Listening Party! - Anne Murray (Duets:F&L)

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Anne Murray - "Duets Friends & Legends"
(U.S - JAN 15, 2008) (Canada - NOV 13, 2007)

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Track List:

1. Danny's Song (with Martina McBride)
2. I Just Fall In Love Again (with Dusty Springfield)
3. Another Pot O Tea (with Emmylou Harris)
4. Daydream Believer (with Nelly Furtado)
5. Somebody's Always Saying Goodbye (with Jann Arden)
6. Song For The Mira (with Celtic Woman)
7. Time Don't Run Out On Me (with Carole King)
8. Cotton Jenny (with Olivia Newton-John)
9. A Love Song (with k.d. Lang)
10. You Needed Me (with Shania Twain)
11. Nobody Loves Me Like You Do (with Dawn Langstroth)
12. You Won't See Me (with Shelby Lynn)
13. Could I Have This Dance (with Amy Grant)
14. A Little Good News (with Indigo Girls)
15. Snowbird (with Sarah Brightman)
16. When I Fall In Love (with Céline Deion)
17. Si Jamai Je Te Revois (with Isabelle Boulay)

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'Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends,' To Be released On January 15, 2008



NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Manhattan Records/EMI America Records) - Music icon Anne Murray has sold more than 50 million albums in a distinguished career that spans four decades. On January 15th, Manhattan/EMI America Records will release Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends, an exceptional 17-track collection of her top hits and favorites, newly recorded as duets with some of the world's top female recording artists.

Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends showcases a wide variety of Anne's favorite female vocalists.

Among the album's tracks and collaborating artists are "Snowbird" with Sarah Brightman, "You Needed Me" with Shania Twain, "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do" with Anne's daughter Dawn Langstroth, "Danny's Song" with Martina McBride, "Another Pot O' Tea" with Emmylou Harris, "A Little Good News" with Indigo Girls, "Cotton Jenny" with Olivia Newton-John, "Could I Have This Dance" with Amy Grant, "Daydream Believer" with Nelly Furtado, "A Love Song" with k.d. lang, "Time Don't Run Out On Me" with the song's writer, Carole King, and more.

In 1979, Anne and Dusty Springfield each recorded the song "I Just Fall In Love Again." Anne's version became a hit single that garnered her Canada's Juno Award for "Single of the Year" in 1980. Anne and Dusty remained friends until Dusty's passing in 1999, and for Anne, releasing an album with this type of sisterly theme wouldn't seem complete without Dusty's inclusion. With the blessing of the Springfield family and estate, a new version pairing Dusty's original with Anne's newly recorded vocals is featured on the album.

Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends was produced by one of the most respected music producers in the world, Phil Ramone (Tony Bennett, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Barbra Streisand, Billy Joel), who counts 14 Grammy Awards and 32 Grammy nominations among his many honors. Together, Anne and Phil decided they would treat the songs on their own terms and not adhere rigidly to the arrangements of Anne's classic versions. While Anne had designs on how she imagined the arrangements, she gave Phil free rein to rework the songs.

"We approached the sessions as if we were just handed these songs and told to make this record," explains Ramone. "While arrangements were changed, there are also licks on some songs that I didn't mess with. We stayed true to the song."

Working with Anne for the first time, Ramone adds, was an easy task. "What I love about Anne is there are no words minced about whatever she feels," he says. "This is not a person you have to think, 'Will she tell me the truth?' When we met for a few hours in Michigan before we started, we agreed we wanted to bring some daring ideas and some freshness to this album."

"I said to Phil," joked Anne, "The only reason I asked you was that I'm the only singer left that you haven't worked with!"

"I've done duets throughout my career," Anne says. "I did duets when I started out on (CBC Television's) 'Singalong Jubilee.' I did a duets album in 1971 with Glen Campbell. Growing up I did lot of group singing at school and sang with my brothers. I've always loved singing harmony."

