Artist: Reba McEntire
Genre(s):
Country
Folk
Discography:
Reba Duets
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Reba #1's (CD 2)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 18
Reba #1's (CD 1)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 17
What If It's You
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
For My Broken Heart
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Rumor Has It
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
It's Your Call
Year:
Tracks: 10
Christmas Collection (CD 2)
Year:
Tracks: 10
Christmas Collection (CD 1)
Year:
Tracks: 10
Reba McEntire was the most successful female transcription creative person in body politic music in the 1980s and nineties, during which sentence she scored 22 numeral one hits and released five gold albums, six-spot atomic number 78 albums, two double-platinum albums, tetrad triple-platinum albums, a quadruple-platinum album, and a quintuple-platinum record album, for certified album sales of 33.5 trillion over the 20-year period. While she continued to sell records in level-headed book of Numbers into the 21st hundred, she expanded her activities as an actress in film and on the legitimate degree, and particularly on telly, where she asterisked in a long-running situation comedy. Such diversification made her the sterling crossover star to emerge from area music since Dolly Parton.
Reba Nell McEntire was born March 28, 1955, in McAlester, OK, the moment daughter and third of little Joe children of Clark Vincent McEntire, a professional steer rope-maker, and Jacqueline (Smith) McEntire, a former school day teacher. Her older brother Del Stanley ("Pake") McEntire also became a commonwealth isaac Bashevis Singer, patch her jr. sister Martha Susan ("Susie") McEntire Luchsinger became a religious doctrine isaac Merrit Singer. McEntire was embossed on the 7,000-acre family cattle farm in Chockie, OK, traveling with her parents and siblings to the rodeos at which her father competed. Clark McEntire was named World Champion Steer Roper trey times, in 1957, 1958, and 1961. (McEntire's gramps, John McEntire, had north Korean won the same title in 1934.) McEntire's mother had aspired to a vocation in music but never chased it. She bucked up her children to sing and taught them songs and concord during the long machine trips 'tween rodeos. Alice McEntire, the oldest child, did not actively look for a musical life history, just the other trey were members of a country group, the Kiowa High School Cowboy Band, as early as 1969, when McEntire began attendance Kiowa High School in Kiowa, OK. She also entered local talent contests on her possess. In 1971, the Kiowa High School Cowboy Band recorded a individual, "The Ballad of John McEntire," for the petite Boss Records label, which pressed 1,000 copies. As the other '70s went on, the band gave way to a leash, the Singing McEntires, consisting of the deuce-ace siblings, which performed at rodeos. McEntire too followed in the family tradition of competing, becoming a barrelful racing car, the only rodeo issue open to women.
McEntire graduated from high gear schoolhouse in June 1973 and enrolled at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. While attending the National Rodeo Finals in Oklahoma City on December 10, 1974, she panax quinquefolius the national anthem on network television system. Also lay out at the rodeo was rural area star Red Steagall, wHO was impressed by her voice and asked her to go to Nashville to record some demos for his song publication company. After she did so in March 1975 during her fountain break from college, he took the tapes about town nerve-racking to get her a record deal and succeeded with Mercury Records, which signed her to a compact on November 11, 1975, that called for her to record deuce singles for the label. On January 22, 1976, she entered a Nashville recording studio and cut the first of those singles, "I Don't Want to Be a One Night Stand," which, upon its release, climbed to number 88 in the Billboard commonwealth singles chart in May. On June 21, 1976, she married Charlie Battles, a friend steer wrestler she had met at a rodeo. Battles later became her line coach.
On September 16, 1976, McEntire did her s Mercury recording session, which produced her instant individual, "(There's Nothing Like the Love) Between a Woman and a Man." It unwell at number 86 in March 1977. In the meantime, on December 16, 1976, she graduated from college on an accelerated three-and-a-half-year broadcast with a major in elementary education and a minor in music, freeing her to pursue her career full-time. Her record tag, however, seemed in no finical haste, although it picked up her option for farther recordings. Her third single, "Happy I Waited Just for You," recorded on April 13, 1977, unwell at number 88 in August, the same month Mercury released her debut record album, Reba McEntire, which did non chart. On September 17, 1977, she made her debut at the Grand Ole Opry.
