Ray Stevens - I’m My Own Grandpa | REACTION

[@jamelakajamal]

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[@Elizabeth-yp8re]

Christopher Titus' The Word Retard and The Attack Dog Incident, in that order😁😂👍❤️☮️

[@collinsbrosinc515]

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[@exeter1985]

You have to hear his song "The Streak"

[@bluedog6563]

Hi Jamel, just wondering if you have heard any indigenous artist from Australia, the first song to hit the mainstream from an indigenous band that included singing in language was “Treaty’ by Yothu Yindi. Australia’s First Nations peoples had around 300 different languages prior to the arrival of Europeans. The song is about the need for a Treaty between Australia’s First Nations peoples and the Australian government. I would be interested to hear your response to hearing an Australian indigenous language in song.

[@doobiedave9686]

Jamel check out Sitting Up With The Dead by Ray Stevens, it's hilarious as well. 🙌👍✌️

[@raystevensmusic]

Haha! So glad you watched another one, this one is an earful and hard to keep up with, haha! Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!

[@LeosHouse]

Totally enjoyed it! Unfortunately, my family isn’t far from being just like the song, lol. I thank you sir! ✌️😂

[@Dr.G_the_skeptic]

Mr. Ray Stevens, It is wonderful that you are connecting with a new generation of fans. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and grew up on your music. You helped to influence me into a 10 year stint in entertainment, THANK YOU sir.

[@rebeccawyse5562]

Sooo great.

[@theresagrappe6237]

Love all of your songs! The chicken song is another good one!

[@dorisleone8006]

SO CRAZY FUNNY!! I LOVE COMEDY AND I LOVE MUSIC AND YOU GAVE US BOTH! THANK YOU!!

[@bobr4987]

Ray Stevens "Guitar-zan", a song we grew up listening to in the 60's. Tarzan & Jane go to Hollywood..

[@AnnieAnnieBuckwheatCakes]

OMG.....Guitar-zan! Wow. Gotta listen to that one again.❤👍

[@ZoeyPaigeLunaPhD]

Ahab the Arab, The Streak…..

[@bobr4987]

I think one of my older brothers had a Ray Stevens album back then, and I remember a song about "Blowin' Them Bagpipes, That's My Bag". Then I think he imitated them by holding his nose and making sounds. What passed as entertainment back in the day?!!

[@jessielefey]

@@bobr4987 If a kid posted tiktoks by pretending to blow pipes with his nose, he'd go viral af and you know it. People are people, all that changes is the tech. ;-)

[@LordToddtastic666]

Ray is great! Mississippi Squirrel Revival, The Streak, Shriner's Convention, you can hardly go wrong with Ray!

[@rickfortier8664]

and she started naming names!

[@lightsonbutlercourt261]

Don't forget it's me again Margaret

[@davidhohn9106]

DON'T LOOK ETHEL!!!

[@black_rabbit_0f_inle805]

Too drunk to fish

[@thasandman1122]

Blue Cyclone! Haircut Song!

[@karencolley-smidt864]

My can still hear my Dad laughing at Ray Steven's songs. Dad hardly ever laughed so when I heard him laughing it was something to behold. Rest in peace Dad!

[@oldermusiclover]

love that man would so like to meet him

[@melodymcdonald2140]

I was just thinking the same thing! One of my favorite things about my dad was the way he laughed.. It was almost like a little kid with giggles..He always needed a handkerchief because laughed so hard he cried. He loved Ray Stevens too... Bridgette the Midget and Its Me Again Margaret were his favorites. I still remember sitting around the table at my grandparents house listening to the records. Sweet times.😊. Another favorite artist was Jerry Clower.. He was a comedian that was absolutely hilarious!

[@bigjay123]

'The Shriners Convention' is so funny. "How'd you get that Motorcicle on the Highdive Earl?"

[@JeffOfTheMountains]

#Blackballed

[@thehuggz-i9k]

And Coy... don't answer the phone uuhht-a-nuhht-ing

[@vanastephens9879]

Shriners convention is great. My daddy is a past potentate, so I loved it.

