Love this song and your great reaction. It's not true that Ray Stevens never did anything serious. Check out his "Everything is Beautiful" which also shows how beautiful his voice actually was.
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I had a second career as a genealogist, and while I uncovered some pretty outrageous family relationships, nothing can compare to this Ray Stevens conundrum. But every connection the hilarious song claimed was possible! About 20 years ago, a Sims 2 game player made a music video for this, starring only Sims 2 characters that just amplified the humor! Love Ray Stevens, and love your reaction!
Elizabeth I'm the Sims 2 game player (Linda Wingfield aka lindawing back in TS2 days) who made that video! I also made one for the song "Ticks" (Brad Paisley). I did all of the CC for that photo op (as with Grandpa, it's just made from snapshots set to the music). I've just found that one, but haven't yet found "I'm My Own Grandpa. I know I have it here somewhere. I checked some of the old backups on my website, but I've cleaned much of the old stuff off. I should be able to find it on my backup drive. If I'll try to upload them where they can be accessed, other than on YT. Nowadays, I can't just put them on my gaming channel, because each of them has a song in it that is still copyrighted. I'm working on downsizing the "Ticks" video so it can be uploaded to my website. We'll see how that works.
@@GrandmasGotGraceLW Small world! Thanks for replying. I loved the Sims 2, and still play it on rare occasions. I also loved your Grandpa video, and played it over and over for my friends. It was so well done! I would love to see it again.🤩
@@ElizabethRoss-uj8rl I need to do a file backup run sometime this week, and I'll see if I can find it. I can't get the "Ticks" video to upload to my current site, even by reducing to 720p and then zipping it...I can only upload 20MB files, and it's nearly 47MB. I think the Grandpa one is a tad larger. Anyway...if I can find it, I'll see what I can do about making it available. The copyright stuff is so different than it was 20 years ago. 😀
This song was written in 1947. Performed by the duo Lonzo and Oscar. Don't think on it too hard. Love your reaction. I've been listening to this song for years. Ray is a hoot. Check out his "Sittin' up with the dead"
I love this silly song. Ray Stevens is the best. Doing my own genealogy, I actually have a very similar situation. GGGrandfather marries a widowed woman, then after her death marries her daughter, who happened to be his sons widow! Best part is, the woman turns out to have been my GGG’s cousin, same last name and all! Whew! At that point my tree was all stump, no branches! Makes my head hurt. Those Tennessee hollow folks just didn’t get out much. 😂
There's so much humour from the marvelous Mr Stevens, you might like to check out 'It's Me Again Margaret ' or perhaps 'Sitting Up With The Dead'. Besides his wonderfully funny songs, he also has an extensive catalogue of rather beautiful and gentle songs - 'Misty' and 'Everything is Beautiful' to name just two. He really is a gentleman worth a deeper dive into.
I've always loved this song. I grew up with it. I was born in 1949...this song was first published in 1947. Mom would sometimes play it on her "fiddle," and we kids would sing it (trying not to get confused in the middle, but sometimes falling down with giggle fits, because someone would forget part of the lyrics...oops!). 😀 I was going to start writing this note about 1/2-hour ago, but when I scrolled down and saw that @ElizabethRoss-uj8rl had already posted (two days ago), about what I was just going to write...about the video I made in The Sims 2, about 20 years ago...using this song. I also made one of those same types of "movies" from Brad Paisley's "Ticks." It came out really cute. I made custom content for the game, for both of those movies. They were a lot of fun. I would just upload them to my gaming channel, except that these days, the copyright stuff won't allow that. I might be able to get a special permission from each one. Both of the original artists might be amenable to that. It would probably take more time than it's worth, though, or cost something that I wouldn't want to spend, so...probably not. Anyway...fun to have such a meeting with Elizabeth from so long ago. 😀
When I was growing up my grandma had this song on a set of tapes with other old "silly" songs like "Marsi Doats and Doesy Doats" and "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More." I remember loving listening to them. Our family (on that side in particular) is a bit confusing so this song was funny because though we were confusing it wasn't quite that crazy at least. I'm over 40 now and am still meeting people I didn't realize I was related to from my mother's biological father's side of the family. I know this song is hard to follow but I am glad you listened to Ray Stevens version of it. I love Ray Stevens music, both the comical and the more "serious" singing. Thanks for a great reaction!
