With a contract to Mercury Records (1975), McEntire began her professional career singing heavily pop-influenced ballads, a far cry from the neotraditionalist movement she would help lead a few years later.
"I Don't Want To Be A One Night Stand" became her first charting single in 1976. Her first Top 10 hit "(You Lift Me) Up to Heaven" followed four years later, and in 1982 she scored her first #1 hit with "Can't Even Get The Blues."
Frustrated at her limited commercial success, McEntire left Mercury and signed with MCA Records in 1984. 1984's "Just A Little Love" wasn't much different form her Mercury material and was only moderately successful. However, another album followed later that same year, titled "My Kind of Country." This was a return-to-roots record, complete with fiddles and steel. It was comprised largely of covers of classic country songs, as well as original songs such as "How Blue" and the Harlan Howard-penned "Somebody Should Leave", both of which reached #1 on the Billboard country singles chart.
In the early 1990s McEntire expanded her audience by adopting a softer, more pop-oriented sound. She became one of the best-selling country artists of all time, releasing three volumes of greatest hits collections.
Since that first #1 hit in 1982, she's forked out 21 more chartbusters, which are all recapped on "Reba #1s" released on November 22nd, 2005. The 2-disc compilation features all 22 number one singles (according to Billboard magazine) in chronological order, including two new tracks "You're Gonna Be" and "Love Needs A Holiday." "Reba #1s" also contains 11 singles that reached the #1 spot in publications other than Billboard.
She won the Female Vocalist of the Year award from the Country Music Association four times in a row (a record she holds with Martina McBride), and had dozens of Top Ten hits during the 80s. For her contribution to the recording industry, Reba McEntire has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Blvd. In 1995, she was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
She is one of only six solo women (others include Shania Twain, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, and Taylor Swift), to win the Country Music Association's highest honor, "Entertainer Of The Year". McEntire continued to hit the charts through the 2000s, as well as appearing in television and film, most notably Tremors, a cult horror movie series, Forever Love, and One Night at McCool's. She also starred as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun on Broadway, receiving critical acclaim.
From 2001 to 2007, Reba starred in the hit WB television show, Reba (with Texan actor Christopher Rich as her philandering ex-husband), even getting a visit from fellow country star Dolly Parton who played Reba's character's supervisor at a real estate firm.
Until They Don
Reba McEntire Lyrics
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It takes two to make it right
Just three little words I shoulda told ya
Before you left last night
Sometimes you don't love somebody until they don't love you
Sometimes you don't love somebody until they don't love you
Oh you're lookin' so good with your bags packed
And my heart keeps screaming 'come back, come back, come back
Well I was a-okay taking you for granted
Shoulda make a beeline for your door
If you could see all the broken pieces
You would redeem my heart for sure
Sometimes you don't love somebody until they don't love you
Sometimes you don't love somebody until they don't love you
Oh you're lookin' so good with your bags packed
On the front steps waitin' on a yellow cab
And my heart keeps screaming 'come back, come back, come back
Don't pay attention to your heart until it's bleeding
Don't know what you have until you can't keep it
Don't know what you want till you need it
Don't know that it's love until it's leavin'
Oh, when you left I shoulda come runnin'
You were right about everything
I was up to no good and you knew it
And now I'm down here on my knees
Sometimes you don't love somebody until they don't love you
Sometimes you don't love somebody until they don't love you
Oh you're lookin' so good with your bags packed
On the front steps waitin' on a yellow cab
And my heart keeps screaming 'come back, come back, come back
It's a little too late baby I know
That I treated your heart like a yoyo
Give me one more chance baby don't go, don't go, don't go
No
The lyrics to Reba McEntire's "Until They Don't Love You" speak to the idea that sometimes it takes losing someone to truly realize how much you love them. The first verse talks about how it takes more than one person to make a relationship work, and the regret the singer feels for not expressing their love ("Just three little words I shoulda told ya / Before you left last night"). The chorus drives home the main point of the song – that sometimes you don't realize how much you love someone until they no longer love you. The second verse reinforces this idea with the singer acknowledging that they took their partner for granted and failed to see how much they meant until it was too late. The bridge of the song contains several lines about not truly understanding the value of something until it's gone, further emphasizing the central theme.
Overall, the song is about the pain of lost love and the regret that can come with it. It's a reminder that sometimes it's important to take stock of the people we have in our lives and not take them for granted, because it's all too easy to miss the things that matter until they're no longer there.
Line by Line Meaning
Ain't one the loneliest number
Being alone is a state of loneliness that nobody should go through.
It takes two to make it right
Relationships require effort from both partners to succeed.
Just three little words I shoulda told ya
Before you left last night
Sometimes simple expressions of love like 'I love you' can make all the difference.
Sometimes you don't love somebody until they don't love you
It's possible to take someone's love for granted until it's gone.
Oh you're lookin' so good with your bags packed
On the front steps waitin' on a yellow cab
Seeing the person you love leave you is a painful experience.
And my heart keeps screaming 'come back, come back, come back
The pain of lost love is persistent and hard to ignore.
Well I was a-okay taking you for granted
Shoulda made a beeline for your door
It's easy to overlook the worth of someone's love and assume it will always be there.
If you could see all the broken pieces
You would redeem my heart for sure
Losing love can make you realize how much you depended on it and how much you need it back.
Don't pay attention to your heart until it's bleeding
Don't know what you have until you can't keep it
Don't know what you want till you need it
Don't know that it's love until it's leavin'
It's easy to overlook the value of love until it's gone and you realize how much you depended on it.
Oh, when you left I shoulda come runnin'
You were right about everything
I was up to no good and you knew it
And now I'm down here on my knees
Sometimes it takes losing someone to realize how much you were in the wrong, and how much you need them in your life.
It's a little too late baby I know
That I treated your heart like a yoyo
Give me one more chance baby don't go, don't go, don't go
Losing love can be permanent, and you may not always get a second chance to make it right.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Spirit Music Group, AUDIAM, INC
Written by: JOSH OSBORNE, LORI MCKENNA, SHANE L. MCANALLY
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
BBOY LUCKER
В заросшем парке стоит старинный дом
Забиты окна и мрак царит из вечно в нем
Сказать я пытался чудовищ нет на Земле
Но тут же раздался ужасный голос во мгле
Голос во мгле
Мне больно видеть белый свет
Мне лучше в полной темноте
Я очень много много лет
Мечтаю только о еде
Мне слишком тесно в заперти
И я мечтаю об одном
Скорей свободу обрести
Прогрысть свой ветхий старый дом
Проклятый старый дом
Был дед да помер слепой и жутко злой
Никто не вспомнил о нем зимой холодной
Соседи не стали его тогда хоронить
Лишь доски достали решили заколотить
Двери и окна
Мне больно видеть белый свет
Мне лучше в полной…
Casey Tippitt
She's either past 60 or approaching it quickly, and she is still making super relevant music. She's amazing. She's beautiful. She's a musical genius!
Erin McCarthy
Right now she is 65
Christine Guerrero
Their is absolutely nothing better to me in life than hearino her voice!!!!!!!
Chipper Smith
Loved this woman for so long. If I'm not in a good mood, I listen to Reba and presto I feel better. That voice makes me feel good. It mama at 61. Love u @reba
P J
Love Reba she's awesome!
Shelby Rickard
Reba is the queen of everything
JohnG500
She and dolly are both the queens.
Meleronni
YES
Starstrucknut
Reba's new cd Love Somebody is amazing! The whole album is so Reba and she has a little of her old self and then the up tempo like this. Wow she rocks!
Erin McCarthy
I wish she performed like she did before with back up dancers