Ray Stevens - Running Bear
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Song from Ray Stevens' Box set called Encyclopedia of Recorded Comedy Music, Ray Stevens version of Sonny James' song Running Bear!!
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As old as this song is it still has a message from two lovers.
Yes great memories of this great song Running Bear 🐻, from Dalhousie NB Canada 🇨🇦, 👏👏🎶🎵🎼👏👏🎶🎵🎼🐻🐻💜💕💜👍👍
I remember hearing this on the radio in my father's car...my father tapping the steering wheel as he drove "this is a good one!"
we sang this on my 8th grade gradation I am 75 years now loved that song
This song was originally
recorded by Johnny Preston with background by George Jones .
And the big bopper
First time I heard this song, it was recorded by Sonny James. Ray Stevens did a fantastic job on this song and made it his own.
I love this song, true love blocked by parents, just like Romeo and Juliet, parents need to let go, true love is wonderful, sad what children do today because of broken love, we had a young man blow his brains out at our town hall, his girlfriend dumped him, a broken heart knows no reality or future
I believe that Ray Stevens is the very best song writer /singer / entertainer that America and world has ever had . God bless him and pray he will continue to bless us with his music .
Wow....Big statement man...tho ,I think you maybe forgetting a few (Hundred) people!!....Fool!!!
Whoa there Willa......not sure if that statement is as true as you would like it to be :)
@@huwjones1762 Absolutely !!!
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IFIN HE THINKETH TAYLOR SWIFT STALK HIM?
LMAO
SHE A DECOY, LMAO, IZ STALK HIM LONG.
LMAO ❤😅
I remember hearing this song as a little girl
I love this song. My father taught it to me as a child. So sad, but lovely.
the song is great but the singer is refreshing, why can't there be more artists like this. I remember Ray Stevens whenI was in high school. in the 70's
I was in high school in the 1970's when Ray Stevens came out with The Streak.
Always thought this was one of the sweetest songs.
Me too !!!
So much to this eclectic man's career. The country version of Misty; the gospel of Everything Is Beautiful; and of course, the comedy. When I first heard The Streak over forty-five years ago, I laughed and laughed. And I'm still laughing.
I loved this song at school dances when in Primary school about age 9-10 yrs old. Still like it.
Ray Stevens is awesome. With all of his humorous songs out there. This song has always been my favorite (non-humor) songs. I do not know who put this video together. But the pictures are just beautiful also. Thank you for sharing this. I remember having this song on my (dare I say it?) 8-track player in my car. Was always playing it. I also had a lot of Ray Steven songs.
The original was, I believe a #3 hit for Johnny Preston in 1959.
Sonny James also did a version in circa 1970
Don't remember the exact year though.
This man puts on one hell of a show, well worth the money
That is absolutely the truth!!! Seen him many years ago, it is unforgettable, it is really that good!!!
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Regardless, this is a true story passed down by my Ancestors. It's the explanation of two mountains.
Kinda like Big Spirit Lake here..
Gracie G Carson Doughty I'm Caddo my grandparents had this type of love affair
My Grandparents were Cherokee n Blackfoot and they had a Love that surpassed all and at 50 I have found the one and only man who makes me feel like this and we are Running Bear and White Dove! Myra Eagle Sutton
What a beautiful implication. I know there is more symbolism in Native Legends then our history.
Would love to hear more about this story. Oral history is so easily lost
I love this song, but seriously expected it to be a comedy son, Ray Stevens Style. He is so good about making serious funny. But, he did this song justice. Love him.
Mamma Kaye Lee.... agree at the 100% level....!
Ray can get serious and even respectful when he needs to. Remember that he had a # 1 record with "Everything is Beautiful", which is his biggest song ever.
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I love Ray Stevens. He is so talented, just an amazing funny man and Serious. Awesome
Love this classic hit song
this is a beautiful song about true love and how nothing could kill it ray got it right
This song is nothing special many singers sang before Ray. The montage was great sans the Ray Stevens images it could be a good montage for any version
Some people enjoy Ray Stevens. To them, it just may be special.