Before my Mother died my sister sent her a record of all the humorous songs of the '30's and '40's. It's how they made it through the Great Depression and WWII. My Mother loved Bing Crosby and he sang 'Marzy Doats' and 'Pistol Packing Mama' and he was a big name star.
The best part of this song is that there's no actual incest happening in this scenario. Ray's father married the widow/Ray's wife's adult daughter (no blood relation there), so this family tree being confusing causes no problems moving forward at least.
Reminds me of the Futurama cartoon (by The Simpsons creator Matt Groening), where they travel back in time, and the main character Fry actually becomes his own grand father 😉🤣
Harold Ray Ragsdale (born January 24, 1939), known professionally as Ray Stevens, is an American country, pop and gospel singer-songwriter and comedian, known for his Grammy-winning recordings "Everything Is Beautiful" and "Misty", as well as novelty hits such as "Gitarzan" "Ahab the Arab" "Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving, Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills"and "The Streak" and gospel songs including " Sunday Morning Coming Down" and "Turn Your Radio On" "Have A Little Talk With Myself/Just A Little Talk With Jesus" "Let Your Love Be A Light Unto The People" . At age 18, Stevens signed to Capitol Records' Prep Records division in 1957, and produced the single "Silver Bracelet", with a cover of "Rang Tang Ding Dong" as the B-side. The single was met with a positive review from Billboard. Stevens signed with Mercury Records in 1961. He has received gold albums for his music sales and has worked as a producer, music arranger, and television host. He is also an inductee of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, the Christian Music Hall of Fame, and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. His discography consists of 50 studio albums, 125 singles, 3 live albums, 67 compilation albums, 3 box sets, and 1 extended play and possibly more by now. RAY-ality TV ended its digital TV run in January 2014. In March 2014, a webisode series, also titled Rayality TV was launched.In the debut "webisode," Stevens gets a speeding ticket and is sentenced to serve time at The Encore, a retirement home for entertainers. "Over the years I have produced hours and hours of videotape and film footage for TV shows, TV pilots, movies, stage shows, concerts and music videos," says Stevens. "Recently I sorted it all out, linked it together with some new footage and produced a series of programs for the web titled 'Rayality TV.' It's fast, fun and funny. We'll be offering up a new 'webisode' each week for months to come. I hope you like it." Stevens' new original series will run for 78 weeks with new installments going live on TH-cam each Friday. The series features cameo appearances from many familiar faces including Bobby Bare, Louise Mandrell, Darrell Waltrip, Steve Martin, Ralph Emery and late music legends George Jones, Phil Everly and Andy Williams. Also in 2014 Stevens co-starred in the movie Campin' Buddies. In 2015, Stevens began producing and hosting “Ray Stevens Nashville”, a 30-minute weekly music variety show on cable TV. Since then, the show has been rebranded as “Ray Stevens CabaRay Nashville” and is now filmed on stage at the brand new CabaRay Showroom, which opened to the public in early 2018. The show currently airs on PBS public television stations around the country. Stevens published his autobiographical memoir Ray Stevens' Nashville in 2014.
About 35 years ago i found out about a similar situation involving a friend of mine. Ill try to make it easy to follow. Starts with a family of 3 women, a mom and two daughters. My friend married one of the daughters and they had 3 kids, then got divorced. He then hooked up with the other daughter, married her and had 2 kids and ended up divorced. At this point the two daughters are sisters and sister in laws to each other and Aunt, mom, and Step mom to the 5 kids as well as the kids being step brothers/sisters and cousins to each other. Then a few years later, my friend got together with and married the Moms sister (the two daughters Aunt). So at that point he was a brother in law and ex son in law to the Mom, Uncle and ex husband to the two daughters, and father/step father/uncle and great uncle to his own 5 kids. He passed away not long after marrying the Moms sister so the family tree didnt get any more twisted. I once told him he should get the family together and go on the Jerry Springer show because they would fit right in LOL.
