One More Last Chance (album) explained

One More Last Chance
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Ray Stevens
Cover:	One More Last Chance (album).webp
Released:	February 1981
Genre:	Country
Label:	RCA Records
Producer:	Ray Stevens
Prev Title:	Oh Lonesome Me
Prev Year:	1981
Next Title:	Don't Laugh Now
Next Year:	1982

One More Last Chance was Ray Stevens' eighteenth studio album as well and his second for RCA Records, released in 1981. The front of the album cover shows Stevens dressed in cowboy attire and at a bar with a pretty, flirtatious woman standing at his side. The singles "Night Games" and "One More Last Chance" (unrelated to the later Charley Pride hit and Vince Gill hit songs of the same names) were lifted from this album. The album was a pivot back toward more serious material for Stevens, as he felt that the novelty music he had been recording in the late 1970s was falling out of fashion; he eventually returned to novelty music in 1984.^[1]

Personnel

• Arranged and Produced by Ray Stevens
• Engineer – Stuart Keathley
• Recorded at Ray Stevens Studio (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Mastering by Randy King at Randy's Roost (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Photography – Slick Lawson
• Art Direction – Bill Barnes

Musicians

• Ray Stevens – vocals, backing vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, horns, percussion
• Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitars, electric guitars
• John Clausi – acoustic guitars, electric guitars
• Dale Sellers – electric guitars
• Hal Rugg – steel guitar
• Larry (Wimpy Wayne) Sasser – steel guitar
• Stuart Keathley – bass
• Jerry Carrigan – drums
• Jerry Kroon – drums
• Shelly Kurland Strings – strings
• Lisa Silver – backing vocals

Chart performance

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
		US Country	CAN Country
1980	"Night Games"	20	11
1981	"One More Last Chance"	33	46

Notes and References

1. December 8, 1984. Stevens Nuts over 'Squirrel'. Billboard. 39, 42.