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{{Infobox Album
| Name = Crackin' Up!
| Type = studio
| Artist = [[Ray Stevens]]
| Cover = Crackinup.jpg
| Released = 1987
| Genre = [[country music|Country]], [[comedyNovelty]], [[Comedy music|Comedy]]
| Label = [[MCA Nashville]] #42020
| Producer = Ray Stevens
| Last album = ''The Very Best of Ray Stevens/Roger Miller''<br />(1986)
| This album = '''''Crackin' Up!'''''<br />(1987)
| Next album = ''Get the Best of Ray Stevens''<br />(1987)
}}
'''''Crackin' Up''''' iswas an[[Ray Stevens]]' twenty-sixth studio album byand his fourth for [[RayMCA StevensRecords]]., Itreleased wasin released[[1987 in music|1987]]. TheThree albumsingles producedwere thelifted chartfrom singlethe album: "Would Jesus Wear a Rolex," a #41 on the [[Hot Country Singles]] charts. "Three Legged Man" and "Sex Symbols," werethe alsolast released,two althoughof theywhich did not chart..
 
Chuck Donkers of [[Allmusic]] 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={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r94247|pure_url=yes}}|title=''Crackin' Up'' review|last=Donkers|first=Chuck|work=Allmusic|accessdate=16 February 2010}}</ref>
 
==Track listing==
{{tracklist
# "[[Would Jesus Wear a Rolex]]" (Margaret Archer, [[Chet Atkins]]) – 2:46
| writing_credits = yes
# "Three Legged Man" ([[Shel Silverstein]]) – 3:41
| title1 = [[Would Jesus Wear a Rolex]]
# "Cool Down Willard" (C. W. Kalb, Jr.) – 3:16
#| writer1 "[[Would Jesus Wear a Rolex]]" ( = Margaret Archer, [[Chet Atkins]]) – 2:46
# "[[I'm My Own Grandpa|I'm My Own Grandpaw]]" (Moe Jaffe, Dwight Latham) – 2:41
| length1 = 2:46
# "The Ballad of Cactus Pete and Lefty" (Kalb, Jr., Ray Stevens) – 4:37
| title2 = Three-Legged Man
# "Sex Symbols" (Kalb, Jr.) – 3:51
| writer2 = [[Shel Silverstein]]
# "Gourmet Restaurants" (Kalb, Jr., Stevens) – 3:45
| length2 = 3:41
# "The Flies of Texas Are Upon You" ([[Layng Martine, Jr.]], Austin Roberts) – 3:34
| title3 = Cool Down Willard
# "Doctor, Doctor (Have Mercy on Me)" (Kalb, Jr.) – 2:54
| writer3 = C.W. Kalb, Jr.
# "The Day That Clancy Drowned" ([[Sheb Wooley]]) – 3:09
| length3 = 3:16
#| title4 = "[[I'm My Own Grandpa|I'm My Own Grandpaw]]" (Moe Jaffe, Dwight Latham) – 2:41
| 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 Upon You
#| "Thewriter8 Flies of Texas Are Upon You" ( = [[Layng Martine, Jr.]], Austin Roberts) – 3:34
| length8 = 3:34
#| title9 = "Doctor, Doctor (Have Mercy on Me)" (Kalb, Jr.) – 2:54
| writer9 = C.W. Kalb, Jr.
| length9 = 2:54
| title10 = The Day That Clancy Drowned
| writer10 = [[Sheb Wooley]]
| length10 = 3:09
 
==Album Personnel credits==
As listed in liner notes.<ref>{{cite album-notes |title=Crackin' Up |artist=Ray Stevens |year=1987 |format=CD insert |publisher=MCA Records |publisherid=MCAD-42020}}</ref>
*Produced and arranged by: Ray Stevens
*Mark Casstevens – [[banjo]], [[harmonica]], [[rhythm guitar]]
*Recorded at: Ray Stevens Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
*Carol Chase – [[background vocals]]
*Engineer: Stuart Keathley
*Steve Gibson – [[electric guitar]]
*Mastered by: Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics
*Stuart Keathley – [[bass guitar]]
*Mixed and mastered using the JVC Digital Mastering System
*Lisa Silver – background vocals
 
*Ray Stevens – vocals, [[synthesizer]], [[keyboard instrument|keyboards]]
'''Musicians'''
*Diane V. Tidwell – background vocals
*Keyboards, synthesizers: Ray Stevens
*Tommy Wells – [[drum kit|drums]]
*Drums: Tommy Wells
*Bass: Stuart Keathley
*Rhythm Guitars, Banjo, Harmonica: Mark Casstevens
*Electric Guitars: Steve Gibson
 
*Background Vocals: Lisa Silver, Diane V. Tidwell, Carol Chase
 
*Art Direction: Ray Stevens, Slick Lawson
*Photography: Slick Lawson
*Design Concept: Ray Stevens
 
==Chart performance==
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