Tracy Humes this song has been done a couple of times in country music
Tracy Humes. Hang in there be strong our Lord will come and SAVE us. PEACE
@@enterthehunter7336 Charley Pride -- Kaw - Liga
These sad love songs always make me cry . Poor Running Bear and Little White Dove ;/......
I guess I am old. But remember having this song on my (dare I say it?) 8-track player. I am not native,
Johnny Preston and Ray Stevens both have great versions of this song. I didn't even know Ray did a version of this.
I loved this song the first time I ever heard it. Of course I heard Ricky Nelson singing it. My mom had all of his albums. I was ten years old, so that would have been 1979. As a young girl, this song and story brought their love to my imagination. I love this video though, with all of the pictures.
I may be wrong,but Johnny Preston sang that song,I have a lot of Rickie songs,never saw one of him sanging Running Bear.
Sad, sad day.
Johnny Preston from Port Arthur Texas .
Ive never heard the Ray version before ,its quite good i think like most of his songs
Absolutely beautiful and very beautifully done!!👏👍🛐✝️🌹❤️💕💓💗🇺🇸🕎🔯🌄🎆
Beautiful. I am so glad to hear this song.
a good song that tells a good story but also sad ! but i love what was done here .
Mr Stevens your music and tactics has gave millions a smile thank you
He already made a video about Running Bare. It's called "The Streak." :D
Doug Montgomery
You are a funny man...
I like your pun, it's very clever.
Good one Doug! Ha Ha Ha ...Aah! That's great! Thank you. Funny! I needed that.
PLAY THE STREAK FOR MY NEPHEW WHEN HE GETS OUT OF SHOWER AND RUNS BACK TOO HIS ROOM! MAKES HIM MAD!
well done - very sharp = ha ha ha ha ha !
I just love everything you choose to record , great/.thanks ray.
Very pretty Indian maiden flowing hair
The Chief her father named Running Bear
Braves run away bare that father did scare
One brave stood his ground with a stare
And Running Bear Declared them a pair
Hunga hunga hunga hunga lol
I never thought I would hear this after so many years.
this man can sing ANYTHING!!!!
GASP! My mom held poker games for a bunch of us on Friday nights after drum corps practice. I'd sit in the game just so I could hear this song! LOVED IT!
Can't believe the snowflakes haven't started crying about this
Give them time, they will.
What is a snowflake?
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I love that song. But it was so sad. But had a sad, true, but kinda happy ending as well. Now they'll always be together in that happy haunting ground. SO SO SAD.
What's it mesn?..I dont understand
Indeed, Sheila. Such a bittersweet song to hear.
Always loved that song, even now after 4 years since my wife has died, it becomes a rousing one to hear.
@@Butter-go7ih
In a nutshell... this is the gist of it.
Despite all that everyone (both warring tribes) did to keep them apart by fighting one another because of their forbidden love, they ventured through the unknown (the raging waters) in an attempt to reach one of the two banks where peace & tranquility (they hoped) would be their peaceful haven. But, as the song goes, they drowned as they reached the other.
For them, it was better to try and be victorious over the raging waters and be happy with each other than it was to being miserable while apart.
@@Butter-go7ih they couldnt be together cause their people fought
They jumped to be together
I was JUST thinking this! I had it on one of the Goofy Gold albums in the 70s, and I ADORE this song!
I didn't realize it was a Ray Stevens song! Wow.
Actually, Sonny James' version came years later than the original, by Johnny Preston. The Big Bopper, J. P. Richardson wrote it and can be heard in the background as the Indian brave.
George Jones also done a great version before Sonny James.
When the Big Bopper wrote this song in 1959 and Johnny Preston released the original recording of it, I was thirteen years old, mad about music, and had a crush on a little girl at school. I loved the song then, and have done ever since. Hearing this great version by ray Stevens recently, revived my memory of it, so I jumped online, found a very good backing track and now - at 72 years of age - recorded my own vocal cover of it. Now I'm no Johnny Preston or Ray Stevens, but have a listen - hope you enjoy it!
