Barbara Mandrell

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Barbara Mandrell 1986

Barbara Mandrell (born December 25, 1948 in Houston , Texas ) is an American country singer , multi-instrumentalist and two-time Grammy award winner. Between 1969 and 1989 it had 55 hits on the US country charts.

Life

Barbara Mandrell is considered a musical child prodigy who has mastered numerous instruments from an early age. Even Chet Atkins was impressed by her steel guitar playing . She first appeared on a local television show at the age of eleven. A little later she was on stage with well-known country stars such as Johnny Cash and Red Foley . Her music-loving parents founded a family band, The Mandrells, in 1963 with Barbara's younger sisters and two other musicians. The group went on long tours through North America and Asia. Barbara fell in love with the band's drummer , Ken Dudley, and married him after finishing school.

First she withdrew from the music business. When her husband was drafted into the US Navy and stationed overseas, the family moved to Nashville . Supported by her father as a manager, she tried to gain a foothold in the country scene there. In 1969 she signed a record deal with the Columbia label . A year later she hit the charts for the first time with Playin 'Around With Love . She achieved her first top 10 placement in 1971 with Tonight My Baby's Coming Home . A little later she became a member of the Grand Ole Opry . Successful duets such as the top 10 hits After Closing Time (1970) and I Love You, I Love You (1974) were recorded with David Houston .

In 1975 she switched to the ABC label . Under the producer Tom Collins, her style of music changed towards country pop. Almost immediately, sales of their records rose. After a series of top 10 hits , she achieved her first number 1 hit in 1978 with Sleeping Single in a Double Bed . Mandrell moved from ABC to MCA and experienced the high points of her career here. Other top placements followed with (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right (1979), Years (1980), I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool (1981), Til You're Gone (1982) and One of a Kind Pair of Fools (1983). In 1981 and 1982 she received the CMA Award "Entertainer of the Year" and gold awards for the albums The Best of Barbara Mandrell and Live . She also received two Grammys and numerous other awards.

In 1980 she got her own television show, Barbara Mandrell and The Mandrell Sisters , in which she appeared with her two sisters. Due to overhaul, she had to stop her television appearances in 1982. A year later, she started the stage show This Lady is a Champ in Las Vegas . Her career came to an abrupt halt on September 11, 1984 when she was hospitalized for nearly a year after a serious car accident. Her two children were also injured in the accident. The 19-year-old driver of the second car involved in the accident died. Despite Mandrell's injuries and her absence from the stage, a duet album with Lee Greenwood was released, which included another top 10 hit, To Me . In June 1985, the singer appeared again for the first time at the Music City News Awards. Her comeback album Get to the Heart was released in the fall of 1985.

Country music had changed now. The new traditionalists slowly took the lead. Mandrell's records could still be placed in the charts, but no longer achieved the great successes they once did. Her live performances still found her audience. In 1990 Mandrell wrote her autobiography Get to the Heart: My Story , which stayed in the bestseller lists for months and was made into a film a few years later. In 1997 she ended her career as a country singer, devoted herself briefly to acting and performed in the context of honors such as the 2006 tribute album She Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool: A Tribute to Barbara Mandrell or the induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009 - the greatest honor of country music - again in public. Mandrell is still married to her childhood sweetheart, Ken Dudley, and has three children.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US Country Country
1971 Treat Him Right - Country44 (2 weeks)
Country
1972 A perfect match - Country38 (5 weeks)
Country
1973 The Midnight Oil - Country8 (18 weeks)
Country
1974 This Time I Almost Made It - Country41 (6 weeks)
Country
1976 This Is Barbara Mandrell - Country26 (14 weeks)
Country
Midnight Angel - Country24 (13 weeks)
Country
1977 Lovers, Friends and Strangers - Country26 (12 weeks)
Country
Love's ups and downs - Country29 (13 weeks)
Country
1978 Moods US132 (9 weeks)
US 		Country8 (59 weeks)
Country
1979 Just for the record US166 (5 weeks)
US 		Country9 (30 weeks)
Country
1980 Love is fair US175 (6 weeks)
US 		Country6 (55 weeks)
Country
1982 ... In Black and White US153 (6 weeks)
US 		Country7 (22 weeks)
Country
He Set My Life to Music - Country56 (6 weeks)
Country
1983 Spun gold US140 (4 weeks)
US 		Country5 (29 weeks)
Country
1984 Clean cut - Country8 (43 weeks)
Country
Meant for Each Other US89 (13 weeks)
US 		Country5 (39 weeks)
Country
Christmas at Our House - Country31 (11 weeks)
Country
1985 Get to the heart - Country25 (34 weeks)
Country
1986 Moments - Country53 (8 weeks)
Country
1987 Sure Feels Good - Country24 (34 weeks)
Country
1988 I'll Be Your Jukebox Tonight - Country35 (22 weeks)
Country
1990 No nonsense - Country72 (2 weeks)
Country
1991 Key's in the mailbox - Country62 (1 week)
Country

