Beside Myself

Beside Myself
Studio album by Ray Stevens
Released 1989
Genre Country
Length 32:41
Label MCA #42303
Producer Ray 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"
  2. "Another Fine Mess"
  3. "Marion Michael Morrison"
  4. "Butterfly Inside a Coupe de Ville"
  5. "There’s a Star-Spangled Banner"
  6. "I Saw Elvis in a UFO"
  7. "The Woogie Boogie"
  8. "Stuck on You"
  9. "Bad Dancin’"
  10. "I Used to Be Crazy"

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]

Chart performance

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

References

  1. Ray Stevens -- At His Best at Ray Stevens.com Archived January 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. 1 2 Beside Myself (cassette insert). Ray Stevens. MCA Records. 1989. MCAC-42303.
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