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

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'''''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 [[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>

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

| length7 = 3:45

| title8 = The Flies of Texas Are Uponupon You

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

| length8 = 3:34

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==Chart performance==

===Album===

{| class="wikitable"

! Chart (1987)

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

| align="center"| 25

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===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]]

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| 1987

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

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| 45

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