More albums

  • 1990: Morning Sun
  • 1994: Acoustic Attitude
  • 1997: It Works for Me

Live albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US Country Country
1981 Barbara Mandrell Live US86
gold
gold

(24 weeks)US 		Country4 (33 weeks)
Country

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US Country Country
1977 The Best of Barbara Mandrell - Country37 (6 weeks)
Country
1979 The Best of Barbara Mandrell US170
gold
gold

(4 weeks)US 		Country13 (39 weeks)
Country
1985 Greatest hits - Country27 (26 weeks)
Country

More compilations

  • 1981: Looking Back
  • 1990: Greatest Country Hits
  • 1992: The Best of Barbara Mandrell
  • 1995: The Barbara Mandrell Collection
  • 1997: Great hits
  • 2000: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection
  • 2001: Ultimate Collection
  • 2016: This Time I Almost Made It: The Lost Columbia Masters

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US Country Country
1969 I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
Treat Him Right 		- Country55 (7 weeks)
Country
1970 Playing Around with Love
Treat Him Right 		- Country18 (12 weeks)
Country
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
Treat Him Right 		- Country17 (12 weeks)
Country
1971 Treat Him Right
Treat Him Right 		- Country12 (12 weeks)
Country
Tonight My Baby's Coming Home
The Midnight Oil 		- Country10 (13 weeks)
Country
1972 Show Me
The Midnight Oil 		- Country11 (13 weeks)
Country
Holdin 'on (To the Love I Got)
The Midnight Oil 		- Country27 (12 weeks)
Country
1973 Give a Little, Take a Little
The Midnight Oil 		- Country24 (11 weeks)
Country
1974 This Time I Almost Made It
This Time I Almost Made It 		- Country12 (16 weeks)
Country
1975 Wonder When My Baby's Coming Home
This Time I Almost Made It 		- Country39 (9 weeks)
Country
Standing Room Only
This Is Barbara Mandrell 		- Country5 (17 weeks)
Country
1976 That's What Friends Are for
This Is Barbara Mandrell 		- Country16 (13 weeks)
Country
Love Is Thin Ice
This Is Barbara Mandrell 		- Country24 (12 weeks)
Country
Midnight Angel
Midnight Angel 		- Country16 (12 weeks)
Country
1977 Married But Not to Each Other
Lovers, Friends and Strangers 		- Country3 (17 weeks)
Country
Hold Me
Lovers, Friends and Strangers 		- Country12 (14 weeks)
Country
Woman to Woman
Love’s Ups and Downs 		US92 (5 weeks)
US 		Country4 (16 weeks)
Country
1978 Tonight
Love’s ups and downs 		- Country5 (13 weeks)
Country
Sleeping Single in a Double Bed
Moods 		- Country1 (15 weeks)
Country
1979 (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right
Moods 		US31 (16 weeks)
US 		Country1 (14 weeks)
Country
Fooled by a feeling
just for the record 		US89 (5 weeks)
US 		Country4 (14 weeks)
Country
Years
just for the record 		- Country1 (15 weeks)
Country
1980 Crackers
Love Is Fair 		- Country3 (16 weeks)
Country
The Best of Strangers
Love Is Fair 		- Country6 (17 weeks)
Country
1981 I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool
Barbara Mandrell Live 		- Country1 (13 weeks)
Country
Wish You Were Here
Barbara Mandrell Live 		- Country2 (16 weeks)
Country
1982 Till You're Gone
In Black and White 		- Country1 (19 weeks)
Country
Operator, Long Distance Please
In Black and White 		- Country9 (15 weeks)
Country
1983 In Times Like These
Spun Gold 		- Country4 (19 weeks)
Country
One of a Kind Pair of Fools
Spun Gold 		- Country1 (21 weeks)
Country
1984 Happy Birthday Dear Heartache
Clean Cut 		- Country3 (21 weeks)
Country
Only a Lonely Heart Knows
Clean Cut 		- Country2 (21 weeks)
Country
Only a Lonely Heart Knows
Clean Cut 		- Country11 (20 weeks)
Country
1985 There's No Love in Tennessee
Greatest Hits 		- Country7 (20 weeks)
Country
Angel in Your Arms
Get to the Heart 		- Country8 (18 weeks)
Country
Fast Lanes and Country Roads
Get to the Heart 		- Country4 (19 weeks)
Country
1986 When You Get to the Heart
Get to the Heart 		- Country20 (14 weeks)
Country
No One Mends a Broken Heart Like You
Moments 		- Country6 (22 weeks)
Country
1987 Sure Feels Good
Sure Feels Good 		- Country48 (11 weeks)
Country
Child Support
Sure Feels Good 		- Country13 (17 weeks)
Country
1988 Angels Love Bad Men
Sure Feels Good 		- Country49 (11 weeks)
Country
I Wish That I Could Fall in Love Today
I'll Be Your Jukebox Tonight 		- Country5 (22 weeks)
Country
1989 My Train of Thought
I'll Be Your Jukebox Tonight 		- Country19 (16 weeks)
Country
Mirror, Mirror
I'll Be Your Jukebox Tonight 		- Country49 (8 weeks)
Country

