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{{Infobox album

| Name name = Crackin' Up!

| Type type = studio

| Artist artist = [[Ray Stevens]]

| Cover cover = Crackinup.jpg

| Releasedalt = June 1987 =

| released = June 1987

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

| recorded =

| Label = [[MCA Nashville]] #42020

| Producerstudio = Ray Stevens

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

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

| length =

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

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

| Next album = ''[[Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Ray Stevens album)|Greatest Hits, Vol. 2]]''<br />(1987)

*Design| Concept:producer = Ray Stevens

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

| prev_year = 1987

| Next album next_title = ''[[Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Ray Stevens album)|Greatest Hits, Vol. 2]]''<br />(1987)

| next_year = 1987

}}

'''''Crackin' Up!''''' was [[Ray Stevens]]' twenty-fourth 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]]

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| length7 = 3:45

| title8 = The Flies of Texas Are upon You

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

| length8 = 3:34

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

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}}

== Album credits ==

As listed in liner notes.<ref>{{cite AV media notes |title=Crackin' Up |others=Ray Stevens |year=1987 |type=CD insert |publisher=MCA Records |id=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, Carol Chase

* Lisa Silver – backing vocals

*Art Direction: Ray Stevens, Slick Lawson

* Diane Tidwell – backing vocals

*Photography: Slick Lawson

*Design Concept: Ray Stevens

==Chart performance==

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[[Category:1987 albums]]