2 and a half old age into her recording vocation, with very little to render for it, McEntire was paired with labelmate Jacky Ward for the two-sided single "Three Sheets in the Wind"/"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" (the B-side a overcompensate of the belt down hit by England Dan & John Ford Coley), which reached number 20 in July 1978. That and her touring as an opening act for Steagall, Ward, and others increased her pic, and her next solo single, "Last Night, Ev'ry Night," reached number 28 in October, beginning a string of singles that made it at least into the nation Top 40. She commencement got into the Top 20 with her overcompensate of the Patsy Cline off "Sweet Dreams," which unwell at number 19 in November 1979. She unruffled wasn't selling any albums, however; her second LP, Out of a Dream, released in September 1979, did non chart.
McEntire continued to make strides on the singles chart, reach the Top Ten for the commencement time with "(You Lift Me) Up to Heaven," which peaked at number octad in August 1980. Feel the Fire, her third record album, released in October 1980, was some other failure, just afterwards a couple more Top 20 singles she reached the Top Five with "Today All Over Again" in October 1981. The song was featured on her fourth album, Essence to Heart, released in September, which helped it turn her number one to chart, stretch number 42 in the country LP lean. She achieved a new high on the singles chart in August 1982 when "I'm Not That Lonely Yet" reached number ternary. It was included on her fifth record album, Unlimited, released in June 1982, which strike number 22. But that was only the beginning. The LP likewise spawned "Can't Even Get the Blues" and "You're the First Time I've Thought About Leaving," which became consecutive number ane hits in January and April 1983. By and then, she had affected up from playing nightclubs and whitey tonks to existence the regular first step roleplay for the Statler Brothers. She went on to work in the same capacity with Conway Twitty, Ronnie Milsap, Mickey Gilley, and others.
It power be argued that Mercury Records had taken a 20-year-old neophyte vocalizing the national anthem at a rodeo and, all over a period of more than seven years, groomed her until she became a chart-topping area headliner. McEntire appears non to have viewed things that way, however. On the contrary, she seems to have been unhappy with the songs the label gave her to sing and the musical approach taken on her records, look that she was being pushed too often in a country-pop direction. She likewise has criticized Mercury's promotional efforts on her behalf. And, despite her recent success, the long years of development meant she was nowhere near repaying the investment Mercury had made in her, which, of course, was charged against her potency royalties on the company books. (Although she standard yearbook advances from the label, she later aforesaid that she did non go steady her first royalties from Mercury until 1988.) So, she sought-after a release from her get and, afterwards press clipping one more album for Mercury, her sixth LP, Slow the Scene, released in September 1983, she sign-language to MCA Records, her new contract taking effect on October 1, 1983. The first fruits of the switchover suggested that non much had changed. Her debut MCA single, "Just a Little Love," was a Top Five strike in June 1984, shortly later on the release of an album of the same mention, simply that LP was in reality less successful than Unlimited.
McEntire took unattackable action. Set to have Harold Shedd (Alabama's producer, and thence a hot commercial prop) produce her side by side album, she jilted his suggestions for songs and the sweetened arrangements he imposed on them and appealed to Jimmy Bowen, the new installed president of MCA's country division. Bowen allowed her to break up her possess material and to eliminate the strings and early pop touches victimized on Just a Little Love and her Mercury releases. The resolution was the pointedly titled My Kind of Country, released in November 1984, which was henpecked by covers of old land songs previously performed by Ray Price, Carl Smith, Connie Smith, and Faron Young. Even earlier the album's waiver, however, and before its progress individual, "How Blue," hit telephone number peerless, McEntire was named Female Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association (CMA) on October 8, 1984. It was a surprising gain; Dolly Parton, Barbara Mandrell, and Charly McClain had all arguably been more than successful during the old 12 months. But it was a advanced credit for a performing artist wHO was sagely aligning herself with such artists as Ricky Skaggs and George Strait as a "new diehard," moving rural area music back to its roots afterward the turn down of the pop-country Urban Cowboy phenomenon of the early '80s.
"How Blue" hit telephone number peerless in January 1985, followed by the second single from My Kind of Country, "Person Should Leave," which topped the chart in May as the album reached telephone number 13. (Eventually, it was certified gold.) With such success, McEntire was able to commence headlining her have concerts. For her adjacent record album, Give I Got a Deal for You, released in July 1985, she worked directly with Bowen, the two billed as co-producers. Another new diehard ingathering, it included her possess writing "Only if in My Mind," a Top Five hit, as well as a Top Ten hit in the title song; though the LP was not as successful as its predecessor, it too went gold over time, and it helped McEntire make her second successive CMA honor as Female Vocalist of the Year. Another important award came on January 14, 1986, when she became a penis of the Grand Ole Opry.
