Ray Stevens - The Dooright Family (Original)

"The Dooright Family" is from the album called "Shriner's Convention" and was Ray Stevens' seventeenth studio album, released in 1980, as well as his first for RCA Records.
The front of the album's cover shows a drawn picture of Stevens on a motorcycle with a young, curvaceous woman in back of him. Stevens wears a red, Hawaiian-styled shirt and blue jeans, while the woman wears a bikini, and the two wear shriner hats. In the background of the picture, there is a shriner's parade on the streets.
On the back of the album, there is a comic strip of happenings at a motel while the parade occurs.
Ray re-recorded The Dooright Family for the album called "Get Serious!" in 1995.
The title track is the album's sole single.

[@JohnLongTWVB]

Best song of countless many by a music genius. Have been a huge fan since 1967!

[@IBScaramouche]

Briefly about 1960 I worked as prop man at a local TV station and was present for the taping of gospel shows such as Ray Stevens is portraying here. His parody is marvelous. It makes me wonder to what extent his experience goes in this genre. He nails it masterfully!

[@Wastelander1972]

As I recall, he mentioned that he spent a lot of his life growing up in what we call “the holler”. VERY common gospel in those necks of the woods.

[@Hugh0166]

In 1982 I visited Branson, Mo, Back then the shows were country/mountain/gospel and not what they are today. Preaching M.C.s and ladies with big hair and polyester dresses dominated--but it was all allot of fun. The week I got back I was driving from Ft. Worth to Waco and for the first time heard the Dooright Family. I laughed so hard I nearly drove off the road. I love the Ray Stevens comedy recording and this is my favorite by a mile. I still laugh like crazy every time I hear it.

[@brotherWesley]

Thank you for posting this. I was in a family gospel group for a few years. My dad had grown up playing with 2 of his uncles who were only a few years older than him, and me, my sister and brother joined as we learned to sing harmony together. This song made my dad laugh so hard I worried he was going to pass out. RIP, Alex Lavern Johnson ..you were and still are my hero. And thank you, Ray Stevens for making my Dad laugh.

[@laurawoods-roller5331]

That's enough heart blessing!😃

[@jamjam2ism]

Ray is a genius!

[@raystevensbigfan]

Ray does all of the voices in the Dooright Family, and thank you for watching...

[@fredmckinney8933]

I've always loved anything Ray Stevens ever recorded, but since I also love southern gospel music, this would have to be my personal favorite of his material.

[@Psychikyoga]

How can there b any thumbs down? I've loved this song since I was 4

[@kgreene104]

If you don't like Ray Stevens, there's something wrong with ya.

[@daviddenny4278]

Ray Stevens makes me very happy. I can sing all his songs

[@genegoodman5233]

I've been told there is a group of people that go through YTube and press the thumb down just for fun or maybe they think they're hurting this performer. Stupid

[@almostlivechannelkjlw-42pr4]

Yes I agree I love this song by Ray Stevens one of his funniest

[@robertorick6383]

The woke Liberals don't like Ray Stevens, especially since they found out he did an anti-Obama album in 2008. More "small town" values being challenged, I suppose. @@kgreene104

[@kevinkalinowski8073]

True story: I quoted from this song one Sunday in church. I was to make a few announcements and take up the offering after a time of greeting one another and I said "All-right! That's enough heart-blessing!" Only 1 or 2 people got it.

[@TwoScoopsRB]

i wouldve gotten it LOL

[@bigwillietheb]

me too

[@jesusgirl682]

Me three!

[@williamiwells]

I use the term "heart-blessing" when I talk about how I am trying to dispel the MYTH that "Bless Your Heart" is ALWAYS sarcastic/an insult. It all depends on intonation and context! There is INDEED Sincere Heart-Blessing!

[@raystevensbigfan]

Happy to share this great song with you...

[@bigroy38]

We love you,Ray.

