Anytime...Anywhere

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".

Anytime...Anywhere
Studio album by
Rita Coolidge
ReleasedMarch 1977[1]
GenrePop
Length36:03
LabelA&M
ProducerDavid Anderle
Rita Coolidge chronology
It's Only Love
(1975)		 Anytime...Anywhere
(1977)		 Love Me Again
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Christgau's Record GuideC[2]

Track listing

Side one
  1. "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher" (Paul Smith, Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner, Billy Davis) – 3:55
  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
  • 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

Charts
Chart (1977) Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report)[3] 9
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[4] 15
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[5] 40
UK Albums (OCC)[6] 7
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[7] 23
US Billboard 200[8] 6

Certifications and sales
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[9] Platinum 100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[10] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[11] Platinum 1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References
  1. "LP Discography: Rita Coolidge". LP Discography. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
  2. 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.
  3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 74. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  4. "Dutchcharts.nl – Rita Coolidge – Anytime...Anywhere" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  5. "Charts.nz – Rita Coolidge – Anytime...Anywhere". Hung Medien. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  6. "Rita Coolidge | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  7. "Rita Coolidge Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  8. "Rita Coolidge Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  9. "Canadian album certifications – Rita Coolidge – Anytime...Anywhere". Music Canada.
  10. "British album certifications – Rita Coolidge – Anytime...Anywhere". British Phonographic Industry. Select albums in the Format field. Select Gold in the Certification field. Type Anytime...Anywhere in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  11. "American album certifications – Rita Coolidge – Anytime...Anywhere". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
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