Greatest Hits Volume Two (Reba McEntire album)
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| Greatest Hits Volume Two | ||
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| Greatest hits by Reba McEntire | ||
| Released | September 28, 1993 | |
| Genre | Country | |
| Label | MCA Records | |
| Producer(s) | Various | |
| Reba McEntire chronology | ||
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| It's Your Call (1992) |
Greatest Hits Volume Two (1993) |
Read My Mind (1994) |
Greatest Hits Volume Two is the second greatest hits album released by Reba McEntire covering her years at MCA Records. Among the two songs recorded for this compilation was the No. 1 country hit, Does He Love You. McEntire asked her background singer Linda Davis to join her on the track that eventually became a smash. The song earned them a Grammy award for Best Country Vocal Collaboration as well as the CMA Award for "Vocal Event of the Year". CMT recently ranked the song at No. 9 on their list of 100 Greatest Duets.
The album's other new track was They Asked About You which peaked at No. 6 on the country chart. The album peaked at No. 2 on the country album chart and No. 5 on the Billboard 200. It went on to become the best-selling album of McEntire's career, being certified five times platinum by the RIAA. The track Does He Love You is the first of two duets featuring Reba and Linda Davis.
[edit] Track Listing
- Does He Love You (with Linda Davis)
- You Lie
- Fancy
- For My Broken Heart
- Love Will Find It's Way To You
- They Asked About You
- Is There Life Out There
- Rumor Has It
- Walk On
- The Greatest Man I Never Knew
[edit] Charts
Album – Billboard (North America)
| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Top Country Albums | #1 |
| 1993 | The Billboard 200 | #5 |
Singles – Billboard (North America)
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | "Does He Love You" | Hot Country Singles & Tracks | #1 |
| 1993 | "They Asked About You" | Hot Country Singles & Tracks | #7 |
[edit] 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 Ever 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, All Music Guide [1]