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Ray, was so talented and he made the funniest songs an he acted them out like:: ITS ME AGAIN MARGARET:: So funny.
He still is! Still putting out new music
for some reason when i was a kid i loved this song on the original 45. No idea why i liked this song.
hello Ray love all your songs
Good way to start 2020 , listen to RAY.
@Daniel Curtis: Sonny James did NOT have the original version of "Running Bear", that honour belongs to Johnny Preston. Preston's version issued as Mercury 71474X45 c/w "My Heart Knows" in June 1959, nearly a full decade ahead of Sonny James' version issued as EMI(Capitol) 2486 c/w "Midnight Mood" in April, 1969. The reason I put Capitol in Brackets is because Capitol is an insignificant subsidiary(equal to infant toddler in a family) of the world-wide EMI organisation.
Not a curse word could be sited anywhere! The art work is amazing too!
That is the first record (45 RPM) that I ever got. Sung by Sonny James. I am 71 years old so that had to be around 1960.
Live long and prosper Larry.
Lovely song and wonderful musical performance !
How lovely and poetic
Beware of beautiful maiden who blows kisses across wide raging river, if you cannot swim! What was she thinking? Me thinking canoe!
Love this song, so catchy are the lyrics .
First heard this from my grandpa's 78. It isn't the original but it make me think of him.
To be correct - this is a song originally done by Sonny James and the Southern Gentlemen. The picture you used with Stevens dressed as an indian is from the Medallion Awards in tribute to Sonny. My Uncle is Glenn Huggins - the bass singer.
Johnny Preston
Charles Dunn Sonny James was my grandmother's cousin. Lol!
my neighbors dog is related to Lassie...that's about the same thing.
Paul Brown lol 😂
Nice
This song is not by Ray Stevens. It is performed by him in this version BUT: It was written by Jiles Perry Richardson (a.k.a. The Big Bopper) and originally performed by Johnny Preston...
Another version of Romeo and Juliet. True love.
Ray Stevens singing it straight and doing a great job. Who wouldathunkit?
Omg this was always my favorite Ray Stevens song as a kid.
Ray stevens never recorded this one until 2009 I think on the box set Encyclopedia of recorded comedy music. He's been one of my all time favorite singers since I was about 4 years old lol
@@JesusNeverChanges you are right - I remembered the song from childhood but it must have been Johnny Prestons version. My parents listened to Ray Stevens when I was young and I loved all his songs. Thanks
Not many remember Ray...
Those horns...flutes.
George Jones I think did this same arrangement with his version
I'm sorry, not to throw shade on anyone, but you are all wrong about who first did this song. It was written by Jiles Perry Richardson (a.k.a. The Big Bopper) and first recorded in 1959 by Johnny Preston. Sonny James didn't do a cover for it until the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Wouldn't have worked as a comedy tune. Good job Ray!
I have always loved this song but it has always made me cry when I listen to it, it is so sad.
snowflakes wouldnt stand for this in 2021
I know, people are over offended about everything. I'm native American myself but I don't see anything wrong with this song, nothing wrong with the name Redskin football team or the cleavland Indians lol
The Johnny Preston version is the one I am familiar with, first 1960 then 1965.
Isn't it amazing how all the Indians but one look Caucasian.
Should've been Running Bare for Ray Stevens opposite The Streak
Have you you been listening to Jay Moore of Moose 106.7? He makes some wisecrack every time he plays the song.😁(actually, most of our indigenous American AND European ancestors did "run bare")
The Jungle Book in Rio version brought me there because of "Say You, Say Me"!
Waiting for the sequel, " Big Chief Running Sores."
Very nice job on this wonderful old song. I kept waiting for Stevens to put some kind of joke in, but he played it straight. I enjoyed it...not as much as the Sonny James cover, but I did like it.
Ray could do songs straight remember the song Everything I'd Beautiful
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I love how the other guy in the thumbnail is like “really dude?”
Wonderful song and musical performance !
Your songs aren't supposed to be sad, Ray!
What a beautiful voice I love this song nice memories still listening! how're you?
