Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970: #624: ” Bridget The Midget [The Queen Of The Blues}- Ray Stevens. December 19, 1970.

• Single: ” Bridget The Midget [The Queen Of The Blues}- Ray Stevens
• Record Company- Barnaby
• Genre: Novelty
• Written by Ray Stevens
• Time: 3:37
• B-side:” Night People”
• Grade: F
• Peaked at #50 10 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.

Ray Stevens had 4 Hot 100 singles in 1970- only one of them made the Top 40- and that went all the way to #1 “Everything Is Beautiful.” Stevens is remembered mostly for that song and novelty songs like “The Streak.” I have never found Stevens to be even slightly amusing but many over the years have found him humorous. I dunno- after hearing “The Streak” twice I’d had enough. I remember the ‘made for television’ record he was selling a few decades ago… and while over the years I have [for a dollar} picked up those sold on television records sold by Slim Whitman, Boxcar Willie and Roger Whitaker- I’d never been tempted to pick up the Ray Stevens one. A dollar saved is a dollar earned.