Since releasing her debut album in 1967, Anne Murray has been honored with a spectacular number of awards. She is the proud recipient of four Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, three Country Music Association Awards, three Canadian Country Music Association Awards and twenty-four Juno Awards. Anne has also been honored with the Legacy Award from the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (2006), the East Coast Music Association Directors' Special Achievement Award (2001), induction into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame (2002), and induction into the Juno Hall of Fame (1993).

Anne Murray will tour to several U.S. cities in February and March 2008 (confirmed tour dates listed below). For updates and additional information, visit Anne Murray's official Website: www.annemurray.com

Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends (CD and Digital Album):

1. Danny's Song - Martina McBride
2. I Just Fall in Love Again - Dusty Springfield
3. Another Pot O' Tea - Emmylou Harris
4. Daydream Believer - Nelly Furtado
5. Somebody's Always Saying Goodbye - Jann Arden
6. Song For The Mira - Celtic Woman
7. Time Don't Run Out on Me - Carole King
8. Cotton Jenny - Olivia Newton-John
9. A Love Song - k.d. lang
10. You Needed Me - Shania Twain
11. Nobody Loves Me Like You Do - Dawn Langstroth
12. You Won't See Me - Shelby Lynne
13. Could I Have This Dance - Amy Grant
14. A Little Good News - Indigo Girls
15. Snowbird - Sarah Brightman
16. When I Fall in Love (live) - Celine Dion
17. Si Jamais Je Te Revois (If I Ever See You Again) - Isabelle Boulay

Anne Murray: Confirmed U.S. Tour Dates (2008):

FEBRUARY
09 Providence, RI - Providence Performing Arts Center
10 Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun
12 Lancaster, PA - American Music Theatre
13 Lancaster, PA - American Music Theatre
14 Shippensburg, PA - H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center at Shippensburg University
16 New York, NY - Avery Fisher Hall
17 Morristown, NJ - Community Theatre at the Mayo Center for the Performing Arts
18 Red Bank, NJ - Count Basie Theatre
20 Greenville, SC - Peace Concert Hall - The Peace Center
22 Sarasota, FL - Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
23 Clearwater, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall
24 Clearwater, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall
26 Melbourne, FL - Maxwell C. King Center for Performing Arts
27 West Palm Beach, FL - Kravis Center
28 Coral Springs, FL - Coral Springs Center for the Arts

MARCH
03 Lakeland, FL - The Lakeland Center - Youkey Theatre
04 Lakeland, FL - The Lakeland Center - Youkey Theatre
06 Fort Myers, FL - Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall
08 Silver Springs, FL - Silver Springs Park - Twin Mansion Theatre
09 Jacksonville, FL - Times Union Center - Moran Theatre
11 Columbus, GA - River Center for the Performing Arts
12 Knoxville, TN - Tennessee Theatre
13 Charleston, SC - North Charleston Performing Arts Center
15 Myrtle Beach, SC - Alabama Theatre
16 Charlotte, NC - Belk Theatre
18 Bethesda, MD - The Music Center at Strathmore
19 Easton, PA - State Theatre
20 Lowell, MA - Memorial Auditorium


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Anne Murray's new CD, Duets: Friends & Legends, pairs her with some of the biggest female performers in the industry. The album is out on Tuesday.

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At home with Anne Murray

Canadian songstress Anne Murray graciously invites us into her Thornhill abode to discuss her new album of duets

Nov 10, 2007 04:30 AM

Ashante Infantry
Pop & Jazz Critic

At a time when most celebrities are trying to keep prying eyes at bay, Anne Murray didn't think twice about letting a bunch of journalists into her home for an early peek at her new album.

"I think its one of those things where nobody's ever asked," Canada's Songbird said of the listening party held at her Thornhill residence recently at the suggestion of her record label.

"Once, I was up north with friends and, after dinner, one lady who was at the table said, 'Would you sing for me?' and I went 'Well, sure.' And the other women are looking and going, 'You never sing for us.' Well, you never ask me.

"So, I have a lovely home and I'm proud of it and I see no reason not to invite people into it. I have nothing to hide."

