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[ { "id": "11828866", "text": "Does He Love You \"Does He Love You\" is a song written by Sandy Knox and Billy Stritch, and recorded as a duet by American country music artists Reba McEntire and Linda Davis. It was released in August 1993 as the first single from Reba's album \"Greatest Hits Volume Two\". It is one of country music's several songs about a love triangle. \"Does He Love You\" was written in 1982 by Billy Stritch. He recorded it with a trio in which he performed at the time, because he wanted a song that could be sung by the other two members", "title": "Does He Love You" }, { "id": "7624371", "text": "Linda Davis Linda Kaye Davis (born November 26, 1962) is an American country music singer. Before beginning a career as a solo artist, she had three minor country singles in the charts as one half of the duo Skip & Linda. In her solo career, Davis has recorded five studio albums for major record labels and more than 15 singles. Her highest chart entry is \"Does He Love You\", her 1993 duet with Reba McEntire, which reached number one on the \"Billboard\" country charts and won both singers the Grammy for Best Country Vocal Collaboration. Her highest solo chart position", "title": "Linda Davis" }, { "id": "11128910", "text": "of the Year and Record of the Year for \"Need You Now\". Lady Antebellum also scored \"Best Country Album\" at the 54th Grammy Awards. By August 2013, the group had sold more than 12.5 million digital singles and 10 million albums in the United States. Lady Antebellum was formed in 2006, in Nashville, Tennessee, by Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood, and Hillary Scott. Scott is the daughter of country music singer Linda Davis, best known for her duet vocals on Reba McEntire's 1993 hit \"Does He Love You\", and Charles Kelley is the brother of pop and country artist Josh Kelley.", "title": "Lady Antebellum" }, { "id": "8870096", "text": "(then a background singer in McEntire's road band), was the first single and turned out to be a smash. It reached number 1 on the country charts. The song also earned them a Grammy award for Best Country Vocal Collaboration as well as the CMA Award for \"Vocal Event of the Year\". CMT ranked the song at No. 9 on their list of 100 Greatest Duets. \"Does He Love You\" is the first of three duets featuring Reba and Linda Davis. The album's other new track was \"They Asked About You\", which peaked at No. 7 on the country chart.", "title": "Greatest Hits Volume Two (Reba McEntire album)" }, { "id": "7624379", "text": "2013 & 2015, Davis toured with fellow country singer Kenny Rogers and will again accompany him on his \"The Gambler's Last Deal\" tour in 2017. Linda Davis Linda Kaye Davis (born November 26, 1962) is an American country music singer. Before beginning a career as a solo artist, she had three minor country singles in the charts as one half of the duo Skip & Linda. In her solo career, Davis has recorded five studio albums for major record labels and more than 15 singles. Her highest chart entry is \"Does He Love You\", her 1993 duet with Reba McEntire,", "title": "Linda Davis" }, { "id": "7624375", "text": "album, \"Linda Davis\", which did not produce any chart singles at all. Reba McEntire then chose Davis as a backing vocalist for her road band. Davis had her biggest chart success in 1993 when she and McEntire recorded their duet \"Does He Love You\". Davis's only number one country hit, it also won her and McEntire a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Collaboration that year. Soon afterward, Davis signed to Arista Nashville and recorded her third album, \"Shoot for the Moon\". This album's first single, the Mac McAnally composition \"Company Time\", failed to enter the Top 40. It was", "title": "Linda Davis" }, { "id": "1670046", "text": "with then-labelmate Vince Gill) and \"Take It Back\"—were Top 10 hits on the \"Billboard\" country chart, reaching No. 1 and No. 5 respectively. Like its preceding album, \"It's Your Call\" sold over a million copies, eventually certifying by the RIAA in sales of double-platinum. In October 1993, McEntire's third compilation album, \"Greatest Hits Volume Two\" was released, reaching No. 1 and No. 5 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums and \"Billboard\" 200 charts respectively, selling 183,000 copies during Christmas week 1993. Out of the ten tracks were two new singles: the first, \"Does He Love You\", was a duet with", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "11828871", "text": "singing the second chorus. Reba stays behind the wall the whole time, while Linda is in front of her. It then briefly goes back to the dressing room, where Reba continues to smash her lover's picture. The next scene shows Reba approaching Linda's house in the pouring rain at night, while Linda stands on her porch as they sing the bridge. The scene then shifts to the next day, where Reba watches from afar as Linda and the man are seen on a speedboat, where he hugs her, implying that Linda is who he truly loves. Reba finally smiles at", "title": "Does He Love You" }, { "id": "7626265", "text": "Shoot for the Moon (album) Shoot for the Moon is the third album by country music artist Linda Davis, It was her first to achieve placement on the Billboard Music Charts. It was the first album released following a win at the 1993 Grammy Awards for Best Country Vocal Collaboration (with country superstar Reba McEntire) for their hit \"Does He Love You.\" The album rose to the number 28 position on the Country Albums chart, and two of its tracks were relatively minor hits on the singles charts: \"Company Time\" at number 43, and \"Love Didn't Do It\" at number", "title": "Shoot for the Moon (album)" }, { "id": "11828869", "text": "on Patti LaBelle's album, \"Flame\". The song features a vocal battle between two female narrators who are in love with the same man. Both women know that the man is being unfaithful to them and are wondering who he truly loves. The big-budget, Jon Small-directed video was filmed over 3 days in mid-1993. It begins with Reba in her dressing room wearing a lilac feather gown, where she sees a picture of her lover, which she glances at. It then shows Linda as a professional actress at a movie premiere, then cuts back to Reba smashing the picture with a", "title": "Does He Love You" }, { "id": "7626266", "text": "58. The former was previously recorded by Mac McAnally on his 1990 album \"Simple Life\". \"In Pictures\" was later recorded by Alabama on their 1995 album of the same name. Tim DuBois, president of Arista's Nashville division, said that \"we rushed it\" after Davis won a Grammy Award for her duet wirh Reba McEntire on \"Does He Love You\". \"Billboard\" reviewed the album favorably, praising John Guess's \"punchy but rootsy\" production and Davis's singing voice, while considering \"Company Time\", \"A Family Tie\", and the title track as the strongest cuts. Shoot for the Moon (album) Shoot for the Moon is", "title": "Shoot for the Moon (album)" }, { "id": "1670079", "text": "features The Isaacs. Jay DeMarcus of the Rascal Flatts produced the album. The first single off the album is \"Back to God\". In January 2018, McEntire won the Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album, her first nomination since 2007, and her first Grammy Award win in more than twenty years, since 1994. She also headlined the festival in the UK alongside Brad Paisley and Zac Brown Band in March. Because of its limited release in 2016, on October 13, 2017 \"My Kind of Christmas\" was re-released - this time including songs with Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Darius Rucker and", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "1670071", "text": "the label released the album's second single, \"Consider Me Gone\", and it debuted at No. 51 on The Hot Country Single's Chart. The single became McEntire's thirty-fourth number-one on the \"Billboard\" chart in December. With a four-week stay at No. 1, this song became the longest-lasting number-one of her career, as well as the first multi-week number-one by a female country singer since Taylor Swift's \"Our Song\" in 2007. The album's third and final single was \"I Keep On Loving You\", co-written by Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn, which peaked at No. 7. McEntire's thirty-fourth studio album, \"All the", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "14605379", "text": "Forever Love (Reba McEntire song) \"Forever Love\" is a song recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire, and written by Liz Hengber, Deanna Bryant and Sunny Russ. It was released in July 1998 as the second single from her studio album, \"If You See Him\" (1998). The song reached number four on the US \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in November 1998. It was also the title song to a made-for-television movie \"Forever Love\" which aired the same year, starring Reba and Tim Matheson. It is her second single to have a movie named after one of", "title": "Forever Love (Reba McEntire song)" }, { "id": "1670017", "text": "Reba McEntire Reba Nell McEntire (born March 28, 1955) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band, on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos. While a sophomore in college, she performed the National Anthem at the National Rodeo in Oklahoma City and caught the attention of country artist Red Steagall who brought her to Nashville, Tennessee. She signed a contract with Mercury Records a year later in 1975. She released her first solo album in 1977", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "1670073", "text": "version of Beyoncé's \"If I Were a Boy\". On December 20, 2010, McEntire scored her 35th \"Billboard\" number-one single in the U.S. with \"Turn On the Radio\". The second single from \"All the Women I Am\" was a cover of Beyoncé's \"If I Were a Boy\", which McEntire took to No. 22. After it came \"When Love Gets a Hold of You\" at No. 40 and \"Somebody's Chelsea\" at No. 44. The latter was the only single that McEntire had co-written since \"Only in My Mind\" in 1985. McEntire later announced that she would be visiting 31 cities on her", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "9968578", "text": "The first collaborator on the album was LeAnn Rimes, who recorded the track, \"When You Love Someone Like That\" which also appeared on LeAnn Rimes's \"Family\" album that same year. Jurek called the duet between the pair \"stellar,\" while \"about.com\" called the pairing \"an undeniable outcome of perfection. Reba's strong country voice with LeAnn's young, soulful sound created a new sound like no other.\" The second track, \"Does That Wind Still Blow In Oklahoma\" was a collaboration with Ronnie Dunn (half of the duo Brooks & Dunn), who co-wrote the song with McEntire. The third track is a duet with", "title": "Reba: Duets" }, { "id": "1670048", "text": "5× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA in 1998. The album has gone to sell over 10 million copies worldwide, which makes it McEntire's best selling album to date. Her eighteenth studio release was 1994's \"Read My Mind.\" The album spawned five major hit singles onto the \"Billboard\" Country chart, including the No. 1 single \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\". The further releases (\"Till You Love Me\", \"Why Haven't I Heard from You\", and \"And Still\") became Top 10 singles on the same chart, with \"Till You Love Me\" also reaching No. 78 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, a chart that", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "9968579", "text": "Kelly Clarkson on one of her previous major pop hits, \"Because of You.\" The song was the album's lead single and had already peaked at #2 on the Hot Country Songs chart at the time of the album's release. The song was criticized by allmusic, saying that, \"the song is simply a big, overblown power ballad with guitars compressed to the breaking point, sweeping strings, and enormous crashing cymbals -- think Jim Steinman and you get it.\" The same idea was also said about the fourth track, \"Faith In Love\" with Rascal Flatts. The fifth track was performed with country", "title": "Reba: Duets" }, { "id": "1670067", "text": "same year. A month after its release, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on October 19, 2007. The album's only other single was \"Every Other Weekend\". Recorded on the album as a duet with Chesney, it was released to radio with its co-writer, Skip Ewing, as a duet partner. In early 2008, McEntire partnered again with Brooks & Dunn for a re-recorded version of their single \"Cowgirls Don't Cry\". McEntire is featured in the video, but not on the version found on the album \"Cowboy Town\". It became McEntire's fifty-sixth Top Ten country hit,", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "1670065", "text": "Top 10 single on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart, tying her with Dolly Parton, who also had the same amount of Top 10 records. The album was given high critical praise from magazines such as \"PopMatters\", which called McEntire's vocals, \"to sound sweet without being syrupy, while being extremely powerful. McEntire's vocal strength yields a different kind of authority than the bluesy, drawling growl of Janis Joplin, the weathered rasp of Marianne Faithfull, or even the soul-shrieking powerhouse of Tina Turner. Instead, Reba's voice combines the aspects of all three singers but tempers it with a Southern sweetness and", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "9968585", "text": "platinum album. The album's second single, \"The Only Promise That Remains\" (with Justin Timberlake) was released in November 2007, but only reached #72 on the Billboard Pop 100 and did not chart the Hot Country Songs list. The third single, \"Every Other Weekend\" (with Kenny Chesney) was released in 2008. However, the official single featured Skip Ewing as the duet partner instead of Chesney, due to the Chesney version not being \"viable\" for radio (due to radio company issues). It charted outside the main UK top 100 album chart but has sold over 15,000 copies in the UK. McEntire and", "title": "Reba: Duets" }, { "id": "1670037", "text": "studio album, the release, \"welcomes the fiddles and steel guitars back as she returns to the neo-traditionalist fold\", according to Allmusic, which gave the release four-and-a-half out of five stars. Reviewer William Ruhlmann found \"Sweet Sixteen\" to \"double back to a formula that worked for her in the past\". The lead single was a cover of The Everly Brothers' \"Cathy's Clown\", with McEntire's version reaching No. 1 in July on the \"Billboard\" country music chart. Three more Top 10 hits followed from \"Sweet Sixteen\": \"Till Love Comes Again\", \"Little Girl\", and \"Walk On\", at No. 4, 7 and 2, respectively.", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "12245929", "text": "Jacky Ward Jacky Ward (born November 18, 1946, Groveton, Texas, United States) is an American country music artist. Between 1972 and 1982 he released four albums with Mercury Records, and charted more than fifteen singles on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs charts. His highest-peaking single, \"A Lover's Question\", reached No. 3 on the charts in 1978. In Ward's career, he recorded three duets with Reba McEntire, including McEntire's first Top 40 country hit, \"Three Sheets in the Wind\". After leaving Mercury in the early 1980s, Ward briefly signed to Asylum Records, releasing a cover of Ricky", "title": "Jacky Ward" }, { "id": "3276653", "text": "began receiving significant airplay, helping to boost the single to No. 1 on the country charts. The song became Lawrence's first No. 1 single in 11 years, as well as the second-slowest climbing No. 1 single in the history of the \"Billboard\" music charts. With Neil Thrasher and Wendell Mobley, Chesney also co-wrote Rascal Flatts' 2007 single Take Me There\", which served as the lead-off single to their album \"Still Feels Good\". Chesney also recorded a duet with Reba McEntire on her No. 1 2007 album \"\". \"Every Other Weekend\" peaked at No. 15 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs", "title": "Kenny Chesney" }, { "id": "1670101", "text": "back. Reba McEntire Reba Nell McEntire (born March 28, 1955) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band, on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos. While a sophomore in college, she performed the National Anthem at the National Rodeo in Oklahoma City and caught the attention of country artist Red Steagall who brought her to Nashville, Tennessee. She signed a contract with Mercury Records a year later in 1975. She released her first solo album in", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "15758321", "text": "Loveless, and Randy Travis. McEntire's success continued into the late 1990s, especially after the release of 1996's \"What If It's You\", which yielded her first number one single in almost two years and three additional major hits. After the release of 1999's \"So Good Together\", McEntire branched out into acting and created her own television sitcom, \"Reba\" (2001–2007), and didn't record or tour for nearly three years. In 2004, she returned to music with her 24th studio album, \"Room to Breathe\". The album produced her first number one hit since 1998 and three additional major hits between 2004 and 2005.", "title": "Reba McEntire singles discography" }, { "id": "13579359", "text": "Springsteen and others. