Beside Myself (Ray Stevens album)

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.

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)

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. 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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