Behind the Scene

Behind the Scene is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Reba McEntire, released on August 15, 1983. It includes the singles "Why Do We Want (What We Know We Can't Have)", which was a top ten hit and "There Ain't No Future in This". It was her last album for Mercury Records before leaving for MCA Nashville in 1984. McEntire felt the need for change in record labels at the time as an opportunity to gain more independence in the material she recorded.^[2]

Behind the Scene
Studio album by Reba McEntire
Released	August 15, 1983
Studio	Sound Stage Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre	Country
Length	28:19
Label	Mercury
Producer	Jerry Kennedy
Reba McEntire chronology
Unlimited (1982) Behind the Scene (1983) Just a Little Love (1984)
Singles from Behind the Scene
"Why Do We Want (What We Know We Can't Have)" Released: June 1983 "There Ain't No Future in This" Released: November 1983

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Love Isn't Love ('Til You Give It Away)"	Don Roth, Timmy Tappan	3:09
2.	"Is It Really Love"	Rita Gannon, Donald Hare	2:54
3.	"Reasons"	Reba McEntire	2:06
4.	"Nickel Dreams"	Donny Lowery, Mac McAnally	2:55
5.	"One Good Reason"	Bob DiPiero, Johnny MacRae	2:59
6.	"You Really Better Love Me After This"	Bill Rice, Sharon Vaughn	3:50
7.	"There Ain't No Future in This"	Rice, Vaughn	2:34
8.	"Why Do We Want (What We Know We Can't Have)"	Don King, Dave Woodward	2:37
9.	"I Sacrificed More Than You'll Ever Lose"	James Benton, Beverly J. Carlton	2:37
10.	"Pins and Needles"	Janis Carnes, Rick Carnes, Chip Hardy	2:15

Although not credited, the lyrics for the lead track are substantially plagiarized from Oscar Hammerstein II and the introduction to the reprise of Sixteen Going on Seventeen in The Sound of Music.^[3]

Personnel

• Reba McEntire – lead and backing vocals
• David Briggs – keyboards
• David John Boyle – guitars
• Ray Edenton – guitars, banjo, mandolin
• Dale Sellers – guitars
• Pete Wade – guitars
• Chip Young – guitars
• Bobby Thompson – banjo
• Weldon Myrick – steel guitar
• Billy Puett – fiddle
• Buddy Spicher – fiddle
• Mike Leech – bass guitar
• Jerry Carrigan – drums, percussion
• Gene Chrisman – drums, percussion
• Bergen White – alto flute, flute
• Yvonne Hodges – backing vocals
• Dorris King – backing vocals
• Trish Williams – backing vocals

The Nashville String Machine

• Carl Gorodetzky – string arrangements
• Bergen White – string arrangements
• George Binkley III, Marvin Chantry, Roy Christensen, Mark Feldman, Daniel Furth, Lennie Haight, Phyllis Hiltz, Dennis Molchan, Walter Schwede, Gary Vanosdale and Pamela Vanosdale – string performers

Production

• Jerry Kennedy – producer
• Lee Groitzsch – engineer, mixing
• Brent King – assistant engineer
• Tim Kish – assistant engineer
• Hank Williams – mastering
• Bill Barnes – art direction, graphics
• Deb Mahalanobis – design
• Mario Casilli – photography

Charts

Album

Chart (1983)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	36

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
		US Country [4]	CAN Country
1983	"Why Do We Want (What We Know We Can't Have)"	7	45
	"There Ain't No Future in This"	12	33