Behind the Scene

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Behind the Scene
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 15, 1983
StudioSound Stage Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre Country
Length28:19
Label Mercury
Producer Jerry Kennedy
Reba McEntire chronology
Unlimited
(1982)
Behind the Scene
(1983)
Just a Little Love
(1984)
Singles from Behind the Scene
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Behind the Scene is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Reba McEntire, released on August 15, 1983. It includes the singles "Why Do We Want (What We Know We Can't Have)", which was a top ten hit and "There Ain't No Future in This". It was her last album for Mercury Records before leaving for MCA Nashville in 1984. McEntire felt the need for change in record labels at the time as an opportunity to gain more independence in the material she recorded. [2]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Love Isn't Love ('Til You Give It Away)"Don Roth, Timmy Tappan3:09
2."Is It Really Love"Rita Gannon, Donald Hare2:54
3."Reasons" Reba McEntire 2:06
4."Nickel Dreams"Donny Lowery, Mac McAnally 2:55
5."One Good Reason" Bob DiPiero, Johnny MacRae 2:59
6."You Really Better Love Me After This" Bill Rice, Sharon Vaughn 3:50
7."There Ain't No Future in This"Rice, Vaughn2:34
8."Why Do We Want (What We Know We Can't Have)" Don King, Dave Woodward2:37
9."I Sacrificed More Than You'll Ever Lose"James Benton, Beverly J. Carlton2:37
10."Pins and Needles"Janis Carnes, Rick Carnes, Chip Hardy2:15

Although not credited, the lyrics for the lead track are substantially plagiarized from Oscar Hammerstein II and the introduction to the reprise of Sixteen Going on Seventeen in The Sound of Music. [3]

Personnel

The Nashville String Machine

Production

Charts

Album

Chart (1983)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums36

Singles

YearSinglePeak positions
US Country
[4]
CAN Country
1983"Why Do We Want (What We Know We Can't Have)"745
"There Ain't No Future in This"1233

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  2. Sennhauser, Morgan (4 March 2016). "What Happened to Reba McEntire – See What She's Doing Now – The Gazette Review". The Gazette Review. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
  3. "Sixteen Going On Seventeen reprise". YouTube . Retrieved 30 April 2013.[ dead YouTube link ]
  4. Charts & Awards