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1974, where he and Michael Sembello began writing songs, including some which were recorded by Art Garfunkel. A re-established Wire and Wood later recorded for October Records, but never completed an album due to financial problems. Bickhardt signed to a publishing contract with EMI in 1982. Among his first musical recordings were two songs for the soundtrack to the 1983 film \"Tender Mercies\", one of which (\"You Are What Love Means to Me\") charted at No. 86 on the \"Billboard\" country singles chart. He also sang background vocals on Reba", "title": "Craig Bickhardt" }, { "id": "1670021", "text": "she did teach her children how to sing. Reba reportedly taught herself how to play the guitar. On car rides home from their father's rodeo shows, the McEntire siblings learned songs and harmonies from their mother, eventually forming a vocal group called the \"Singing McEntires\" with her brother, Pake, and her younger sister Susie (her older sister Alice did not participate). Reba played guitar in the group and wrote all the songs. The group sang at rodeos and recorded \"The Ballad of John McEntire\" together. Released on the indie label Boss, the song pressed one thousand copies. In 1974, McEntire", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "8870095", "text": "with increased sales of over 183,000 during Christmas week. This would remain her best selling week sales until 14 years later when \"\" opened at 300,000 sales. It was taken off the charts at number 184 for the week of January 6, 1996. \"Greatest Hits Volume Two\" went on to become the best-selling album of McEntire's career, being certified five times platinum by the RIAA. It has gone to sell almost 11 million copies worldwide. Two new songs were recorded for this compilation, both were released as singles. \"Does He Love You\", a duet that McEntire recorded with Linda Davis", "title": "Greatest Hits Volume Two (Reba McEntire album)" }, { "id": "14319622", "text": "video was directed by Michael Salomon, and premiered on CMT & GAC in March 2010. Mostly shot in black-and-white minus color shots of Reba singing, the video depicts a young bride and groom's wedding. She also portrays the bride's aunt. The bride's parents are played by Christian LeBlanc and Tracey E. Bregman (Michael and Lauren Baldwin from the CBS soap \"The Young & The Restless\"). The song has been met with generally favorable reviews. Mikael Wood and Randy Lewis of the \"Los Angeles Times\" thought that the song was an example of \"mixed messages\" on the album, saying that its", "title": "I Keep On Loving You" }, { "id": "1670043", "text": "on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also reaching No. 13 on the \"Billboard\" 200, and eventually sold four million copies. Its title track became McEntire's sixteenth number-one, followed by \"Is There Life Out There\", which also reached No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" country music chart. The third single, \"The Greatest Man I Never Knew,\" peaked in the Top 5 and her cover of Vicki Lawrence's \"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia\" reached No. 12. \"If I Had Only Known,\" a cut from this album, was later included in the soundtrack to the 1994 film \"8 Seconds.\"", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "1670047", "text": "Linda Davis. The song later went on to reach No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and win both women a Grammy for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. Its second single, \"They Asked About You\", was also a Top 10 hit. The additional eight songs were some of McEntire's biggest hit singles during a course of five years including \"The Last One to Know\", \"I Know How He Feels\", \"Cathy's Clown\", and \"The Heart Won't Lie\". After originally selling two million copies upon its initial release (2× Multi-Platinum), \"Greatest Hits Volume Two\" would later certify at", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "15758323", "text": "56th Top 10 hit, \"Cowgirls Don't Cry\", a duet with Brooks & Dunn. Reba McEntire singles discography The singles discography of American country music singer Reba McEntire comprises 95 singles. After being discovered by country artist Red Steagall, McEntire signed a recording contract with Polygram/Mercury Records in 1976. In 1977, she released her debut, self-titled album, which yielded four singles that failed to become major hits on the country chart. It was her next album, released in 1979, titled \"Out of a Dream\" that produced her first Top 40 hits and her first major hit, a remake of Patsy Cline's", "title": "Reba McEntire singles discography" }, { "id": "14319620", "text": "I Keep On Loving You \"I Keep On Loving You\" is a song recorded by American country music singer Reba McEntire. Written by Ronnie Dunn and Terry McBride, it is the third single from McEntire's studio album \"Keep On Loving You\". The song was released to radio in February 2010 as her eighty-fourth chart single. \"I Keep On Loving You\" was written by Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn, along with his frequent co-writing partner, former McBride & the Ride lead singer Terry McBride. In the song, the female narrator expresses patience with her partner after he has made mistakes,", "title": "I Keep On Loving You" }, { "id": "1670056", "text": "losing ground to younger musicians\". The duet reached No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in June 1998 and spawned an additional three Top 10 hits during that year: \"Forever Love\", \"Wrong Night\", and \"One Honest Heart\". In addition, \"If You See Him\" peaked within the Top 10 on both the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Country Albums chart, reaching No. 8 and No. 2, respectively. In 1999, McEntire released two albums. In September she issued her second Christmas album, \"\", which eventually sold 500,000 copies in the United States. In November, her twenty-second studio album, \"So", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "9968580", "text": "artist, Trisha Yearwood on the song, \"She Can't Save Him\", which was formerly released as a single by Canadian country artist, Lisa Brokop. Tracks six and seven were collaborations with American pop artist, Carole King and country artist, Kenny Chesney, who both help in providing musical variations towards the album. \"Country Standard Time\" called track nine (a collaboration with Faith Hill called \"Sleeping with the Telephone\") \"tearful emotion.\" The tenth track was a duet with Justin Timberlake on the song, \"The Only Promise That Remains\", which was co-written by Timberlake himself. The song is performed in Celtic melody and Timberlake", "title": "Reba: Duets" }, { "id": "5289675", "text": "none of Ewing's subsequent chart entries made Top 40, he released eight more albums from 1990 to 2009. Ewing is a notable attendee of Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, and Redlands High School in Redlands, California. In 1990, Ewing wrote two songs for Kenny Rogers's album \"Love Is Strange\": \"Listen to the Rain\" and \"If I Were a Painting\". In 2008, he served as the duet partner of the radio version of Reba McEntire's single, \"Every Other Weekend\". He also co-wrote the single; the song reached the Top 20 on the Billboard Country Chart. Although the song was", "title": "Skip Ewing" }, { "id": "14605381", "text": "in Pasadena, CA over one day, it shows footage from the movie, interspersed with scenes of Reba performing the song in a garden. Forever Love (Reba McEntire song) \"Forever Love\" is a song recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire, and written by Liz Hengber, Deanna Bryant and Sunny Russ. It was released in July 1998 as the second single from her studio album, \"If You See Him\" (1998). The song reached number four on the US \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in November 1998. It was also the title song to a made-for-television movie \"Forever Love\"", "title": "Forever Love (Reba McEntire song)" }, { "id": "14319621", "text": "telling him that she \"keep[s] on loving\" him. McEntire told The Boot that she identified with the song because of her long marriage to her manager, Narvel Blackstock, as well as Dunn's long marriage to his wife, Janine: \"We have been through rough times and tough times and arguments, but we made up over and over again.\" Reba also performed this song on the Faith Hill special: \"Home for the Holidays\", for people giving their love to tell their adopted kids to show how much they mean to them. She performed the song at the 2010 ACM Awards. The music", "title": "I Keep On Loving You" }, { "id": "1670039", "text": "\"still leaves most of the competition in the dust\", calling the album \"glorious\". \"Rumor Has It\" eventually sold three million copies by 1999, certifying triple-platinum by that year. It was prefaced by the single \"You Lie\", which became her fifteenth number-one single on the country chart. In addition, the album's cover of Bobbie Gentry's 1969 hit \"Fancy\" and a new track, \"Fallin' Out of Love\", became Top 10 hits on the same \"Billboard\" country chart. While on tour for her 1990 album, McEntire lost eight members of her band; (Chris Austin, Kirk Cappello, Joey Cigainero, Paula Kaye Evans, Jim Hammon,", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "1670061", "text": "You See Her\" six years previous. This became her thirty-third number-one single overall. It took longer than expected to become a hit, according to McEntire, who said, \"Yeah, that had us concerned. The album came out in November and it took 30 weeks for \"Somebody\" to work its way up the charts. Usually, it's 15 weeks. But this one had a resurgence of life, especially after the video came out. MCA is really kicking butt with it.\" Its third single, \"He Gets That from Me\" reached No. 7, followed by the Amy Dalley co-written track \"My Sister\", which reached No.", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "8846862", "text": "on the Hot Country Songs charts. Both of the new tracks were accompanied by videos. The album debuted and peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" country album chart and number twelve on the \"Billboard\" 200. It has sold over 1 million copies and has been certified 2× Platinum by the RIAA because it is a double-disc compilation album. The album's total figure of 33 includes all major United States country music charts. Twenty-two of the 33 songs reached No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart, with the remainder having topped either the country charts of \"Radio &", "title": "Reba Number 1's" }, { "id": "14605380", "text": "her songs, the first being 1991's \"Is There Life Out There\". Deborah Evans Price of \"Billboard\" gave the song a mixed review, praising the \"sentimental lyric\" and \"pretty melody\" while criticizing the \"overly lush pop production\". She also criticized McEntire's vocal by saying that it \"bounces between being appropriately vulnerable and intimate during the verses to going a little too far on the soaring chorus.\" The music video for the song was directed by Gerry Wenner, and was filmed to coincide with the movie's release. It is the only solo video released from Reba's \"If You See Him\" record. Filmed", "title": "Forever Love (Reba McEntire song)" }, { "id": "1670019", "text": "the Recording Industry Association of America. She is referred to as \"The Queen of Country\". and she is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 95 million records worldwide. In the early 1990s, McEntire branched into film starting with 1990's \"Tremors.\" She has since starred in the Broadway revival of \"Annie Get Your Gun\" and in her television sitcom, \"Reba\" (2001–07) for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series–Musical or Comedy. Reba Nell McEntire was born March 28, 1955, in McAlester, Oklahoma, to", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "15632586", "text": "Red Sandy Spika dress of Reba McEntire American recording artist Reba McEntire wore a sheer red dress to the 1993 Country Music Association Awards ceremony on September 29, 1993. The sheer fabric was covered with sequins, and cut with a low neckline. The garment was designed by stylist Sandy Spika, and McEntire wore it during a duet performance of \"Does He Love You\" with Linda Davis. McEntire later said, \"I got more press off that dress than if I'd won entertainer of the year.\" According to McEntire, when her little sister, Susie, saw her on stage she leaned over and", "title": "Red Sandy Spika dress of Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "4924755", "text": "One,\" and \"Wrecking Ball,\" were all also released as singles from the album. Clark's ninth studio album, \"Classic\", was released on November 13, 2012, in Canada. The album includes classic country standards such as \"Love Is a Rose\", which was issued as the album's lead single, and features duets with Reba McEntire, Jann Arden, Dierks Bentley, Tanya Tucker and Dean Brody. Clark's tenth studio album, \"Some Songs\", was produced by Michael Knox. It was released on September 2, 2014 and includes ten songs. The album was funded through PledgeMusic and was distributed by Clark's own BareTrack Records and Universal Music", "title": "Terri Clark" }, { "id": "13692726", "text": "Consider Me Gone \"Consider Me Gone\" is a song written by Steve Diamond and Marv Green. It was recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire as her second release for the Valory label, a sister label of Big Machine Records. It is also the second single from her thirty-third studio album \"Keep On Loving You\", which was released on August 18, 2009. On the \"Billboard\" country singles charts dated for the week of January 2, 2010, the song became McEntire's twenty-fourth number-one single. It is also her longest-lasting number one at four weeks. \"Consider Me Gone\" is a moderate", "title": "Consider Me Gone" }, { "id": "19005930", "text": "The series finale of \"Reba\" ended with a family photo, similar to the first episode and the season five finale \"Reba's Heart\". This marks the only time that \"Reba\" ended back to back seasons using the family photo of season one. The final season of \"Reba\" was originally scheduled to debut in the spring of 2007, but returned in November 2006 following the cancellation of the CW drama \"Runaway\". Other songs in the \"Reba\" series include Reba's hit single, \"Walk On\" which is in the pilot episode, and three unreleased songs performed for the specific episode, the songs are, \"Angel's", "title": "Reba (TV series)" }, { "id": "14554449", "text": "Desireé Bassett Desireé Apolonio Bassett (born September 11, 1992) is an American rock music guitarist and recording artist. She has performed alongside mainline performers such as Sammy Hagar, Ted Nugent, Living Colour, Barry Goudreau, the Marshall Tucker Band and members of the Allman Brothers Band. She has released two studio albums and has performed on both coasts of the United States. Bassett was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Daniel (who also acts as her manager) and Myrna Bassett. At 2 years old, Bassett's musical ability was encouraged by her parents after hearing her sing herself to sleep singing Reba", "title": "Desireé Bassett" }, { "id": "1670028", "text": "previously recorded country hits from her own record collection, which was then recorded for the album. The album's material included songs originally released as singles by Ray Price (\"Don't You Believe Her\", \"I Want to Hear It from You\"), Carl Smith (\"Before I Met You\"), Faron Young (\"He's Only Everything\") and Connie Smith (\"You've Got Me [Right Where You Want Me\"]). The album spawned two number-one singles: \"How Blue\" and \"Somebody Should Leave\". It was given positive reviews from critics, with \"Billboard\" praising McEntire as \"the finest woman country singer since Kitty Wells\" and \"Rolling Stone\" critics honoring her as", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "1670033", "text": "ended love affair\". The title track was the lead single from the release and became a number-one single shortly after its release. This album also spawned a second number-one in \"One Promise Too Late\". The following year, her first MCA compilation, \"Greatest Hits\" was released and became her first album to be certified platinum in sales, eventually certifying triple-platinum. A twelfth studio album, \"The Last One to Know\", was released in 1987. The emotions of her divorce from husband, Charlie Battles, were put into the album's material, according to McEntire. The title track from the release was a number-one single", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "11172500", "text": "Pake McEntire Del Stanley \"Pake\" McEntire (born June 23, 1953) is an American country music artist. He is elder brother to Reba McEntire and Susie Luchsinger. Signed to RCA Nashville in 1986, Pake made his debut on the national country music scene with the release of his first single, \"Every Night\", which peaked at No. 20 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles charts. It was followed by his biggest chart hit, \"Savin' My Love for You\" at No. 3. \"Bad Love\" and \"Heart vs. Heart\", also from his first album, were both minor hits as well. McEntire's second album for", "title": "Pake McEntire" }, { "id": "1670045", "text": "a wife answers the phone to find her husband's girlfriend on the other end and seizes the opportunity not only to inform her mate that she knows of his affair but to give him the ultimatum of choosing between the two. \"She's not the only one who's waitin' on the line\", she sings, handing her husband the phone. \"It's your call\".