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Be Your Own Best Friend

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Released
  
October 1978

Label
  
Warner Bros.

Genre
  
Pop, country

Producer
  
Ray Stevens

Be Your Own Best Friend (1978)
  
The Feeling's Not Right Again (1979)

Be Your Own Best Friend was Ray Stevens' sixteenth studio album as well as his fourth and final for Warner Bros. Records, released in 1978. The third track, "You've Got the Music Inside," is a re-recording of a track that was from Stevens' 1973 album Nashville.

Contents

All of the selections were published by Ray Stevens Music-BMI, with the exception of "You've Got the Music Inside," which was published by Ahab Music Company, Inc.-BMI.

The title track is the album's sole single.

Personnel

  • Keyboards & Synthesizer: Ray Stevens
  • Drums: Jerry Kroon
  • Bass: Jack Williams
  • Electric Guitars: Chet Atkins, Steve Gibson
  • Acoustic Guitar: Mark Casstevens
  • Background Vocals: Lisa Silver, Sheri Kramer, Diane Tidwell
  • Percussion: Ray Stevens
  • Strings: Shelly Kurland Strings
  • Horns: Ray Stevens, Denis Solee
  • Recording Engineer: Stuart Keathley
  • Mixing: Charlie Tallent, Ray Stevens
  • Arranged and Produced by: Ray Stevens
  • Recorded at Ray Stevens' Studio - Nashville
  • Photography: Ed Thrasher
  • Design: Brad Kanawyer
  • Chet Atkins courtesy of RCA Records

    • Charts

    Singles - Billboard (North America)

    References

    Be Your Own Best Friend Wikipedia
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