Possibly regular more than important than McEntire's decisiveness to perform euphony in a more than traditional country style was her Just as Loretta Lynn had spoken for pre-feminist women in the 1960s, McEntire had begun to address the emotional and empowering concerns of women in the 1980s. "Whoever's in New England," her adjacent single, released in January 1986 just in front of an record album of the same constitute, was a Kendal Franceschi and Quentin Powers' sung dynasty was written in the voice of a Southern woman world Health Organization believes her married man is having an involvement during his line of work trips up north, merely pledges that she will remain available to him when "whoever's in New England's through with you." It was a career-making sung dynasty for McEntire, non least because it was promoted by her number 1 music video recording. Reaching telephone number one in May 1986, it marked a major breakthrough for her, beginning a string of chart-topping hits that didn't start to slow downward for the succeeding trey long time. "Little Rock," the followup single, as well hit number one, as did the Whoever's in New England album, her first base LP to be qualified amber. (It by and by went pt.)
Her career in senior high gear, McEntire released her next album, What Am I Gonna Do About You, in September 1986, prefaced by a single of the same name that hit number one, as did the gold-selling LP, which too featured the chart-topping individual "One Promise Too Late." On October 13, 1986, McEntire non only north Korean won her third gear straight Female Vocalist of the Year Award from the CMA, simply too was named Entertainer of the Year. On February 24, 1987, she won her first base Grammy Award for Country Female Vocal for "Whoever's in New England." She released Reba McEntire's Greatest Hits in April; it became her first atomic number 78 album and finally sold over ternion billion copies. (It also became her number one album ever to sweep over to the pop charts.) On June 25, 1987, she filed for split up from Charlie Battles, her hubby of 11 years. After her split up was settled and Battles was awarded the couple's spread in Oklahoma, she affected to Nashville.
McEntire's string of hits continued with the freeing of The Last One to Know in September 1987, prefaced by a single of the same name that reached telephone number one in December. The album, too featuring the number one run into "Passion Will Find Its Way to You," reached telephone number trey and finally went pt. McEntire won an unprecedented quartern straight CMA award as Female Vocalist of the Year in October. In November, she released a holiday album, Gay Christmas to You, which, over the years, sold more than deuce zillion copies. She engendered contention with her following album waiver, Reba, which appeared in May 1988. Here, an creative person world Health Organization had jumped on the newfangled traditionalist bandwagon in 1984 suddenly jumped off, reversive to more of a pop-oriented style, without a tamper or a steel guitar anyplace. The album's lead off single was "William Ashley Sunday Kind of Love," a cover of the 1947 Jo Stafford pop hit. It peaked at number basketball team in July, actually the worst exhibit for a McEntire individual in intimately trey years. But the album had already begun a run of eight weeks at issue one by then, and it was supported by the subsequent chart-topping singles "I Know How He Feels" and "Raw Fool at an Old Game." It finally went pt. Also in 1988, McEntire founded Starstruck Entertainment, a company that handled management, booking, publication, and other aspects of her career and, finally, delineated other artists as well.
Sweet Sixteen, released in May 1989, was actually McEntire's fourteenth regular studio record album, merely her 16th numeration her authorized MCA hits compilation and Christmas album. The lead off unmarried was a cover of the Everly Brothers' "Cathy's Clown" that attain bit one in July, and it was followed by triad Top Ten hits, "'Til Love Comes Again," "Little Girl," and "Walk On," as the LP exhausted 13 weeks at the tip of the charts, with gross revenue eventually crossing the billion mark. It besides reached the pop Top hundred. McEntire had already recorded her next record album, Bouncy, the late April for acquittance in September and, though it took more than a 10, some other platinum certification. That gave her some breathing distance. On June 3, 1989, she married Narvel Blackstock, her managing director, world Health Organization had been part of her organisation since joining her band as its steel guitar histrion in 1980. On February 23, 1990, she caliber him a word, Shelby Steven McEntire Blackstock. A calendar month sooner, she had made her feature film performing debut in the risible horror motion-picture show Tremors, which had been nip the previous spring.
