The beginning was pretty hard for me to figure out because of the quality of the tape, so there are some things missing. - Ania

Diane: Yeah. (...) is here and we'd love to take everybody is here just for us but we know when Martina mcBride is singing, everybody is excited. It has been a great year for her and what people (...) this is the voice that is destined to be the queen of country coming up. She has a (...) hit songs and the one she did for Runaway Bride called I Love You and she'll be singing it just....

She was with us in 1992 when we did a whole week of up and coming rising country stars. And she was terrific then, terrific now and finally breaking through I think. This is a great song. Anyway, she'll be here performing for us. I mentioned (....) gonna be... You all got excited, right? (everyone screams)

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Diane: Martina Mcbride's with us. She's made a lot of hard work and a whole lot of talent, look like a fairy tale. At one point she was even selling T-shirts for Garth Books, right? One one of his tours. And she was not long after that opening for him. Just last month she won the Country Music Association's Awards for Best  Female Vocalist Of The Year. Her fifth album, Emotion, is in stores now and that includes one of the biggest hits in her career, the single I Love You. And she's gonna sing it in just a moment. But first a chance to talk with Martina. Again thanks so much for coming. And I watched the Country Music Association Awards, I shouldn't have, it was on another network (Martina laughs) And I saw...

And it was late at night.

Diane: And it was late at night. And I saw what you said about your husband - that in this long career waiting for that moment have been hardest on him?

Martina: It is. Every year he gets so excited when we're nominated and so disappointed if we don't win. And I have to kind of talk to him, and you know, say "It's OK, honey, it's OK." Talk him down a little bit. And so this year was very nice not to have to be able to do that.

Diane: How did he celebrate?

Martina: We celebrated together. We just, you know, the moment when it happened was so overwhelming and I was so surprised and... We were sitting right next to some poeple from the record label and my manager, so... And my producer. So we were able to kind of share that moment alltogether. And it was just wonderful. It was wonderful. And then we went to the party for RCA afterwards, and just had a... just a lot of conratulations and just a really good evening.

How do you get a song into a movie? Did you... you already had this song I Love You and they took or did they come to you and say "We've got this song, would you sing...."

Martina: Well I think it works different ways, but I already had found this song and was planning on putting it on my album and just one day I was kind of singing around the house and thought "This would be a really good song for a movie" and...

Really?

Martina: Yeah. And my co-producer Paul Worley said "Well, I know these people that are putting together the music for this movie Runaway Bride and we could play it for them." And I said "Yeah, why don't ya." So we did and they said they wanted it for the movie.

Diane: Somebody tell me that you dreamed that it was going to be in a movie.

Martina: Yeah, well I had this little dream. I thought "Wouldn't it be great if we had this song in a movie? And it was my first single and it came out this summer and it all kind of happened, you know. It was wonderful.

Diane: Be careful what you dream.

Martina: Exactly.

This song, if you haven't seen the move, has got such a great and imaginative lyric. Before you sing, can you say the lyric?

Martina: And I'm in so totally, wrapped up emotionally, attracted so physically, acting so recklessly, I need you so desperately, sure as the sky is blue, baby I love you.

But when you put it to music, it is dynamite! And we'll be right back with Martina's Runaway Bride's I Love You.