[@chrisoakley5830]

Coy! You the only one who's got a fez with a propeller on top!

[@jennifursun3303]

best line

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

I grew up Mormon in the South, so this song has always spoken to me on several cultural levels. :) But I remember singing this in my grandma's Winnebago when we'd go camping in Mississippi when i was maybe 4 years old. (Mormons do the whole 'get together and put on spontaneous musical performances. It's like we all thought we were the Osmonds from 1977-1983.) But Ray Stevens was the inspiration for many songs we grandkids wrote or re-parodied. We may have been a cult, but we TRULY kept ourselves 'entertained.' Ray Stevens is a hero of mine for sure. Thanks for the happy reminder! :)

[@josiahferrell5022]

The best part about this is that it is accurate. All you have to grant is a scenario where: 1. Your own mother died 2. You fall in love with a woman about 20 years older than you 3. Your father falls in love with her daughter(feels mildly creepy) 4. Both couples have a kid together. Maybe it's a little bizarre, but all the logic falls into place in that scenario.

[@accentbrent3342]

To be your own grandpa all you need are the two marriages.

[@johnwhalley7501]

@@accentbrent3342 Most people don't catch that.

[@TJ52359]

Assume the Narrator is 20... His father is 40ish... Narrator finds a 40 year old Wife who has a 20-ish Daughter who marries the 40ish Father of the Narrator On age alone the 2nd relationship is no Creepier than the first (IF One relationship Fails, Family Reunions get awkward real quick) as noted below... as StepFather in Law to his Own father, he's already become 'Grandpa' to himself... here... but Both relationships producing Children cements it By making the Elder parties (Narrator's Father and Wife) Biological Grandparents to the respective babies... as the two 20-somethings are Step siblings to these babies, they become step-grand children -- there's a reason the video comes with a flow chart...

[@godlyhax4172]

Why would that be creepy. Old men and young women is not uncommon and normal

[@gumbitoicic9977]

​@@godlyhax4172Because it's your daughter in law which means he married his granddaughter in law

[@CormacMacCormac]

My family is messed up like this too. My sister married our cousins ex husband, he had two boys by my cousin which makes them our cousins, but my sister is now their mother and their cousin and her daughter is their sister but also their cousin and they are my nephews and cousins. The first time I head this song I was yep, can relate.

[@losthor1zon]

Makes the scene from the movie Chinatown lame by comparison, though it's more sordid.

[@williammccullough2466]

My ex had something like that; her dad had a son with another woman, so he was her step-brother; then her dad married her mom and had her and her siblings. They got divorced, and he passed away, and his son from the previous marriage (and my ex's stepbrother) married her mother, which was his stepmother, which made him both her brother and stepfather. I'm just glad THEY never had kids, because my head would probably explode trying to figure it all out...

[@willdwyer6782]

First of all, the children of your cousin are your second cousins. Your sister is their stepmother and their half sister is no cousin at all, because she's not related to their mother.

[@workinallnight2993]

I know a family who had a daughter and the daughters mother had an affair with the daughters husband and the mother and the daughter ended up pregnant at the same time by the same guy and 3 girls were born so one of them was both their aunt and sister

[@josephclegg3562]

@CormacMacCormac, what the hell? You lost me.🤔

[@anyviolet]

My late dad loved to play this for us kids back in the 70s. Took a bit for us to get all the intricacies, but it was fun trying. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@SH-ry4wc]

Ray is hilarious!! When I was young in the 60s and 70s he was on all the musical variety shows, which were really popular back then. We had one of those mixed up family things where after my grandmother died, my grandfather married his sister-in-law who was my grandmother's brother's widow. So my dad's step-mother was also his aunt!!

[@carlamunne3403]

My dad loves Ray Stevens, so I grew up listening to it. Memories!!

[@Cybrludite]

The song features in Robert Heinlein's short story, "all you zombies...", though the situation in the story is even more convoluted.

[@anthonyblakely399]

Crazy writing!!! i love Ray Stevens.

