Well, you can call me Ray...

[Forty Rod]

... or you can call me Jay...

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Or you can me Ray-Jay.........

[Silver Creek Slim]

But, don't call me Shirley! 

Slim

[litl rooster]

you don't even call me by my name

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Or you can call me RJ,


AnnieLee

[Forty Rod]

...or you can cal me RJJ..

[Four-Eyed Buck]

But ya doesn't has ta call me Johnson.........

[Foothills Drifter]

You don't have ta call me darlin,darlin...........

[gophergrease]

Just don't call me late to supper.

[litl rooster]

 nor Dee Jay

[litl rooster]

don't fergit Fay Rae and her sister Desi Rae

[LazyK Pejay]

...and you can call me Pejay, LOL.

LazyK Pejay

[litl rooster]

welcome to tall tales Pejay

[The Arapaho Kid]

The "You can call me Ray" routine was started by a comedian by the name of Bill Saluga.  In this routine he was Raymond J. Johnson. and the basic routine was like this:

Ahh, ya doesn't has to call me Johnson! You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Johnny or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me RayJay, or you can call me RJ... but ya doesn't hafta call me Johnson.

He appeared on stage in a 40's style zoot suit and after the introduction, he'd launch into that routine.  It was quite hilarious!

[Foothills Drifter]

Howdy......
I do remember that............

Good shootin......
Vern...

[The Arapaho Kid]

And...as memory serves...he had a voice quality that sort of hit your nerve center like a rasp!  Kind of high pitched and nasal...not your typical male voice.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Maybe a little New York in it. Believe he was part of the Laugh-in cast or maybe The Smothers Brothers........Buck

[LazyK Pejay]

I do believe I saw him on Ed Sullivan (heck we saw everything on Ed Sullivan back then)

LazyK Pejay

[Forty Rod]

He prredates the Smothers Brothers by a few years and Laugh In by 15 years.

[Brazos Bucky Smith]

OR you can call me

R J J[/color]

Actually it was the Steve Allen show, along with Don Knotts, and sveral others I can picture but not name, Carl Reiner being one of them! ha