The Muskoka-style dwelling is country comfortable, with a few of the trappings – indoor pool, grand piano – that let you know it's home to a 50-million-selling, 31-Juno-winning national icon known for shoeless strolls around the neighbourhood.

"I'm always in bare feet," the genial 62-year-old Springhill, N.S., native said in an interview. "For a few years in the very beginning I even performed in bare feet.

"I think I was rebelling against something, but everybody was rebelling in those days. I was not going to succumb to the glamour thing – and how long did it take me to succumb? Not very long; because you find out it is important what you look like onstage.

"It is important what you look like, period. So, I grew up and realized, 'Just put on the shoes and wear some nice clothes and forget about it and try to sing well.' "

The singer, who made her recording debut in 1968, has been scaling back in recent years. Duets: Friends & Legends, which arrives in stores on Tuesday, came at the behest of record company officials.

"They said, 'We would like to do an album of duets of your music.' That had never occurred to me. Then I said, 'Would you consider that it might be only women?' To a person, they said, 'No, that won't work.' All men, of course. So, I just tucked it back in my head and let them go on."

The executives' initial list included a host of male vocalists, such as Michael Bublé.

"It was overwhelming to me to have so many people to choose from. And I thought, with women, I would have more of a chance of having women who perhaps saw me as a role model, that it narrowed down the playing field a little. And I could concentrate more on whose voices would work."

Murray's vision of an all-female lineup won out. The 17-track effort shepherded by legendary producer Phil Ramone includes Nelly Furtado, Carole King, Céline Dion and Murray's daughter Dawn Langstroth.

The singer emailed back and forth with the proposed collaboraters to pick tunes from her greatest hits.

"Shania (Twain), she got right back to me. I sent her a bunch of MP3s and, within days, she had chosen 'You Needed Me.'

"Martina McBride actually invited herself to sing on the album and (requested) 'Danny's Song.'

"k.d. lang and I did 'A Love Song' on a country gold show years ago and I knew that was her favourite song, so that was set aside."

"I've always had in the back of my head that Jann Arden should do 'Somebody's Always Saying Goodbye,' because it's a tearjerker and she loves those heart-wrenching songs."

Since 2004's I'll Be Seeing You was supposed to be her last album, Murray is now reluctant to make definitive career statements, but she's pretty sure her national tour next spring will be her last.

"Canadian tours are big and difficult, because of the large spaces between cities. You can go to New York state and play 30 towns that all have theatres and that's your Canadian tour."

But that doesn't mean she'll stop performing. "I could go to the Markham Theatre, for instance, and play for a week. There are little theatres that hold 400-500 people where I can take three to four musicians. But not on the scale that I do now – 22 to 25 people on the road, huge trucks, three buses.

"And I think it's time for me. I can still sing and I know that. And what I can't sing to my satisfaction, I won't sing anymore. I've raised the bar pretty high for myself."

Given the music industry's current woes, Murray is happy to be winding down.

Her advice to newcomers?

"The first thing you have to do is write songs. Dawn was told that years ago and that's what she does.

"Then, you just have to believe in what you do and, if you're good, it will happen, maybe. I say try and record some music somewhere, catch somebody's eye and go for it."

Offstage, she plays golf with a 13 handicap and spends summers in Nova Scotia near her five brothers and their families.

"I'm easing my way into doing less. If something's coming up, I will sing for about 45 minutes a day for about 10 days to two weeks before. I don't go for four months and not sing. It's the same as staying in shape. I have a trainer twice a week and I go to aerobics twice a week and I swim every other day."

What about romance for the divorced mother of two?

"No, nothing right now, but you never give up on that. My kids (visit) a lot. Getting to know and spend time with them as adults is a wonderful thing. I have a housekeeper and a dog. No grandchildren yet and none on the horizon as far as I can see. I enjoy my own company. I feel quite good about my life."

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November 11, 2007

Murray classics re-recorded

Far from retiring, Canadian icon Anne Murray gets a little help from her female friends in 'Duets'

By JANE STEVENSON -- Sun Media

THORNHILL --Anne Murray's "retirement" sure was short-lived.

