Feel the Fire (Reba McEntire album)

Feel the Fire
Studio album by Reba McEntire
Released	1980
Studio	Sound Stage Studios and Selby Sound, Nashville, TN.
Genre	Country
Length	30:10
Label	Mercury
Producer	Jerry Kennedy
Reba McEntire chronology
Out of a Dream (1979) Feel the Fire (1980) Heart to Heart (1981)
Singles from Feel the Fire
"(You Lift Me) Up to Heaven" Released: May 1980 "I Can See Forever in Your Eyes" Released: October 1980 "I Don't Think Love Ought to Be That Way" Released: February 1981

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Billboard	(unrated)[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

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.^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"(You Lift Me) Up to Heaven"	Johnny MacRae Bob Morrison Bill Zerface Jim Zerface	2:45
2.	"Tears on My Pillow"	Sylvester Bradford, Al Lewis	2:33
3.	"I Don't Think Love Ought to Be That Way"	Richard Mainegra Layng Martine Jr.	2:40
4.	"Long Distance Lover"	Pauline Lee Robert Rosenberg	3:53
5.	"If I Had It My Way"	Robert John Jones Jerry Taylor	2:44
6.	"I Can See Forever in Your Eyes"	Bob DiPiero	2:44
7.	"Poor Man's Roses (Or a Rich Man's Gold)"	Milton DeLugg Bob Hilliard	2:55
8.	"My Turn"	Len Chera Jay Huguely	3:15
9.	"Look at the One (Who's Been Lookin' at You)"	MacRae Wanda Mallette Morrison	2:51
10.	"Suddenly There's a Valley"	Isham Jones Chuck Meyer	3:29

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

Harold Bradley – guitar Jerry Carrigan – drums Jimmy Capps – guitar Ray Edenton – guitar Buddy Harman – drums Gordon Kennedy – guitar Mike Leech – bass

Charlie McCoy – guitar Bob Moore – bass Weldon Myrick – steel guitar Hargus "Pig" Robbins – acoustic piano, keyboards Pete Wade – guitar Chip Young – guitar

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"[5]	Hot Country Singles & Tracks	8
	"I Can See Forever in Your Eyes"[5]	Hot Country Singles & Tracks	18
1981	"I Don't Think Love Oughta Be That Way"[5]	Hot Country Singles & Tracks	13

References

1. Feel the Fire at AllMusic
2. "Review: Reba McEntire – Feel the Fire" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 85, no. 42. 18 October 1980. p. 66. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 30 May 2020 – via American Radio History.
3. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 460.
4. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944–2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 225.
5. "Reba McEntire – Chart history | Billboard". www.billboard.com.