less......................

[@rodica69]

I also know this song from a "Best of..." album, in the '70s. I was a few years old, but I still remember a red smokin' shoe on the cover. Also songs like "Pretty woman" and "Roosevelt and Ira Lee" from the same album...

[@suekearton6691]

My Fav is the streak

[@sherascott7848]

I have this song on a record, and it sounds so much better on it!

[@ferociousgumby]

Crowd noises obviously added

[@leonchildsjr8690]

curses! foiled again! thanks to Jones!

[@thejackal007]

That I'd like to see. All I know is that the only release of his that I own was never made on CD... Surely you Joust. I still have my tape of it and wish it would come on CD.

[@jeffreybaker100]

This sounds so much like his Christmas tune "Santa Claus is watching you"

[@NafNav32]

Still.Makes.Me.Laugh. XD

[@dazzlingdavedainty]

classic

[@winfriedkubitzki7523]

zorro est arrivé henri salvador That s this song in french.And it was a big topper way back in France and Belgium.

[@ThePearsch]

Bill Justis yakkity sax, love it.

[@johncasper8031]

Lieber and Stolle Song about the glut of TV westerns in the 1950s and their sameness.

[@shirleylamblamb4925]

I think I love you .all over again

[@maggieweaver2368]

[@steelersrock1011]

it was Ray Stevens that did the deep talking Jones voice

[@Farrah300]

The original song is so dull in comparison to this version. Only Ray Stevens can take this song and make it super funny!!!

[@jeanbeauvoir4257]

+Farrah Teague I disagree the coasters was much bettter.

[@drxcreatures]

I like The Coasters better too.

[@russellsykes8689]

Jean Beauvoir Ray Stevens version much better,bigger on the charts as well

[@TessasDaddy7132]

The Coasters version is really dull compared to Rays version.

[@jyoungswag]

Michael strahan sent me here.

[@TessasDaddy7132]

The coasters version of this is dull..Rays version is much better has character because he adds that.

[@msg238]

Coasters original better.