Reba (album)

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Reba
Reba cover
Studio album by Reba McEntire
Released April 18, 1988
Genre Country
Label MCA Nashville
Producer Jimmy Bowen and Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire chronology
Merry Christmas to You
(1987)
Reba
(1988)
Sweet Sixteen
(1989)

Reba not only signaled to the world that Reba McEntire had by now become so well known that she could be identified by first name alone, but also signaled an entirely different style to her music. Gone were the steel guitars and fiddles of My Kind of Country and Have I Got a Deal for You, to be replaced by highly produced and orchestrated numbers that were country pop at best. Not that this would diminish her album sales any at all, as it was another #1 country album again (her third). Very typically, two of its tracks reached #1 on the Billboard country singles charts: I Know How He Feels and New Fool at an Old Game. Another tune, a remake of an old jazz vocal standard made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, Sunday Kind of Love, reached the #5 spot. Also covered is Respect, a song made famous by Aretha Franklin.

[edit] Track listing

  1. So, So, So Long
  2. Sunday Kind of Love
  3. New Fool at an Old Game
  4. You're the One I Dream About
  5. Silly Me
  6. Respect
  7. Do Right by Me
  8. I Know How He Feels
  9. Wish I Were Only Lonely
  10. Everytime You Touch Her

[edit] Charts

AlbumBillboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1988 Top Country Albums #1
1988 The Billboard 200 #118

SinglesBillboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1988 "Sunday Kind of Love" Hot Country Singles & Tracks #5
1988 "I Know How He Feels" Hot Country Singles & Tracks #1
1988 "New Fool At An Old Game" Hot Country Singles & Tracks #1