\" Christopher John Farley of \"Time\" magazine wrote that the album ranged from being \"relaxing\" to \"cathartic\", and \"these vocals from one of the best country singers linger in the mind\". The album's preceding singles—\"The Heart Won't Lie\" (a duet", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "14319624", "text": "for the week of May 8, 2010, and at number 98 on the Canadian Hot 100 for the week of June 12, 2010. It entered the Top 10 on the Hot Country Songs chart for the week of June 19, 2010 becoming her 58th Top 10 hit on that chart, with a peak of number 7. I Keep On Loving You \"I Keep On Loving You\" is a song recorded by American country music singer Reba McEntire. Written by Ronnie Dunn and Terry McBride, it is the third single from McEntire's studio album \"Keep On Loving You\". The song was", "title": "I Keep On Loving You" }, { "id": "11906873", "text": "of his songs. This figure includes the Number One hits \"If You See Him/If You See Her\" (recorded with Reba McEntire,) and \"Play Something Country\". In addition, McBride co-wrote Josh Gracin's 2005 single \"Stay with Me (Brass Bed)\". For his contributions as a songwriter, McBride has won 12 awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated. McBride also co-wrote Reba McEntire's 2010 single \"I Keep On Loving You\", Casey James' 2011 single \"Let's Don't Call It a Night\" and several tracks on former Brooks & Dunn member Ronnie Dunn's debut album. In 2017, McBride released his first solo record, an extended play titled", "title": "Terry McBride (musician)" }, { "id": "14605392", "text": "What Do You Say (Reba McEntire song) \"What Do You Say\" is a song written by Neil Thrasher and Michael Dulaney, and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire. It was released in August 1999 as the first single from her album \"So Good Together\". The song reached number 3 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in January 2000 and number 31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 becoming her first crossover hit and top 40 hit on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. It is her highest peaking single on that chart. A video was produced of the", "title": "What Do You Say (Reba McEntire song)" }, { "id": "1670023", "text": "she released her debut single. Upon its release that year, \"I Don't Want to Be a One Night Stand\" failed to become a major hit on the \"Billboard\" country music chart, peaking at number 88 in May. She completed her second recording session September 16, which included the production of her second single, \"(There's Nothing Like The Love) Between a Woman and Man\", which reached only number 86 in March 1977. She recorded a third single that April, \"Glad I Waited Just for You\", which reached number 88 by August. That same month, Mercury issued her self-titled debut album. The", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "13934892", "text": "Reba Rambo McGuire Reba Rambo McGuire (born October 17, 1951) is an American Christian singer and songwriter. She is a Grammy and Dove Award winner. McGuire attended Hebron Elementary School in Hebron, Ohio and graduated from Dawson Springs High School in Dawson Springs, Kentucky. She said in an interview in 1971 that she never had formal training in music: \"All I know was taught to me by Mom and Daddy.\" At the age of 12, McGuire started singing with her father and mother, Buck and Dottie Rambo, as the Southern gospel family group, The Singing Rambos, which was later shortened", "title": "Reba Rambo McGuire" }, { "id": "15758320", "text": "one hits, \"How Blue\" and \"Somebody Should Leave\", setting the trend for a string of number one hits McEntire would have in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s, including songs like \"Whoever's in New England\", \"Little Rock\", \"The Last One to Know\", \"One Promise Too Late\", \"Love Will Find Its Way to You\", \"Rumor Has It\", and \"For My Broken Heart\". Her success in the late 1980s helped revitalize traditional country music, and McEntire was considered one of the leaders in the traditional country sound of the late 1980s and 1990s, along with George Strait, Garth Brooks, Patty", "title": "Reba McEntire singles discography" }, { "id": "1670035", "text": "that she'd stick to hard-core country 'because I have tried the contemporary-type songs, and it's not Reba McEntire—it's just not honest', McEntire...has gone whole-hog pop. The album peaked at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart and remained there for six consecutive weeks. Okay, so maybe that's not so terrible.\" Although it was reviewed poorly, the album itself was certified platinum in sales and produced two number-one singles: \"I Know How He Feels\" and \"New Fool at an Old Game\". In addition, the release's cover version of Jo Stafford's \"A Sunday Kind of Love\" became a Top 5 hit", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "11828872", "text": "Linda as the boat leaves the dock. After the song is complete, the boat collapses and goes up in flames as the director (portrayed by actor Rob Reiner) yells \"cut\" and shows Reba and the crew the footage as the screen pans up to show the set and sky. The last day of shooting coincided with the last day of filming for the 1993 movie North (in which Reba stars and Reiner directed), and because of this, Reba's final outfit seen in the video was the same one she wore in the movie. Does He Love You \"Does He Love", "title": "Does He Love You" }, { "id": "7009901", "text": "standard made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, \"Sunday Kind of Love\", reached the #5 spot. Also covered was \"Respect\", a song made famous by Aretha Franklin. The album debuted at #20 for the week of May 21, 1988 on the Country Albums chart, and peaked at #1 for the week of June 11, 1988. The album stayed at #1 for 6 consecutive weeks. Reba (album) Reba is the thirteenth studio album by American country singer Reba McEntire, released on April 18, 1988. Gone were the honky tonk stable steel guitars and fiddles of \"My Kind of Country\" and \"Have I Got", "title": "Reba (album)" }, { "id": "10869692", "text": "Somebody (Mark Wills song) \"Somebody\" is a country music song written by Dave Berg, Sam Tate, and Annie Tate. It was initially recorded by singer Mark Wills for his 2001 studio album \"Loving Every Minute\". Reba McEntire later recorded the same song for her 2003 album \"Room to Breathe\", releasing it as that album's second single in January 2004. By August of that year, McEntire's version had reached the top of the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. Becoming her 22nd number hit of her career and her first since \"If You See Him/If You", "title": "Somebody (Mark Wills song)" }, { "id": "15758318", "text": "Reba McEntire singles discography The singles discography of American country music singer Reba McEntire comprises 95 singles. After being discovered by country artist Red Steagall, McEntire signed a recording contract with Polygram/Mercury Records in 1976. In 1977, she released her debut, self-titled album, which yielded four singles that failed to become major hits on the country chart. It was her next album, released in 1979, titled \"Out of a Dream\" that produced her first Top 40 hits and her first major hit, a remake of Patsy Cline's \"Sweet Dreams\". Between 1980 and 1984, McEntire had a series of Top 10", "title": "Reba McEntire singles discography" }, { "id": "15758319", "text": "and 20 country hits, including \"(You Lift Me Up) To Heaven\", \"Today All Over Again\", \"Only You (And You Alone)\", and her first number one country hit, \"Can't Even Get the Blues\". However, she was not pleased with the music she was recording under the label (country pop-styled ballads) and signed with MCA Records in 1984, where McEntire had more control over what she recorded and how she recorded it. Under MCA, McEntire began to have her biggest success with the release of her 1984 album, \"My Kind of Country\", which celebrated traditional country music. The album spawned two number", "title": "Reba McEntire singles discography" }, { "id": "14967012", "text": "All the Women I Am All the Women I Am is the twenty-sixth studio album by American country music singer Reba McEntire. The album was released November 9, 2010, through the Valory Music Group, a division of Big Machine Records. Its first single is \"Turn On the Radio\", which was released in July and debuted at #54 and peaked at #1 in January 2011. The second single \"If I Were a Boy\" and was released in January 2011 and re-entered the Billboard Country Charts at #60, peaking at #22 in April 2011. The third single, \"When Love Gets a Hold", "title": "All the Women I Am" }, { "id": "1670075", "text": "Hall of Fame in Nashville. On October 21, 2014, it was announced that McEntire would be the inaugural signing for Big Machine's new imprint Nash Icon Music. She also disclosed that she was working on a new album, with 11 new songs. Her first single for the new label, \"Going Out Like That\", was announced December 16, 2014 and was released on January 6, 2015. It served as the lead-off single to \"Love Somebody\", McEntire's twenty-seventh studio album, released on April 14, 2015. \"Love Somebody\" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums—her twelfth number-one album on the", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "2500237", "text": "duo pairings (Nelson) or as featured background vocalists (Parton). McEntire's success came with two albums hitting No. 1 on the all-genre \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart (\"Reba Duets\" and \"Keep On Loving You\" ), and at the end of the decade had her biggest hit of her career (\"Consider Me Gone\"). In addition, veteran songwriters such as Bill Anderson and Bobby Braddock also enjoyed continued success with newly written songs. Late in the decade, newcomers such as Jamey Johnson and Miranda Lambert were widely hailed for their songwriting and performance talents. The legendary group Alabama retired from touring in 2004 after", "title": "2000s in music" }, { "id": "1670068", "text": "breaking Dolly's record for the most Top Ten country hits for a solo female. In November 2008, McEntire announced that she would be departing from her label of twenty-five years and signing with the Valory Music Group, an imprint of Big Machine Records (coincidentally distributed by MCA and Mercury's parent, Universal Music Group). Under MCA, she had sold a total of sixty-seven million records worldwide and won two Grammys. The switch to Valory reunited McEntire with the label's president, Scott Borchetta, who had worked as senior vice president of promotion at MCA during most of the 1990s. McEntire later commented", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "1670076", "text": "chart—and No. 3 on \"Billboard\" 200, selling 62,469 copies in the U.S. The album has sold 171,600 copies in the U.S. as of October 5, 2015. In 2016, McEntire was selected as one of thirty artists to perform on \"\"Forever Country\"\", a mash-up track of Take Me Home, Country Roads, On the Road Again and I Will Always Love You which celebrates 50 years of the CMA Awards. McEntire released her third Christmas album \"My Kind of Christmas\" on September 2, 2016. The album was exclusively sold at Cracker Barrel and online. She also announced she would soon be selling", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "1670094", "text": "and it's where my loyalties lie. I feel like I'm waving the flag of country music wherever I go, and I couldn't be prouder to do it.\" Two of her siblings have also had careers in the music industry. Her brother Pake dabbled in the country music industry in the late 80s but returned to Oklahoma after a brief stint. He owns and operates a 1,000 acre ranch near Coalgate, Oklahoma, and continues to rodeo. Her sister Susie is a successful Christian music singer who travels the country with her husband, speaking and performing. She also has an older sister,", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "1670022", "text": "attended Southeastern Oklahoma State University planning to be an elementary school teacher (eventually graduating December 16, 1976). While not attending school, she also continued to sing locally. That same year she was hired to perform the national anthem at the National Rodeo in Oklahoma City. Country artist Red Steagall, who was also performing that day, was impressed by her vocal ability and agreed to help her launch a country-music career in Nashville, Tennessee. After recording a demo tape, she signed a recording contract with Mercury Records in 1975. McEntire made her first recordings for Mercury on January 22, 1976, when", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "17376534", "text": "Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. He also charted for the singles, \"When Love Gets Ahold of You\" by Reba McEntire, \"Back In Your Arms Again\" by The Mavericks and \"The Reason Why\" by Vince Gill. In 2003, he co-wrote the single \"Never Without You\" with Ringo Starr and has collaborated on each of his last five records. In 2008, Nicholson co-wrote the title song, \"Skin Deep\", for Buddy Guy, which was number one on the Billboard Blues Chart and Grammy nominated. He co-wrote \"The Git Go\" with Billy Joe Shaver for Willie Nelson's \"Band of Brothers\" album, and co-wrote \"It", "title": "Gary Nicholson (singer)" }, { "id": "1670030", "text": "I Got a Deal for You\", which followed the same traditional format as \"My Kind of Country.\" It was the first album produced by McEntire and was co-produced with Jimmy Bowen. Like her previous release, the album received positive feedback, including \"Rolling Stone\", which called it a \"promising debut\". The album's second single, \"Only in My Mind\" was entirely written by McEntire and reached No. 5 on the \"Billboard\" country chart. On January 17, 1986, McEntire became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, and has been a member ever since. In February 1986, McEntire's ninth studio", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "1670069", "text": "on her label switch, stating, \"I am thrilled to be joining the Valory team. Scott and I worked together on some of the biggest singles of my career, and I am excited to renew our partnership.\" In November 2008, MCA released a 50 Greatest Hits box set compilation album, containing three CDs, from 1984's \"How Blue\" to 2007's \"Because of You\". On April 5, 2009, McEntire debuted her first single, \"Strange\", on Valory at the 2009 Academy of Country Music Awards. The song debuted at No. 39 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart, giving McEntire the highest single debut", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "14229957", "text": "You Lie (Reba McEntire song) \"You Lie\" is a song written by Bobby Fischer, Charlie Black and Austin Roberts, and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire. It was released in August 1990 as the first single from the album \"Rumor Has It\". \"You Lie\" was Reba McEntire's fourteenth number one country hit. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of 20 weeks on the country chart. Before McEntire's version was released, Cee Cee Chapman cut it on her 1988 album \"Twist of Fate\". The narrator knows her husband no longer loves her,", "title": "You Lie (Reba McEntire song)" }, { "id": "10433614", "text": "Amy Dalley Amy Dalley is an American country music artist. Signed to Curb Records in 2003, she left the label in 2008. Dalley has released seven singles, of which five have entered the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs charts despite never releasing an album. Her highest-peaking single is \"Men Don't Change\", which reached a peak of No. 23 in 2004. In addition to her own music, Dalley co-wrote Reba McEntire's single \"My Sister\". Her album, \"It's Time\", was issued independently via digital retailers and as well as a physical copy in 2009. Dalley's first musical performance was at a talent", "title": "Amy Dalley" }, { "id": "4431828", "text": "Youth Chairman. He served 6 terms, from 2003 to 2008. As of 2017, he is still a celebrity ambassador for MDA and continues to perform on many of their charity drives. In April 2012, Gilman collaborated with other country artists and released a charity single, \"The Choice\", for Soles4Souls, a shoe charity with proceeds going for purchase of shoes for needy children worldwide. In addition for Gilman as spokesman for the charity song and lead singer on it, 18 top country singers also took part in support. The track features vocals from Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire, Craig Morgan, Josh Turner,", "title": "Billy Gilman" }, { "id": "1670018", "text": "and released five additional studio albums under the label until 1983. Signing with MCA Nashville Records, McEntire took creative control over her second MCA album, \"My Kind of Country\" (1984), which had a more traditional country sound and produced two number one singles: \"How Blue\" and \"Somebody Should Leave\". The album brought her breakthrough success, bringing her a series of successful albums and number one singles in the 1980s and 1990s. McEntire has since released 29 studio albums, acquired 42 number one singles, 16 number one albums, and 28 albums have been certified gold, platinum or multi-platinum in sales by", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "1670060", "text": "less-received review, reporting that \"it ultimately falls short of leaving the listener breathless\". He highlighted \"I'm Gonna Take That Mountain\" for sounding like a Bluegrass-inspired song such as music by Ricky Skaggs or Patty Loveless. The album itself reached a peak of No. 4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and No. 25 on the \"Billboard\" 200, staying at the position for only one week. The second single, \"Somebody\", also recorded by Mark Wills on his \"Loving Every Minute\" release, became her twenty-second number-one single on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart and first since \"If You See Him/If", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "1670042", "text": "like losing part of your family. Right now she just wants to get back to Nashville.\" McEntire dedicated her eighteenth album, \"For My Broken Heart,\" to her deceased road band. Released in October 1991, it contained songs of sorrow and lost love about \"all measure of suffering,\" according to Alanna Nash of \"Entertainment Weekly.\" Nash reported that McEntire \"still hits her stride with the more traditional songs of emotional turmoil, above all combining a spectacular vocal performance with a terrific song on 'Buying Her Roses,' a wife's head-spinning discovery of her husband's other woman.\" The release peaked at No. 1", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "19005923", "text": "Reba (TV series) Reba is an American sitcom starring Reba McEntire that aired on The WB from October 5, 2001, to May 5, 2006, and on The CW from November 19, 2006, to February 18, 2007. Most episodes were filmed in front of a live studio audience. The show is set in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, and stars Reba McEntire as a wisecracking single mother Reba Nell Hart, whose dentist ex-husband Brock (Christopher Rich) has left her to marry young, ditzy Barbra Jean (Melissa Peterman) his dental hygienist, after it is revealed in the pilot episode that Barbra Jean", "title": "Reba (TV series)" }, { "id": "1670058", "text": "of the album's material was \"an odd set—mostly ballads, including an English/Portuguese duet with Jose e Durval on Boz Scaggs' 'We're All Alone'\". In 2001, McEntire returned with her third greatest-hits album: \".\" The album helped McEntire receive her third gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America, which made her the most certified female country artist in music history. It spawned the number-three hit \"I'm a Survivor\", which would be her last major hit for two years, as McEntire would go on a temporary hiatus to focus on her television sitcom, \"Reba.\" The album's only other single, a", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "1670091", "text": "of Patsy Cline's version of the song, according to McEntire herself. McEntire's music has been described to not only be built upon traditional country music, but also expand into the genres of Country pop, Mainstream pop, Soul, and R&B. At times, her music has often been criticized for moving away from traditional country music. Many music critics have often called her music to be \"melodramatic\", \"formulaic\", and \"bombastic\", particularly after her 1988 album \"Reba.\" Studio releases such as \"Sweet Sixteen\", \"Rumor Has It\", \"It's Your Call\", and \"Starting Over\" have often been described by these terms. McEntire possesses a contralto", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "13158775", "text": "Strange (Reba McEntire song) \"Strange\" is a song written by Wendell Mobley, Jason Sellers and Neil Thrasher, and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire as her first release for the Valory label, a sister label of Big Machine Records. McEntire debuted the song on the Academy of Country Music awards the week before its release to country radio. It is the first single from her twenty-fifth studio album, \"Keep On Loving You\", released on August 18, 2009. \"Strange\" is a moderate up-tempo in which the narrator says that she has just ended a relationship, and that she finds", "title": "Strange (Reba McEntire song)" }, { "id": "15758322", "text": "In 2007, she released her 25th and final album for MCA, \"\", a collection of duets with other recording artists, including Kelly Clarkson, Kenny Chesney, and Justin Timberlake. In 2008, she signed with the Valory Music Group, which released her first single, \"Strange\", to radio in early April 2009. In her 35-year career, McEntire has garnered 32 number one singles, she now holds the record for the most number one singles by a female country artist. In addition, McEntire holds the record for the most Top 10 hits by a female country artist, surpassing Parton's record in 2009 with her", "title": "Reba McEntire singles discography" }, { "id": "10965050", "text": "number five on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. McEntire and Timberlake performed the song live on \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\" on September 19, 2007. Reba McEntire began work on her 24th studio album, \"\", by creating a \"wish list\" of pop and country singers that she would like to duet with. After completing her residency show at the Las Vegas Hilton, McEntire began reaching out to the artists on her list, by phone and e-mail. She came into contact with Justin Timberlake through Joanna García, who portrayed McEntire's daughter on the sitcom \"Reba\" and was dating Timberlake's", "title": "The Only Promise That Remains" }, { "id": "1670066", "text": "an unmistakable femininity.\" The album contained ten tracks of duets with country and pop artists, including Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes, Trisha Yearwood, Carole King, and Justin Timberlake. \"Reba: Duets\" peaked at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart, while also becoming her first album in her thirty-year career to peak and debut at No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" 200, with 300,536 copies (according to Nielsen Soundscan) sold within its first week of release. On January 17, 2008, McEntire embarked on the \"2 Worlds 2 Voices Tour\" with Clarkson, which began in Fairborn, Ohio and ended in November of the", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "2200485", "text": "authorship. In 2000, after 11 years, Henley released another solo album named \"Inside Job\" which peaked at number 7 on The Billboard 200 and contained the new singles \"Taking You Home\", \"Everything Is Different Now\", \"Workin' It\" and \"For My Wedding\". He performed songs from the album in a \"VH1 Storytellers\" episode during 2000. In 2002 a live DVD entitled \"Don Henley: Live Inside Job\" was released. In 2005 Henley opened 10 of Stevie Nicks' concerts on her Two Voices Tour. Henley performed duets with Kenny Rogers on Rogers' 2006 release \"Water & Bridges\", titled \"Calling Me\" and on Reba", "title": "Don Henley" }, { "id": "11641606", "text": "Every Other Weekend \"Every Other Weekend\" is a duet by American country music artists Reba McEntire and Kenny Chesney, recorded on the former's 2007 album \"\". The song, written by Skip Ewing and Connie Harrington, is the third and final single from the album. When shipped to radio, Chesney's vocals were replaced with Ewing's, although for most of its chart run the song was not credited to either duet partner. It peaked at number 15 on the \"Billboard\" country singles charts in 2008, and number 4 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100. \"Every Other Weekend\" is a mid-tempo ballad backed", "title": "Every Other Weekend" }, { "id": "10394858", "text": "singer Michael Lusk to release its next album, \"Getaway Car\", on the Fresh label before disbanding a second time. 4 Runner was founded in 1993 by Jim Chapman (bass), Billy Crittenden (baritone), Lee Hilliard (tenor), and Craig Morris (lead vocals). Crittenden was a former backing vocalist for Tanya Tucker, and Chapman is the brother-in-law of Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman. In 1994, Diamond Rio had a Top 5 country hit with \"Love a Little Stronger\", which Billy Crittenden co-wrote, while Morris co-wrote \"If I Had Only Known\", an album cut for Reba McEntire. The group recorded a demo tape which", "title": "4 Runner" }, { "id": "8846861", "text": "Reba Number 1's Reba #1s is a double-disc compilation album released in 2005 celebrating Reba McEntire's thirty years in the music industry. It is the first compilation of her career to include tracks from her early Mercury Records years along with her MCA recordings. The album features all of McEntire's solo number one hits spanning her career. The thirty-five-track compilation features twenty-two \"Billboard\" number-one hits, eleven non-\"Billboard\" number ones and two new tracks, \"You're Gonna Be\" (re-titled \"You're Gonna Be (Always Loved by Me)\" when released as a single) and \"Love Needs a Holiday\", which respectively reached 33 and 60", "title": "Reba Number 1's" }, { "id": "1670050", "text": "calling the track \"She Thinks His Name Was John\" to be the best example of that idea. The song was eventually spawned as a single and was considered controversial for its storyline, which described a woman who contracts AIDS from a one-night stand. Due to its subject matter, the song garnered less of a response from radio and peaked at No. 15. \"Read My Mind\" became another major seller for McEntire and her label, selling three million copies by 1995 and certifying at 3× Multi-Platinum from the RIAA. After many years of releasing studio albums of newly recorded material, McEntire's", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "5313802", "text": "other performers. Reba McEntire had a No. 1 song with her \"The Last One to Know\", and Randy Travis, Tanya Tucker, Ray Price, Marie Osmond, Sweethearts of the Rodeo, Michelle Wright and others recorded her songs. Berg signed to a recording contract with RCA Records Nashville in 1990, releasing her debut album \"Lying to the Moon\" that year. Its first two singles, \"Baby, Walk On\" and \"The Things You Left Undone,\" both charted in the country top 40 at No. 36, followed by the No. 43 \"I Got It Bad\" and No. 55 \"I Must Have Been Crazy.\" What was", "title": "Matraca Berg" }, { "id": "3030177", "text": "they released their first album, \"Brand New Man\", certified 6x platinum by the RIAA. Brooks & Dunn released 12 studio albums, two greatest hits albums, and a Christmas album. Brooks & Dunn sold over 30 million records, had 20 number one singles on \"Billboard\", and were one of the most consistently successful acts on the concert circuit. In 2009, they announced that they would disband in 2010. On December 3, 2014 it was announced that Brooks & Dunn would reunite along with Reba McEntire to perform a series of concerts throughout the summer and fall of 2015. In late 2010,", "title": "Ronnie Dunn" }, { "id": "1670034", "text": "in 1987 and the second single, \"Love Will Find Its Way to You\", also reached the top spot. In late 1987, McEntire released her first Christmas collection, \"Merry Christmas to You\", which sold two million copies in the United States, certifying double Platinum. The album included cover versions of \"Away in a Manger\", \"Silent Night\", and Grandpa Jones's \"The Christmas Guest\". Her thirteenth album, \"Reba\", was issued in 1988 and was not well received by critics, who claimed she was moving farther away from her \"traditional country\" sound. \"Stereo Review\" disliked the album's contemporary style, stating, \"After years of insisting", "title": "Reba McEntire" }, { "id": "1745235", "text": "romance films also sustain this set-up until near the film's end, although they tend to establish a more clear-cut conclusion to the romantic entanglements than in long-running TV shows. The love triangle has been a recurring subject in many popular songs through the years. These \"love triangle songs\" include, but are not limited to: \"You Ain't Woman Enough\" and \"Fist City,\" both by Loretta Lynn; \"The Girl Is Mine\" by Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney; \"The Boy is Mine\" by Brandy and Monica; \"Make No Mistake, She's Mine\" by Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap; \"Does He Love You\" by Reba", "title": "Love triangle" }, { "id": "8564415", "text": "a songwriter Evans' songs were performed by numerous performers, including Elvis Presley, Jimmy Dean and Pat Boone. His most successful songs were \"Roses Are Red (My Love)\", which was a number one hit for Bobby Vinton in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100; and \"When\", a chart topper in the UK Singles Chart and #5 in the U.S. for The Kalin Twins. With Larry Kusik, Evans wrote \"Live Young\" for the 1963 Warner Brothers spring break movie \"Palm Springs Weekend\". Evans' songs have also been recorded by Jackie Wilson, Frankie Lymon, Fabian, the Coasters, and more recently by Reba McEntire. His", "title": "Paul Evans (musician)" }, { "id": "18114274", "text": "Reba (season 1) The first season of \"Reba\", an American television sitcom series, aired on The WB from October 5, 2001 to May 10, 2002. The series revolves around the titular character Reba Hart, who deals with her ex-husband, his new girlfriend, and her pregnant daughter Cheyenne and her husband and highschool sweetheart Van Montgomery, as well as raising her two youngest children Kyra and Jake. The series features an ensemble cast including Reba McEntire as Reba Hart, Christopher Rich as Brock Hart, Joanna García as Cheyenne Hart Montgomery, Steve Howey as Van Montgomery, Scarlett Pomers as Kyra Hart, Mitch", "title": "Reba (season 1)" } ]

