Heavily influenced by Merle Haggard, Patsy Cline, Barbara Mandrell, Dolly Parton, and Bob Wills, McEntire graduated from Southeastern Oklahoma State University in 1976 with a degree in Elementary Education, rode barrels and performed the National Anthem at the 1974 National Finals Oklahoma City Rodeo at the age of twenty years old where she was offered assistance in getting started as a Country Music Singer in Nashville by Red Stegall, married Charlie Battles, a Champion Steer Wrestler and Bulldogger she met in 1971, who became her Business Manager, signed her first major recording contract with Polygram/Mercury Records in 1976, recorded her first Single “I Don’t Want To Be A One Night Stand,” released her debut album Reba McEntire in 1977, her second album Out Of A Dream in 1979, and her third album Feel The Fire in 1980, both of which are only available on iTunes, and none of which charted, her first Top 40 Single “Last Night, Ev’ry Night,” her first Top 20 song, a cover of Patsy Cline’s Smash Hit “Sweet Dreams,” her first Top Ten effort “(You Lift Me) Up To Heaven,” her first charted album Heart To Heart, released in September 1981, her first Number One Hit “Can’t Even Get The Blues,” made her debut performance on the Grand Ole Opry on September 17, 1977, and toured as an Opening Act for Red Stegall, Mickey Gilley, Ronnie Milsap, Conway Twitty, and the Statler Brothers.
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Born Main the small farming area outside Kiowa, a town containing about one and a quarter square miles in central Oklahoma, and one of the four children of Clark Vincent McEntire, a three-time World Champion Steer Roper in 1957, 1958, and 1961, and Jacqueline Smith, who taught her children how to sing to their own harmonies, Reba Nell McEntire, along with her brother, Country Singer Dale Stanley (Pake) McEntire, and her sister Susie McEntire, now a Gospel Singer, formed the Singing McEntires that performed at rodeos their Father participated in, and recorded “The Ballad Of John McEntire,” released on the independent Boss Record label, about their Grandfather, also a Champion Steer Roper, that found minimal success.
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