NO NO NO ! I hate this song while I like it at the same time ! As if Running Bear is too damned stupid to use a log to help him get across the river.. but he can swim halfway to drown ! Same goes for White Dove. The songwriter doesn't give either a lick of sense - or those lyrics were cut to fit the song on the original 45rpm record.
Nice version but i think I still prefer Johnny Preston's make on it!
Ray Stevens version does circles around Johnny Preston version
yes, so do I
So do I
look up, "the Indians show band" northern Ireland , from 70s,
This song used to make me cry as a young teenager.
Still does and im 67
TOO TELL THE TRUTH TRUE LOVE NEVER DIE'S IT GROWS STRONGER OVER TIME
The trick is to know what it is to begin with. It is often not understood until too late..
Tracy Humes...If you jump in a swirling river to meet each other there a good chance that love will die. Love is so overrated.
Should update this video with Schiff & Pelosi pictires, it would be a hoot.
Remember this from my youth. Love it
I haven’t heard this song in over 20 years. We sung it in Primary School
Johnny Preston DID THE ORIGINAL.
Romero and Juliet for the American Indians well in a way.
To my funny nutter uncle brin love you whetevercyou are hun xxc
makes you wonder how they fell in love from across the river....lol
+Cave Lion good question lol
Love at first sight. They were young and they were strangers.
I can imagine them being from different tribes and because they were their parents would try to keep them apart. But Running Bear and Little White Dove would still see each other secretly. Until their parents would find out and forcibly keep the lovers apart by putting them on opposite sides of a river so wild and raging that neither of them could ever cross it. Alive, that is.
Cave lion, because they both were looking for someone to be loved by. That's called a realm dream before it happens.not a asleep dream.
Sorta sounds like Romeo and Juliet.
Elizabeth Warren is not amused.
I like in the video the Hudson Bay coat
she is wearing!
インデアンの哀愁を含んだ曲で大好きです。日本にもアイヌと言う民族が北海道に住んで居ました。
Oh yes, they call him, the STREAK!! LOL.
Jim Nesbitt did Runnin' Bare...😯
My favourite song as a child .. 🦋
This is not a comedy song. I doubt the composer, Jiles Percival Richardson(known as J.P. Richardson, the "Big Bopper") intended this as a comedy song, and Ray Stevens did not treat it as such either, he sang it straight, as it was meant to be sung. As to your bracketed comment, "Jesus Never Changes", that's because he never existed in the first place.
Somewhere Johnny Preston must be smiling
this is true love song. and i love it
Not all his songs are comedic.... and the ones that aren't are just as good
Actually, Johnny Preston was the original recording artist.
Is that man next to him George Lindsey?
had him , late 70s, , early 80s,!! uk,! like , he ,, the streak , 80s,!!
What??
The streak.
Written by J P Richardson, known as the Big Bopper. It was his only posthumus hit
I loved ❤️ Chantilly Lace by the Big Bopper.
Jiles Perry "J.P." Richardson Jr., better known by his stage name The Big Bopper, was an American musician and disc jockey. His best-known compositions include "Chantilly Lace," "Running Bear", and "White Lightning", the latter of which became George Jones' first number-one hit in 1959.😎
Love this one Was actually Popular in the Night Club i went to too
What a beautiful voice I love this song nice memories still listening! how're you Lynn?
Check out the Guess Who version on their album "Rockin"..
Fantastic. Txs for Sharing 😊.💌
have ALWAYS loved that song.
The words should have been changed to 'They will always be together, Buried 6 feet underground!" rhymes as well, and would be less 'romantic' about doing something totally stupid. I mean, take a canoe? Each tie a rope to the bank and when you met in the river you would be able to tie them together and pull yourselves to one bank or the other? I remember when this came out, I though it should say something like 'and the dumb girl did the same' instead of saying her name, but I guess it means the same... This is like calling Romeo and Juliet 'romantic' because they both killed themselves stupidly... They could also change the name of the song to 'Darwin's Theory in action' (Bet I get flames about this because I'm dissing a beautiful so romantic song.. )