[@Pahoe77]

Except he didn't write it

[@joanwharff6483]

Ray Stevens is absolutely the funniest guy !!! They broke the mold when that guy was born ‼️🙃

[@kathrynrivenbark7219]

Oh my! I'm thrilled to see this...this was a joke between my granddaddy and myself years ago! Several years after my sweet grandmama passed, I told him I was going to "fix him up" with my widowed mother-in-law and he said that kind of sounds like Ray Stevens' song "I'm My Own Grandpa". A song I had never heard before, but I researched and found the song & purchased it [cassette tape age...hahaha!] What a beautiful memory for me, thank you, Jamal!

[@kennethrandolph2495]

Ray Stevens is the Bomb I was a Preteen when The Streak came out and swept the nation after that song we had streaker's everywhere The Olympics, The World Series , Regular Ballgames.

[@maryannanderson2213]

I was raised in the hills of Tennessee and one of our neighbors was an old man who was widowed and who had a grown son. They started dating an old lady and her grown daughter. The old lady and the daughter agreed to marry the old man and his son and the young man sent his father to get marriage licenses for dad to marry the old lady and son to marry her daughter. Dad went to get the license but he started thinking that he really would prefer to marry the young woman instead of the old one so he got the marriage licenses showing that HE would marry the daughter and his son would marry the mother. None of this quartet was overly burdened with good sense and when he came back with the mixed up licenses his son thought that meant he HAD to marry the old woman even though he was not overly thrilled at the thought of doing that. They did precisely that. The old man married the young woman and the young man married the old woman. When we moved to that town everyone involved was dead except the "young woman" who by now was herself an old woman. Our other neighbors took great glee in telling us the story about how the old man set it up so he could have the young woman and how everyone involved just went along with his plan.

[@lonnielongino798]

My Dad & Mom got married in 1971. Before he met my mom he had 3 grown boys by a prior marriage. One of them met my mom's niece at the same time & also fell in love & got married. Well a year later I came along. So my half brother is also my cousin in law. And my first cousin is also my sister in law. True story. No blood relation by either of them but I have blood on both sides lol.🙂😂

[@maryrichardson1318]

My husbands' step grandfather on his mother's side is also his half great uncle on his dad's side, and they all have the same last name. Talk about confusing. And on my mom's side, her father and his brother were married to sister's and their sister was married to one of the cousins. My family tree does not fork.

[@chrisholland6052]

Thank you for reacting to this. Hadn't heard it in years. The world needs more songs that are just silly and fun and bring a heartfelt chuckle.

[@stephenulmer3781]

Ray Stevens has a lot of "Novelty" songs from the 60s on but then he got serious for a bit in 1970 with his #1 hit "Everything is beautiful" ☺

[@willdwyer6782]

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[@TracyfromNC]

I have requested this outstanding song!

[@kathybwell]

@Stephen Ulmer Wait - Everything is beautiful is a Ray Stevens original?!

[@jussinawaydeanamortl5680]

You need to give a listen to Everything is beautiful by Ray Stevens. Happy Saturday my friend. Wearing my throwbackness shirt and feeling the love and heartfelt laughter!

[@mktrafton7042]

Everything is Beautiful is another great song of his.

[@edwardcook2973]

Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green And Purple Pills. This was the actual title to a real song recorded by Ray Stevens. It holds a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest song title. You ought to check it out.

[@DamnedEyez]

I simply cannot read that title without hearing him singing it.

[@philpennington826]

And don't forget "Ned Nostril And His South Seas Paradise, Put-Your-Blues-On-Ice, Cheap-At-Twice-The-Price Band"

[@jeffrichards1537]

I say oh yeah after reading song title lol

[@rhiahlMT]

Welcome to West Virginia 😂🤣😂 Ray Stevens' song "Everything is Beautiful" is really beautiful. Check it out.

[@MommaBird52]

From WV - my aunt, her kids and her kids kids are all sibling!

[@rlynnpierce2166]

Omg I remember laughing with my little daughter at this song. Memories.

