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Reba McEntire's Greatest Hits covered the singer's early tenure on MCA Records, 1984-1987 (following her seven-year stint at Mercury Records), and was thus the sound of a country artist coming into her own. It also found McEntire pledging allegiance to the neo-traditionalist school of country music. Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 is a sampler of what came after in the years 1987 to 1993, as McEntire eased back on the traditionalism and returned to contemporary country crossover. The collection contains ten of the 22 singles McEntire released during the period, all but one of which reached the country Top Ten. Two of them are newly recorded songs: "Does He Love You," a duet with Linda Davis that went on to hit number one and win a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals, and "They Asked About You," which reached the Top Ten. The other eight songs are not the eight most successful of the remaining 20 singles. In fact, five number-one hits McEntire scored during the period are missing. (For the record, they are "The Last One to Know," "I Know How He Feels," "New Fool at an Old Game," "Cathy's Clown," and "The Heart Won't Lie.") If the choices seem arbitrary in terms of chart statistics, it may be that McEntire herself made the selections on the basis of what the songs meant to her and what she thought they meant to her fans. "Fancy," for example, a revival of a Bobbie Gentry song that only reached number eight, has a feisty message about succeeding against the odds, even if you have to break the rules to do it, while "The Greatest Man I Never Knew," a woman's reflection on her supportive, if emotionally remote father, may have struck a strong chord with the singer as it did with many of her listeners, even if it didn't quite get to number one. There also seems to have been an attempt to treat the disc as a regular album in the sense of pacing and contrast in tempo. That makes it listenable, and it certainly does contain some of McEntire's better songs of the period. But it omits more than it includes.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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Billy Stritch, ComposerLyricist - Sandy Knox, ComposerLyricist - Tony Brown, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Reba McEntire, Producer, MainArtist - Linda Davis, MainArtist
℗ 1993 MCA Nashville
Charlie Black, ComposerLyricist - Austin Roberts, ComposerLyricist - Bobby Fischer, ComposerLyricist - Tony Brown, Producer - JOHN GUESS, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Reba McEntire, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1990 MCA Nashville
Bobbie Gentry, ComposerLyricist - Tony Brown, Producer - JOHN GUESS, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Reba McEntire, Producer, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1990 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tony Brown, Producer - Liz Hengber, ComposerLyricist - Reba McEntire, Producer, MainArtist - Keith Palmer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1991 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Dave Loggins, ComposerLyricist - J.D. Martin, ComposerLyricist - Jimmy Bowen, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ron Treat, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Reba McEntire, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1987 MCA Nashville
Freddy Weller, ComposerLyricist - Tony Brown, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Nash, ComposerLyricist - Kim Nash, ComposerLyricist - Reba McEntire, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1993 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Rick Giles, ComposerLyricist - Susan Longacre, ComposerLyricist - Tony Brown, Producer - Reba McEntire, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1991 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Bruce Burch, ComposerLyricist - Larry Shell, ComposerLyricist - Vern Dant, ComposerLyricist - Tony Brown, Producer - JOHN GUESS, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Reba McEntire, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1990 MCA Nashville
Lonnie Williams, ComposerLyricist - Steve Dean, ComposerLyricist - JOHN GUESS, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jimmy Bowen, Producer - Reba McEntire, Producer, MainArtist - Bob Bullock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1989 MCA Nashville
Richard Leigh, ComposerLyricist - Layng Martine, Jr., ComposerLyricist - Tony Brown, Producer - JOHN GUESS, Mixer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Reba McEntire, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1991 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Reba McEntire's Greatest Hits covered the singer's early tenure on MCA Records, 1984-1987 (following her seven-year stint at Mercury Records), and was thus the sound of a country artist coming into her own. It also found McEntire pledging allegiance to the neo-traditionalist school of country music. Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 is a sampler of what came after in the years 1987 to 1993, as McEntire eased back on the traditionalism and returned to contemporary country crossover. The collection contains ten of the 22 singles McEntire released during the period, all but one of which reached the country Top Ten. Two of them are newly recorded songs: "Does He Love You," a duet with Linda Davis that went on to hit number one and win a Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals, and "They Asked About You," which reached the Top Ten. The other eight songs are not the eight most successful of the remaining 20 singles. In fact, five number-one hits McEntire scored during the period are missing. (For the record, they are "The Last One to Know," "I Know How He Feels," "New Fool at an Old Game," "Cathy's Clown," and "The Heart Won't Lie.") If the choices seem arbitrary in terms of chart statistics, it may be that McEntire herself made the selections on the basis of what the songs meant to her and what she thought they meant to her fans. "Fancy," for example, a revival of a Bobbie Gentry song that only reached number eight, has a feisty message about succeeding against the odds, even if you have to break the rules to do it, while "The Greatest Man I Never Knew," a woman's reflection on her supportive, if emotionally remote father, may have struck a strong chord with the singer as it did with many of her listeners, even if it didn't quite get to number one. There also seems to have been an attempt to treat the disc as a regular album in the sense of pacing and contrast in tempo. That makes it listenable, and it certainly does contain some of McEntire's better songs of the period. But it omits more than it includes.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:37:11
- Main artists: Reba McEntire
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Geffen*
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1993 MCA Records Inc. This Compilation ℗ 1993 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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