[@glen4338]

To Karen Kelly, if you happen to be reading this. Remember, as fellow DJ's at Y-96 in Williamsport, Maryland, how you introduced me to this song in 1984? I've loved this song ever since, and I thank you! Sincerely, Glen Slater

[@johnlong42]

My altimeter fav Ray Stevens song. Saw him in LV in 2004 at the Frontier Casino. Priceless!

[@RainhadoCanto11]

Ha Ha! Ray Stevens will for ever be remembered for having given us "The Streak," way back in the seventies!

[@djdonnie68]

Thank you so much for posting this !! I remember listening to this as a kid, and it still cracks me up !! Virgil done exploded right here on stage ...

[@laurawoods-roller5331]

Oh my Lord, Virgil has done gone so low he has done exploded! 😂

[@fredmckinney8933]

Laura Woods-Roller I have to wonder just what the inspiration was for Virgil exploding on stage. LOL

[@tonyhartley8493]

Just like a 4th of July firecracker. He thinks it's Independence Day. There's going to be a parade, too.

[@galathil]

Actually, Mr Stevens did all the voices in this except for the very end, where he brought in the dean of Nashville studio musicians, Louis Nunley (bass singer of the Anita Kerr Quartet and later, the Jordanaires), to do Virgil's last octave drop. :)

[@OldMovieRob]

"he's done gone so low he exploded!"

[@TheShospitali]

If you love this then check out "Mama' Sang Bass" featuring Ray Stevens and the Late JD Sumner, and also check out the Ray Stevens Song, "Trying to Get the Family to Church On Sunday Morning"

[@sammieleedancer]

Love this.. We were talking about the streak at work the other day. Reminded me of this song..

[@Wastelander1972]

LOVE this! Thanks so much for posting!!!!

[@720Lizzy]

oh...my...GAWD!!! This is hysterical! "I'm goin' to one of them discotheques.." Too funny!

[@robertorick6383]

Yep, it's funny. Discotheques are considered SINFUL to the deep south churches in Georgia and Alabama. Virgil is a dunderhead, that's why he's funny.

[@tartsonawire]

I grew up with southern gospel, this is hilarious 😂

[@homercallaway4029]

"Good night John Boy". Lol." Punch mama, Virgil". Too funny!

[@djphillyb]

One of the funniest from Ray...

[@Sunfleuria]

Ray is my cousin, though sadly-- I never met him to my recollection. We had some family reunions that he was supposed to possibly attend -- but didn't. His mom did show a couple of times, however. Older members of the family didn't seem too bothered by his absence, but I know that as a teenager, who loved his creativity, I was always very disappointed. This was in the late 1970's and early 1980's, btw.

[@robertorick6383]

I do know that Ray had a brother named John Ragsdale, since Ragsdale was the family name of Ray's. John passed away in 2019. Ray had insisted over the years that he didn't name his stage name after wrestler Ray "The Crippler" Stevens, who he knew, but thought the name was coincidental. Ray "The Crippler's Stevens was the wrestler's real name, while Ray was born Raymond Ragsdale in 1939.

[@simondawe8774]

Whenever my mom listens to southern gospel and the bass drops octaves it drives my mom nuts when I yell "Drop another octave, Virgil!"

[@portraitofsorrow7803]

Every night when me and the wife would lay in bed with my son daughter to day prayers before they went to bed, I'd always say, "and bless President Eisenhower and all the boys over seas"! Lol! Love It!

[@tonyhartley8493]

And all the girls under seas as well, too.

[@ChemitoRodriguez]

Go for another octave, Virgil!!!

[@raystevensbigfan]

Coin Machine will be posted soon, and thank you for posting...

[@homercallaway4029]

Man! That sounds like The Statler Brothers singing in the background!