Ray Stevens does have a lot of beautiful songs in his repertoire. Everything is beautiful, Misty, There's a Star Spangled Banner, and Marion Michael Morrison (a song about John Wayne).
It could happen! When I was in high school, my girlfriend's mother (adopted) married my GF's brother, who was older and not adopted. So my GF's brother was now her step-father. They had two children who were brother and sister to my GF, and also her niece and nephew. Later, her brother and mother separated but never divorced because her brother had an affair with her mother's sister, who was my GF's aunt. Her aunt was now her suster-in-law and aunt. That relationship produced one child who was now her niece and cousin. Brother --> step-father--> Uncle Brothers two children --> GF's brother and sister --> niece and nephew. Brother and Aunts daughter --> niece --> cousin. Fortunately we broke up before graduation. I think i dodged a bullet.
The original recording war recoded @ 1954 by the comic duo of Lonzo and Oscar. There is a video of Oscar singing the song at age 93 on a Country Reunion Show episode .
Uh to simplify it, his daughter married his father. He is his father father in law since the married and his wife mother inlaw, which technically makes his wife his grandmother and since hes married to the grandmother he is definitely his own grandpa. He DOES explain it during the song l. Just pause and think about what he said😊
You know the sad part is, once its explained with the graphics, it actually checks out. He really would (technically) be his own grandpa....or rather step-grandpa. Damn this was clever.
The original was written by Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe in 1947 when Ray Stevens was eight years old. I just learned this song for a music festival, and it's confusing to learn as well. It's not actually incest as Ray proclaims at the end, but it is very, very confusing. The original idea for the song might have come from Samuel Clements, who postulated that it would be possible for someone to become their own Grandfather.
To make it more confusing The redhead is having the same problem. She's her own grandma. The two kids are each other's uncle. The dad and widow are each other's son/daughter in law. The singer and redhead are each other's step parent AND son/daughter in law.
A parody is a play off of someone else's song/music, but changing the lyrics to be funny. A cover is singing someone else's song. An original is writing your own song/music. Ray has done a few covers. For the most part he wrote original, comedic songs. That is what this is. It is not a parody. You're welcome. Glad you reacted to this gem. He has many more. Lady? You were confused before you heard this! It isn't confusing, really. As soon as his father married his stepdaughter & had a son, he became his own grandpa. 🤣😂🤣😂 But...you think your cat knows that she is naked or needs privacy to groom herself, so........🙄🤔 Yep. You're confused, no matter.😮
well first heard this done by homer an jethro an yes im about few months shy of 60 now.Based on what i have seen in my real life i propose a law that before you go out on a date you both have a dna test to see if your already related lol
And this was before gender confused pronoun violence was even a "thing", Ray is an all-american classic. However, he can be beautifully serious. Just rarely.
To say Ray was a parody singer is a bit off. A parody singer is someone sings songs essentially rewriting the lyrics to an existing song. Ray sang comedy songs that weren't simply copying and rewriting lyrics to existing songs. Weird Al is the best parody singer I know of and insanely talented but Ray is a completely different type of comedy singer.
He did have a couple of serious songs, but they're not principally what he's known for. The reason the song is confusing is because it makes logical leaps. (It has to. You can't actually be your own grandfather.) The most frequent one, is conflating a step-relationship with the corresponding genetic relationship, and then using that false pretense to set up the next relationship. For example, "my step-mother's mother" would already be an exaggeration, because he was a grown adult before his father married the girl, so she was never actually his step-mother. Not content with that exaggeration, he drops the step- and claims that his wife is "my mother's mother", i.e., grandmother, which isn't remotely valid. (Even your actual mother's step-mother is not your grandmother, that would be step-grandmother; and step-mother's mother isn't anything at all.) Then he uses that already-invalid claim to set up the "so being married to my grandmother makes me my own grandfather" line of reasoning, which, again, is completely invalid. Even if somebody _actually_ married their grandmother, it still would not make them their own grandfather; step-grandfather at most. But here it's compounded on top of the existing hyperbole, recursively, for about six steps. It's... humor. Weird humor. Which is exactly the sort of thing Stevens is known for. To his credit, there is no actual incest in the song. The relationships are parallel: two people from family A, each married different people from family B. This does make the children of the two unions "double cousins" (i.e., cousins on both sides of the family), which is slightly unusual, and more so because the generations are swapped (meaning, somebody is quite a bit older than their partner), but it's not incestuous. It only sounds incestuous because of the aforementioned logical schenanighans.
