History Trivia / RebaMcEntire

* NamesTheSame: Both she and Music/JohnMichaelMontgomery released different songs titled "How Was I to Know" in 1997. Both even went to #1 on ''Radio & Records''.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: "Why Haven't I Heard From You" suffers from this, since a good portion of the song is bragging about the best phone technology 1994 has to offer. The worst is probably the line about how there's one on every corner, since payphones have been quickly disappearing since the rise of cell phones.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** "Why Haven't I Heard From You" goes over all of the then current wonders of the telephone...obviously a land line.
** The video for "Is There Life Out There," where Maggie panics because her daughter spills coffee on a paper she wrote for a college class. Why does she panic? Because she wrote it on a typewriter. Her husband dries it out with a hairdryer so she can still hand it in. This conflict is entirely irrelevant with the advent of computers.

** The video for "Is There Life Out There," where Maggie panics because she her daughter spills coffee on a paper she wrote for a college class. Why does she panic? Because she wrote it on a typewriter. Her husband dries it out with a hairdryer so she can still hand it in. This conflict is entirely irrelevant with the advent of computers.

** "Does He Love You": Reba had wanted to cut the song since the mid-1980s after other notables such as Music/LizaMinnelli and Barbara Mandrell had turned it down. The song was written as a two-woman duet, and she wanted the second part to go to Linda Davis. At the time, Davis had just ended her contract with Creator/EpicRecords and was singing backup in her road band. However, label executives wanted her to sing it with Music/WynonnaJudd or Music/TrishaYearwood, since they were more recognizable names and on the same label. Reba's RecordProducer Tony Brown suggested that she submit a demo to Wynonna, since he was also producing for her at the time; when she turned it down, Reba got her way.

** She was originally tapped to record "Goodbye Time", but she felt the lyrics too closely paralleled her own then-recent divorce, so it went to Music/ConwayTwitty instead (with a subsequent {{Cover|ed Up}} by Music/BlakeShelton).

* ActorAllusion: The video for "Every Other Weekend" stars Steve Howey and Joanna Garcia as the divorced couple being sung about. They played Reba's son-in-law and daughter in ''Series/{{Reba}}''.

* ExecutiveMeddling: "Somebody" got to #1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs entirely due to a chart manipulation scheme where several stations played the song multiple times per hour in the dead of night in order to inflate its airplay totals. After the same thing happened to Terri Clark's "Girls Lie Too" a few weeks later, ''Billboard'' overhauled its chart methodologies to make them harder to manipulate.

* CreatorCouple: She is married to her longtime manager, Narvel Blackstock.
** Sadly averted in 2015 after they divorced, though Narvel remains Reba's manager and they maintain a positive business relationship.

* [[HeAlsoDid She Also Did]]: Sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at ''Wrestling/{{WWE}} Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} VIII'', April 5, 1992. Commentator [[Wrestling/BobbyHeenan Bobby "The Brain" Heenan]] jokingly referred to her as "[[Wrestling/TitoSantana El Matador]]'s cousin, [=Arriba=] [=McEntire=]," a reference to Tito Santana's {{CatchPhrase}} "Arriba."

** "Does He Love You". Reba had wanted to cut the song since the mid-1980s. When she finally got to cut it, she wanted to make it a duet with Linda Davis, who was between failed record deals at the time and working as both a demo singer and one of Reba's backing vocalists. However, label executives wanted her to sing it with someone more established and on the same label as her, such as Music/WynonnaJudd or Music/TrishaYearwood. Tony Brown, then working as a RecordProducer for both Reba and Wynonna at the time, said that Wynonna would probably not be interested in the song's LoveTriangle theme but would probably still be open for an inquiry; when she rejected the demo, Reba got her way and cut the song with Davis.
** "The Heart Won't Lie": Kim Carnes wrote the song with the intent of recording it as a duet with Music/KennyRogers. However, he bumped it from the intended album because he already had a female duet. Rogers then intended to record the song with Reba, but they couldn't make it work due to their vocal ranges being too far apart. Reba then asked if she could record the song by herself, but Brown suggested that since they had already brought in Music/VinceGill to sing backing vocals on the song, that they might as well make it a duet with him instead. The result? A #1 smash for both artists.

** "The Heart Won't Lie" was originally supposed to be a duet with Music/KennyRogers, but their singing ranges were too far apart for it to work, so it went to Music/VinceGill instead.

* UncreditedRole: "Every Other Weekend". The album version had Music/KennyChesney as a duet partner, but since her label couldn't reach an agreement with his, the single version [[FakeShemp had Skip Ewing singing his part instead]]. Most stations played the Chesney version anyway, even before it was confirmed as a single. As a result, it was credited to Reba and Kenny for the first few weeks it was on the chart before its release, then to "Reba [=McEntire=] with Kenny Chesney or Skip Ewing" for one week, then ''just'' Reba for the rest of its chart run.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "Why Haven't I Heard From You" goes over all of the then current wonders of the telephone...obviously a land line.

* ChartDisplacement: Although she has the most #1 country hits of any female artist, many of her most famous songs such as "Fancy", "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia", "She Thinks His Name Was John", "I'm a Survivor", etc. aren't among them. Also, her highest Hot 100 entry is the now very obscure "What Do You Say", while her longest-lasting #1 was "Consider Me Gone", which came in 2008, long after her peak period.