Beside Myself (Ray Stevens album)

Beside Myself
Studio album by
Ray Stevens
Released1989
GenreCountry
Length32:41
LabelMCA #42303
ProducerRay Stevens
Ray Stevens chronology
I Never Made a Record I Didn't Like
(1988) 		Beside Myself
(1989) 		Funny Man
(1989)

Beside Myself was Ray Stevens' twenty-sixth studio album and his sixth for MCA Records, released in 1989. It includes the singles "I Saw Elvis in a UFO" and "There's a Star Spangled Banner." The album was also his last for MCA Records before he moved to Curb Records for his next studio album, 1990's Lend Me Your Ears.

A repackaged version of this album, Ray Stevens — At His Best (MCAC-20695 cassette, MCAD-20695 CD), was released on December 18, 1992 with most of the same tracks in a different order, eliminating the tracks "Bad Dancin'" and "I Used to Be Crazy."[1] A different version of At His Best, with all ten tracks from Beside Myself in the original order, is available on iTunes.

Track listing

  1. "Your Bozo’s Back Again" - 3:51
  2. "Another Fine Mess" - 3:19
  3. "Marion Michael Morrison" - 3:53
  4. "Butterfly Inside a Coupe de Ville" - 3:12
  5. "There’s a Star Spangled Banner" - 3:38
  6. "I Saw Elvis in a U.F.O." - 3:34
  7. "The Woogie Boogie" - 2:23
  8. "Stuck on You" - 3:18
  9. "Bad Dancin’" - 2:48
  10. "I Used to Be Crazy" - 2:45

All songs written by Ray Stevens and C.W. Kalb, Jr.; “Bad Dancin’”, co-written by Cinde Borup and Bruce Innis.[2]

Personnel

Compiled from liner notes.[2]

Musicians

  • Ray Stevens – lead vocals, backing vocals, synthesizers
  • Gary Prim – keyboards
  • Mark Casstevens – rhythm guitars
  • Steve Gibson – electric guitars
  • Stuart Keathley – bass guitar
  • Tommy Wells – drums
  • Terry McMillan – harmonica
  • Denis Solee – tenor saxophone
  • Vicki Hampton – backing vocals
  • Sheri Huffman – backing vocals
  • Lisa Silver – backing vocals
  • Diane Vanette – backing vocals

Production

  • Ray Stevens – producer, arrangements, art direction
  • Stuart Keathley – engineer
  • Glenn Meadows – mastering
  • Slick Lawson – art direction, photography
  • Susan Lawson – stying, make-up
  • Recorded at Ray Stevens Studio (Nashville, Tennessee).
  • Mastered at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee).

Chart performance

Chart (1989) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 51

See also

References

  1. ^ Ray Stevens -- At His Best at Ray Stevens.com Archived January 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b Beside Myself (cassette insert). Ray Stevens. MCA Records. 1989. MCAC-42303.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)


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