Anytime...Anywhere

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Anytime...Anywhere
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 1977
Genre Pop
Length36:03
Label A&M
Producer David Anderle
Rita Coolidge chronology
It's Only Love
(1975)
Anytime...Anywhere
(1977)
Love Me Again
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Christgau's Record Guide C [1]

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".

Contents

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

Source: Anytime...Anywhere album cover

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1977)Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report) [2] 9
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [3] 15
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [4] 40
UK Albums (OCC) [5] 7
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [6] 23
US Billboard 200 [7] 6

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [8] Platinum50,000^
Canada (Music Canada) [9] Platinum100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [10] Gold100,000^
United States (RIAA) [11] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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