Happy 82nd Birthday Harold Ray Ragsdale. Thank you for the life long memories of humorous songs and stories.. God Bless..

My niece cried when her aunt (my wife) trimmed her hair just a little shorter than she wanted. Her dad, my brother, hammed it up and told her, "It's so short, we'll have to call you Fred". That was over 50 years ago, and family still calls her Freddie! We saw Ray at CabaRay last year, and expect to go back before Ray retires (we're the same age, both like what we do, and neither of us has retired yet).

As some people have mentioned on here, the 2nd verse is missing from this music video as it was cut down for time. Even as it was released in its single-version, the runtime is still 4 minutes, which is pretty long for a comedy single. The choice was made to edit a verse out for the music video which also helped keep the production costs down. This is a pretty common practice as many songs have a single-version which is shorter for videos & airplay. Thank you!

Hey, we live in Coos Bay, Oregon! Thanks for mentioning our beautiful little town!

I've always Loved Ray Stevens songs

Love this song of Ray Stevens!!! I've always loved Ray Stevens!!!

"I run this church for loggers". That line killed me, I'm still laughing about it :D

I wound up bald when I said the wrong words. I didn’t go to that barber again. I also had a situation when my barber got fired. Following that, my haircuts weren’t nearly as good. Some time later, I stumbled upon him at another barbershop 18 blocks west of my apartment. After I stumbled upon him, I went to him again. I have been going to him for twelve years altogether. There’s so much truth in this song!

😁😊 so fun to watch and listen to Ray!! He is a genius!

Ray, you are Timeless!

Always loved Ray Stevens.... He is so talented.

I love all of his songs

so glad this man still making music 2020

I knew a born again barber who would give a sermon, lol.

what a mellifluent song. i just hear and hear and hear. loads of fun in this music.

Ray Stevens humor is original and kind of feels like Mark Twain!

I heard that back in the late '80s.I AM from Coos Bay,Oregon.Loved it.We do have alot of trees here.Sadly,our lumber,trucking and papermills are long gone.We still have loggers here.

still funny after all these years! Love ya, Ray!

That’s fun. Just listened to this one for the first time.

That was ANOTHER good song I had heard from Ray Stevens when I was younger

The album cut featured a visit to three barbers. The second barber visited was into punk rock and a whole lot of other things. The visit to the second barber was edited out when the song was issued as a single.

🤣🤣 Sent it to my truck dtiving buddies 😁🤣🤣 Some of the boys can expect this, I just braid my hair 😍

A friend just got a bad hair cut lol and this song was recommended. Very entertaining.

You have great humor in every song

Leave it up to Mr. Stevens! What an imagination he has.....as always!

I first heard this song just as I was leaving Butte, Montana. Also I have a niece who cuts hair in Butte.

I've never heard this song before. HILARIOUS!

Very good song,Ray

I live near Coos Bay, Oregon. He's accurate in his assessment of the community.

Love that Ray Stevens!

I love Ray Stevens!

I wished the vid was of the full song or there is a part b and c He is so funny. Love listening to him. He's the best

Loved it .

Thank you Ray Stevens. I'm part Montanan.

Love Ray Stevens and his amazing songs💞🤗💞🙏🏻😂😂😂 Ray you are a PRECIOUS PRICELESS TREASURED BLESSING AND A NATIONAL TREASURE AND LOVED BY ALL. KEEP THESE AWESOME SONGS COMING 🎶🎶🎶🎶💞🤗💞🙏🏻Thanks for sharing your wealth of GOD GIVEN TALENT WITH US FANS FOR SO MANY YEARS 💞🤗💞🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😂😂

XD ALL OF RAY STEVEN'S IS SOOOO FUNNNY!!!!!

A captist? And i thought i was the only one ;) Seriously though, this song is the truth. If i didnt live so close to Coos Bay, OR. i'd go back to my childhood barber!

Give me that head band

Gibbersh and latin and a real prayer and a possum thrown in there. I love Ray.

Yeah so funny took my young son to a Barbara shop he was holding back tears so sweet

Clever.

Oh my goodness lmbo👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😛🤣😂🤣😂🤣might need stitches once I stop laughing 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

If ya ever find yourself getting a haircut in a church, always remember to tip generously. XD

He is so funny!!

Here is one of my country music singer singing one of my favorite song of all-time.

