October 28, 2008

Ray Stevens: For those curious...


For those curious, this is the back cover of One More Last Chance, Ray Stevens' 1981 album on RCA Records. As I touched upon in other blog entries, during this era in Ray's career he looked every bit the part of the urban cowboy. I saw him a couple of times on television during the early '80s...programs that were re-ran in the 1990's. On one such appearance he appeared on Hee-Haw in 1980 and sang "Shriner's Convention" and "Love Me Longer". The latter was a song he had recorded in 1973. Why he chose to perform that specific song instead of more recent recordings I don't know...but the lyrics do carry a sort of macho, one-night stand approach which fed into the urban cowboy movement in country music.

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