The 62-year-old iconic Canadian singer made the mistake of saying her last studio record, 2004's aptly named I'll Be Seeing You, would be her last CD.

Famous last words, as they say.

Now the Spring Hill, N.S., native has got a brand new studio collection, Duets: Friends & Legends, in stores Tuesday, and it's a doozy.

Murray has re-recorded her best-known songs as duets with an all-female group of collaborators including Canadians Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Nelly Furtado, k.d. Lang, Jann Arden, Isabelle Boulay, and her own daughter Dawn Langstroth.

"With the I'll Be Seeing You album, I really believed that that was my last album," Murray told Sun Media, in the second floor office of her spacious Toronto-area home where she's lived since 1979.

"I should have learned a long time ago not to say any of this. I read some of my early clippings and I go, 'Oh, Anne, you idiot.' And here I am doing the same thing."

Gently twisting Murray's arm to re-enter the studio was her label EMI, who staged what she jokingly called "an intervention" at their Toronto offices where they proposed the duets concept.

Within 24 hours, they had come up with a list of songs, collaborators and producers and it was Murray who suggested the all-female idea to help whittle down the artists involved.

From start to finish, the whole project took only eight months.

"I would hate to have missed this experience, I really would have," said Murray, dressed in a sharp-looking denim suit. "And I had to be talked into it, but if somebody presents a good case, I'm all for it -- if it can be done."

Murray eventually invited select media and music industry types for a recent Duets listening session -- plus drinks and lunch -- in the comfort of her home's sunken living room where the family's 9-year-old white West Highland terrier Mikey wandered in and out.

There was a pool table nearby and an actual indoor pool off another room plus an impressively large yard where you might expect the avid golfer, recently named the No.1 female celebrity duffer by Golf For Women magazine, to practise her short game.

Driving up to the two-level brown brick house, protected from the street by a high hedge, the only indication something was going on was the number of cars parked outside.

"I like it," said Murray of having media over. "I'm more at ease. When they set up in hotel rooms and things, it doesn't feel the same. I have this lovely house, I see no reason that people shouldn't enjoy it."

Duets producer Phil Ramone, at Murray's side during the listening session, told Sun Media that about 90% of the artists went to the studio in either Toronto, L.A., New York or Nashville, to record face-to-face with Murray.

And most were initially nervous.

"The artists came to these dates more prepared than I've ever seen and in many ways in awe of Anne," said Ramone. "She's a fussy, fussy performer about her voice production and I think people like Karen Carpenter and other people who have this wonderful warm sound learned from her. But I think Anne Murray's just got the highest rating amongst other singers, particularly women singers who look for that enrichment."

Murray said a nervous Lang even told her: "I was such a big part of her life, musically. I was actually her first crush, that's what she told me when we were recording. Thanks, that's great!"

Others, like Twain, did her part of the duet on You Needed Me, from New Zealand.

Shania Twain was the easiest person to get to," said Murray. "Trying to put something like this together is a logistical nightmare. I got her e-mail address, (Murray's manager) Bruce Allen, I guess, got it through (Twain's husband) Mutt Lange. I e-mailed her one day and said, 'Would you be interested in being on this CD?' And she wrote back and said, 'Would I?' And that was it. I sent her all the songs and I asked her what she wanted to sing and she chose, of course, probably the best song."

Ramone said his goal was to create an intimacy between the two voices on each duet with Murray always dominant.

Helping each artist in the studio were demos of the vocal arrangements made by Murray and Langstroth.

"She's a major, major artist and stays true to her form," said Ramone. "I felt like we could treat the orchestra in a whole other way, not blasting at you. It's the intimacy between the two voices and how they blend and how she sees it, is the key. Because you can't dominate with her, you shouldn't and you can't. For that person who wants to sing with her, they absolutely are so aware of who they're singing with."

Murray was also particularly thrilled that her daughter and son Will also sang background vocals with her on You Won't See Me, a duet with Shelby Lynne, marking the first time all three family members have been in the studio together.

