Feel the Fire (Reba McEntire album) explained
Feel the Fire is the third studio album by American country music singer Reba McEntire, released in 1980 through Mercury Records. Its first single release, "(You Lift Me) Up to Heaven", was her first top ten hit.[1]
Personnel
Vocals
- Thomas Brannon – backing vocals
- Phillip Forrest – backing vocals
- Yvonne Hodges – backing vocals
- Donna McElroy – backing vocals
- Reba McEntire – lead and backing vocals
- Louis Dean Nunley – backing vocals
- Diane Tidwell – backing vocals
- Bergen White – backing vocals
- Trish Williams – backing vocals
- Dennis Wilson – backing vocals
- Gil Wright – backing vocals
Musicians
Strings
- Marvin Chantry, Virginia Christensen and Gary Vanosdale – viola
- George Binkley III, Connie Ellisor, Carl Gorodetzky, Lennie Haight, Sheldon Kurland, Wilfred Lehmann Dennis Molchan, Samuel Terranova and Stephanie Woolf – violin
- John Catchings and Roy Christensen – cello
- Cindy Reynolds – harp
- Bergen White – string arrangements
Production
- Dennis Carney – photography
- Lee Groitzsch – assistant engineer
- Bob Heimall – art direction
- Jerry Kennedy – producer
- Brent King – engineer
- Red Steagall – management
- Woodland Studios (Nashville, Tennessee) – mastering location
- Hank Williams – mastering
- Stephanie Zuras – design
Charts
Singles
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|
| 1980 | "(You Lift Me) Up to Heaven"[2] | Hot Country Singles & Tracks | 8 |
| "I Can See Forever in Your Eyes" | Hot Country Singles & Tracks | 18 |
| 1981 | "I Don't Think Love Oughta Be That Way" | Hot Country Singles & Tracks | 13 | |
Notes and References
- Book: Whitburn, Joel. The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944–2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn. 2004. Record Research . 225.
- Web site: Reba McEntire – Chart history Billboard. www.billboard.com.