[@jimgoodpaster4852]

My mom used to sing this song while playing it on the piano for us kids about 50 years ago. I taught it to my kids, and finally learned to play it on the guitar. Thanks for reacting to a wonderful childhood memory!

[@JeffOfTheMountains]

Gotta do "Everything Is Beautiful" and "Ahab The Arab".

[@george217]

Or his cover of "Unchained Melody".

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

And "Little Red Riding Hood" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.

[@leandabee]

Ahab, the Arab was and still is a great song. 🤗

[@scottallencarr]

@@leandabee LOL and surely controversial by now!;-)

[@leandabee]

@@scottallencarr well yes, I know right, 😆🤦🏼‍♀️

[@chrisgollihur7690]

"Everything is Beautiful". Wonderful vibe.

[@debbieomi]

When this song came out, it hit home for a family friend. His ex-wife married his Dad. His sons became his step-brothers. Fast forward a couple years and the friend met a lady who has a daughter and that girl and the friend's son fell in love, as did the friend and the lady. To make it more complicated, the friend's dad and ex-wife had a "menopause baby" so that little girl was his AND his boys' half-sister! lol He had this whole George Carlin type comedy sketch worked out about the whole situation.

[@JCourts2k23]

I remember having ray stevens greatest hits video collection on VHS when I was a kid

[@yorgunsamuray]

This was actually based on a writing by Mark Twain, in fact, in my country where this song is unknown, it's known either as a Mark Twain story or an anonymous joke, I found this song while searching for the story. The thing is just the marriages alone are enough to make this guy his own grandpa, but they needed to make the song longer.

[@vinsgraphics]

You’ll love “Guitarzan,” very clever, great harmonies.. 😅

[@bobpadrick7718]

Not long after this song came out, a neighbor of mine married his grandmother. So he was his father's step-dad as well as his son, he was both brother and Grampa to his siblings, and, Grampa to himself. Crazy!

[@erykaton170]

This song cracked my son up every time he heard it when he was little.

[@Mselmo57]

True story...my Grandmother married her daughter-in-law's father. So, my uncle became his own brother-in-law.

[@johnandmarie7250]

That’s why we have whiskey

[@Mselmo57]

@@johnandmarie7250 ain't that the truth!!🤣🤣🤣

[@barbiemiller9359]

Similar situation in my dad's family. My uncle's uncle is also his brother-in-law.

[@blakewestwood8096]

The day the squirrel went berserk in the first selfrightous church in that sleepy little town of pascagoula...

[@appollo147]

This would make a great SNL skit or family sitcom.

[@doobiedave9686]

Sitting Up With The Dead by Ray Stevens is hilarious

[@kylekirchhevel9097]

Missippi Squirrel Revival!!! Also Shriner's Convention, The Streak, Along Came Jones, and It's Me Again Margaret

[@Cookies_crumbs]

Besides “Everything is Beautiful,” another great, serious song of Ray’s is “Mr. Businessman.”

[@quixote6942]

Ray's (and Wierd Al's) Music ARE their own Stand up Comedy Specials!

[@bagelj]

Originally it was written recorded in the 1910s by an unknown Vaudeville performer. It was previously attributed to Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe, whom performed by Lonzo and Oscar in 1947. It was quite popular and it has been remade many times since then in many styles of music.

[@dubirdrs]

The first time we heard this one was driving down to visit my mom's parents. She had just gotten a new Ray Stevens tape, and when this one came on, she laughed so hard so almost drove off the road. XD

[@58frascatti]

Can’t stop laughing! I heard that song years ago (like 60 YEARS AGO) and never knew who sang it so fing it here is a genuine blast from the past. Great memories ❣️❣️❣️

[@jojones1082]

Ray Stevens is one of the funniest songwriters ever to live. Check out his song Where Did My Socks Go? It's hysterical!

[@PEPPA-AND-PEPAS-WORLD]

And “All I Have To Do Is Dream” by the Everly Brothers!

[@johngarcia7774]

Please do ‘Everything Is Beautiful’ by ray. The country needs to hear it.

