The Hottest Night of the Year | ||||
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Released | June 3, 1982 | |||
Studio | Producers Workshop (Los Angeles, California); Audio Media (Nashville, Tennessee); Eastern Sound (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 31:38 | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
Producer | Jim Ed Norman | |||
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Singles from The Hottest Night of the Year | ||||
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The Hottest Night of the Year is the nineteenth studio album by Canadian country pop artist Anne Murray. It was released by Capitol Records in 1982. The album reached #29 on Billboard's Country albums chart and peaked at #90 on the Billboard Pop albums chart.[1] Its US sales were estimated at 200,000 copies.
The album's first single, a cover of the 1961 Bruce Channel hit "Hey! Baby" was a U.S. country top-ten single, reaching number 7; the following up single, "Somebody's Always Saying Goodbye", also peaked at number 7 on the country singles chart. Both singles topped the Canadian Country singles charts.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "The Hottest Night of the Year" | Kerry Chater, Lane Brody, Tom Campbell | 2:56 |
2. | "Fallin' in Love (Fallin' Apart)" | Harry Shannon, Mitch Johnson | 3:39 |
3. | "Somebody's Always Saying Goodbye" | Bob McDill | 3:24 |
4. | "Easy Does It" | Chater, Campbell | 3:40 |
5. | "Hey! Baby" | Bruce Channel, Margaret Cobb | 2:32 |
6. | "Ain't No Way to Rise Above (Fallin' in Love)" | Chater, Patti Dahlstrom, Rory Bourke | 3:21 |
7. | "Heart on the Line" | Don Stalker, Steve Berg, Steve Dorff | 2:36 |
8. | "They Don't Call It Magic for Nothing" | Charlie Black, Molly Ann Leikin | 2:42 |
9. | "That'll Keep Me Dreamin'" | Black, Leikin | 2:43 |
10. | "Song for the Mira" | Allistar MacGillivray | 4:05 |
Chart (1982) | Peak position |
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Canadian RPM Top Albums | 70 |
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 29 |
U.S. Billboard 200 | 90 |