There’s no leap in logic to point out that Ray’s wife is both daughter-in-law AND mother-in-law to Ray’s dad. Not sure why that was left out of the song.
Ray Stevens’s song “Everything is Beautiful” won him a Grammy Award in 1971. And it’s a serious song. Check it out.
Love this song and your great reaction. It's not true that Ray Stevens never did anything serious. Check out his "Everything is Beautiful" which also shows how beautiful his voice actually was.
Agreed. 😀
Absolutely! And one of the songs that never fails to make me smile! 💕
I agree 100 per cent..his voice was beautiful in that song 😅
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Ray Stevens is insane and I mean that in the best possible way!
I had a second career as a genealogist, and while I uncovered some pretty outrageous family relationships, nothing can compare to this Ray Stevens conundrum. But every connection the hilarious song claimed was possible! About 20 years ago, a Sims 2 game player made a music video for this, starring only Sims 2 characters that just amplified the humor! Love Ray Stevens, and love your reaction!
Elizabeth I'm the Sims 2 game player (Linda Wingfield aka lindawing back in TS2 days) who made that video! I also made one for the song "Ticks" (Brad Paisley). I did all of the CC for that photo op (as with Grandpa, it's just made from snapshots set to the music).
I've just found that one, but haven't yet found "I'm My Own Grandpa. I know I have it here somewhere. I checked some of the old backups on my website, but I've cleaned much of the old stuff off. I should be able to find it on my backup drive. If I'll try to upload them where they can be accessed, other than on YT. Nowadays, I can't just put them on my gaming channel, because each of them has a song in it that is still copyrighted.
I'm working on downsizing the "Ticks" video so it can be uploaded to my website. We'll see how that works.
I forgot that I was logged in as Grandma's Gone Gaming. Oops! We are one and the same. 😀
@@GrandmasGotGraceLW Small world! Thanks for replying. I loved the Sims 2, and still play it on rare occasions. I also loved your Grandpa video, and played it over and over for my friends. It was so well done! I would love to see it again.🤩
@@ElizabethRoss-uj8rl I need to do a file backup run sometime this week, and I'll see if I can find it. I can't get the "Ticks" video to upload to my current site, even by reducing to 720p and then zipping it...I can only upload 20MB files, and it's nearly 47MB. I think the Grandpa one is a tad larger. Anyway...if I can find it, I'll see what I can do about making it available. The copyright stuff is so different than it was 20 years ago. 😀
This song was written in 1947. Performed by the duo Lonzo and Oscar. Don't think on it too hard. Love your reaction. I've been listening to this song for years. Ray is a hoot. Check out his "Sittin' up with the dead"
Yep. I'm 70 years old and I remember my dad had this song on an old 78 rpm record.
I love this silly song. Ray Stevens is the best. Doing my own genealogy, I actually have a very similar situation. GGGrandfather marries a widowed woman, then after her death marries her daughter, who happened to be his sons widow! Best part is, the woman turns out to have been my GGG’s cousin, same last name and all! Whew! At that point my tree was all stump, no branches! Makes my head hurt. Those Tennessee hollow folks just didn’t get out much. 😂
Another serious sing by Ray is thank you
I'm totally confused, but laughing hard at the same time. Love Ray Stevens, and I had never heard this song.
There's so much humour from the marvelous Mr Stevens, you might like to check out 'It's Me Again Margaret ' or perhaps 'Sitting Up With The Dead'. Besides his wonderfully funny songs, he also has an extensive catalogue of rather beautiful and gentle songs - 'Misty' and 'Everything is Beautiful' to name just two. He really is a gentleman worth a deeper dive into.
