Get to the Heart is the eighteenth studio album by American country

Country music

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 artist Barbara Mandrell

Barbara Mandrell

Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer best known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s...

. The album was released in August 1985 on MCA Records

MCA Records

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 and was produced by Tom Collins. It was Mandrell's first solo studio release since 1984's Clean Cut

Clean Cut

Clean Cut is the fifteenth studio album by American country artist Barbara Mandrell. The album was released in March 1984 on MCA Records and was produced by Tom Collins. It was one of two studio albums Mandrell released in 1984.- Background and content :...

(which was released just months prior to her tragic car accident in September 1984), and spawned three singles between 1985 and 1986.

Background and content

Get to the Heart was recorded in June 1985 in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

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. As like her previous releases, the album consisted of ten tracks of material. The song themes were derived from the perspective of the working class American citizen and were mixed with a Country pop

Country pop

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 arrangement. The singles "Angel in Your Arms" and "Fast Lanes and Country Roads" specifically followed this format. The album's title track "When You Get to the Heart" was a duet with American country music group, The Oak Ridge Boys

The Oak Ridge Boys

The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet.The group was founded in the 1940s as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular in southern gospel during the 1950s...

. The song was also the album's closing track. Get to the Heart was released on a LP album

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 with five songs available on each side of the record. It has not since been reissued on a compact disc

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Release

Get to the Heart spawned three singles between summer 1985 and winter 1986. The first single from the album was the track "Angel in Your Arms", which was released in July 1985. The single peaked at #8 on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and #22 on the Canadian RPM

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Country Tracks chart. "Fast Lanes and Country Roads" was the second single released in October 1985, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Country Singles chart and #2 on the Canadian Country Chart. The final single released was the title track that included The Oak Ridge Boys

The Oak Ridge Boys

The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet.The group was founded in the 1940s as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular in southern gospel during the 1950s...

. The song reached #20 on Billboard 's Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and reached the Top 40 in Canada. Get to the Heart was released in August 1985 following the success of the lead single. The album peaked at #25 on the Billboard Magazine Top Country Albums chart shortly after its release.

Track listing

Side one

1. "I'm a Believer" – 3:06
2. "Fast Lanes and Country Roads" – 3:38
3. "I'd Fall in Love Tonight" – 3:02
4. "Don't Look in My Eyes" – 2:52
5. "Angel in Your Arms" – 3:19

Side two

1. "For Your Love" – 3:23
2. "If They Grow Tired of My Music" – 3:50
3. "You, Only You" – 3:36
4. "Survivors" – 4:15
5. "When You Get to the Heart" – 3:50
   • with The Oak Ridge Boys
     The Oak Ridge Boys
     The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet.The group was founded in the 1940s as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular in southern gospel during the 1950s...
     
     

Sales chart positions

Album

Chart (1985)	Peak position
U.S. Top Country Albums	25

Singles

Year	Song	Chart positions
		US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...	CAN Country
1985	"Angel in Your Arms"	8	22
	"Fast Lanes and Country Roads"	4	2
1986	"When You Get to the Heart"	20	33