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Anytime...Anywhere

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{{Infobox album|

| name = Anytime...Anywhere

| type = Studio album

| artist = Rita Coolidge

| cover = Rcool-aa.jpg

| alt =

| released = March 1977

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = Sunset Sound and A&M Studios (Hollywood, California)

  • Studio 55 (Los Angeles, California)

| genre = Pop

| length = 36:03

| label = A&M

| producer = David Anderle

| prev_title = It's Only Love

| prev_year = 1975

| next_title = Love Me Again

| next_year = 1978

}}

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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=

  1. "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" (Paul Smith, Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner, Billy Davis) – 3:59
  2. "The Way You Do the Things You Do" (William "Smokey" Robinson, Robert Rogers) – 3:35
  3. "We're All Alone" (Boz Scaggs) – 3:38
  4. "I Feel the Burden (Being Lifted Off My Shoulders)" (Glen Clark) – 2:46
  5. "I Don't Want to Talk About It" (Danny Whitten) – 3:36

=Side two=

  1. "Words" (Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb) – 3:25
  2. "Good Times" (Sam Cooke) – 2:42
  3. "Who's to Bless and Who's to Blame" (Kris Kristofferson) – 3:37
  4. "Southern Lady" (Michael Hazlewood) – 3:30
  5. "The Hungry Years" (Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield) – 4:18

Production

  • David Anderle – producer
  • Warren Dewey – recording engineer
  • Marty Lewis – recording engineer
  • Kent Nebergall – recording engineer, mixing engineer
  • Mike Reese – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)
  • Roland Young – art direction
  • Chuck Beeson – album design
  • Dick Zimmerman – photography
  • Ellen Vogt – production Assistant

Source: Anytime...Anywhere album cover

Personnel

  • Rita Coolidge – lead vocals, backing vocals (1), harmony vocals (5)
  • Booker T. Jones – organ (1–3, 7), synthesizers (1), string arrangements (1, 3, 6), track arrangements (1–3, 6), backing vocals (2, 7), electric piano (6, 7), harmony vocals (6), arrangements (7)
  • Michael Utley – electric piano (1, 9), synthesizers (1, 3, 6), acoustic piano (2–8, 10), organ (4, 8, 9)
  • Jerry McGee – electric guitar (1, 9), electric rhythm guitar (2), acoustic guitar (3, 5–7, 10), lead guitar (4)
  • Dean Parks – electric guitar (1, 7, 10), electric slide guitar (2), acoustic guitar (3, 5), lead electric guitar (3), rhythm guitar (4), guitars (8), horn and string arrangements (10)
  • Al Perkins – pedal steel guitar (5)
  • Leland Sklar – bass
  • Mike Baird – drums (1–3, 6, 7)
  • Sammy Creason – drums (4, 5, 8–10)
  • Bobbye Hall – congas (4, 9), tambourine (4, 9)
  • Gayle Levant – harp (10)
  • Nick DeCaro – string arrangements (5)
  • Kim Carnes – backing vocals (1, 2, 7)
  • Danny Timms – backing vocals (1, 2, 7)
  • Venetta Fields – backing vocals (4, 8, 9)
  • Clydie King – backing vocals (4, 8, 9)
  • Sherlie Matthews – backing vocals (4, 8, 9)

Charts

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!scope="col"|Chart (1977)

!scope="col"|Peak
position

scope="row"|Australian (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=74}}

|align="center"|9

{{album chart|Netherlands|15|artist=Rita Coolidge|album=Anytime...Anywhere|accessdate=January 12, 2020|rowheader=true}}
{{album chart|New Zealand|40|artist=Rita Coolidge|album=Anytime...Anywhere|accessdate=January 12, 2020|rowheader=true}}
{{album chart|UK|7|artist=Rita Coolidge|accessdate=January 12, 2020|rowheader=true}}
{{album chart|BillboardCountry|23|artist=Rita Coolidge|rowheader=true|accessdate=May 10, 2017}}
{{album chart|Billboard200|6|artist=Rita Coolidge|accessdate=January 12, 2020|rowheader=true}}

Certifications and sales

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References

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Category:Rita Coolidge albums

Category:1977 albums

Category:Albums produced by David Anderle

Category:A&M Records albums

Category:Albums recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders

Category:Albums recorded at A&M Studios