That is such fun. He has some great ones.
RAY has some of the most genius, funny songs there are! Pick any of them to react to or just for private fun!! You owe yourself!!
I've always loved this song. I grew up with it. I was born in 1949...this song was first published in 1947. Mom would sometimes play it on her "fiddle," and we kids would sing it (trying not to get confused in the middle, but sometimes falling down with giggle fits, because someone would forget part of the lyrics...oops!). 😀
I was going to start writing this note about 1/2-hour ago, but when I scrolled down and saw that @ElizabethRoss-uj8rl had already posted (two days ago), about what I was just going to write...about the video I made in The Sims 2, about 20 years ago...using this song.
I also made one of those same types of "movies" from Brad Paisley's "Ticks." It came out really cute. I made custom content for the game, for both of those movies. They were a lot of fun.
I would just upload them to my gaming channel, except that these days, the copyright stuff won't allow that. I might be able to get a special permission from each one. Both of the original artists might be amenable to that. It would probably take more time than it's worth, though, or cost something that I wouldn't want to spend, so...probably not.
Anyway...fun to have such a meeting with Elizabeth from so long ago. 😀
When I was growing up my grandma had this song on a set of tapes with other old "silly" songs like "Marsi Doats and Doesy Doats" and "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More." I remember loving listening to them. Our family (on that side in particular) is a bit confusing so this song was funny because though we were confusing it wasn't quite that crazy at least. I'm over 40 now and am still meeting people I didn't realize I was related to from my mother's biological father's side of the family. I know this song is hard to follow but I am glad you listened to Ray Stevens version of it. I love Ray Stevens music, both the comical and the more "serious" singing. Thanks for a great reaction!
Before my Mother died my sister sent her a record of all the humorous songs of the
'30's and '40's. It's how they made it through the Great Depression and WWII.
My Mother loved Bing Crosby and he sang 'Marzy Doats' and 'Pistol Packing Mama'
and he was a big name star.
Got to love Ray Steven’s. My favorite is Sitting up with the dead.
It was freaking hilarious!👍🏼🤣
The best part of this song is that there's no actual incest happening in this scenario. Ray's father married the widow/Ray's wife's adult daughter (no blood relation there), so this family tree being confusing causes no problems moving forward at least.
Your cat knows great timing when he/she did the thing while you are reacting to My Own Grandpa.
Reminds me of the Futurama cartoon (by The Simpsons creator Matt Groening), where they travel back in time, and the main character Fry actually becomes his own grand father 😉🤣
Harold Ray Ragsdale (born January 24, 1939), known professionally as Ray Stevens, is an American country, pop and gospel singer-songwriter and comedian, known for his Grammy-winning recordings "Everything Is Beautiful" and "Misty", as well as novelty hits such as "Gitarzan" "Ahab the Arab" "Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving, Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills"and "The Streak" and gospel songs including " Sunday Morning Coming Down" and "Turn Your Radio On" "Have A Little Talk With Myself/Just A Little Talk With Jesus" "Let Your Love Be A Light Unto The People" . At age 18, Stevens signed to Capitol Records' Prep Records division in 1957, and produced the single "Silver Bracelet", with a cover of "Rang Tang Ding Dong" as the B-side. The single was met with a positive review from Billboard.
Stevens signed with Mercury Records in 1961. He has received gold albums for his music sales and has worked as a producer, music arranger, and television host. He is also an inductee of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, the Christian Music Hall of Fame, and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
His discography consists of 50 studio albums, 125 singles, 3 live albums, 67 compilation albums, 3 box sets, and 1 extended play and possibly more by now.
RAY-ality TV ended its digital TV run in January 2014. In March 2014, a webisode series, also titled Rayality TV was launched.In the debut "webisode," Stevens gets a speeding ticket and is sentenced to serve time at The Encore, a retirement home for entertainers.
"Over the years I have produced hours and hours of videotape and film footage for TV shows, TV pilots, movies, stage shows, concerts and music videos," says Stevens. "Recently I sorted it all out, linked it together with some new footage and produced a series of programs for the web titled 'Rayality TV.' It's fast, fun and funny. We'll be offering up a new 'webisode' each week for months to come. I hope you like it."
