NEW Reba McEntire talks about what it means to be a member of the Hall of Fame

(23 May 2011) SHOTLIST AP Entertainment Nashville, Tenn., 22 May 2011 1. Tight zoom out, pan right Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exterior and red carpet arrivals area 2. Medium pan of fans lined up outside arrivals area 3. Tight on Broadway poster of Reba, tilt up to fans 4. Wide of carpet as Reba arrives 5. Medium Reba walks up red carpet stairs 6. Medium George Jones talks to reporter 7. Medium camera 8. Tight Reba McEntire talking with reporter 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Reba McEntire, Recording Artist/Inductee: "Well it means that people think enough of what I've been doing in the country music business that I am going to be able to walk in to this Hall and have my plaque up on (the wall) and be in the company of people I have admired all my life, looked up to, respected, learned from, studied, so I think they think I've done enough right now that I can get in there with those folks, and that's a huge thrill for me." 10. Medium Reba McEntire talking with reporter 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Reba McEntire, Recording Artist/Inductee: "Starting in 1976 when I first got my recording contract to now, wow, it's been lots of changes, lots of different hair dos, lots of different looks for Reba, but it's all been fun. It's all been a learning process, and something that I totally enjoy doing." 12. Tight Jean Shepard talking with reporter 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean Shepard, Recording Artist/Inductee: "It's great, because I think women should've been there all along. I don't say we were, we weren't oppressed, but it just seemed like nobody believed in women in country music. Hank Williams told me one time, I said, 'I'm a country singer.' He said, 'Ain't many women in country music.' I said, 'I know. I'm fixin' to change that.'" 14. Medium Jean Shepard talking with reporters 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean Shepard, Recording Artist/Inductee: "It's something I've waited for a long time, and I'm just proud to join the ranks of a lot of my friends." 16. Medium still photographer shoots Bobby Braddock as he talks to reporter 17. SOUNDBITE (English) Bobby Braddock, Recording Artist/Inductee: "Well, what would you call having one finger in an electric light socket and the other one like reaching out, somebody's handing you a million dollars. That's how I feel. That and kind of excited and happy, too." 18. Medium Braddock hugs a friend and gets a photo taken 19. SOUNDBITE (English) Bobby Braddock, Recording Artist/Inductee: "I'll tell you what's nice is the validation, because when you're doing this you wonder. I mean, I know I have the hits, but are they really that good? What do people think of them? And it's that validation that people say, 'Yeah, we think they're good.' So, it's a wonderful feeling, it is." 20. Medium push in to Billy Currington talking with reporter 21. SOUNDBITE (English) Billy Currington, Recording Artist: "To see people like Bobby get inducted, I mean, it's a dream of everybody's as an artist, as a songwriter. So, you know, I've never been a part of something like this to see it all go down. So I'm excited to get up in there and hear all the�There are so many artists here singing his songs tonight. I heard them in there in soundcheck. It just reminds you, 'Oh, he wrote that one, too, and that one, too. Wow.' There are so many. It's a special night for me." 22. Medium Hall of Fame members Barbara Mandrell and George Jones talking with reporters 23. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Mandrell, Recording Artist/Member: 24. Medium Bill Anderson talking with reporter 26. SOUNDBITE (English) Reba McEntire, Recording Artist/Member: Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/2fbf079d13592eab43f2dbb0e56b62dc

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