Anytime...Anywhere
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Released | March 1977[1] | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 36:03 | |||
Label | A&M | |||
Producer | David Anderle | |||
Rita Coolidge chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Christgau's Record Guide | C[2] |
Anytime...Anywhere is the sixth album by Rita Coolidge released in 1977 on the A&M Records label. The album is her most successful, reaching #6 on the Billboard 200 and having been certified platinum (over 1 million U.S. copies sold). The album spawned three Billboard top twenty hits; a cover of Boz Scaggs' "We're All Alone" (#7), a cover of The Temptations' "The Way You Do The Things You Do" (#20), and the album's biggest hit, "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" (#2), a remake of Jackie Wilson's "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher".
Track listing
Side one
- "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" (Paul Smith, Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner, Billy Davis) – 3:55
- "The Way You Do the Things You Do" (William "Smokey" Robinson, Robert Rogers) – 3:35
- "We're All Alone" (Boz Scaggs) – 3:38
- "I Feel the Burden (Being Lifted Off My Shoulders)" (Glen Clark) – 2:46
- "I Don't Want to Talk About It" (Danny Whitten) – 3:36
Side two
- "Words" (Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb) – 3:25
- "Good Times" (Sam Cooke) – 2:42
- "Who's to Bless and Who's to Blame" (Kris Kristofferson) – 3:37
- "Southern Lady" (Michael Hazlewood) – 3:30
- "The Hungry Years" (Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield) – 4:18
Production
- Recording Engineers: Marty Lewis, Kend Nebergall & Warren Dewey
- Mixing Engineer: Kent Bevergall
- Recorded at Sunset Sound Studios, A&M Record Studios and Studio 55
- Mixed at Sunset Sound Studios
- Masterer at the Mastering Lab by Mike Reese
- Art Direction: Roland Young
- Album design: Chuck Beason
- Photographs by Dick Zimmerman
- Production Assistant: Ellen Vogt
Source: Anytime...Anywhere album cover
Personnel
- Mike Baird – drums
- Kim Carnes – backing vocals
- Rita Coolidge – vocals
- Sammy Creason – drums
- Venetta Fields – backing vocals
- Bobbye Hall – percussion
- Booker T. Jones – piano, electric piano, synthesizer, organ, backing vocals, arranger
- Clydie King – vocals
- Gayle Levant – harp
- Sherlie Matthews – vocals
- Jerry McGee – guitar
- Dean Parks - guitar
- Leland Sklar – bass
- Daniel Timms – backing vocals
- Mike Utley – piano, electric piano, synthesizer, organ
References
- ^ "LP Discography: Rita Coolidge". LP Discography. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: C". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 23, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.