Stevens' new original series will run for 78 weeks with new installments going live on TH-cam each Friday. The series features cameo appearances from many familiar faces including Bobby Bare, Louise Mandrell, Darrell Waltrip, Steve Martin, Ralph Emery and late music legends George Jones, Phil Everly and Andy Williams. Also in 2014 Stevens co-starred in the movie Campin' Buddies.
In 2015, Stevens began producing and hosting “Ray Stevens Nashville”, a 30-minute weekly music variety show on cable TV. Since then, the show has been rebranded as “Ray Stevens CabaRay Nashville” and is now filmed on stage at the brand new CabaRay Showroom, which opened to the public in early 2018. The show currently airs on PBS public television stations around the country.
Stevens published his autobiographical memoir Ray Stevens' Nashville in 2014.
I read a story in a book about stories from North Carolina mountains. One story was about a man who was his own grandfather
About 35 years ago i found out about a similar situation involving a friend of mine. Ill try to make it easy to follow. Starts with a family of 3 women, a mom and two daughters. My friend married one of the daughters and they had 3 kids, then got divorced. He then hooked up with the other daughter, married her and had 2 kids and ended up divorced. At this point the two daughters are sisters and sister in laws to each other and Aunt, mom, and Step mom to the 5 kids as well as the kids being step brothers/sisters and cousins to each other. Then a few years later, my friend got together with and married the Moms sister (the two daughters Aunt). So at that point he was a brother in law and ex son in law to the Mom, Uncle and ex husband to the two daughters, and father/step father/uncle and great uncle to his own 5 kids. He passed away not long after marrying the Moms sister so the family tree didnt get any more twisted. I once told him he should get the family together and go on the Jerry Springer show because they would fit right in LOL.
He has a new one out about a boy that changes his name and joins the girls swim team.
Of COURSE he does! LOL
Technically, once his father married his stepdaughter he became his own grandpa at that moment
Ray Stevens does have a lot of beautiful songs in his repertoire. Everything is beautiful, Misty, There's a Star Spangled Banner, and Marion Michael Morrison (a song about John Wayne).
It could happen!
When I was in high school, my girlfriend's mother (adopted) married my GF's brother, who was older and not adopted. So my GF's brother was now her step-father. They had two children who were brother and sister to my GF, and also her niece and nephew. Later, her brother and mother separated but never divorced because her brother had an affair with her mother's sister, who was my GF's aunt.
Her aunt was now her suster-in-law and aunt.
That relationship produced one child who was now her niece and cousin.
Brother --> step-father--> Uncle
Brothers two children --> GF's brother and sister --> niece and nephew.
Brother and Aunts daughter --> niece --> cousin.
Fortunately we broke up before graduation. I think i dodged a bullet.
The original recording war recoded @ 1954 by the comic duo of Lonzo and Oscar. There is a video of Oscar singing the song at age 93 on a Country Reunion Show episode .
Uh to simplify it, his daughter married his father. He is his father father in law since the married and his wife mother inlaw, which technically makes his wife his grandmother and since hes married to the grandmother he is definitely his own grandpa. He DOES explain it during the song l. Just pause and think about what he said😊
This song was originally written in 1947 and was inspired by a Mark Twain anecdote in which he told how such a situation could happen.
You're very funny! 😅
Missippi Squirrel revival,, one on my favorites
He does sing serious things tho. Listen to his cover of Unchained Melody or Everything is Wonderful.
Loved your reaction
And I thought it was weird Daddy has an Aunt two years younger than him.
You know the sad part is, once its explained with the graphics, it actually checks out. He really would (technically) be his own grandpa....or rather step-grandpa. Damn this was clever.
This song may have inspired Robert A. Heinlein's story All You Zombies, which was made into a movie called Predestination staring Ethan Hawke.
The original was written by Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe in 1947 when Ray Stevens was eight years old. I just learned this song for a music festival, and it's confusing to learn as well. It's not actually incest as Ray proclaims at the end, but it is very, very confusing.