McEntire was plunk for on spell by May 1990, and she returned to record qualification in September with her fifteenth regular studio record album, Rumor Has It, which was prefaced by the individual "You Lie," a act one strike. Three other songs from the LP set in the land Top Ten: the title song, a revival of Bobbie Gentry's 1969 attain "Fancy," and "Fallin' Out of Love." The album finally sold deuce-ace million copies. McEntire was on tour promoting it when, on March 16, 1991, sevener members of her band and her road managing director were killed in a plane crash after a picture in San Diego. She dedicated her next album, For My Broken Heart, to them when it was released in October. The disk was another massive hit, going away gold and atomic number 78 simultaneously curtly after its waiver and finally merchandising foursome zillion copies, its singles including the chart-topping title song and another number ane, "Is There Life Out There." Also in 1991, McEntire co-starred in the TV mini-series The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw. Her seventeenth album, It's Your Call, was released in December 1992, and, like Rumour Has It, it was an immediate jillion marketer, eventually going away triple atomic number 78. (It was too her first Top Ten pop album.) Its biggest individual was "The Heart Won't Lie," a duo with Vince Gill that attain bit one in April 1993. McEntire's following chart-topper was as well a pas de deux, "Does He Love You," song dynasty with Linda Davis; it hit number one in November 1993 and was included on her September liberation Superlative Hits, Vol. 2, an album that sold two meg copies practically extinct of the box and another trey million over the next phoebe days. "Does He Love You" won McEntire her arcsecond Grammy, for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals, and a CMA laurels for Vocal Event. She as well appeared in the TV flick The Man from Left Field in 1993.
By 1994, patch continuing to reign as country's most successful female isaac M. Singer, McEntire was increasingly turning her attention to former concerns. Her 18th regular studio record album, Read My Mind, appeared in April. Another inst million-seller that went on to go triple platinum, it threw off basketball team country chart singles, among them the chart-topping "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" and, polemically, "She Thinks His Name Was John," a song around a cleaning lady wHO contracts AIDS from a one-night stand. Even McEntire's star index could propel such an atypical country field only as senior high school as issue 15 in the charts. Meanwhile, she had parts in two feature films released during the summertime, a public speaking role in the drama North and a cameo in the children's comedy The Little Rascals. (She as well made an uncredited appearance in the Western flick Maverick and was heard on the soundtrack album.) She executive produced and starred in a TV flick based on her song, Is There Life Out There? And she published her autobiography, Reba: My Story, which became a bestseller.
McEntire's 19th album was called Starting Over, released in October 1995. Intended to mark the 20th anniversary of her transcription career, it was a collection of covers of well-known songs. It non only topped the country charts just hit number basketball team in the pop charts, selling a one thousand thousand copies out of the box. But, jactitation only one Top Ten hit, a revival meeting of Lee Greenwood's "Mob on Her Finger, Time on Her Hands," among three chart singles, and non achieving a multi-platinum documentation, it suggested that McEntire at long last had peaked commercially as far as nation music was concerned. (In a considerable going away for a commonwealth vocalizer, MCA released a dance remix of McEntire's revitalisation of the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On" from the album that reached figure two on Billboard's dance chart.) That didn't maintain her from starring in another TV mini-series, American bison Gals, acting famed Western sharpshooter Annie Oakley, a section her rodeo background suitable her to utterly. She bounced second on the country charts more or less with her twentieth album, What If It's You, released in November 1996. The album spawned four Top 20 hits, with "How Was I to Know" reaching figure one and "The Fear of Being Alone" and "I'd Rather Ride Around with You" each getting to number iI. Simultaneously certified gold and atomic number 78, the album finally topped deuce meg copies.
The singles careworn from What If It's You unbroken McEntire's diagnose in the country charts throughout 1997, as did the vacation benefit record book "What If," the takings from which were donated to the Salvation Army. But for the showtime sentence since 1978, she did not discharge a new album, even a digest, during the calendar year. Aiming for a splash, she teamed up with the popular country duo Brooks & Dunn in the outpouring of 1998 for a single called "If You See Him/If You See Her." It strike figure one in June, portion to set up the release of her twenty-first album, If You See Him, which likewise brought her three extra Top Ten hits on its way to merchandising a million copies. She appeared in the TV pic Eternally Love (the title of one of those Top Ten hits) during the twelvemonth and made several guest-star appearances on TV series.
After publication her second book of memoirs, Comfort from a Country Quilt, in May 1999, McEntire had two new albums ready for the fall. Secret of Giving: A Christmas Collection, a September outlet, was her second vacation CD, which she accompanied with a TV pic, Secret of Giving. The disc eventually went atomic number 79. So Good Together, issued in November, was her twenty-second regular studio album, prefaced by the Top Five individual "What Do You Say." Although none of the songs from the album topped the area charts, it did feature a second Top Five strike, "I'll Be," and a Top 20 strike in "We're So Good Together," and it went pt in front the end of 2000.
