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The Hottest Night of the Year is a studio album by Canadian country music 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 approximately 200,000 copies.

The Hottest Night of the Year
Studio album by Anne Murray
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
Anne Murray chronology
Christmas Wishes (1981) The Hottest Night of the Year (1982) A Little Good News (1983)
Singles from The Hottest Night of the Year
"Hey! Baby" Released: May 1982 "Somebody's Always Saying Goodbye" Released: November 1982

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.

Track listing

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" (Allister MacGillivray) – 4:05

Personnel

• Anne Murray – lead vocals, backing vocals
• Brian Whitcomb – electric piano (1), acoustic piano (2, 8, 9)
• Lance Ong – synthesizers (1, 2)
• Doug Riley – synthesizers (1), organ (3), keyboards (4-7, 10)
• Bobby Ogdin – acoustic piano (3)
• Dennis Burnside – electric piano (3)
• Mike "Pepe" Francis – electric guitar (1, 2, 8), guitars (4, 6, 7, 10)
• John Hug – electric guitar (1, 2, 8, 9), acoustic guitar (8)
• Fred Tackett – acoustic guitar (1, 2, 8, 9)
• Rafe Van Hoy – acoustic guitar (3)
• Paul Worley – acoustic guitar (3), electric guitar (3)
• Bob Mann – guitars (4-7, 10)
• Brian Russell – guitars (5)
• Sonny Garrish – steel guitar (3)
• Ben Mink – mandolin (10), fiddle (10)
• Leland Sklar – bass (1, 2, 8, 9)
• Joe Osborn – bass (3)
• Tom Szczesniak – bass (4-7, 10)
• Mike Botts – drums (1, 2, 8, 9)
• Eddie Bayers – drums (3)
• Barry Keane – drums (4-7, 10)
• Steve Forman – percussion (1, 2, 8)
• Dick Smith – percussion (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8)
• Earl Seymour – baritone saxophone (6)
• Vern Dorge – tenor saxophone (6)
• Butch Wantanabe – trombone (6)
• Guido Basso – trumpet (6)
• Charlie Gray – trumpet (6)
• Peter Cardinali – horn arrangements and conductor (6)
• Rick Wilkins – string arrangements and conductor (3, 4, 10)
• Alan Broadbent – string arrangements and conductor (8, 9)
• Glenn Grab – string contractor (3, 4, 8, 9, 10)
• Bill Richards – string contractor (3, 4, 8, 9, 10)
• Bruce Murray – backing vocals
• Deborah Schaal Greimann – backing vocals
• Balmur Ltd. – executive producer
• Jim Ed Norman – producer
• Ken Friesen – recording, mixing
• Marshall Morgan – recording
• Eric Prestidge – recording
• Tom Henderson – recording assistant
• Ben Rodgers – recording assistant
• John Rosenthal – recording assistant
• Ken Perry – mastering at Capitol Mastering (Hollywood, California)
• Paul Cade – art direction, design, illustration
• Bob Karman – illustration
• Bill King – photography
• Ted Larson – lettering
• George Abbott – make-up artist
• Shelly Yakimov – hair stylist

Chart performance

Chart (1982)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Top Albums	70
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	29
U.S. Billboard 200	90

References

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