• Reba's single "Strange" debuted at #39 on the Billboard Top Country, making it the highest solo chart debut of her career. 
     
  • Reba's grammy-winning duet with Linda Davis, "Does He Love You" wasn't intended to feature Linda in the beginning. Linda recorded the "demo" version with Reba, which she thought would have her vocal replaced with someone else, such as Wynonna or Trisha Yearwood (both on MCA at the time). In the studio, producer Tony Brown heard Linda's version and knew he found the definitive vocal for that track.
     
  • "Does He Love You" has been covered in a solo version by Patti Labelle and in a duet version by Donna Summer and Liza Minnelli.
     
  • Reba's hit sitcom "Reba" was The WB's highest rated comedy and the second highest rated show on the network overall. 
     
  • Reba is now the most nominated female artist in CMA History. 
     
  • Linda Davis recorded the demo version of "Rumor Has It" which caused Reba to take notice of this relatively unknown singer and help her jump-start her career. 
  • The things Reba will do for the perfect picture!  For the photo shoot for her 1996 album, What If It's You, Reba sat and stood on a swing that was suspended over the water by a crane!
     
  • Reba's brother, Pake, once had a Nashville record deal.  In the 1980's, Pake had his own record deal on RCA Records and toured as Reba's opening act.  He would do a fifteen-minute show of his own, then come back out and play in Reba's band.
     
  • Reba changed the first line of her single "You're Gonna Be" to "six pounds and nine ounces", because both her son Shelby and her granddaughter Chelsea weighed that much at birth. 
     
  • Reba got her first bus in 1982. Before that she had been traveling in trucks, vans, and cars with horsetrailers full of equipment. 
     
  • Reba and her sisters and brother would often sing three part harmony, taught by their mother, while on trips to her father's roping competitions. 
     
  • Reba sang for the first time behind a microphone in first grade. She sang "Away in the Manger" during a Christmas program in the high school gymnasium. 
     
  • Reba started gathering cattle on her dad's ranch at the age of six, and competed in rodeos by the time she was eleven. After she graduated high school, Reba competed in about fifty rodeos a year. 
     
  • Reba was named after her grandmother, Reba Estelle Brassfield. 
     
  • Reba first sang professionally at the age of four in Cheyenne , Wyoming on a rodeo trip. In a large crowd in the Edwards Hotel lobby, someone offered to pay her brother Pake to sing. Not wanting to be left out Reba sang "Jesus Love Me" for a nickel. 
     
  • Reba has been a "guest-star" in videos for Tim McGraw ("Last Dollar (Fly Away)"), coolGarth Brooks ("We Shall Be Free"), Vince Gill ("Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away") and Aaron Tippin ("Honky Tonk Superman").
     
  • When Reba was a child, she, her sisters and brother would sell permits for $1 so deer hunters could hunt on her dad's ranch. This was how the children got the Christmas money. 
     
  • Reba once held the record for the 75 yard dash in the Pittsburg County conference for track. She also cheered and played basketball. She even went to the basketball state finals. 
     
  • Reba was in the Kiowa High Schools first and only cowboy band with her brother Pake and sister Susie. They played local Honky-Tonks and dance halls as The Singing McEntire's 
     
  • Reba once had a race horse named after her high school mascot, Kiowa cowboy. 
     
  • Reba's first number one, "Can't Even Get the Blues," almost didn't make it onto the Unlimited album, and it was the last single released. 
     
  • Reba debuted at Carnegie Hall on October 28, 1987. It marked the first time she wore a dress by her stylist Sandi Spika.  The show was a sellout. 
     
  • Reba had been to the Grand Ole Opry for the first time when she was seven years old. It was a memorable trip for her because she got sick during the show and left the building, she ran outside and threw up on the front steps. 
     
  • When Reba finally met Meryl Streep, one of her favorite actresses at an LA movie premier, Meryl hugged Reba and said she had always wanted to thank her for filling in for her during the 1991 Oscars. Reba performed the Oscar nominated song, "Checkin' Out," from Streep's movie, Postcards From the Edge. 
     
  • Reba's niece, Garett Beck, played the character Tillie in Reba's CBS movie Secret of Giving.  Garett also had a small part in Reba's movie Forever Love.
     
  • The 1997 Reba/Brooks & Dunn Tour was the largest grossing tour in Country Music history.  In addition to a successful tour, Reba recorded the award winning duet "If You See Him" with her pals Brooks & Dunn. They performed the song together in concert.
     
  • Reba ended a busy few days of European promotion in June 1999 with a live in-store performance and signing session at London 's Virgin Megastore.  Over 1,000 fans attended Reba's in-store, making it the biggest ever for a country entertainer. 
     
  • Some of the dancers who have toured with Reba have gone on to perform in a couple of Broadway's hottest plays. Shaun Earl, who many of you may have seen in the Fame television series, was on Broadway in the hit play Rent.  He also traveled with the Broadway road production around the country.  And Bob Gaynor, who was on the same Reba tour as Shaun Earl, was in the Broadway production of Aida.
     
  • Reba wrote much of her best selling book Comfort From A Country Quilt while on the road. Her ever-present laptop came in very handy backstage before and after her concerts, and while travelling from city to city and country to country on tour. 
     
  • Michael Higgins, the dance captain for Reba's "Singer's Diary" tour, has toured with Reba three times.  He was part of her orginal dance crew in 1995 and 1996, and the Singer's Diary in 2000. 
     
