BARBARA MANDRELL - STANDING ROOM ONLY

STANDING ROOM ONLY

BARBARA MANDRELL

SONGWRITERS: C. SILVER & S. MANCHESTER

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: THIS IS BARBARA MANDRELL

LABEL: ABC RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 1976

This Is Barbara Mandrell is the fifth studio album by American country music singer Barbara Mandrell, released in May 1976.

This was Mandrell's first album with ABC/Dot Records, her new record company. Mandrell had previously been signed to Columbia Records from 1969 to 1974, though only achieving modest success, especially with her albums. The first single off this album, "Standing Room Only", became her first Top 5 Country hit. Mandrell had only had four Top 10 hits under her previous record company over the course of five years. Following "Standing Room Only", two further singles were released. The second, "That's What Friends Are For", peaked at #16 and the third, "Love Is Thin Ice", only reached the Top 25. The album sold slightly better than her previous albums had done, peaking farther on the Top Country Albums chart at #26. This album set the stage for Mandrell's eventual success in the following decade, with further Top 10 singles, some of them reaching #1. Unlike most of Barbara's other albums, This Is Barbara Mandrell, consists of 11 tracks instead of 10.

Barbara Ann Mandrell (born December 25, 1948) is an American country music singer, musician, and actress. She is known for a long series of country hits in the 1970s and 1980s as well as her own prime-time variety TV show on NBC that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of that period. She gave her last concert at the Grand Ole Opry House on October 23, 1997, and subsequently retired from performing music. Mandrell was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009. Mandrell was also inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016. Although retired, Mandrell is still a member of the Grand Ole Opry; an honor she has held since 1972.

Mandrell has won two Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, four Academy of Country Music Awards and four Country Music Association Awards. She was the first performer to win the Country Music Association Award for Entertainer of the Year twice (1980, 1981), having also won the Academy of Country Music Award for Entertainer of the Year in 1980.

Mandrell's first Billboard number-one hit was 1978's "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed", immediately followed by "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" in early 1979. In 1980, "Years" also reached number one. She added one more chart topper in each of the next three years. "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" (her signature song), then "'Till You're Gone" and "One of a Kind Pair of Fools", all hit number one between 1981 and 1983, a period during which Mandrell also received numerous industry awards and accolades.

You must think my bed's a bus stop

The way you come and go

I ain't seen you with the lights on

Two nights in a row

So pack your rusty razor

Don't bother with goodbye

Your cup runneth over

But mine is always dry

Standing room only

I can't stand no more

Standing room only

Outside my door

Don't help me set the table

'Cause now there's one less place

I won't lay mama's silver

For a man who won't say grace

If home is where the heart is

Then your home's on the street

Me, I'll read a good book

Turn out the lights and go to sleep

Standing room only

I can't stand no more, no more

Standing room only

Outside my door

Standing room only

I can't stand no more, no more

Standing room only

Outside my door.