‘Catch of the Day’ – Reba McEntire – “Just Like Them Horses” [AUDIO]

Today we turn the spotlight on a native Oklahoman that is not only one of the most successful artists in the history of Country music, but she also conquered the triple crown of acting, with success on television, in the movies and on Broadway.

Reba McEntire's career didn't take off until after she asked to be let out of her contract with Mercury Records, the label that signed her in 1975 on the recommendation of Red Steagall. Steagall discovered McEntire when she sang the National Anthem at the National Rodeo in Oklahoma City in 1974. After leaving Mercury, Reba signed with MCA Records, but it wasn't until the label gave her creative control over her second album that she began to shine.

It was with that second album, 1984's My Kind of Country, that the promise Steagall saw began to come out. The album produced two number one hits, "How Blue" and "Somebody Should Leave" and became her first certified album, going gold.

Including My Kind of Country, Reba has released 21 studio albums, 2 Holiday albums, 3 Live albums and 14 compilation albums since taking creative control of her career. Only her most recent studio album, 2015's release Love Somebody and two of her greatest hits compilations have failed to reach gold certification. In the 90's she began to branch out, appearing in the 1990 cult classic Tremors, with Kevin Bacon. Acting seemed like a natural transition, as many of McEntire's music videos are considered to be classic performances, with critics classifying them as "mini-movies". In 1991 she appeared alongside fellow Country superstar Kenny Rogers in The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw. The TV movie was the fourth installment of highly successful Gambler series based on Rogers 1978 hit.

McEntire has appeared in 8 theatrical releases, 6 TV movies, has had two TV series and had a highly successful run on Broadway as Annie Oakley in the revival of Annie Get Your Gun. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has ranked her 36th on it list of the all-time greatest artists in regards to album sales, ranking her above Simon and Garfunkel and Chicago (tied for 38th), Bob Dylan (44th), Willie Nelson (45th) and Brooks & Dunn (69th) with more than 41 million album sold.

Our spotlight today falls on the third single from the album Love Somebody. Reba says an interview with Taste of Country that she fell in love with the song the moment she heard it and it is the song she performed for her father at his memorial service when he passed away in 2015. Reba McEntire and "Just Like Them Horses" is today's Catch of the Day, new music you haven't heard, but you'll want to hear it again.