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".

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

Certifications and sales

References