  • In 1996 Reba's tour was the largest arena tour to go on the road (of all genres). 
     
  • In 1995-1996 Reba played to over 2 million people. 
     
  • Reba debuted at the Grand Ole Opry on September 17, 1977.  She almost wasn't let in because the guard at the Opry gate didn't see Reba's name on the list. Reba found a nearby phone and called her booking agent, Dick Blake, and he fixed the problem, and she was allowed in the building.  That was a good thing because Reba's mom, dad and sister Alice had driven 1400 miles round trip for Reba's 3 minute performance. Her act was cut from 2 songs to 1 because of a surprise appearance by Dolly Parton.
     
  • When Reba toured Australia in 1998 she opened shows for Kenny Rogers.  A year later, she sold out her own shows during a 12-city tour. 
     
  • Before finding success in the music business, Reba was a barrel-racer who competed in many rodeos.  In fact, it was at the National Finals Rodeo in 1974 that Reba's musical career got its start when she was discovered singing the National Anthem by Red Stegall. 
     
  • In 1995 Before Reba visited Guatemala to film her music video for "And Still," she had to get the dreaded vaccination shot. Ouch! The song is featured on her Read My Mind CD which was the 1995 American Music Awards "Album Of The Year." 
     
  • Reba's favorite video making experience was "On My Own", when she got to visit with pals, Linda Davis, Trisha Yearwood, and Martina McBride. 
     
  • Reba has hosted the Academy of Country Music Awards more times than any other artist, a record 11 times.
       
  • Reba signed her first record deal with Phonogram/Mercury Records on November 11, 1975.
       
  • According to CMT's 100 Greatest Love Songs, Reba's #1 hit single "The Heart Won't Lie" was only scheduled to be a solo performance by Reba. Later, it was turned into a duet with Reba's friend and former duet partner Vince Gill.
     
  • Reba's song "Baby's Gone Blues" from her It's Your Call album was also recorded by Patty Loveless.
     
  • Reba made her Carnegie Hall debut on October 28, 1987.
     
  • Reba received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in September 1998. It is located at 7000 Hollywood Blvd.
     
  • Reba's video for "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" was shot at the Belmont Mansion in Nashville, TN.
     
  • Before working together on "Reba", Reba worked with co-star Chris Rich in The Gambler Returns - The Luck Of The Draw, a movie Chris starred in and associate produced.
     
  • "Redneck Woman" Gretchen Wilson sang on the demo for Reba's single "I'm Gonna Take That Mountain".
     
  • According to an interview with Reba during the Starting Over album release radio special, she passed on the song "Indepencence Day" when it came across her desk.
     
  • The movie Tremors was originally titled "Beneath Perfection".
     
  • Reba joined the cast of the Grand Ole Opry on January 17, 1986.
     
  • Reba re-recorded her hit songs "And Still" and "Fallin' Out Of Love" for her 1997 Moments and Memories: The Best Of Reba Australian release. 
     
  • Reba's song "Everything That You Want" from her Read My Mind album was also recorded by Tanya Tucker. Tanya also recorded Reba's song "Nobody Dies From A Broken Heart" from her So Good Together album.
     
  • Reba's first professional solo recording session was with Glenn Keener on January 22 at Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville on January 22, 1976. There, she recorded her first single "I Don't Wanna Be A One Night Stand" which was then released in June.
     
  • Reba has been on the cover of TV Guide five times. Setting a record for the most times a country artist has appeared on the magazine.
     
  • The temperature in California for both days of filming for Reba's video "I'm Gonna Take That Moutnain" reached close to 105 degrees.
     
  • On October 19, 1993 National Enquirer ran headlines about Reba's red dress at the Country Music Association Awards.
     
  • When Reba originally recorded "The Last One To Know", she recorded it as "The Wife Is The Last One To Know" instead of the original lyrics "Oh, Why Is The Last One To Know". Reba thought it was an error on the lyric sheet, but album producer Jimmy Bowen sent her to a recording studio to re-record that portion of the song.
     
  • Reba graduated from Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, Oklahoma in December 1976 with a degree in Elementary Education with a minor in Music.
     
  • Reba guest starred in the "Fortysomething" episode of NBC's series Frasier in 1994.
     
  • Reba's CBS Movie Of The Week Secret Of Giving was originally titled "Christmas In Calico", the same name of the book the movie was adapted from.
     
  • Speaking of Secret Of Giving, the photo shoot for her Christmas album of the same name was held in the middle of summer in Nashville, TN... featuring fake snow flown in from California.
     
  • Reba's 1996 concert tour featured 16 trucks, 7 buses, 1 jet, 100 tour dates, 200-foot expandable stages, 3 separate performance areas, 10 dancers, 5 video cameras, 6 video screens, 96-person crew, 40 tons of equipment, and one incredible performer... REBA!
     
  • Reba performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the World Wrestling Federation's 1992 "Wrestlemania".
     
  • From "Can't Even Get The Blues No More" to "Somebody"... Reba has 22 Billboard #1 singles.
     
  • Reba and staff moved into the brand new Starstruck Entertainment offices in July 1996. Her What If It's You album was the first album to be recorded there by any artist.
     
  • Reba's husband Narvel is in the video for Reba's #1 single "What Am I Gonna Do About You".
     

 
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