ANNE MURRAY (CANADA)

Born: 20 June 1945
Full name: Morna Anne Murray

Anne was born in a coal mining town called Springhill which is in Nova Scotia in Canada. Her father was a doctor and her mother a nurse. Anne began studying piano when she was 6 and was taking voice lesson when she was 15. After school she studied Physical Education and went on to become a P.E. teacher. In 1965 she took part in a University of Brunswick student project where she recorded a couple of tracks for a record they made called ‘The Groove’. While doing this she was encouraged to audition for a TV musical variety show called ‘Singalong Jubilee’. Initially she failed to be accepted, but later became a regular member of the cast. On the suggestion of the show’s musical director, she moved to Toronto and recorded a solo album. The resultant ‘What About Me’ was released in 1968 but failed to make an impact on the charts. Her second album, This Way Is My Way’, was more successful, peaking at 13 on the Canadian charts and contained the single ‘Snowbird’ which went to number 2 in Canada and 8 in the US and gave her the first of 5 UK hits, peaking at 23 (beaten only by 1978’s ‘You Needed Me’ which got to 22). She would see a total of 36 Canadian hits with 5 of them being number 1’s. She has seen 28 US Hot 100 hits with ‘You Needed Me’ being her only number 1. Golf lovers would be interested to know that Anne was the first woman to manage a hole-in-one on the 108 yard, par 3, 17^th hole at the Kaluhyat Golf Club in New York.

Date of entry	Song	Peak (weeks at 1)	Weeks
20-Apr-1979	You Needed Me	5	13
		Total hits	1
		Total weeks	13

Biggest climber awards	0
Star rater climbs	0
Biggest fallers	2
Weeks with oldest in the charts	0
Longest run in the charts (weeks)	13
Weeks with more than 1 in the charts	0
Biggest gap between hits (weeks)	0
Top 30 points ranking	=651
Top 20 points ranking	=622
Top 30 points	263
Top 20 points	133