Ray Stevens: CabaRay Nashville on YouTube E-3, S-2

Hello there fans of Ray Stevens!! Here's my overview/re-cap of Episode 3, Season 2 of Ray Stevens CabaRay Nashville. The special guests on this episode are Williams and Ree, a comedy duo who've been performing together for more than 50 years. I hadn't looked up the specifics but they may be reaching the 55 year mark...their partnership began sometime in the late '60s. Their names are Bruce Williams (referred to in their act as The White Guy) and Terry Ree (referred to in their act as The Indian). In almost all of their appearances they're introduced as The Indian and The White Guy. I first knew of them from their co-starring years with Florence Henderson on Country Kitchen, a country music oriented cooking show that aired on The Nashville Network. The special guest in each episode demonstrated on the set of a kitchen how to make some kind of food...with Florence as the aid. Afterward she would turn the show over to Williams and Ree who would tell jokes, slip in all kinds of innuendo, and comically prepare a dish. After the intentionally comical mayhem the duo would hold up the finished dish (made ahead of time) to the delight of the audience. Then, after being applauded for their performance, the duo would turn the show back over to Florence again who would sing a duet with the guest.

Ray opened this episode of CabaRay Nashville singing "Knock Him Out, John", a salute to the late comedian, Jerry Clower. The song can be found on Ray's 2015 album, Here We Go Again!. 

Williams and Ree are introduced and they launch into some comical banter with Ray. They speak of their partnership and Ree tells some Indian jokes. Ray mentions that the two of them had cameo appearances in his VHS movie, Get Serious!. In this movie, which also includes numerous music videos, Ray performs "The Woogie Boogie". The song, from the pen of Ray Stevens and Buddy Kalb, originated in 1989 on Ray's Beside Myself album. Williams and Ree do a rocked up rendition backed with Ray's original arrangement of the song. So it's like a clash of two music styles. The duo also perform "Sweet Thang", a country music classic that some remember as a duet between Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn. Some may be more familiar with another recording of the song by Nat Stuckey. The duo next sing "San Antonio Rose" to a rousing conclusion. 

Don Cusic, known on-air as The Professor of Music, appears in a segment introducing facts about the Dallas Frazier song, "Alley Oop", and it's history. Ray closes the show singing "Alley Oop". He performed the song differently here than the way he recorded it in 1969. The performance on the TV show is more in line with how he re-recorded it for The Encyclopedia of Recorded Comedy Music (released in 2012).