"It was incredible how fast it went because we sing alike," she said. "And we knew exactly what the other one was doing and it was amazing to me. But they're both very good and it was just a matter of, 'Oh, yeah, that's right, this is how it can be, when everybody is thinking along the same lines.' " Perhaps the most surprising collaboration is popera star Sarah Brightman, who ended up doing Murray's signature tune, Snowbird, with her.

"She came in and she was pretty nervous too because this is not her kind of music," said Murray.

"And she worked so hard on this and we had a real good day but I worked her. But she came there wanting to work, believe me, she wanted to make it right. She wanted to do Snowbird. It is scary but it is a vocal exercise, that song (she breaks into the song's opening), that's a vocal exercise, perfect for somebody who can sing like that."

Murray is now gearing up for a U.S. tour in February and March and a Canadian tour (2008 marks the 40th anniversary of her first record) in April and May.

"I'll do a Canadian tour, probably my last Canadian tour," she said before adding: "But that's okay."

There's also talk of a spring CBC-TV special featuring Murray singing with some of the artists on the new disc given all of the recordings were filmed in high-definition.

"We have the footage so I would think there's going to be something," she said.

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NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Anne Murray's Friends & Legends Duets

Shania Twain and Martina McBride Are Guests on the Snowbird's New Album

Chet Flippo

(NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/CMT.com Editorial Director Chet Flippo.)

The world could sorely use a bit of beauty just now, and I've found some. Anne Murray is releasing a gorgeous CD of duets with some of her favorite women singers, and it's an absolute joy. Murrayhas quietly gone about her business for years of recording songs she loves and, along the way, has racked up an admirable country music chart history with such No. 1 country hits as "Could I Have This Dance," "I Just Fall in Love Again" and "A Little Good News." It's hard now to believe that she first charted country in 1970 with "Snowbird." How time flies.

Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends will be out Jan. 15 and I like it. Her roster of duet partners is pretty impressive, with such singers as Emmylou Harris, Celine Dion, Carole King, k.d. lang, Martina McBride, Nelly Furtado, Shania Twain, Shelby Lynne, Amy Grant, Celtic Woman, Indigo Girls and the late Dusty Springfield. It was produced by Phil Ramone, who is a classic himself.

The Celine Dion duet is from a live show in 1996 (but it's a classic), Shania sent hers over from Switzerland (and it's pretty damn good), and of course Dusty Springfield died in 1999, but what the hey, the music is in the groove here. Anne Murray still delivers the groceries.

This CD includes many signature Murray numbers. "Danny's Song," from the pen of Kenny Loggins and from Murray's 1973 album of the same name, opens the album in a duet with McBride. The collection is a potent reminder of what an astute songpicker Murray has been over the years. Bob McDill's "Somebody's Always Saying Goodbye" has never sounded better than it does here, as sung by Murray and Jann Arden. The obligatory "Snowbird" gets new life from Murray with Sarah Brightman. Hard to believe that it was not a No. 1 hit. Nor was "You Needed Me," which sounds spiffy here by Twain and Murray. And "A Little Good News," done by Murray with Indigo Girls, will never go out of fashion.

"I Just Fall in Love Again" with the late, and great, Dusty Springfield is a real historical curiosity, in addition to being a lovely song. Springfield cut it on her 1979 album Living Without Your Love, on which she seemed to have been abandoned by her record label. It was a shoddy, cheap-sounding production, and it quickly vanished. But Murray cut the song and it hit the top of the country chart in 1979. For this current production, she duets with Springfield's original vocal, and the result is impressive and a bit haunting.

Emmylou Harris and Murray bond like long-lost sisters on "Another Pot of Tea," a Canadian song written as an Irish lament, which both had recorded on solo albums years earlier. Both albums were produced by Brian Ahern (who was, for a time, married to Harris).

Murray has had a quirky, very individualistic career. After being a hit on the original Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour TV show, she declined the offer to move to L.A. and debase herself to achieve fleeting showbiz success. She stayed in Canada, having a family (she duets with her daughter Dawn Langstroth here on "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do") and building a long career.

