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{{Infobox Albumalbum

| Name = Crackin' Up!

| Type name = studioCrackin' Up!

| Artisttype = [[Ray= Stevens]]studio

| Coverartist = [[Ray = Crackinup.jpgStevens]]

| Releasedcover = 1987Crackinup.jpg

| alt =

| Genre = [[country music|Country]], [[Novelty]], [[Comedy music|Comedy]]

| released = June 1987

| Label = [[MCA Nashville]] #42020

| Producerrecorded = Ray Stevens=

| studio =

| Last album = ''The Very Best of Ray Stevens/Roger Miller''<br />(1986)

| Genre genre = [[country music|Country]], [[Noveltynovelty song|novelty]], [[Comedy music|Comedycomedy]]

| This album = '''''Crackin' Up!'''''<br />(1987)

| length =

| Next album = ''Get the Best of Ray Stevens''<br />(1987)

| Label label = [[MCA Nashville]] #42020

*Design| Concept:producer = Ray Stevens

| Next album prev_title = ''[[Get the Best of Ray Stevens''<br />(1987)]]

| prev_year = 1987

| next_title = [[Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Ray Stevens album)|Greatest Hits, Vol. 2]]

| next_year = 1987

}}

'''''Crackin' Up!''''' was [[Ray Stevens]]' twenty-sixthfourth studio album and his fourth for [[MCA Records]], released in [[1987 in music|1987]]. Three singles were lifted from the album: "Would Jesus Wear a Rolex"," "Three -Legged Man" and "Sex Symbols,", the last two of which did not chart..

Chuck Donkers of [[AllmusicAllMusic]] rated the album four stars out of five, saying that the songs "don't just make you laugh, they make you think, too."<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllmusicAllMusic|class=album|id=r94247|pure_url=yes}}|title=''Crackin' Up'' review|last=Donkers|first=Chuck|work=Allmusic|accessdate=16 February 2010}}</ref>

==Track listing==

{{track listing

{{tracklist

| writing_credits = yes

| title1 = [[Would Jesus Wear a Rolex]]

| writer1 = Margaret Archer, [[Chet Atkins]]

Line 26 ⟶ 31:

| length2 = 3:41

| title3 = Cool Down Willard

| writer3 = [[C.W. Kalb, Jr.]]

| length3 = 3:16

| title4 = [[I'm My Own Grandpa|I'm My Own Grandpaw]]w

| writer4 = [[Dwight Latham]], [[Moe Jaffe]]

| length4 = 2:41

| title5 = The Ballad of Cactus Pete and Lefty

| writer5 = [[C.W. Kalb, Jr.]], [[Ray Stevens]]

| length5 = 4:37

| title6 = Sex Symbols

| writer6 = [[C.W. Kalb, Jr.]]

| length6 = 3:51

| title7 = Gourmet Restaurant

| writer7 = [[Ray Stevens]], [[C.W. Kalb, Jr.]]

| length7 = 3:45

| title8 = The Flies of Texas Are Uponupon You

| writer8 = [[Layng Martine, Jr.]], [[Austin Roberts (singer)|Austin Roberts]]

| length8 = 3:34

| title9 = Doctor, Doctor (Have Mercy on Me)

| writer9 = [[C.W. Kalb, Jr.]]

| length9 = 2:54

| title10 = The Day That Clancy Drowned

| writer10 = [[Sheb Wooley]]

| length10 = 3:09

}}

== Album credits ==

As listed in liner notes.<ref>{{cite album-AV media notes |title=Crackin' Up |artistothers=Ray Stevens |year=1987 |formattype=CD insert |publisher=MCA Records |publisheridid=MCAD-42020}}</ref>

* Produced and arrangedArranged by: Ray Stevens

* Recorded at: Ray Stevens Studio, (Nashville, Tennessee).

* Engineer: – Stuart Keathley

* Mastered by: Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee).

* Mixed and masteredMastered using the JVC Digital Mastering System.

* Art Direction: – Ray Stevens, and Slick Lawson

* Photography: – Slick Lawson

* Design Concept – Ray Stevens

'''Musicians'''

* Ray Stevens – vocals, keyboards, synthesizers

*Keyboards, synthesizers: Ray Stevens

* Mark Casstevens – rhythm guitars, [[banjo]], [[harmonica]]

*Drums: Tommy Wells

* Steve Gibson – electric guitars

*Bass: Stuart Keathley – bass

*Rhythm Guitars, Banjo, Harmonica: Mark Casstevens

*Drums: Tommy Wells – drums

*Electric Guitars: Steve Gibson

* Carol Chase – backing vocals

*Background Vocals: Lisa Silver, Diane V.– Tidwell,backing Carolvocals Chase

* Diane Tidwell – backing vocals

*Art Direction: Ray Stevens, Slick Lawson

*Photography: Slick Lawson

*Design Concept: Ray Stevens

==Chart performance==

===Album===

{| class="wikitable"

! Chart (1987)

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| U.S. ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums

| align="center"| 25

|}

===Singles===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

! rowspan="2"| Year

! rowspan="2"| Single

! colspan="2"| Peak positions

|- style="font-size:smaller;"

! width="45"| [[Hot Country Songs|US Country]]

! width="45"| [[RPM (magazine)|CAN Country]]

|-

| 1987

| align="left"| "Would Jesus Wear a Rolex"

| 41

| 45

|-

|}

==References==

{{Reflist}}

{{Ray Stevens}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:1987 albums]]