The original idea for the song might have come from Samuel Clements, who postulated that it would be possible for someone to become their own Grandfather.
To make it more confusing
The redhead is having the same problem. She's her own grandma.
The two kids are each other's uncle.
The dad and widow are each other's son/daughter in law.
The singer and redhead are each other's step parent AND son/daughter in law.
For a different side of Ray listen to "everything is beautiful"
Listen to "Every Thing is Beautiful" The wonderful son that is very serious.
Stopped thinking about this? Here's an interesting tidbit. The two sons that are born in the song? They are uncle and nephew... BOTH WAYS.
the wild part is there is zero incest in this
A parody is a play off of someone else's song/music, but changing the lyrics to be funny.
A cover is singing someone else's song.
An original is writing your own song/music.
Ray has done a few covers.
For the most part he wrote original, comedic songs. That is what this is. It is not a parody.
You're welcome.
Glad you reacted to this gem. He has many more.
Lady? You were confused before you heard this! It isn't confusing, really. As soon as his father married his stepdaughter & had a son, he became his own grandpa. 🤣😂🤣😂
But...you think your cat knows that she is naked or needs privacy to groom herself, so........🙄🤔
Yep. You're confused, no matter.😮
My husband's half uncle on his father's side is also is step grandfather on his mother's side. It is Kentucky, what can I say?
sweet home alabama hahaha
well first heard this done by homer an jethro an yes im about few months shy of 60 now.Based on what i have seen in my real life i propose a law that before you go out on a date you both have a dna test to see if your already related lol
Welcome to Alabama
this is the state anthem of alabama, isn't it?
Listen to "Juanita and the kids", it's hilarious.
Inspired by a Mark Twain story.
Well yes it is "one " but another is Abbott and Costello whos on first is another good one.
And this was before gender confused pronoun violence was even a "thing", Ray is an all-american classic. However, he can be beautifully serious. Just rarely.
I guess this reactor thinks we have never seen a cat clean itself.
Try To Morrow when you get a chance (to be confused again)
To say Ray was a parody singer is a bit off. A parody singer is someone sings songs essentially rewriting the lyrics to an existing song. Ray sang comedy songs that weren't simply copying and rewriting lyrics to existing songs. Weird Al is the best parody singer I know of and insanely talented but Ray is a completely different type of comedy singer.
He did have a couple of serious songs, but they're not principally what he's known for.
The reason the song is confusing is because it makes logical leaps. (It has to. You can't actually be your own grandfather.) The most frequent one, is conflating a step-relationship with the corresponding genetic relationship, and then using that false pretense to set up the next relationship. For example, "my step-mother's mother" would already be an exaggeration, because he was a grown adult before his father married the girl, so she was never actually his step-mother. Not content with that exaggeration, he drops the step- and claims that his wife is "my mother's mother", i.e., grandmother, which isn't remotely valid. (Even your actual mother's step-mother is not your grandmother, that would be step-grandmother; and step-mother's mother isn't anything at all.) Then he uses that already-invalid claim to set up the "so being married to my grandmother makes me my own grandfather" line of reasoning, which, again, is completely invalid. Even if somebody _actually_ married their grandmother, it still would not make them their own grandfather; step-grandfather at most. But here it's compounded on top of the existing hyperbole, recursively, for about six steps. It's... humor. Weird humor. Which is exactly the sort of thing Stevens is known for.
To his credit, there is no actual incest in the song. The relationships are parallel: two people from family A, each married different people from family B. This does make the children of the two unions "double cousins" (i.e., cousins on both sides of the family), which is slightly unusual, and more so because the generations are swapped (meaning, somebody is quite a bit older than their partner), but it's not incestuous. It only sounds incestuous because of the aforementioned logical schenanighans.
There’s no leap in logic to point out that Ray’s wife is both daughter-in-law AND mother-in-law to Ray’s dad. Not sure why that was left out of the song.
@@learobinson4450 The song has to completely ignore qualifiers like "-in-law" and "step-" in order to reach its nonsensical conclusion.