Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills
- Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills
Infobox Single
Name = Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills
Caption =
Artist = Ray Stevens
from Album = 1,837 Seconds of Humor
B-side = Teen Years
Released = July 1961
Format =
Recorded = 1961
Genre = Pop, Novelty
Length = 2:26
Label = Mercury Records
Writer = Ray Stevens
Producer = ???
Last single = "Happy Blue Year"
(1960)
This single = "Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills"
(1961)
Next single = "Scratch My Back (I Love It)"
(1961)
Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills is a novelty song written and performed by Ray Stevens. It was released as a single in 1961 and became Stevens' first chart entry. Its lyrics tell of a fictional "wonder drug" that can cure a myriad of ailments.
The song is also notable for having the second-longest song title of any Top 40 single on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. [ [http://www.boxtalent.com/speakers_new_dtl.asp?BandID=426 Box Talent Agency] ]
ee also
*Purple Pills
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