Be Your Own Best Friend

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Be Your Own Best Friend
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Studio album by
Ray Stevens
ReleasedOctober 1978
Genre Pop, country
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens chronology
There Is Something on Your Mind
(1977)		Be Your Own Best Friend
(1978)		 The Feeling's Not Right Again
(1979)

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 .

Contents

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

Source: [1]

Side One
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."L'Amour"Ray Stevens, Gilbert Bécaud 3:38
2."Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right"Ray Stevens4:21
3."You've Got the Music Inside"Ray Stevens4:13
4."Hidin' Place"Ray Stevens2:58
Side Two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Be Your Own Best Friend"Ray Stevens2:52
2."The Feeling's Not Right Again"Ray Stevens, Chuck Martin3:31
3."Comeback"Ray Stevens4:06
4."You're Magic" Layng Martine, Jr. 2:21
5."With a Smile"Ray Stevens3:12

Personnel

Technical

Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

YearSingleChartPosition
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

References

  1. ↑ Stevens, Ray. "Be Your Own Best Friend". Ray Stevens. Retrieved May 8, 2025.
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