I Have Returned

I Have Returned
Studio album by Ray Stevens
Released	September 1985
Genre	Country, novelty
Label	MCA
Producer	Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens chronology
Ray Stevens Collector's Series (1985) I Have Returned (1985) Surely You Joust (1986)

I Have Returned was

" is a re-recording of Stevens' 1960s pop single and was re-issued as a country single around the time of the album's release and was made into a popular music video.

Stevens later re-recorded "The Pirate Song" on his 1991 album #1 With a Bullet and re-recorded the song a third time in 2000 for a music video found on Funniest Video Characters.

The first track, "Thus Cacked Henrietta", is a rendition of the popular fanfare portion from

," released under the alias The Henhouse Five Plus Too.

Track listing

Side 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Thus Cacked Henrietta" (a/k/a Also sprach Zarathustra)	Richard Strauss (arr. Ray Stevens)	1:20
2.	"Hugo (The Human Cannonball)"	Stevens, C.W. Kalb Jr., Carlene Kalb	3:47
3.	"Vacation Bible School"	Kalb Jr., Kalb	3:28
4.	"Armchair Quarterback"	Bobby Russell	3:30
5.	"The Ballad of the Blue Cyclone, Part 1"	Glenn Sutton, Larry Cheshier	3:44
6.	"The Ballad of the Blue Cyclone, Part 2"	Sutton, Cheshier	4:25

Side 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Kiss a Pig"	Kalb Jr., Kalb	3:05
2.	"The Haircut Song"	Mike Neun, Stevens, Kalb Jr.	6:11
3.	"The Pirate Song (I Want to Sing and Dance)"	Kalb Jr., Kalb	4:43
4.	"Punk Country Love"	Stevens, Kalb Jr., Kalb	3:36
5.	" Santa Claus Is Watching You "	Stevens	3:21

Album credits

• Arranged and Produced by Ray Stevens
• Engineer – Stuart Keathley
• Recorded at Ray Stevens Studio (Nashville, Tennessee).
• Mastered by Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee).
• Art Direction – Ray Stevens and Slick Lawson
• Design – Simon Levy
• Photography – Slick Lawson
• Production Manager – Susan Scott
• Landing Craft: Vincent J. Fusca, III, Captain USMC, 4th PLT (REIN) CO. A, 4th ASLT AMPH BN, USMCR, Gulfport, MS.
• Special Thanks To: Pony Maples-Weapons, Faye Sloan Costumes, George Nalley-Stevens Aviation.

Musicians

• Ray Stevens – vocals, backing vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, timpani, trumpet
• Steve Gibson – electric guitars, dobro
• Mark Casstevens – rhythm guitars, banjo
• Jack Williams – bass
• Jerry Carrigan – drums
• Jerry Kroon – drums
• Denis Solee – saxophones
• Roger Bissell – trombone
• Lisa Silver – backing vocals
• Wendy Suits – backing vocals
• Diane Tidwell – backing vocals

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1985)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	1
Australia (Kent Music Report)[1]	98

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
		US Country
1985	"The Haircut Song"	45
1986	"The Ballad of the Blue Cyclone"	50

References