Read My Mind (album)

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Read My Mind
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Studio album by Reba
Released April 26, 1994
Genre Country
Length 38:10
Label MCA
Producer Tony Brown & Reba McEntire
Reba chronology
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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]

Read My Mind is the twentieth album and eighteenth studio album by Reba McEntire, released in April 1994. It was preceded by the first single, "Why Haven't I Heard From You" which peaked at No. 5 on the country chart. The album's second single, "She Thinks His Name Was John", was the first country song to address the topic of AIDS. Due to the subject matter, some radio stations shied away from putting it into heavy rotation. The third single, "Till You Love Me" became McEntire's first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" the album's fourth single, topped the country singles chart. The album peaked at No. 2 on both the country album chart and the Billboard 200 and is certified 3 times platinum by the RIAA.[2] The album was released at perhaps the peak of McEntire's pop culture affectiveness, with a release of this album (described on an MCA Records billboard as "Another MCA Masterpiece..."), an autobiography, and NBC Television special later in the year.

The album debuted at #5 on the Billboard Top 200 albums for the week of May 14, 1994 and peaked at #2 for the week of May 21, 1994. It ended in the charts at #199 for the week of January 13, 1996.

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Everything That You Want"   Randy Sharp, Jack Wesley Routh 4:24
2. "Read My Mind"   Keith Thomas, Melissa Coleman, Todd Moore 3:59
3. "I Won't Stand in Line"   Sharp, Steve Diamond 3:57
4. "I Wish That I Could Tell You"   Tony Martin, Van Stephenson, Reese Wilson 3:19
5. "She Thinks His Name Was John"   Sandy Knox, Steve Rosen 4:22
6. "Why Haven't I Heard from You"   Knox, T.W. Hale 3:27
7. "And Still"   Liz Hengber, Tommy Lee James 3:27
8. "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"   Mark D. Sanders, Kim Williams, Ed Hill 3:50
9. "I Wouldn't Wanna Be You"   Sharp, Jeff Silbar 3:34
10. "Till You Love Me"   Bob DiPiero, Gary Burr 3:50

Personnel

backing vocals: Melissa Coleman, Linda Davis, Vince Gill, Chris Rodriguez, Lang Scott, Harry Stinson, Mark Heimermann, Christopher Harris, Donna McElroy, Yvonne Hodges, Lisa Bevill, Michael Mellett, Ashley Cleveland, Robert Bailey, Vicki Hampton, Lisa Glasgow, Kim Fleming

Charts and certifications

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions
US Country
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US CAN Country
1994 "Why Haven't I Heard from You" 5 101[7] 4[8]
"She Thinks His Name Was John" 15 101[9] 11[10]
"Till You Love Me" 2 78[11] 8[12]
1995 "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" 1 1[13]
"And Still" 2 1[14]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

References

  1. Allmusic review
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Preceded by RPM Country Albums number-one album
February 20–26, 1995
Succeeded by
The Hits
by Garth Brooks