[@TracyfromNC]

So very true

[@dortheyc5276]

The first thing I got from this song is that Ray Stevens has definitely been to Coyell, Louisiana.

[@elheadkickio]

My friends and I loved Ray growing up in the West Virginia in the 90's. Right up there with Weird Al in the realm of comedy music. Definitely check out The Streak sometime.

[@stevegabbert9626]

I wonder how Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., of "Finding Your Roots" fame, would would analyze this?

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

Love this song! There is one by a female group named "Sidesaddle" called "I Am My Own Grandma." Also by Ray, "The Streak."

[@martintierney1477]

originally a mark twain poem written in 1883..

[@jodyrewa688]

I had a party and my friend, who is two years older than I am, met my husband’s nephew. They fell in love and got married, so now I am my friend’s aunt 🤷‍♀️

[@alanjones4358]

And Ray's son's uncle is also his nephew, both by blood. I wonder how often this has actually happened.

[@sharonglover7221]

I'm so glad to see someone reacted to this funny funny funny song. I love it. I heard it a few years ago, but it's an OLD song. Wayyyyyy too funny.

[@williammccullough2466]

Oh my god, still one of the funniest damn things I've ever heard...I remember hearing it as a kid and being super confused... it's still confusing, but I understand it better now...lol

[@davidnunn6608]

“Ballard of the Blue Cyclone” is one of my favorites

[@rich5354]

Such fun, give me genuine giggles in these dark times.

[@fawnebrown4619]

First time I've actually heard this song. Been a Ray Stevens fan since he did Everything is Beautiful. Great feel good song from back in the 70's. Please do a reaction it....that includes the intro. There might or should be a video too. Turn Your Radio on is another good song from him too.

[@crisb2890]

My Grandparents had this song from the 40's in their '78 record collection.

[@jimruef]

This song came out in, I believe, the late 1940's or early 1050's.. I had a 78 RPM record of this when I was a kid. Wish I could remember the original artist. Ray did a good job with the song.

[@rockinredneck57]

Since you're getting into old songs and comedy, it's time you discover the genius of Homer and Jethro. They did this in the 50s plus a LOT more. Some parodies, some not. Start with the Battle of Kookamonga. Then try Tennessee Border #2 and How Much Is That Hound Dog in the Window (Winder). You'll get their total genius. Mandolin virtuoso Jethro Burns was brother in law to Chet Atkins.

[@carriehv740]

yes!...please check out Homer and Jethro!

[@thesacredmom2784]

When I was a kid we had records of all if Ray Steven's story comedy songs, we also had all of Bill Cosby doing comedy stories. (Besides watching The Bill Cosby show Fat A,Bert on Saturday mornings. Those 2 men taught us how funny life is.

[@dxgypsyful]

Blast from my past. Also love The Streak. I'm My Own Grandpa was used in the movie The Stupids.

[@karirbassett]

I used to love this is in my grandparents’ car!

[@RoosterIB]

Ray had alot of hits The Streak, Along Came Jones, Blowin' Them Bagpipes and my favorite Gitarzan etc.

[@brianorzel1873]

Some of the old comedy really still holds up today. You should do "Shaving Cream" by Bennie Bell. It's an oldie, but a very clever goodie!

[@barryshapiro3349]

Dr. Demento used to play this!

[@sixpakshaker88]

My dad had this song on 78 rpm, long before Ray.

[@philipcochran1972]

I have this song on a CD and it is credited to Lathan & Jaffe and sung by Lonzo and Oscar with the Winton County Pea Pickers. Recorded in 1947

[@karennoble2564]

Happy to hear this song my late husband sang it at everyone of his family reunions

[@timavery99]

An old favorite, thanks for doing it.

[@AnnieAnnieBuckwheatCakes]

Thank you for playing this song. This song (not sure if it was this particular recording) was on a record album I used to listen to as a young child. So funny. Nice how a clean song can be funny. We all have slightly wierd connections in a family.😜

[@bwilliams463]

My widower grandfather married my uncle's widowed mother-in-law, so when my aunt and uncle divorced, they became brother and sister. True story.