NO ONE LIKE HIM. THE BEST ♥️♥️♥️🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😂😂😂😂😂😂

With all the hair salons and barber shops closed due to the CV-19 pandemic, I'm beginning to resemble this song Ray. (Groan!) :-( I'm actually at the point today where even a badly done self-haircut will be an improvement... so, here goes nothing! Wish me luck! :-\

I see he put his watch in the offering basket. He should have asked, “Would Jesus wear a Rolex on his television show?”

Half Catholic, half Baptist. Love it!

Very good one

Getem ray awsome stuff buddy keep it up

I bought this cassette in Woolworth's in (are you ready for this?) Butte, Montana

The LA haircut experience is missing

I loved it!"😂😘😀❤️😭🎉😎🇺🇸🇺🇲🔥🇺🇸😎🎉😭❤️😀

I love Ray Stevens I met him he was so nice I sat on his lap and had my picture made

Ray has it together go ray

It reminds me...I needed to get me a haircut 💈😂

Isn't there lyrics about a barber into punk rock? Love Ray Stevens. My buddy and I would sing his songs on the drive from Gallatin to Hartsville.

I remember watching the. VHS 📼 tapes with. My. Cousins. We would. Watch it repeatedly. Dec 21!! 2022 Wednesday ❤

Just hilarious

You might look like Larry Moe or curly if you cut your own hair during this pandemic

I was the last haircut of my childhood neighborhood barber. He was in his early 80's when he retired in 2004.

WOW

"Most people thought I was an insurance salesman."

I love listing to the haircut song video on KZfaq.

You still mad ? HAHA bahaha I love you toooo Ray

its so true

Very true song

Did anyone see the skin remover O_O?

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don't get your haircut in Butte Montana!! lol I love that part because I live only 30 miles from Butte

When are you coming back to Bremen Georgia.

This a shorter PC version of the album cut. Love the A-Team singers.

Yea, I did!

That is the truth

This is the edited version. The song originally had a third verse. He was in California and got a punk haircut.

I want the "I HATE MUSICIANS" T-shirt.

Also for radio air play another reason to be shortened

He should have added going to one of those girly Foo Foo haircut places.

top :))

I could see shaving cream for slime!!!

Ilovethatsong!"😂😘😀❤️😭🎉😎🇺🇸

i started cutting my own hair 30 years ago, let my brother's GF cut it once, big mistake! nice one ray!

😂😂😂😂❤️

lookin for hair cut

This makes me think of the haircuts I got in China!

Lmbo 🙃🕸😊🕸❤🕸🎹🕸❤🕸☮❤

What do you do for a living aaahhh

Saw a new barbershop $30 haircut I'm greatful 4 my barbershop with a tinny sounding radio speaker plays the oldies station a old pup that hangs out in the shop mounted perch in the empty fish tank deer head on the wall magazine selection of trains/ model trains/ guns/ deer hunting only 1 barber at all times in his 70s with shakey hands that causes the scissors to stab me every now and then yet his mind is still there and all day long telling dad jokes and will never judge you no matter what walk of life you come from and if you ask for anything other then a trim or buzzcut it won't look all that great yet he's been a staple of the area since long b4 I was born 33 years back and you just can't beat the old time barbershop and the customer base it really gives you a great appreciation for the past and ones elders brings me right back to my youth and the shop I grew up in just like the lyrics in the song and with today's inflation its a blessing still for all these years he only charges $5 for any haircut you ask for $2 more if you ask for a face shave me and the entire city will deeply miss him and his shop when his time comes or his his mind goes because I don't know of a single shop just like his and how it used to always be instead you'll be lucky to find a place charging $18 a buzzcut and its always some gal fresh out of school or thick on the accent that makes it hard to hold a conversation while the top 7 same songs play all day long I truly feel his beloved establishment is thing of the past and truly a time machine he even has a working corded rotary phone and just for the record the mounted perch in the fish are real......REAL DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Run a church for loggers 😂

I'm a barber in Joplin, Mo., Ray! Come see me, I promise to take good care of ya :)

I want my barber chair to be a peterbilt

2.45 hahaha

Wow this is old... RUGER 44 DEERFIELD. (Great little hog gun).

Credit to Harrison Roberts

11 people need a haircut

😂😂😂

Saying grace before a haircut, 😀😆😅😂😇

This seems different from the version I heard back in the 70's or 80's.

Shawn Rhymes here. I remember when this song came out, way back when. Personally I like the extended version much better.