And she still sings like a bird -- one with a very impressive lower register. When she recorded "Could I Have This Dance" for the soundtrack to the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy, she cut it in a lower register as a guide for a male singer partner, but the producers found no suitable male duet partner in time. So, she recorded a harmony for it, making it a duet with herself on the soundtrack. That got her a third Grammy. Here, she duets the song with Amy Grant, in a graceful pairing that transcends the movie's association with the song, at least for me. Grant writes in the liner notes here, "I can't remember the first time I heard Anne Murray's voice, but I can remember the magical pull of the voice behind 'Snowbird' from my childhood on -- a velvety alto, no acrobatics, just a pure interpretation of beautiful songs."

Grant goes on to say, "If my father-in-law, Stan Gill were still alive, I'm sure I would hear him say what I heard him say many times -- 'You sound good, kid, but you're no Anne Murray.'"


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[someguy]

This album is pretty decent. Anne may not have the world's greatest voice, but she is very good at choosing songs that really compliment it (much like Shania and Carole King). I think the standout is "Danny's Song" with Martina McBride, although "You Needed Me" with Shania, "Daydream Believer" with Nelly and "A Love Song" with kd lang are also quite good.

[musicbuff78]

I was quite impressed with this album and in all honesty, the more you listen to it, the better it gets. For being in her 60s, she sure still has a voice that shines.

My favorite is still A Little Good News because that's always had and always will have a special place in my heart because that's a song that I really loved when I was in the hospital for a VERY lengthy time. I'll never grow sick of that song.

[Arson]

I like Anne Murray's voice... I always enjoy her albums. I wish Celine Dion had recorded a new song.

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After listening to this I enjoyed it.
What I like was the emphasis was on the voices not the musical arrangements.
Just wish more of the new singers would enunciate as well as she always has.

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This cd officially comes out in the U.S. today - January 15.

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Posted on Sun, Mar. 09, 2008

Anne Murray teams with some of the top female vocalists for her latest CD

BY SANDRA OKAMOTO - [e-mail] --

Anne Murray, she of the frozen north, was in Florida last week.

"It's beautiful, sunny Florida," Murray said. "But it's cold. It's beautiful, sunny, cold Florida."

She's on a 56-city tour. "I've done 14 shows and have 42 to go," she said. "Sleep is of the essence for me. I have to make sure I get enough sleep."

Born Morna Anne Murray, in Springhill, Nova Scotia, she's been singing since she was a child.

For almost 40 years, she's been performing around the world, and is probably best known for her hit, "Snowbird." That song gave her the honor of being the first Canadian solo woman artist to receive an American gold record.

Last year, her record label, EMI Records, asked her to record another CD.

"I thought I had done my last album," Murray said. "EMI talked me into this."

"This" was an album of duets, featuring her top hits.

"I was sort of dragging my feet," she said. "I was not very enthusiastic. Then I had to go to a meeting. It was kind of an intervention with my management and the EMI people."

They wanted a duet album of her songs.

She suggested all women.

They said no.

So Murray called up some women she knew -- k.d. lang, Shania Twain and Olivia Newton-John.

"I know Emmylou Harris. So I went to her. I had an in with Olivia Newton-John and I e-mailed her. It was all women. That's the way it ended up."

All of the women said they'd love to work with her. And Murray convinced EMI that an all-female duet album would work.

"The icing on the cake was singing with my daughter," Murray said. "And with Dusty Springfield -- that was the capper. Dusty and I were old friends. We worked together a few times. I knew that if she were alive, she would do this."

Murray and her daughter, Dawn Langstroth, sang a duet, "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do," on "Duets: friends & legends."

The first producer contacted was the legendary Phil Ramone, who had experience from producing the duet albums for the late Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett's 2006 CD.

"He (Ramone) was well-versed in (producing) duets," Murray said. "He said yes right away. I didn't know it was going to be this easy."

Murray wanted to be in the same studio with as many of the women as she could. Of the 17 performers, only four were unable to record with her.

"It was fun," Murray said. "We had the orchestra right there and the band was there. We did two tracks a day, three hours at a time. We recorded in four different cities -- Los Angeles, Nashville, New York and Toronto."

