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
Released	March 1977
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
Rita Coolidge chronology
It's Only Love (1975) Anytime...Anywhere (1977) Love Me Again (1978)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Christgau's Record Guide	C[1]

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

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

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[8]	Platinum	50,000^
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.