''Surely You Joust'' was Ray Stevens' twenty-third studio album and his third for MCA Records. The album's front cover shows Stevens disguised as a medieval knight with a horse standing next to him. The album's back cover shows Stevens in the same costume but in a junk pile with two junk men. Three singles were lifted from the album: "Southern Air" (featuring

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and Minnie Pearl), "People's Court", and "Can He Love You Half as Much as I", the last of which did not chart.

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Per liner notes. * Ray Stevens – producer, arrangements, art direction * Stuart Keathley – engineer * Ray Stevens Studio (Nashville, Tennessee) – recording location * Glenn Meadows – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee) * Susan Lawson – production coordinator * Slick Lawson – art direction, photography * Barnes & Company – design * Camille Engel Advertising – CD design Musicians * Ray Stevens – vocals, backing vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, trumpet * Shane Keister – vocoder programming * Mark Casstevens – rhythm guitars,

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* Steve Gibson – electric guitars,

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* Jack Williams – bass guitar * Jerry Kroon – drums * Johnny Gimble –

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* Denis Solee – saxophones *

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– armpit sounds * Lisa Silver – backing vocals * Wendy Suits – backing vocals * Diane Tidwell – backing vocals

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