[@jo.annebakerbaker5821]

I like this song that I like that bass something by the base that that fits

[@DavidRevelle-gk6wi]

This is my new favorite RS song now

[@TheShospitali]

Ray Stevens is right, some of these groups get up there in front of the church and act like they do, do right. I had a pastor who tried to tell me for years as he did not like them to come in his church. My Grandfather even tried to tell me, who sang in a local gospel quartet for years. When one group is singing, another group was drinking and gambling. Let me spill the beans, once a local gospel music promoter had a big popular gospel quartet group booked at the top of their popularity and awards at a local High School. He walked up on the bus and they where setting up on that bus drinking and gambling with another group he had booked. And he sent both groups down the road talking to them selves, neither group got to sing. Ray Stevens does not sing songs because they are funny, they really do have a lot of meaning behind them, and he blew the lid off of it with this song to all you Gospel Singing Groups who act like they do right and want confess what they really do. Heard recently about another popular male gospel quartet, who said they would go to different towns and have different women pick them up and they would go home and spend the night with them cheating on wives back home. And the list goes on and on about Southern Gospel Music or any kind of Gospel Music period.

[@fredmckinney8933]

TheShospitali That is sad. Even worse, it sounds possible, since the late JD Sumner once had a drinking problem back in the 70's. Thankfully, in his case, he repented and quit drinking.

[@songsalieri]

TheShospitali Any time something goid is happening, somebody imitates it. In the early days of the Christian church, there were people trying to imitate Paul: Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth. And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. Acts 19:13‭-‬17 KJV

[@fiddler1861]

@@songsalieri Laugh out loud! Mythology can be fun...and profitable.

[@BlitzenSpeaks]

This was MY FAVORITE when I was a kid! _"Punch Mama, Virgil!"_ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chuckwhitehead7000]

One woman had her eyes rolled back and was speaking in tongues lalalala

[@tolvaer]

Hallelujah!

[@dmrr7739]

Did a pantomime of this song in school about… forty … years… ago… holy crap!

[@frankenz66]

Mother Dooright and Virgil were my favorites 😂😂😂😂

[@clyde9803]

One of his best albums and not just because of this song (which is really funnier than Shriner's Convention). Can you PLEASE post The Watch Song? My fav RS song ever but no one ever has it.

[@EddieMillerStudios]

My late father's favorite Ray Stevens song.

[@raystevensbigfan]

Thank you commenting, I happy that found this song. Stay Tuned!

[@carlthornton3076]

Very Good!... #77 ✝ {10-1-2023}

[@raystevensbigfan]

It is my pleasure

[@OldMovieRob]

3:33 LOL!

[@TrumpetMAB]

Check out Ray's Would Jesus Wear A Rolex? It's almost a sequel to this one.

[@henryoutlaw]

I have been looking for Coin Machine by Ray Stevens. Does anyone have it, if so please upload it?

[@roundtablevlog5855]

Play the pianer mama 😂😂😂😂

[@davidrevelle4328]

Had em clapping on one and three... I mess with the clapping... They'll clap on one and three so I will switch and clap on two and four

[@DavidRevelle-gk6wi]

I grew up oneness pentacostal... Southern gospel... This is hilarious

[@thejackal007]

Do you know who voiced Virgil in this?

[@kgreene104]

Ray voiced all of the Doorights.

[@tonyhartley8493]

Let me get a Disco Duckin' Goval tape for Virgil Dooright, so that he can dance his life under as well, too. Great place for a disco, huh?

[@tonyhartley8493]

Since when did Virgil Dooright take up going to a disco? Just now? Well, I'll be a dog's gov. This I've got to see. That's famous.

[@Whizkid61438]

So how do they do the song live. Just have a sound track?

[@davidrevelle4328]

As a former oneness pentacostal I get all these reference

[@Nanthecowdog]

Momma sounds like Donald Duck.. xD

[@galathil]

I also think the late Miss Del Wood played piano for this track, but I'll have to verify.

[@sharonnorthern1525]

Not Del Wood. 😂😂😂😂

[@MrLagasse1]

what is the name of the song he did about the timex watch?

[@DoyleFuckinHargraves]

Dean Lagasse Aptly titled, “The Watch Song”

[@DavidRevelle-gk6wi]

Could be would Jesus wear a Rolex

[@davidrevelle4328]

Happy goodmans parody

[@kangaroofuno]

Why did Virgil exploded?

[@namemcnamerton4249]

He sang to low

[@jeffdavis4317]

The original is way better. Gotta have the lady speaking in tongues.