Rising Above It All

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"Rising Above It All"
Single by Lynn Anderson
from the album From the Inside
B-side "My World Begins and Ends With You"
ReleasedApril 1978 (1978-04)
Studio Columbia Studio
Genre
Length2:48
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Steve Gibson
Lynn Anderson singles chronology
"We Got Love"
(1978)
"Rising Above It All"
(1978)
"Last Love of My Life"
(1978)

"Rising Above It All" is a song written by Jerry Foster and Bill Rice. It was recorded by American country music artist Lynn Anderson and released as a single in 1978 via Columbia Records, becoming a top 40 hit that year.

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Background and release

"Rising Above It All" was recorded in January 1978 at the Creative Workshop, a studio located in Nashville, Tennessee. The session included nine additional tracks, all produced by Steve Gibson. Anderson had recently started working with Gibson after several years working with her first husband, Glenn Sutton. [1]

"Rising Above It All" was released as a single in April 1978 via Columbia Records. [2] The song spent nine weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart before only reaching number 44 in June 1978. [3] In Canada, the song became a top 40 hit single, climbing to number 21 on the RPM Country Songs chart that year. [4] The song was issued on Anderson's 1978 studio album of the From the Inside . [1]

Track listings

7" vinyl single [5]

Chart performance

Chart (1978)Peak
position
Canada Country Songs ( RPM ) [4] 21
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [6] 44

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References

  1. 1 2 Anderson, Lynn (1978). "From the Inside (Album Info and Liner Notes)". Columbia Records .
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. ISBN   978-0-89820-177-2.
  3. ""Rising Above It All" chart history". Billboard . Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Results under "Country Singles" for Lynn Anderson". RPM. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
  5. "Lynn Anderson -- "Rising Above It All" (1978, Vinyl)". Discogs . Retrieved 30 July 2020.
  6. "Lynn Anderson Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved July 28, 2020.