Some of the recording artists were unknown to her. She was unable to work with Georgia's Indigo Girls.

"They had just come off tour and when I talked to them, they were doing their laundry," Murray said. "But they went into the studio the next day and did it. And what a great job they did. I was extremely pleased."

The song is "A Little Good News."

Others on the CD are Martina McBride, Nelly Furtado, Jann Arden, Celtic Woman, Carole King, Shelby Lynne, Sarah Brightman, Celine Dion and Isabelle Boulay.

The album is now "well over double platinum" in Canada. She's up for two Juno Awards. "I haven't been nominated for a Juno in 16 years or something."

Murray has met and worked with the top television and film stars, music idols, comedians, heads of state, royals and sports stars.

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld opened for her several times. Years later, after he had become a sitcom star on NBC-TV, he wrote her a note.

"I will never forget you or your kindness to me in the days that were. It was such fun and so important to me. I always think back on them (and you) fondly."

IF YOU GO

What: Canadian singer Anne Murray in concert

When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday

Where: Bill Heard Theatre, RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, 900 Broadway

Tickets: $37-$49

Information: 706-256-3612


ANNE MURRAY

Born: June 20, 1945, in Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada

Real name: Morna Anne Murray, daughter of James Carson Murray, the town doctor, and Marion Burke Murray, a registered nurse

Siblings: Five brothers, David, Daniel, Harold, Stewart and Bruce

Education: One year at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax; University of New Brunswick-Fredericton, where she studied physical education

Jobs: "Singalong Jubilee," a CBC television show; taught PE at a high school in Summerside, Prince Edward Island for a year; "Let's Go," another CBS TV show; regular on "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour"; recording, touring and making television appearances since 1968

Family: Divorced; son William, born in 1975; daughter Dawn, born in 1979

Recordings: 53 albums (including 16 compilation CDs) between 1968-2008

Honors: Four Grammys, three American Music Awards, three Country Music Association Awards, three Canadian Country Music Association Awards and 24 Juno Awards (the Canadian Grammy Awards). She was inducted into the Juno Hall of Fame in 1993 and the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2002. She is a Companion of the Order of Canada, the highest honor that is awarded to a Canadian citizen.

Legacy: Created the Anne Murray Centre, in Springhill, to provide employment for local people.


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The "Anne Murray Duets: Friends and Legends" album is nominated for two JUNO awards - the Canadian equivalent of the Grammy awards.

It's nominated for Pop Album of the Year and Album of the Year (Sponsored by CRIA)


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Anne Murray fears extra nominee could nab Juno

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 | 3:08 PM ET
CBC News

Anne Murray is concerned that the extra Juno Awards nominee for best album could win the prize without really having qualified.

The Canadian songbird's latest album Duets: Friends and Legends was originally excluded from the list of best album nominees when awards officials incorrectly calculated sales figures last month. Its nomination formulas are based in part on albums sold.

After correcting the error, the best album category, which is usually limited to five nominees, was expanded to six to include Murray's album. The Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which runs the Junos, opted not to retract one of the other nominations.

"The person who is not supposed to be in there could conceivably win," Murray told the Canadian Press.

"It was strange because I knew what my (sales) numbers were and I saw some of the other numbers and I thought, 'Well, how did they figure that?'"

Murray's all-female duets record boasts a rich roster of Canadian legends: k.d. lang, Shania Twain, Jann Arden, Celine Dion, Nelly Furtado and Isabelle Boulay all sang with her.

Others featured on the CD include Olivia Newton-John, Carole King, Martina McBride, Celtic Woman and Sarah Brightman.

A Junos spokesman says they have created a new auditing committee to make sure the error doesn't happen again.

The Juno Awards will be handed out April 6 in Calgary.

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Best album nominees

Anne Murray - Duets: Friends and Legends
Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing
Céline Dion - Taking Chances
Céline Dion - D'elles
Feist - The Reminder
Michael Bublé - Call Me Irresponsible

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