After all these years, singer and comedian Ray Stevens will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.  Known most for his novelty songs, he also hosted his own TV Variety show and hosted a theater in Branson in the early 90’s.

1)  He got his start as a studio musician playing on Elvis’s first hit songs?

2)  His highest charting song was Gitarzan in 1969?

3)  In the video for The Streak, Ethel is played by a young Farrah Fawcett?

4)  He passed away after complications from cancer in 1996?

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1)  Fake…but he did sign a contract with Capitol Records in 1957 and had mild success.

2)  Fake…it went to #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, but The Streak and Everything Is Beautiful went to #1 in the 70’s.

3)  Fake…the Streak and Ethel were animated.

4)  Fake…he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, but recovered.  A wrestler named Ray The Crippler Stevens passed away in 1996 and people thought it was the singer.  His office received thousands of condolence and sympathy letters when the news broke.