Be Your Own Best Friend

Be Your Own Best Friend
Be Your Own Best Friend
Studio album by Ray Stevens
Released	October 1978
Genre	Pop, country
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens chronology

Be Your Own Best Friend was Ray Stevens' sixteenth studio album as well as his fourth and final for Warner Bros. Records, released in 1978. The third track, "You've Got the Music Inside," is a re-recording of a track that was from Stevens' 1973 album Nashville.

All of the selections were published by Ray Stevens Music-BMI, with the exception of "You've Got the Music Inside," which was published by Ahab Music Company, Inc.-BMI.

The title track is the album's sole single.

Track listing

Side One
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"L'Amour"	Ray Stevens, Gilbert Bécaud	3:38
2.	"Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right"	Ray Stevens	4:21
3.	"You've Got the Music Inside"	Ray Stevens	4:13
4.	"Hidin' Place"	Ray Stevens	2:58

Side Two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Be Your Own Best Friend"	Ray Stevens	2:52
2.	"The Feeling's Not Right Again"	Ray Stevens, Chuck Martin	3:31
3.	"Comeback"	Ray Stevens	4:06
4.	"You're Magic"	Layng Martine, Jr.	2:21
5.	"With a Smile"	Ray Stevens	3:12

Personnel

Ray Stevens - keyboards, synthesizer, percussion
Jerry Kroon - drums
Jack Williams - bass
Chet Atkins, Steve Gibson - electric guitar
Mark Casstevens - acoustic guitar
Lisa Silver, Sheri Kramer, Diane Tidwell - backing vocals
Shelly Kurland Strings - strings
Ray Stevens, Denis Solee - horns

Technical

Stuart Keathley - recording engineer
Charlie Tallent, Ray Stevens - mixing
Ray Stevens - production, arrangements
Recorded at Ray Stevens' Studio - Nashville
Ed Thrasher - photography
Brad Kanawyer - design

Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1978	"Be Your Own Best Friend"	Canadian RPM Country Tracks	16
1978	"Be Your Own Best Friend"	Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	36
1978	"Be Your Own Best Friend"	Billboard Adult Contemporary	50