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[ { "id": "533920", "text": "he was unsatisfied with the book. Ellison ultimately wrote more than 2,000 pages of this second novel but never finished it. Ellison died on April 16, 1994 of pancreatic cancer and was interred in a crypt at Trinity Church Cemetery in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan. He was survived by his second wife, Fanny Ellison (November 27, 1911 – November 19, 2005). \"Invisible Man\" won the 1953 US National Book Award for Fiction. The award was his ticket into the American literary establishment. He eventually was admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, received two President's", "title": "Ralph Ellison" }, { "id": "533904", "text": "Ralph Ellison Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, and scholar. Ellison is best known for his novel \"Invisible Man\", which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote \"Shadow and Act\" (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and \"Going to the Territory\" (1986). For \"The New York Times\", the best of these essays in addition to the novel put him \"among the gods of America's literary Parnassus.\" A posthumous novel, \"Juneteenth\", was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left upon his death. Ralph", "title": "Ralph Ellison" }, { "id": "2393326", "text": "Invisible Man Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison, published by Random House in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African Americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity. \"Invisible Man\" won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked \"Invisible Man\" 19th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. \"Time\" magazine included the novel", "title": "Invisible Man" }, { "id": "533927", "text": "book, \"Invisible Man.\" Ralph Ellison Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, and scholar. Ellison is best known for his novel \"Invisible Man\", which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote \"Shadow and Act\" (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and \"Going to the Territory\" (1986). For \"The New York Times\", the best of these essays in addition to the novel put him \"among the gods of America's literary Parnassus.\" A posthumous novel, \"Juneteenth\", was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left upon", "title": "Ralph Ellison" }, { "id": "2393350", "text": "developing the novel into a television series. Invisible Man Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison, published by Random House in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African Americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity. \"Invisible Man\" won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked \"Invisible Man\" 19th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the", "title": "Invisible Man" }, { "id": "533919", "text": "while continuing to work on his novel. The following year, a Book Week poll of 200 critics, authors, and editors was released that proclaimed \"Invisible Man\" the most important novel since World War II. In 1967, Ellison experienced a major house fire at his summer home in Plainfield, Massachusetts, in which he claimed more than 300 pages of his second novel manuscript were lost. A perfectionist regarding the art of the novel, Ellison had said in accepting his National Book Award for \"Invisible Man\" that he felt he had made \"an attempt at a major novel\" and, despite the award,", "title": "Ralph Ellison" }, { "id": "533917", "text": "while he wrote \"Invisible Man\" by working for American Medical Center for Burma Frontiers (the charity supporting Gordon S. Seagrave's medical missionary work). From 1947 to 1951, he earned some money writing book reviews but spent most of his time working on \"Invisible Man\". Fanny also helped type Ellison's longhand text and assisted him in editing the typescript as it progressed. Published in 1952, \"Invisible Man\" explores the theme of man's search for his identity and place in society, as seen from the perspective of the first-person narrator, an unnamed African American man in the New York City of the", "title": "Ralph Ellison" }, { "id": "2393328", "text": "from the Merchant Marine. The book took five years to complete with one year off for what Ellison termed an \"ill-conceived short novel.\" \"Invisible Man\" was published as a whole in 1952. Ellison had published a section of the book in 1947, the famous \"Battle Royal\" scene, which had been shown to Cyril Connolly, the editor of \"Horizon\" magazine by Frank Taylor, one of Ellison's early supporters. In his speech accepting the 1953 National Book Award, Ellison said that he considered the novel's chief significance to be its \"experimental attitude.\" Before Invisible Man, many (if not most) novels dealing with", "title": "Invisible Man" }, { "id": "1621671", "text": "Pulitzer Prize for his major novel \"American Pastoral\" (1997). In the realm of African-American literature, Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel \"Invisible Man\" was instantly recognized as among the most powerful and important works of the immediate post-war years. The story of a black Underground Man in the urban north, the novel laid bare the often repressed racial tension that still prevailed while also succeeding as an existential character study. Richard Wright was catapulted to fame by the publication in subsequent years of his now widely studied short story, \"The Man Who Was Almost a Man\" (1939), and his controversial second novel,", "title": "American literature" }, { "id": "8474882", "text": "a novel published in 2007 by Fulcrum Publishing. In 2015, Callahan donated his papers to the Lewis & Clark Archives. John F. Callahan John F. Callahan is literary executor for Ralph Ellison, and was the editor for his posthumously-released novel \"Juneteenth\". In addition to his work with Ellison, Callahan has written or edited numerous volumes related to African-American literature, with a particular emphasis on 20th century literature. Some of Callahan's other works include \"In the African-American Grain: The Pursuit of Voice in 20th Century Black Fiction\", \"Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Casebook\", and \"The Illusions of a Nation: Myth and", "title": "John F. Callahan" }, { "id": "2393349", "text": "very strongest sort of creative intelligence.\" George Mayberry of \"The New Republic\" said Ellison \"is a master at catching the shape, flavor and sound of the common vagaries of human character and experience.\" Literary critic Harold Bloom ranked \"Invisible Man\", alongside Zora Neale Hurston's \"Their Eyes Were Watching God\", as one of the best African American twentieth century novels. Anthony Burgess described the novel as \"a masterpiece\". It is the most frequently cited book on AP Literature Exams. Some themes the novel addresses are race, racism, invisibility and whiteness. It was reported in October 2017 that streaming service Hulu was", "title": "Invisible Man" }, { "id": "18189528", "text": "novel. Ellison began writing his second novel around the time of \"Invisible Man\"’s publication in 1952. Though he released several excerpts from his novel-in-progress over the next forty years, Ellison failed to publish the long-anticipated novel during his lifetime. In 1999, Callahan released a portion of Ellison’s novel under the title of \"Juneteenth\". At more than a thousand pages, \"Three Days Before the Shooting...\" constitutes the fullest version of Ellison’s uncompleted vision. Set at the dawn of the civil rights movement, the novel concerns the relationship between a black minister named Alonzo Hickman and his surrogate son of indeterminate race,", "title": "Adam Bradley (literary critic)" }, { "id": "10786851", "text": "Three Days Before the Shooting... Three Days Before the Shooting... is the title of the edited manuscript of Ralph Ellison's never-finished second novel. It was co-edited by John F. Callahan, the executor of Ellison's literary estate, and Adam Bradley, a professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The book was published January 26, 2010 by Modern Library. An excerpt of Ralph Ellison's unfinished manuscripts was previously published as \"Juneteenth\". Ralph Ellison's first novel \"Invisible Man\" was published in 1952 to great critical success. In 1953 it beat Ernest Hemingway's \"The Old Man and the Sea\" to win", "title": "Three Days Before the Shooting..." }, { "id": "5812149", "text": "that Ralph Ellison's \"Invisible Man\" (1952) had had on racial equality 25 years earlier. Her most significant work in later life was \"From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women\". It was published in a Dutch translation in 1995 (in one volume of 1312 pages), but did not appear in English until 2002 and 2003 (published in three volumes by Mcarthur & Company), and then again in English in four volumes (published by The Feminist Press) in 2008. It is built around the premise that exclusion from the prevailing intellectual histories denied women their past, present and future. Despite carefully", "title": "Marilyn French" }, { "id": "1689038", "text": "friend, writer Ralph Ellison. Ellison's novel \"Invisible Man\" was one of Hersey's favorite works, and he often urged students in his fiction-writing seminar to study Ellison's storytelling techniques and descriptive prose. Hersey's death was front-page news in the next day's \"New York Times\". The writer was buried near his home on Martha's Vineyard. He was survived by his second wife, Barbara (the former wife of Hersey's colleague at \"The New Yorker\", artist Charles Addams, and the model for Morticia Addams), Hersey's five children, one of whom is the composer and musician Baird Hersey, and six grandchildren. Barbara Hersey died on", "title": "John Hersey" }, { "id": "8474880", "text": "John F. Callahan John F. Callahan is literary executor for Ralph Ellison, and was the editor for his posthumously-released novel \"Juneteenth\". In addition to his work with Ellison, Callahan has written or edited numerous volumes related to African-American literature, with a particular emphasis on 20th century literature. Some of Callahan's other works include \"In the African-American Grain: The Pursuit of Voice in 20th Century Black Fiction\", \"Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Casebook\", and \"The Illusions of a Nation: Myth and History in the Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald\". Callahan also edited Ellison's short story collection \"Flying Home\" and co-edited with", "title": "John F. Callahan" }, { "id": "18189522", "text": "a sophomore at Lewis & Clark, Bradley began working as a research assistant for Professor John F. Callahan, a friend and soon-to-be-named literary executor of the late African-American novelist Ralph Ellison. Upon his death in 1994, Ellison left behind thousands of manuscript pages and computer files related to his long-in-progress second novel, a follow-up to his 1952 classic, \"Invisible Man\". Working with Ellison’s unpublished manuscripts proved a formative experience for Bradley, who decided to attend graduate school to study English so that he could continue collaborating with Callahan on Ellison’s papers. In 2003 Bradley earned his Ph.D. in English from", "title": "Adam Bradley (literary critic)" }, { "id": "533925", "text": "a sculptor, musician, photographer, and college professor as well as his writing output. He taught at Bard College, Rutgers University, the University of Chicago, and New York University. Ellison was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. After Ellison's death, more manuscripts were discovered in his home, resulting in the publication of \"Flying Home and Other Stories\" in 1996. In 1999 his second novel, \"Juneteenth\", was published under the editorship of John F. Callahan, a professor at Lewis & Clark College and Ellison's literary executor. It was a 368-page condensation of more than 2000 pages written by", "title": "Ralph Ellison" }, { "id": "484815", "text": "The Invisible Man The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in \"Pearson's Weekly\" in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. An enthusiast of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has", "title": "The Invisible Man" }, { "id": "484826", "text": "any image would be badly blurred if the eye had an invisible cornea and lens. \"The Invisible Man\" has been adapted to, and referenced in, film, television, and comics. The Invisible Man The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in \"Pearson's Weekly\" in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light", "title": "The Invisible Man" }, { "id": "1356488", "text": "to several theories of cloaking. A person can be described as invisible if others refuse to see him or routinely overlook him. The term was used in this manner in the title of the book \"Invisible Man\", by Ralph Ellison, in reference to the protagonist, likely modeled after the author, being overlooked on account of his status as an African American. This is supported by the quote taken from the Prologue, \"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.\" (Prologue.1) In fiction, people or objects can be rendered completely invisible by several means: In some works, the", "title": "Invisibility" }, { "id": "10786852", "text": "the National Book Award. Following the success of \"Invisible Man\", Ellison became one of the most respected writers in the country, and became prominent in many elite circles. \"Invisible Man\" sold so well that royalty checks provided financial security for the rest of Ellison's life. The stream of money meant that the release of a second novel would be a literary decision and not a financial one. Ellison spent the 42 years after the publication of \"Invisible Man\", until his death in 1994, working on his second novel. The reasons for this delay have been a subject of speculation and", "title": "Three Days Before the Shooting..." }, { "id": "4802711", "text": "of his own essays \"Notes of a Native Son\", in reference to Wright's novel. However, their friendship fell apart due to one of the book's essays, \"Everybody's Protest Novel,\" which criticized \"Native Son\" for lacking credible characters and psychological complexity. Among Wright's other books are the autobiographical novel \"Black Boy\" (1945), \"The Outsider\" (1953), and \"White Man, Listen!\" (1957). The other great novelist of this period is Ralph Ellison, best known for his novel \"Invisible Man\" (1952), which won the National Book Award in 1953. Even though he did not complete another novel during his lifetime, \"Invisible Man\" was so", "title": "African-American literature" }, { "id": "4643879", "text": "practice and integrates them into the canon. For example, the Dark Matter anthologies edited by Sheree Thomas feature contemporary Black science fiction, discuss Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in her introduction, \"Looking for the Invisible,\" and also include older works by W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles W. Chesnutt, and George S. Schuyler. Lisa Yazsek argues that Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel, \"Invisible Man\", should be thought of as a predecessor to Afrofuturist literature. Yaszek illustrates that Ellison draws upon Afrofuturist ideas that were not yet prevalent in African-American literature. Ellison critiques the traditional visions of black people's future in the United", "title": "Afrofuturism" }, { "id": "2393327", "text": "in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005, calling it \"the quintessential American picaresque of the 20th century\", rather than a \"race novel, or even a bildungsroman\". Malcolm Bradbury and Richard Ruland recognize an existential vision with a \"Kafka-like absurdity\". According to \"The New York Times\", former U.S. president Barack Obama modeled his memoir \"Dreams from My Father\" on Ellison's novel. Ellison says in his introduction to the 30th Anniversary Edition that he started to write what would eventually become Invisible Man in a barn in Waitsfield, Vermont in the summer of 1945 while on sick leave", "title": "Invisible Man" }, { "id": "2393336", "text": "place to spend the night and enters a black church: \"It was a negro church; and the preacher's text was about the blackness of darkness, and the weeping and wailing and teeth-gnashing there.\" According to Rampersad, it was Melville who \"empowered Ellison to insist on a place in the American literary tradition\" by his example of \"representing the complexity of race and racism so acutely and generously\" in Moby-Dick.[12] Other most likely influences to Ellison, by way of how much he speaks about them, are: Kenneth Burke, Andre Malraux, Mark Twain, to name a few. The letters he wrote to", "title": "Invisible Man" }, { "id": "2393333", "text": "guess many young writers were doing this, but I also used his description of hunting when I went into the fields the next day. I had been hunting since I was eleven, but no one had broken down the process of wing-shooting for me, and it was from reading Hemingway that I learned to lead a bird. When he describes something in print, believe him; believe him even when he describes the process of art in terms of baseball or boxing; he’s been there.\" Some of Ellison's influences had a more direct impact on his novel as when Ellison divulges", "title": "Invisible Man" }, { "id": "2393331", "text": "to project? Finally, why is it that so many of those who would tell us the meaning of Negro life never bother to learn how varied it really is?\" Ellison's Invisible Man dovetails two movements, the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. John Oliver Killens once denounced Invisible Man by saying: “The Negro people need Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man like we need a hole in the head or a stab in the back. ... It is a vicious distortion of Negro life.\" Ellison's influences include, among others, The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot; Ellison spent some time tracking down", "title": "Invisible Man" }, { "id": "533914", "text": "the Communist Party during World War II, when they felt the party had betrayed African Americans and replaced Marxist class politics with social reformism. In a letter to Wright, dated August 18, 1945, Ellison poured out his anger with party leaders: \"If they want to play ball with the bourgeoisie they needn't think they can get away with it. ... Maybe we can't smash the atom, but we can, with a few well chosen, well written words, smash all that crummy filth to hell.\" In the wake of this disillusion, Ellison began writing \"Invisible Man,\" a novel that was, in", "title": "Ralph Ellison" }, { "id": "14069671", "text": "list of the 100 best nonfiction books of the 20th century. Shadow and Act Shadow and Act is a collection of essays by Ralph Ellison, published in 1964. The writings encompass the two decades that began with Ellison's involvement with African-American political activism and print media in Harlem, Ellison's emergence as a highly acclaimed writer with the publication of \"Invisible Man,\" and culminating with his 1964 challenge of Irving Howe's characterization of African-American life, \"Black Boys and Native Sons\", with his now famous essay, \"The World and the Jug\". Ellison described it as exemplary of his \"attempt to transform some", "title": "Shadow and Act" }, { "id": "6844995", "text": "and American literature; and the Harlem Renaissance. From 1991 to 1996, he held a MacArthur \"Genius Grant\" fellowship. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society. In 2007, his biography of Ralph Ellison (1914–1994), which he had worked on for eight years, was a nonfiction finalist for the National Book Award. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal, and in 2012 was the recipient of the BIO Award from Biographers International Organization. Also in 2012, he won a Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. He", "title": "Arnold Rampersad" }, { "id": "6574169", "text": "something Ellison concocted after the fact to justify his lack of progress. Arnold Rampersad, in his 2007 biography of Ellison, points out that, following the fire, Ellison wrote to critic Nathan Scott of his relief that he still \"fortunately had a full copy\" of all his writing. While there had been over 2,000 pages written by the time of his death, the novel was never finished by the author himself. A fuller version of the manuscript was published on February 2, 2010, as \"Three Days Before the Shooting\". Juneteenth (novel) Juneteenth is Ralph Ellison's second novel, published posthumously in 1999", "title": "Juneteenth (novel)" }, { "id": "18682295", "text": "of the thousands of pages of draft manuscript and notes yields the conclusion that the novel familiar to readers was the product of multiple reconceptualizations and revisions. Now viewed as a Cold War classic, Invisible Man was begun, she proposes, as a proletarian novel somewhat sympathetic with the left. The assessment appearing in African American Review asserted, “After Foley’s analysis of the material in Ellison’s drafts, one in fact gains an even greater appreciation for the richness and complexity of what remains one of the great works of American literature.” The reviewer of \"Wrestling with the Left\" for \"Cultural Logic\",", "title": "Barbara Clare Foley" }, { "id": "533918", "text": "1930s. In contrast to his contemporaries such as Richard Wright and James Baldwin, Ellison created characters that are dispassionate, educated, articulate, and self-aware. Through the protagonist, Ellison explores the contrasts between the Northern and Southern varieties of racism and their alienating effect. The narrator is \"invisible\" in a figurative sense, in that \"people refuse to see\" him, and also experiences a kind of dissociation. The novel also contains taboo issues such as incest and the controversial subject of communism. In 1964, Ellison published \"Shadow and Act\", a collection of essays, and began to teach at Rutgers University and Yale University,", "title": "Ralph Ellison" }, { "id": "8910643", "text": "It was broadcast in Finland in 1976, with original soundtrack and Finnish subtitles. On February 21, 2012, Visual Entertainment released \"The Invisible Man: The Complete Series\" on DVD in Region 1 and on Blu-ray in Region A in Canada for the first time. In the US, the DVD release was on May 1, 2012, and the Blu-ray release on June 19, 2012, and distributed by Millennium Entertainment. In Region 4, the series was released on DVD in Australia on August 15, 2012, and in New Zealand on September 13, 2012, and distributed by Madman Entertainment. In Region 2, the series", "title": "The Invisible Man (1975 TV series)" }, { "id": "6574168", "text": "Juneteenth (novel) Juneteenth is Ralph Ellison's second novel, published posthumously in 1999 as a 368-page condensation of over 2000 pages written by him over a period of forty years. It was originally written without any real organization, and Ellison's longtime friend, biographer and critic John F. Callahan, put the novel together, editing it in the way he thought Ellison would want it to be written. Ellison claimed to be devastated when much of the original manuscript of \"Juneteenth\" was destroyed by a fire in 1967. However, the loss of the crucial, irrecoverable sections of his manuscript appears to have been", "title": "Juneteenth (novel)" }, { "id": "533926", "text": "Ellison over a period of 40 years. All the manuscripts of this incomplete novel were published collectively on January 26, 2010, by Modern Library, under the title \"Three Days Before the Shooting...\" On February 18, 2014, the USPS issued a 91¢ stamp honoring Ralph Ellison in its Literary Arts series. A park on 150th Street and Riverside Drive in Harlem (near 730 Riverside Drive, Ellison's principal residence from the early 1950s until his death) was dedicated to Ellison on May 1, 2003. In the park, stands a 15 by 8-foot bronze slab, with a \"cut-out man figure\" inspired by his", "title": "Ralph Ellison" }, { "id": "19632708", "text": "says to spare him instead. In gratitude, Bridge removes the implant himself, and Victor passes out, waking up to an empty tent. The novel ends with Victor and Martha posing as corporate representatives checking into the Chicago headquarters of the elevator company which supplies GGSI, plotting sabotage. Winters cites Ralph Ellison's \"Invisible Man\" as a strong influence on the finished novel. The novel was a finalist for the 2017 Chautauqua Prize, the 2017 Southern Book Prize, the 2017 International Thriller Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of the Year. The book won the", "title": "Underground Airlines" }, { "id": "12074023", "text": "the six-part documentary TV series \"Risk Takers\" (2011–12). In September 2014, he released \"\", a feature-length documentary about unsung heroes in World War II Italy. Jacoby’s stage adaptation of Ralph Ellison’s \"Invisible Man\" was produced in Washington and Boston in 2012–13. It won a Jefferson Award for best New Play adaptation and 4 Helen Hayes Awards in 2013. \"Shadowman\", a film about the life of Richard Hambleton was screened in the Tribeca Film Festival April 21, 2017. The film came in second place for the Tribeca Audience Award. \"Topdog Diaries\" about the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, Suzan-Lori Parks, featured Don Cheadle", "title": "Oren Jacoby" }, { "id": "14069668", "text": "Shadow and Act Shadow and Act is a collection of essays by Ralph Ellison, published in 1964. The writings encompass the two decades that began with Ellison's involvement with African-American political activism and print media in Harlem, Ellison's emergence as a highly acclaimed writer with the publication of \"Invisible Man,\" and culminating with his 1964 challenge of Irving Howe's characterization of African-American life, \"Black Boys and Native Sons\", with his now famous essay, \"The World and the Jug\". Ellison described it as exemplary of his \"attempt to transform some of the themes, the problems, the enigmas, the contradictions of character", "title": "Shadow and Act" }, { "id": "5864577", "text": "on the front) and numbered in the order the volumes were released (e.g., \"The Amazing Spider-Man: Vol. 1\" was #1, \"The Fantastic Four: Vol. 1\" was #2). Volumes contained about 10 issues (plus 1 annual) and were about 220-260 pages each. Some volumes had fewer pages, such as \"The Invincible Iron Man: Vol. 1\" (197 pages), \"The Incredible Hulk: Vol. 1\" (150 pages), and \"The Uncanny X-Men: Vol. 1-3\" (each under 200 pages). The end papers featured a 'gallery' of three sequential Masterworks covers along with a partial cover of the next volume in the series (except Volumes 1, 2", "title": "Marvel Masterworks" }, { "id": "2393335", "text": "Ellison's freedom to describe race so acutely and generously. [The narrator] \"resembles no one else in previous fiction so much as he resembles Ishmael of Moby-Dick.\" Ellison signals his debt in the prologue to the novel, where the narrator remembers a moment of truth under the influence of marijuana and evokes a church service: \"Brothers and sisters, my text this morning is the 'Blackness of Blackness.' And the congregation answers: 'That blackness is most black, brother, most black...'\" In this scene Ellison \"reprises a moment in the second chapter of Moby-Dick\", where Ishmael wanders around New Bedford looking for a", "title": "Invisible Man" }, { "id": "10945903", "text": "Invisible Man (song) \"Invisible Man\" is the debut single by American boy band 98 Degrees, released on June 24, 1997 as the first single from their debut album \"98 Degrees\" (1997). It was their breakthrough hit, peaking at number 12 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. The song is featured as a bonus track on the European version of \"98 Degrees and Rising\". An acoustic version of the song is the closing track on their 2013 studio album \"2.0\". Two music videos were made for the song. The first version was shot in black and white with the members getting", "title": "Invisible Man (song)" }, { "id": "4733058", "text": "with \"The Mummy\" (2017), was to be followed by \"Bride of Frankenstein\" in 2019. Franchise producer Alex Kurtzman stated that fans should expect at least one film per year in the shared film universe. But on November 8, 2017, Kurtzman and Chris Morgan moved on to other projects, leaving the future of the \"Dark Universe\" in doubt. The Invisible Man (1933 film) The Invisible Man is an American 1933 Pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale. It was based on H. G. Wells' science fiction novel \"The Invisible Man\", published in 1897, as adapted by R.C. Sherriff, Philip", "title": "The Invisible Man (1933 film)" }, { "id": "4733052", "text": "should have been. The movie was popular at the box office, Universal's most successful horror film since \"Frankenstein\". Mordaunt Hall of \"The New York Times\" wrote, \"The story makes such superb cinematic material that one wonders that Hollywood did not film it sooner. Now that it has been done, it is a remarkable achievement.\" The film also appeared on the \"New York Times\"' year-end list as one of the Ten Best Films of 1933. \"Variety\" called the film \"something new and refreshing in film frighteners\" that \"will more than satisfy audiences,\" but suggested that some of the laughs in the", "title": "The Invisible Man (1933 film)" }, { "id": "533909", "text": "air of sanctimonious Negritude enabled him to write about it.\" In passages of \"Invisible Man\", \"he looks back with scorn and despair on the snivelling ethos that ruled at Tuskegee.\" Tuskegee's music department was perhaps the most renowned department at the school, headed by composer William L. Dawson. Ellison also was guided by the department's piano instructor, Hazel Harrison. While he studied music primarily in his classes, he spent his free time in the library with modernist classics. He cited reading T. S. Eliot's \"The Waste Land\" as a major awakening moment. In 1934, he began to work as a", "title": "Ralph Ellison" }, { "id": "13609270", "text": "and defeated dreams can easily stand comparison with Ralph Ellison's \"Invisible Man\" and Robert Penn Warren's \"All the King's Men\". Little wonder, too, that parts of the story of E.J. Watson call up comparisons with Dostoevsky, Conrad, and, inevitably, Faulkner. In every way, \"Shadow Country\" is a bravura performance, at once history, fiction, and myth—as well as the capstone to the career of one of the most admired and admirable writers of our time. Tom LeClair, reviewing the work for the New York Times, considered that the work failed to live up to the sum total of its originally published", "title": "Shadow Country" }, { "id": "4733038", "text": "The Invisible Man (1933 film) The Invisible Man is an American 1933 Pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale. It was based on H. G. Wells' science fiction novel \"The Invisible Man\", published in 1897, as adapted by R.C. Sherriff, Philip Wylie and Preston Sturges, whose work was considered unsatisfactory and who was taken off the project. Produced by Universal Pictures, the film stars Claude Rains, in his first American screen appearance, and Gloria Stuart. The film has been described as a \"nearly perfect translation of the spirit of the book\". It spawned a number of sequels, plus", "title": "The Invisible Man (1933 film)" }, { "id": "4199853", "text": "received honorary doctorates from Colgate (Litt.D., 1975) and Spring Hill College (D.H.L., 1995). Though they did not know each other at Tuskegee, Murray and Ellison became close friends shortly after Murray graduated. Their mutually influential relationship — reflected in the book \"Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray\" — informed the thinking and writing of both men from the time of the writing of Ellison's \"Invisible Man\" (1952), through Murray's social-aesthetic works and novels, up until Ellison's death in 1994. Murray and the American painter Romare Bearden became close friends after meeting in Paris in 1949", "title": "Albert Murray (writer)" }, { "id": "484823", "text": "Griffin's notes; but since they are written in code, he is completely incapable of understanding them. Children's literature was a prominent genre in the 1890s. According to John Sutherland, Wells and his contemporaries such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling \"essentially wrote boy's books for grown-ups.\" Sutherland identifies \"The Invisible Man\" as one such book. Wells said that his inspiration for the novella was \"The Perils of Invisibility,\" one of the \"Bab Ballads\" by W. S. Gilbert, which includes the couplet \"Old Peter vanished like a shot/but then - his suit of clothes did not.\" Another", "title": "The Invisible Man" }, { "id": "5291376", "text": "Sea. The Invisible Man appears in \"Mad Mad Mad Monsters\" (a \"prequel of sorts\" to \"Mad Monster Party?\") voiced again by Allen Swift. He, his invisible wife Nagatha, and their invisible boy Ghoul and his invisible dog Goblin are invited by Baron Henry von Frankenstein to attend the wedding of Frankenstein's Monster and the Monster's Bride at the Transylvania-Astoria Hotel on the midnight of Friday the 13th. In Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's comic book series, \"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen\", Hawley Griffin is depicted as a member of the Victorian-era team of agents for which the series is named.", "title": "Griffin (The Invisible Man)" }, { "id": "9106555", "text": "The Invisible Man (1984 TV series) The Invisible Man is a six-part television serial based on the science fiction/fantasy novella by H. G. Wells, screened by the BBC in the UK throughout September and October 1984. It was produced as part of the BBC 1 Classic Serial strand, which incorporated numerous television adaptations of classic novels screened in serial form on Sunday afternoons. Out of all the numerous film and TV versions of H. G. Wells' book, this remains to date the most faithful to the original text. The series was adapted by James Andrew Hall and directed by Brian", "title": "The Invisible Man (1984 TV series)" }, { "id": "2393348", "text": "has told his story in order to help people see past his own invisibility, and also to provide a voice for people with a similar plight: \"Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?\" Critic Orville Prescott of \"The New York Times\" called the novel \"the most impressive work of fiction by an American Negro which I have ever read,\" and felt it marked \"the appearance of a richly talented writer.\" Novelist Saul Bellow in his review found it \"a book of the very first order, a superb book...it is tragi-comic, poetic, the tone of the", "title": "Invisible Man" }, { "id": "13941185", "text": "The Invisible Man (2005 TV series) The Invisible Man is an animated series from MoonScoop Group, in co-production with bRb, Screen 21, RAI Fiction, SMEC and with the participation of M6, Disney Television France\", Antena 3 and Eurocartoons. Each of the 26 episodes lasts 26–30 minutes. It is currently being aired in the Italy On Rai 2. The story revolves around Alan Crystal, a genius but reckless teenager who is turned permanently invisible when an experiment goes awry. As with all good super-hero stories this one explores the issues related to leading a double life and keeping friends and secrets", "title": "The Invisible Man (2005 TV series)" }, { "id": "4733056", "text": "title \"The Invisible Man Returns\" was later released in 1940 starring different actors and following different characters. The film stars Vincent Price as a new Invisible Man, while John Sutton plays the brother of Claude Rains's character from \"The Invisible Man\". \"The Invisible Man\" was released on VHS as part of the Universal Studios' Classic Monster Collection in 1992. In 2004 Universal released six legacy collections that included some of their best horror films. \"The Invisible Man\" was uncut and longer than previously televised versions. The complete \"Invisible Man\" collection comprised \"The Invisible Man\" (1933), \"The Invisible Man Returns\" (1940),", "title": "The Invisible Man (1933 film)" }, { "id": "484816", "text": "become an iconic character in horror fiction. While its predecessors, \"The Time Machine\" and \"The Island of Doctor Moreau\", were written using first-person narrators, Wells adopts a third-person objective point of view in \"The Invisible Man\". A mysterious man, Griffin, arrives at the local inn of the English village of Iping, West Sussex, during a snowstorm. The stranger wears a long-sleeved, thick coat and gloves; his face is hidden entirely by bandages except for a fake pink nose; and he wears a wide-brimmed hat. He is excessively reclusive, irascible, and unfriendly. He demands to be left alone and spends most", "title": "The Invisible Man" }, { "id": "761981", "text": "a cameo in \"The Incredible Hulk\" (2008), two \"Iron Man\" sequels \"Iron Man 2\" (2010) and \"Iron Man 3\" (2013), \"The Avengers\" (2012), \"\" (2015), \"\" (2016), \"\" (2017), \"\" (2018) and will do so again in \"\" (2019) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Iron Man was ranked 12th on IGN's \"Top 100 Comic Book Heroes\" in 2011, and third in their list of \"The Top 50 Avengers\" in 2012. Iron Man's Marvel Comics premiere in \"Tales of Suspense\" #39 (cover dated March 1963) was a collaboration among editor and story-plotter Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, story-artist Don Heck, and", "title": "Iron Man" }, { "id": "6053929", "text": "director and screenwriter, respectively, are Charles Lamont and John Grant. This film has been released several times on DVD. First on \"The Best of Abbott and Costello Volume Three\", on August 3, 2004, and again on October 28, 2008 as part of \"Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection\". Later, the film was included in the 3-disc \"The Invisible Man: The Complete Legacy Collection\" and the 21-disc \"Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection\" both released on September 2, 2014. It was released on Blu-ray on August 28, 2018. Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man Abbott and Costello Meet", "title": "Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man" }, { "id": "2364210", "text": "\"Numbered pages\" means the page number of the last page of the story itself, regardless of whether the page number actually appears on the page. It does not include end papers or advertisement pages, even if they are numbered. English-language editions of The Hobbit This list contains only complete, printed English-language editions of \"The Hobbit\" by J. R. R. Tolkien. It is not for derived or unprinted works such as screenplays, graphic novels, or audio books. For this list, a printing is a separate edition if \"any\" of the following criteria is met: For this list, a printing is a", "title": "English-language editions of The Hobbit" }, { "id": "17849442", "text": "the following week it reached No. 1 on the Country Digital Songs chart with 92,000 copies sold for the week, and reaching No. 4 on Hot Country Songs and No. 44 on Billboard Hot 100. The song has sold 419,000 copies in the U.S. as of June 2014. Invisible (Hunter Hayes song) \"Invisible\" is a song recorded by American country music artist Hunter Hayes for his second studio album, \"Storyline\" (2014). Hayes co-wrote the song in a collaboration with Bonnie Baker and Katrina Elam, while the production was handled by Hayes and Dann Huff. The song was debuted at the", "title": "Invisible (Hunter Hayes song)" }, { "id": "6897344", "text": "was released on Blu-ray Disc and standard DVD October 16, 2007, by Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment. It includes audio commentary by director David S. Goyer and writers Christine Roum and Mick Davis, deleted scenes, and two music videos. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 20% of 59 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 4.1/10. The consensus reads: \"Dull and confusing execution makes this ghost story utterly forgettable and unintentionally funny.\" Metacritic rated it 36/100 based on 15 reviews. Peter Debruge of \"Variety\" wrote that it \"plays like a very special episode of \"The", "title": "The Invisible (film)" }, { "id": "7976038", "text": "The Invisible Man (Queen song) \"The Invisible Man\" is a song by the British rock band Queen, written by drummer Roger Taylor but credited to Queen. The song is sung mostly by Freddie Mercury, with vocal contributions from Taylor. Originally released on the album \"The Miracle\", it was released as a single in 1989. Taylor claims that he got the inspiration to create the song while reading a book (possibly the book of the same name), and the bassline instantly came to his imagination. This song marks the only time in any of Queen's songs that all four band members", "title": "The Invisible Man (Queen song)" }, { "id": "14917990", "text": "invisibility plot. An editorial review from \"Publishers Weekly\" describes the book's dialogue as \"absolutely true and suspense sustained at high pitch throughout, this supple fantasy attends so cleverly to plausible elements that it entertains from beginning to end\". A review for \"The New York Times\" complimented the ways in which \"The Invisible Man\" was updated to the 1980s and Saint's \"droll sense of humor\", but criticized the uneven writing and wasted potential. Early on, H. F. Saint was devoted to becoming a full-time writer but later retired due to the book's success. Even before publishing, Saint earned an estimated $2.5", "title": "Memoirs of an Invisible Man" }, { "id": "13641958", "text": "the national fight for 'freedom.' Collins represented the white discrimination and suppression black residents had to deal with on a daily basis. The riot became a subject of art and literature: it inspired the \"theatrical climax\" of Ralph Ellison's novel \"Invisible Man\", winner of the 1953 National Book Award, it frames the events recounted in James Baldwin's memoirs \"Notes of a Native Son\", and it appears in artist William Johnson's painting \"Moon Over Harlem\". On Sunday, August 1, 1943, a white policeman attempted to arrest an African-American woman for disturbing the peace in the lobby of the Braddock Hotel. By", "title": "Harlem riot of 1943" }, { "id": "1276018", "text": "\"Village of the Damned\". However, Colman died and the film became a British production starring George Sanders, who married Colman's widow, Benita Hume. Colman has been mentioned in many novels, but he is specifically mentioned in Ralph Ellison's \"Invisible Man\" because of his charming, well-known voice. The main character of this novel says that he wishes he could have a voice like Colman's because it is charming, and relates the voice to that of a gentleman or a man from Esquire magazine. Colman was indeed very well known for his voice. Encyclopædia Britannica says that Colman had a \"resonant, mellifluous", "title": "Ronald Colman" }, { "id": "2393330", "text": "his book in the larger canon of work by an American who happens to be African. In the opening paragraph to that essay Ellison poses three questions: \"Why is it so often true that when critics confront the American as Negro they suddenly drop their advanced critical armament and revert with an air of confident superiority to quite primitive modes of analysis? Why is it that Sociology-oriented critics seem to rate literature so far below politics and ideology that they would rather kill a novel than modify their presumptions concerning a given reality which it seeks in its own terms", "title": "Invisible Man" }, { "id": "2393332", "text": "all of the obscure references in that poem. In an interview with Richard Kostelanetz, Ellison states that what he had learned from the poem was imagery, and also improvisation--techniques he had only before seen in jazz.. Some other influences include William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. He once called Faulkner the south's greatest artist. Likewise, in the Paris Review, in the Spring Issue, 1955, in an interview he said this about Hemingway: \"At night I practiced writing and studied Joyce, Dostoyevsky, Stein, and Hemingway. Especially Hemingway; I read him to learn his sentence structure and how to organize a story. I", "title": "Invisible Man" }, { "id": "268338", "text": "with the narrator introducing himself (\"I am an invisible man\"). The oration by Ellison's blind preacher Barbee resembles Father Mapple's sermon in that both prepare the reader for what is to come. American songwriter Bob Dylan elaborated on the book in his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech of 2017, citing the book as one of the three books that influenced him most. Dylan's description of the book ends with an acknowledgment: \"That theme, and all that it implies, would work its way into more than a few of my songs.\" Moby-Dick Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American", "title": "Moby-Dick" }, { "id": "20690063", "text": "attorney and justice of the New York State Supreme Court, and Gail Hellenbrand, a politician. According to a 2012 interview with Cal State Northridge’s student newspaper, The Sundial, Hellenbrand wanted be an architect when he was a kid, because he always liked design and mathematics. He played soccer, baseball, and football, with soccer being his favorite sport. His favorite novel is Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Raymond Chandler is his favorite author, and his favorite film is Dog Day Afternoon, starring Al Pacino Harold Hellenbrand attended Poly Prep in Brooklyn, graduating in 1971. He earned his bachelor's degree in English", "title": "Harold Hellenbrand" }, { "id": "11487828", "text": "The Complete Stories (O'Connor) The Complete Stories is a collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1971 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It comprises all the stories in \"A Good Man Is Hard to Find\" and \"Everything That Rises Must Converge\" plus several previously unavailable stories. \"Complete Stories\" won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Internet visitors named it the \"Best of the National Book Awards\" as part of the Fiction Award's 60th anniversary celebration in 2009, voting on a ballot of the best six award winners selected by writers associated with the Foundation.", "title": "The Complete Stories (O'Connor)" }, { "id": "11487829", "text": "The Complete Stories (O'Connor) The Complete Stories is a collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1971 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It comprises all the stories in \"A Good Man Is Hard to Find\" and \"Everything That Rises Must Converge\" plus several previously unavailable stories. \"Complete Stories\" won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Internet visitors named it the \"Best of the National Book Awards\" as part of the Fiction Award's 60th anniversary celebration in 2009, voting on a ballot of the best six award winners selected by writers associated with the Foundation.", "title": "The Complete Stories (O'Connor)" }, { "id": "10786853", "text": "debate. He produced over 2,000 manuscript pages, but never turned the content into a coherent novel. According to John F. Callahan, a professor who had become close friends with Ellison after writing an article about \"Invisible Man\", Ellison was so discouraged by the thought of his own death that he never discussed his literary executorship. Shortly after his death, Ellison's wife appointed Callahan as his literary executor. Callahan was overwhelmed by the amount of notes, computer disks and manuscript pages that Ellison had left behind. Readers of Ellison were eager to see what Ellison had written, but Callahan needed time", "title": "Three Days Before the Shooting..." }, { "id": "3003251", "text": "storytelling, the series became Marvel's first MAX title to sell over 100,000 copies, making it their best-selling mature-readers series of all time. The series ran for 18 issues from October 2003 to October 2005. During his run on \"Supreme Power\", Frank provided covers for a diverse number of Marvel series such as \"Silver Surfer\" No. 7; \"Wolverine/Punisher\" No. 2; \"The Incredible Hulk\" No. 75; issues No. 4 and 6 of the \"Supreme Power\" spin-off miniseries, \"Doctor Spectrum\"; \"The Amazing Spider-Man\" No. 515 and 517; \"Black Panther\" No. 10; and numerous others, as well as two pages of interior art for", "title": "Gary Frank" }, { "id": "12382986", "text": "of pages is called a section or signature. Books printed in this manner will always have a number of pages that is a multiple of the number in such a signature, such as a multiple of 8, 16, or 32. As a result, these books will usually have pages left blank, unless by chance or editorial ingenuity the exact number of pages are printed. For example, if a book with 318 pages of content is printed using 32-page signatures, it will require 10 signatures, 320 pages in total. At the very end of the book — that is, at the", "title": "Intentionally blank page" }, { "id": "484824", "text": "influence on \"The Invisible Man\" was Plato's \"Republic\", a book which had a significant effect on Wells when he read it as an adolescent. In the second book of the \"Republic\", Glaucon recounts the legend of the Ring of Gyges, which posits that, if a man were made invisible and could act with impunity, he would \"go about among men with the powers of a god.\" Wells wrote the original version of the tale between March and June 1896. This version was a 25,000 word short story titled \"The Man at the Coach and Horses\" which Wells was dissatisfied with,", "title": "The Invisible Man" }, { "id": "5291363", "text": "Griffin (The Invisible Man) Dr. Griffin is the main protagonist, also known as The Invisible Man, who appears as the title character in H. G. Wells' 1897 science fiction novella \"The Invisible Man\". In the original novel, Griffin is a scientist whose research in optics and experiments into changing the human body's refractive index to that of air results in his becoming invisible. The character has become iconic, particularly in horror fiction, and versions and variations have appeared throughout various media. Griffin is a brilliant research scientist who discovers a formula for making a human being invisible. The formula entails", "title": "Griffin (The Invisible Man)" }, { "id": "11739413", "text": "\"The New York Times\" best sellers list. In early 2007 Britton returned to Camlough, Northern Ireland to complete the third novel of the Ryan Kealey espionage series, \"The Invisible\", and dedicated to his \"Camlough\" maternal Grandmother Eunice Britton . Britton's books appeared on \"The New York Times\" bestseller list and were translated into several languages becoming bestsellers worldwide. Tragically this amazing young man who had put so much into his short life, passed suddenly in March 2008. An avid researcher and writer, he left behind many manuscripts and his work will continue to be published. On March 18, 2008, Britton", "title": "Andrew Britton" }, { "id": "18682294", "text": "presentation of the genesis of the Harlem Renaissance. Foley's breadth of knowledge in American radical history is impressive.\" In the Journal of American Studies, the book was described as \"lucid and useful. . . . A heavyweight intervention, it prompts significant rethinking of the ideological and representational strategies structuring the era.\" In \"Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man\" (Duke, 2010), Foley shifts the focus of her scholarship onto a detailed engagement with a single text. Here she undertakes a reconstruction of the process by which Ellison composed his novel between 1945 and 1952. Her investigation", "title": "Barbara Clare Foley" }, { "id": "9566938", "text": "the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, garnered him national prominence. A third work, Twice Removed (Sarabande Books, 2001), was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. His fourth collection, Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006 (Sarabande Books, 2006), was honored with the 2007 PEN USA Award for Poetry. His most recent collection, Your Moon (New Issues Poetry and Prose) was awarded the 2013 Green Rose Poetry Prize. And his translation of the Federico García Lorca collection, Poema del cante jondo / Poem of the Deep Song,", "title": "Ralph Angel" }, { "id": "733577", "text": "Claude Rains William Claude Rains (10 November 188930 May 1967) was an English–American film and stage actor whose career spanned several decades. After his American film debut as Dr. Jack Griffin in \"The Invisible Man\" (1933) he appeared in classic films such as \"The Adventures of Robin Hood\" (1938), \"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington\" (1939), \"The Wolf Man\" (1941), \"Casablanca\" and \"Kings Row\" (both 1942), \"Notorious\" (1946), \"The Pied Piper of Hamelin\" (1957), and \"Lawrence of Arabia\" (1962). He was a Tony Award winning actor and was a four-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Rains was", "title": "Claude Rains" }, { "id": "4643880", "text": "States, but does not provide readers a different future to imagine. Yaszek believes that Ellison does not offer any other futures so that the next generation of authors can. \"Invisible Man\" may not be Afrofuturist in the sense that it does not provide a better – or even any – future for black people in the United States, but it can be thought of as a call for people to start thinking and creating art with an Afrofuturist mindset. In this sense, Yaszek concludes that Ellison's novel is a canon in Afrofuturistic literature by serving as call for \"this kind", "title": "Afrofuturism" }, { "id": "14238701", "text": "covered by previous collections. ! Title ! class=\"unsortable\" | Volume ! class=\"unsortable\" | Issues collected ! Pages ! Publication Date ! class=\"unsortable\" | ISBN Marvel Ultimate Collection, Complete Epic and Epic Collection lines Marvel Ultimate Collection, Complete Epic and Epic Collection are large, full-color trade paperback collections of previously published Marvel comics, typically containing 300–500 pages. The \"Ultimate Collection\" line collects entire runs of one title, or related titles by one creator. The \"Complete Epic\" line collects large crossovers spanning several titles. The \"Epic Collection\" line is a numbered collection of sequential issues of one title, sometimes including crossovers from", "title": "Marvel Ultimate Collection, Complete Epic and Epic Collection lines" }, { "id": "17622128", "text": "Peter W. Kunhardt Jr. Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., is executive director of the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation and the Gordon Parks Foundation and series editor for Steidl/Gordon Parks Foundation publications. Recent museum exhibitions and catalogues in which he has been involved include \"Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story\" (2017); Gordon \"Parks: I Am You, Selected Works 1942–1978\" (2016); \"Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem\" (2016); \"Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott\" (2015); \"Gordon Parks: Segregation Story\" (2014); \"Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument\" (2013); and \"Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967\" (2012). He coedited the multivolume \"Gordon Parks: Collected", "title": "Peter W. Kunhardt Jr." }, { "id": "12309550", "text": "2006, , 900 pages LOA #175: Published September 20, 2007, , 675 pages LOA #185: Published September 4, 2008, , 767 pages LOA #205: Published September 2, 2010, , 842 pages LOA #220: Published September 29, 2011, , 1088 pages LOA #236: Published February 7, 2013, , 740 pages LOA #237: Published February 7, 2013, , 598 pages LOA #300: Published September 12, 2017, , 476 pages The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works (2005–2017) is a series collecting Philip Roth's works. The Library of", "title": "The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works" }, { "id": "19588928", "text": "Mychal Denzel Smith Mychal Denzel Smith (born November 6, 1986) is a writer, television commentator and author of \"Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education\" (2016). He is also a fellow at The Nation Institute. Smith attended Hampton University, where he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, \"The Script\". \"The New York Times\" has called Smith \"The Intellectual in Air Jordans.\" Smith's work has been published in a number of print and online publications, including \"The New York Times\", \"The Washington Post\", \"The New Republic\", Complex, GQ, Guernica, Harper's, Paris Review, Buzzfeed, New York Times", "title": "Mychal Denzel Smith" }, { "id": "20105059", "text": "Problems Book II (Rogers), 1988 (keyed to Thirteenth Edition) Engineering and Graphic Technology Problems Book III (Rogers), 1993 (keyed to Fourteenth Edition) This publication data was derived from the copyright information published in the front of each book, except where noted. 289 pages (includes Index) - 35,000 copies LCCN 11-020537 329 pages (includes Appendix and Index) - 108,000 copies LCCN 18-016246 409 pages (includes Appendix and Index) - 96,000 copies LCCN 24-012758 466 pages (includes Appendix and Index) - 106,000 copies LCCN 29-013849 481 pages (includes Appendix and Index) - 148,000 copies LCCN 35-027219 622 pages (includes Appendix and Index)", "title": "Engineering Drawing (textbook)" }, { "id": "13941186", "text": "apart. He also finds himself a nemesis - Wallace Morton, a.k.a. Opacus. A list of episodes Each of the 26 episodes lasts 26–30 minutes. It is currently being aired in the Italy On Rai 2. The Invisible Man (2005 TV series) The Invisible Man is an animated series from MoonScoop Group, in co-production with bRb, Screen 21, RAI Fiction, SMEC and with the participation of M6, Disney Television France\", Antena 3 and Eurocartoons. Each of the 26 episodes lasts 26–30 minutes. It is currently being aired in the Italy On Rai 2. The story revolves around Alan Crystal, a genius", "title": "The Invisible Man (2005 TV series)" }, { "id": "19377711", "text": "Gia M. Hamilton Gia Maisha Hamilton (born July 30, 1978) is a contemporary curator and culture worker with focus on afro-futurism and community engagement. Hamilton was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her father is a retired nuclear engineer. Hamilton received a bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology from New York University and a Master's of applied anthropology from City University of New York. In 2011 Hamilton curated \"The Invisible Man Exhibit\" at The George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art through her Gris Gris Lab project for Prospect 2, New Orleans. The show referenced Ralph Ellison's novel and highlighted", "title": "Gia M. Hamilton" }, { "id": "5342538", "text": "in a 1972 history of comics, that after his daughter's death In 1973, Binder worked for Vincent Fago's Pendulum Press, adapting classic science-fiction stories into comic book format, including \"Frankenstein\", \"The Invisible Man\", \"The Time Machine\", \"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea\" and \"The Mysterious Island\". He died in Chestertown, New York on October 13, 1974, leaving behind, counted Bridwell, \"almost 50,000 pages of comics\" comprising \"over 1,300 scripts for Fawcett\" and \"more than 2,000 for 20 other publishers\", including \"some 93 heroes in 198 magazines.\" Binder was posthumously inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2004 and given", "title": "Otto Binder" }, { "id": "11193095", "text": "me to an astonishing degree. I love it passionately, could not possibly exist without it.\" In \"The Negro Novel in America\", Robert A. Bone wrote: \"By far the most impressive product of the Negro Renaissance, \"Cane\" ranks with Richard Wright’s \"Native Son\" and Ralph Ellison’s \"Invisible Man\" as a measure of the Negro novelist’s highest achievement. Jean Toomer belongs to that first rank of writers who use words almost as a plastic medium, shaping new meanings from an original and highly personal style.\" Gerald Strauss points out that despite \"critical uncertainty and controversy,\" he finds that \"Cane\"'s structure is not", "title": "Cane (novel)" }, { "id": "5975136", "text": "#4. The remaining issues appeared in hardcover as \"X-Men: Inferno Crossovers\" () which collects \"Power Pack\" (vol. 1) #40 and #42–44, \"Avengers\" (vol. 1) #298–300, \"Fantastic Four\" (vol. 1) #322–324, \"Amazing Spider-Man\" (vol. 1) #311–313, \"Spectacular Spider-Man\" (vol. 1) #146–148, \"Web of Spider-Man\" #47–48, \"Daredevil\" (vol. 1) #262–263 and #265, \"Excalibur\" (vol. 1) #6–7, and \"Cloak & Dagger\" (vol. 3) #4. Inferno (Marvel Comics) \"Inferno\" was a Marvel Comics company-wide crossover storyline in 1989 that mainly involved the mutant titles, namely \"Uncanny X-Men\", \"X-Factor\", \"X-Terminators\", \"Excalibur\", and \"The New Mutants\". The story concerned the corruption of Madelyne Pryor into the", "title": "Inferno (Marvel Comics)" }, { "id": "16512010", "text": "of the 1930s, and a \"revolt against protest\" in the 1940s. He discusses in detail many novels from each period, reserving particular praise for Richard Wright's \"Native Son\" (1940) and Ralph Ellison's \"Invisible Man\" (1952). Bone also wrote \"Down Home: A History of Afro-American Short Fiction from its Beginnings to the End of the Harlem Renaissance\" (Putnam, 1975) and a short book on \"Native Son\" author Richard Wright. A manuscript left unfinished at Bone's death was completed by Richard A. Courage and published as \"The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950\" (Rutgers University Press, 2011). Another", "title": "Robert Bone" }, { "id": "14582001", "text": "Slave of the Huns Slave of the Huns is a novel by the Hungarian writer Géza Gárdonyi, published in 1901. The original Hungarian title is A láthatatlan ember, which translates literally as \"The Invisible Man\", but its title was changed in English (probably to differentiate it from H. G. Wells' novel). In the opinion of some people, including Gárdonyi himself, it is his best work. In 2005 it was ranked no. 38 in the Hungarian version of the survey \"Big Read\". An English translation by Andrew Feldmár was first published in 1969. It is set around the time of Attila", "title": "Slave of the Huns" }, { "id": "5177534", "text": "five runners up. There is now news as to whether this trust or award still exists today or not. There are also \"Ken Hill awards\" for new talented playwrights and for the Best New Musical. Some of Hill's plays, \"The Invisible Man\", \"The Curse of the Werewolf (play)\", \"The Mummy's Tomb\" and his version of \"The Phantom of the Opera\", are available to purchase from Samuel French Ltd. in London. The rights to produce these shows can also be obtained by theatre groups, professional and amateur, who wish to perform them. Ken Hill (playwright) Ken Hill (28 January 1937 –", "title": "Ken Hill (playwright)" }, { "id": "337014", "text": "Peter David Peter Allen David (born September 23, 1956), often abbreviated PAD, is an American writer of comic books, novels, television, films and video games. His notable comic book work includes an award-winning 12-year run on \"The Incredible Hulk\", as well as runs on \"Aquaman\", \"Young Justice\", \"Supergirl\", \"Fallen Angel\", \"Spider-Man 2099\" and \"X-Factor\". His \"Star Trek\" work includes both comic books and novels such as \"Imzadi\", and co-creating the \"\" series. His other novels include film adaptations, media tie-ins, and original works, such as the \"Apropos of Nothing\" and \"Knight Life\" series. His television work includes series such as", "title": "Peter David" }, { "id": "10116731", "text": "Steranko. Four of the next five issues likewise contained adaptations: H.G. Wells' 1897 novella \"The Invisible Man\", by writer Ron Goulart and penciler Val Mayerik (#2), featuring another Steranko cover; Robert E. Howard's \"The Valley of the Worm\", co-written by Gerry Conway and Thomas and penciled by Gil Kane (#3); Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella \"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" , by writer Goulart and artist Win Mortimer (#4); and the quasi-adaptation \"The Headless Horseman Rides Again\", writer Gary Friedrich and penciler George Tuska's original sequel to Washington Irving's 1820 short story \"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow\".", "title": "Supernatural Thrillers" }, { "id": "12074021", "text": "Oren Jacoby Oren Jacoby is a director and producer of documentary films including: \"Shadowman (2017),\" \"\" (2014), \"\"(2010), \"Constantine's Sword\" (2008), \"Sister Rose's Passion\" (2005), \"The Shakespeare Sessions\" (2003), \"Stage on Screen: The Topdog Diaries\" (2002), \"The Beatles Revolution\" (2000), and \"Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself\" (1998). His stage adaptation of Ralph Ellison's \"Invisible Man\" premiered in 2012 at the Court Theater in Chicago, starring Teagle Bougere. Jacoby was educated at Brown University and Yale University. He has been an independent filmmaker since 1992, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 2005 for \"Sister Rose's", "title": "Oren Jacoby" }, { "id": "19419691", "text": "The Visible Man (novel) The Visible Man: A Novel is a novel written by Chuck Klosterman, first published by Scribner in 2011. It is the seventh book and second novel released by Klosterman. Thematically, \"The Visible Man\" touches on the way media transforms reality, the meaning of culture, and the dissonance of self-perception. It became a \"New York Times\" bestseller the month of its release. The story is told by an Austin, Texas, therapist named Victoria Vick and centers around one of her clients, Y___, a man whose name the reader never learns. Y___ professes to be a scientist working", "title": "The Visible Man (novel)" }, { "id": "12835086", "text": "IGN included the story as part of its Ultimate Bookshelf 2.0: Iron Man. ComicMix included in its 10 Must-Read Stories Before You Watch 'Iron Man' in Theaters. Den of Geek called it one of the Best Iron Man stories. The A.V. Club called the story \"a lot of fun\" giving it a B+ rating. Chris's Invincible Super-Blog said \"on the short list of [Iron Man]'s necessary adventures, Doomquest sits right at the top. Doomquest \"Doomquest\" is a two-issue Iron Man story arc written by David Michelinie and Bob Layton with art by John Romita Jr. and published by Marvel Comics.", "title": "Doomquest" }, { "id": "2393329", "text": "African Americans were written solely for social protest, most notably, Native Son and Uncle Tom's Cabin. By contrast, the narrator in Invisible Man says, \"I am not complaining, nor am I protesting either,\" signaling the break from the normal protest novel that Ellison held about his work. Likewise, in the essay 'The World in a Jug,' which is a response to Irving Howe's essay 'Black Boys and Native Sons,' which \"pit[s] Ellison and [James] Baldwin against [Richard] Wright and then,\" as Ellison would say, \"gives Wright the better argument,\" Ellison makes a fuller statement about the position he held about", "title": "Invisible Man" } ]

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