[@dorisleone8006]

I COULD NOT KEEP UP WITH THAT FAMILY TREE! SO FUNNY!

[@djhrecordhound4391]

RECORD FACTS: Ray's is one of many covers of this song... --Lonzo and Oscar --Esmereldy (as "I'm My Own Grandmaw") --Homer and Jethro ...to name just a few...

[@edprzydatek8398]

Steve Goodman.

[@djhrecordhound4391]

@@edprzydatek8398 Yes, thank you! He did the original "City Of New Orleans", made a hit by Arlo Guthrie 🎶😎

[@djhrecordhound4391]

@Jams Staley Haven't heard too many of Lonzo and Oscar's records, only because King Records weren't available as much in Canada (licensed on Maple Leaf or Quality labels). KZbin has helped and I love them now. Homer and Jethro records were everywhere (on RCA Victor) and a fave of my grandfather's. They probably crossed paths with L&O often

[@willahelmpowers4835]

I want to say I first heard it when Tom Arnold sang it in the movie The Stupids.

[@BeautyIsMyLife]

I'd like to Tom Arnold's rendition lol!

[@alanmoore5178]

I have the original version of this song, recorded by the Guy Lombardo band on 78 record, early 1940s. Great stuff

[@scottymoore9121]

Ray Stevens is a genius

[@hunterbradford2697]

"Bricklayers song" by Ray stevens is perfect

[@reinamatheny9972]

Ray Stevens "Sittin up with the dead" is a really good one

[@genesisgryphon1582]

Fry: But- but won't that change history? Prof. Farnsworth: Oh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. "I'm my own grandpa".

[@michaelwaldron4302]

This song was used in a movie with Tom Arnold called The Stupids. Tom sang the song and it had a slightly faster pace to it.

[@thomasdupont1346]

Always loved this song. So funny.

[@malibumaali]

i used to watch this song on the muppet show all the time lol

[@marshallking9227]

Ray Steven's is a stand up comedian, singer and actor

[@olga138]

It's a fun novelty song. Thanks for playing it---I hadn't heard this in years.

[@thegrumpyfatazz7612]

Tom Arnold sings this song in the movie meet the stupid you should check that version out

[@wendyatkins7945]

Sitting up with the dead, and the haircut song are hilarious.

[@robertvirtue8070]

Thanks Jamel. Thought you would like it. It is an old song originally done my Lorenzo and Oscar. in the 50s. Another song you might like is Little Jimmy Dickens " Out Behind The Barn "

[@jimmayors2315]

Song's history goes way back to 1910... Ray's version is pretty fun. Another is Steve Goodman's version on the acoustic. Very clever lyrics, whoever it was that wrote it

[@collinsbrosinc515]

TESKEY BROTHERS…RAIN…DO IT…Best thing you’ll hear all day

[@mrmockatoo6786]

You ARE on a mission. I'm in.

[@richdiddens4059]

Goes back at least to a story/joke by Mark Twain in the 1880's.

[@Sandyg1961]

Mark Twain also said “Your vote doesn’t count, if it did, they wouldn’t let us do it”

[@rodneyprill4618]

Ray Stevens It's Me Again Margaret

[@tootsie5052]

My dad's mom died when he was 6y old. She had 11 children to my Grandpa. Grandpa then married another woman, she had 2 young boys when he married her and then they had 4 children and my dad's oldest brother married his step mom's sister.

[@davidhitchcock4082]

always loved ray stevens check rays actually serious song the title is everything is beautiful

[@davidnunn6608]

This is a great classic from my childhood

[@JohnHazelwood58]

Nice one! I only knew about the german version of this song which is called "Mein Stammbaum ist ein Kreis" by Fummelfips. Never knew an english version was avaible. Thanks!

[@martyjansing2675]

This was included in a Cultural Anthropology class that I took several decades ago. The focus was on "labels" and identification.

[@michelleschulz4903]

OH this song was great!!! I'm glad for the diagram, made it easier to follow along with... 🤣🤣🤣