Beside Myself (Ray Stevens album) explained

Beside Myself
Type:	studio
Artist:	Ray Stevens
Cover:	Beside_Myself2.jpg
Released:	1989
Genre:	Country
Length:	32:41
Label:	MCA #42303
Producer:	Ray Stevens
Prev Title:	I Never Made a Record I Didn't Like
Prev Year:	1988
Next Title:	Funny Man
Next Year:	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).

See also

• Ray Stevens discography

Notes and References

1. http://www.raystevens.com/discography.php?title=ray_stevens_at_his_best_1989&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Ray Stevens -- At His Best at Ray Stevens.com
2. Beside Myself . Ray Stevens . 1989 . cassette insert . MCA Records . MCAC-42303.