"Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasant-Tasting Green and Purple Pills" is a novelty song that was written and performed by Ray Stevens.
[1] Its lyrics tell of a fictional "wonder drug" that, when taken in a daily dose, can cure myriad ailments, much in the same way unscrupulous patent medicine salesmen marketed their wares in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The song is also notable for having the longest title (104 characters) of any single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at the time of its release.
Usually known simply as "Stars on 45", the record was legally required to list all of its component songs as part of its official title for copyright reasons, and thus usurped Stevens' record.
Billboard Hot 100[2] (6 weeks, entered August 21): Reached #35 Cashbox[3] (8 weeks, entered August 19): 99, 81, 69, 59, 52, 42, 38, 61 This 1960s song-related article is a stub.