More singles

  • 1963: Queen for a Day
  • 1973: The Midnight Oil
  • 1981: Love Is Fair
  • 1989: You Wouldn't Know Love (If It Looked You in the Eye)
  • 1990: You've Become the Dream
  • 1990: The Nearness of You
  • 1990: Men and Trains
  • 1991: I'll Leave Something Good Behind
  • 1991: Feed the Fire
  • 1991: The Key's in the Mailbox
  • 1991: When a Man Loves a Woman
  • 1992: I Love You Because
  • 1992: Try Gettin 'Over You
  • 1997: Ten Pound Hammer
  • 1997: Get Here

Collaboration singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US Country Country
1970 After Closing Time
A Perfect Match 		- Country6 (14 weeks)
Country
with David Houston
1971 We've Got Everything But Love
A Perfect Match 		- Country20 (12 weeks)
Country
with David Houston
1972 A perfect match
A perfect match 		- Country24 (13 weeks)
Country
with David Houston
1973 I Love You, I Love You
A Perfect Match 		- Country6 (16 weeks)
Country
with David Houston
1974 Lovin 'You Is Worth It
A Perfect Match 		- Country40 (12 weeks)
Country
with David Houston
1984 To Me
Meant for Each Other 		- Country3 (20 weeks)
Country
with Lee Greenwood
1985 It Should Have Been Love by Now
Meant for Each Other 		- Country19 (15 weeks)
Country
with Lee Greenwood

Guest Posts

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US Country Country
1974 The Ten Commandments of Love
A Man Needs Love 		- Country14 (16 weeks)
Country
with David Houston

Awards

year Org. Award
1971 ACM Top New Female Vocalist
1976 TNN New female vocalist
1978 ACM Top female vocalist
1979 CMA Female Vocalist Of The Year
1979 TNN Top female vocalist
1980 ACM Entertainer Of The Year
1980 CMA Entertainer of the Year
1981 ACM Top female vocalist
1981 CMA Entertainer of the Year
1981 TNN Top female vocalist
1982 TNN Top female vocalist
1983 grammy Best inspirational performance
2009 CMA Induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame
2009 Induction into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame

literature

Web links

Commons : Barbara Mandrell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ↑ https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/barbara-mandrell
  2. ^ Joel Whitburn: Top Country Songs 1944-2005, 2005, pp. 231-2, ISBN 0-89820-165-9
  3. ↑ https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=Barbara+Mandrell#search_section
  4. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/12/us/barbara-mandrell-35-singer-injured-in-fatal-2-car-crash.html
  5. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=19850611&id=BrgfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qdcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5782,2508556
  6. ↑ http://wgna.com/ray-charles-dies-barbara-mandrell-comeback-today-in-country-history/
  7. ↑ http://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/columnists/offbeat/barbara-mandrell-retired-but-still-inspiring/article_1aa47df8-5f36-5790-950b-a006defe4c49.html
  8. ↑ a b c d e f Chart sources: US
  9. ↑ a b Awards for Music Sales: US
personal data
SURNAME Mandrell, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American country singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas