| "The Fear of Being Alone" | ||||
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| Single by Reba McEntire | ||||
| from the album What If It's You | ||||
| B-side | "Never Had a Reason To" | |||
| Released | September 16, 1996[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||
| Studio | Starstruck Studios (Nashville, TN) | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:04 | |||
| Label | MCA Nashville | |||
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"The Fear of Being Alone" is a song by American country music artist Reba McEntire, released on September 16, 1996, as the lead single to her 22nd studio album What If It's You (1996).
The song was written by Walt Aldridge and Bruce Miller and produced by McEntire and John Guess; although he was featured as an engineer on McEntire's previous albums, this was the first time he was directly involved with the production. Recording for the song took place in Starstruck Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.
Critically acclaimed, "The Fear of Being Alone" was a success, giving McEntire her first top-five single in nearly two years.[2] It peaked at number two on the US Hot Country Songs chart while topping Canada's RPM Country Tracks.
- ^ Price, Deborah Evans (October 19, 1996). "McEntire cuts new image". Billboard. Vol. 108, no. 42. pp. 13, 20. ISSN 0006-2510 – via Google Books.
The first single, "The Fear of Being Alone," shipped to country radio Sept. 16...
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 227.