When You Get to the Heart

{{Infobox song

| name = When You Get to the Heart

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Barbara Mandrell with The Oak Ridge Boys

| album = Get to the Heart

| B-side = Survivors

| released = March 29, 1986

| format =

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Country

| length = 3:50

| label = MCA

| writer = Tony Brown, Wayland Holyfield, Norro Wilson

| producer = Tom Collins

| chronology = Barbara Mandrell

| prev_title = Fast Lanes and Country Roads

| prev_year = 1985

| next_title = No One Mends a Broken Heart Like You

| next_year = 1986

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = The Oak Ridge Boys

| type = singles

| prev_title = Juliet

| prev_year = 1986

| title = When You Get to the Heart

| year = 1986

| next_title = You Made a Rock of a Rolling Stone

| next_year = 1986

}}

}}

"When You Get to the Heart" is a song written by Tony Brown, Wayland Holyfield, and Norro Wilson and recorded by American country music group The Oak Ridge Boys on their 1983 studio album Deliver. In 1985, American country music singer Barbara Mandrell recorded a version for her studio album Get to the Heart and it was released in March 1986 as the third and final single from the album. Mandrell's version features backing vocals from the Oak Ridge Boys.

Chart performance

class="wikitable sortable"

!align="left"|Chart (1986)

!align="center"|Peak
position

{{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|20|artist=Barbara Mandrell}}
align="left"|Canadian RPM Country Tracks

|align="center"|33

References