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Don't Laugh Now

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Released
  
April 1982

Artist
  
Ray Stevens

Producer
  
Ray Stevens

Genre
  
Country music

Don't Laugh Now (1982)
  
Greatest Hits (1983)

Release date
  
April 1982

Label
  
RCA Records

Ray Stevens albums
  
Be Your Own Best Friend, Losin' Streak, Hum It, He Thinks He's Ray Stevens, The Feeling's Not Right

Don't Laugh Now was Ray Stevens' nineteenth studio album and his third and final for RCA Records, released in 1982. The front of the album cover shows Stevens looking pensive and holding a comedy mask, while the back cover shows Stevens smiling and holding a tragedy mask. Two singles were lifted from the album: "Written Down in My Heart" and "Where the Sun Don't Shine," both of which became minor country hits.

Contents

Personnel

  • Produced by: Bob Montgomery and Ray Stevens
  • "Such a Night," "Take That Girl Away," "Always There," "Where the Sun Don't Shine," "Oh Leo Lady," "Don't Laugh Now," and "Country Boy, Country Club Girl" arranged by: Ray Stevens
  • "Written Down in My Heart," "This Old Piano," and "Why Don't We Go Somewhere and Love" arranged by: Ron Oates
  • Recorded at Ray Stevens Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
  • Engineer: Stuart Keathley

    • Musicians

  • Keyboards: Ron Oates
  • Drums: James Stroud
  • Bass: Bob Wray
  • Acoustic guitar: Ken Bell
  • Electric guitars: Reggie Young, John Clausi, Kenny Mims, Michael Spriggs, Larry Byrom
  • Steel guitar: Hal Rugg
  • Strings: Nashville String Machine
  • Background vocals: the Cherry Sisters
  • Photography: Graham Henman
  • Art direction: Barnes & Company

    • Singles

    Songs

    Oh Leo Lady3:17
    Such a Night3:30
    Written Down in My Heart3:04

    References

    Don't Laugh Now Wikipedia
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