As in 1997, McEntire went without an album spillage in 2000, and in this character, it turned out that she in spades was placement herself for a career beyond country music, as events in 2001 showed. In February of that twelvemonth, she stepped in as a replacement star in the Broadway revitalisation of Irving Berlin's musical Annie Get Your Gun that had begun performances in 1999 with Bernadette Peters in the title part of Annie Oakley. Barry and Fran Weissler, the producers of the revitalisation, were known on Broadway for making money by keeping product costs down and by the extensive consumption of what was mockingly called "stunt molding": bringing in a well-known personality, often one without much of a theatre desktop, as a replacement to extend the run of a demonstrate, as a means of exciting the tourist crowd together wHO would accredit the name of a prominent TV star, for exemplar. McEntire had been preceded as a replacement in Annie Get Your Gun by soap opera principal Susan Lucci and TV actress Cheryl Ladd, both of whom unbroken the show departure while being mostly neglected or derided by theater insiders. McEntire turned out to be an solely unlike proposition. First, although she lacked licit theater see, she had by instantly done plenteousness of playing on television system and even a small in celluloid. Second, she had recollective since brought unusually high production values to her concerts that included choreography and costume changes, full preparation for like demands in the theater. Third, she could, of course of action, sing. And fourth, with her rodeo background and Oklahoma accent mark, she was an ideal Annie Oakley, simply as she had been in her previous TV portrayal. (Never mind that the genuine Annie Oakley was from Ohio; in everybody's mind, this female sharpshooter and star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, the precursor to the modern rodeo, was a Westerner.) The result was a crow for McEntire. Reviews were rapturous, and tickets sold out. The Tony Awards did non have a category for replacements (one has since been added), simply she was granted peculiar awards for her performance by the Drama Desk, the Outer Critics Circle, and Theatre World. She stayed in the show until June 22, 2001. Unfortunately, in that location was no new hurtle record album recorded to immortalize her appearing.
During the go of Annie Get Your Gun, McEntire was seen in a small part in the picture One Night a McCool's, released in April 2001. Her to the highest degree extensive filmed playing function began on October 5, 2001, however, when the half-hour situation comedy Reba premiered on the WB TV electronic network (later renamed the CW electronic network). The show became the master focus of McEntire's activities, and she affected to Los Angeles to accommodate it. She had non, however, given up rural area music all. In the summer of 2001, she released a individual, "I'm a Survivor," that peaked in the country Top Five and prefaced a new compilation, Sterling Hits, Vol. 3: I'm a Survivor, released in October. It topped the country charts and went gold.
McEntire was tenanted principally with her TV series during 2002 and 2003. She eventually returned to record fashioning afterward two age in the summertime of 2003 with a new single, "I'm Gonna Take That Mountain," which peaked in the country Top 20. Room to Breathe, her 23rd regular studio record album and first in terzetto years, followed in November and went atomic number 78 over the following ball club months. The disc's second individual, "Mortal," hit number ane, and it was followed by some other Top Ten hit, "He Gets That from Me," and the Top 20 "My Sister."
Reba continued on into 2004 and 2005. McEntire set up time in the spring of 2005 to render to the musical theater, if simply for one night. In some other piece of elysian cast, she depicted the "lopsided optimist" from Arkansas, Ensign Nellie Forbush, in a special concert translation of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Confederacy Pacific performed at Carnegie Hall. The all-star production, also featuring Broadway asterisk Brian Stokes Mitchell and histrion Alec Baldwin, was filmed for a PBS limited on the network's Great Performances series and recorded for an album, both of which appeared in 2006.
By 2005, the catalogs of Mercury and MCA had been combined in the major label Universal, and in November MCA released McEntire's first combined hits compendium, the double-CD set Reba: #1's, with iI freshly recorded tracks. It went amber and pt at the same time. In 2006, as she began the one-sixth season of Reba, McEntire too sonant a lineament in the holiday pic going Charlotte's Web. The one-sixth season of Reba proven to be the last, as the show sign off the air on February 18, 2007. Not one to sit loose, McEntire toured the U.S. from May 25 through August. On September 18, 2007, she released a new album, Reba Duets, featuring such guests as Justin Timberlake, Don Henley, Kelly Clarkson, Kenny Chesney, Carole King, Faith Hill, Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn, Vince Gill, Rascal Flatts, LeAnn Rimes, and Trisha Yearwood. It was prefaced by the individual "Because of You," a duet with Clarkson. For the workweek conclusion October 6, 2007, Reba Duets became McEntire's first album e'er to participate the pop charts at identification number ane.
