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He Thinks He's Ray Stevens
He Thinks He's Ray Stevens was Ray Stevens' twenty-first studio album and his first for MCA Records, released in 1984. The front of the album cover shows Stevens spoofing French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
The track "Mississippi Squirrel Revival" is the only Top 40 single from this album, reaching No. 20 on Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs) in early 1985. Stevens uses comic storytelling to frame what occurs when a young adolescent boy catches a squirrel (
– keyboards and synthesizers
- Nashville String Machine – string
- Lisa Silver – fiddle, background vocals
- James Stroud – drums
- Wendy Suits – background vocals
- Diane Tidwell – background vocals
- Hurshel Wiginton – background vocals
- Jack Williams – bass
- Engineer: Stuart Keathley
- Arranged & Produced by: Ray Stevens
- Recorded at Ray Stevens Studio, Nashville, TN
References.
- Liner notes to "He Thinks He's Ray Stevens" (cassette). MCA