All posts tagged "Anne Murray"

Shania Twain in her hometown of Timmins, ON with the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch. Photo courtesy of shaniatwain.com.

If you watched the opening ceremonies for the Winter Games last Friday, you saw Canadians Anne Murray, k.d. lang and Bryan Adams among a host of celebrities helping to make the Vancouver Olympics a spectacle. What you didn’t see was the New Year’s Day run made by Shania Twain in bitter-cold temperatures when the traditional torch relay wound its way through her hometown of Timmins, Ontario.

In fact, the people who did see it were mostly Canadian and all willing to brave some ridiculous cold. The wind chill was 30 degrees below zero — so bad that when when a dozen red beach balls were released, they froze and snapped into small pieces, according to the Associated Press.

If that wasn’t bad enough, Shania got a negative review for her role in that day’s ceremony — from her own son!

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Clint Black with wife, Lisa Hartman Black.

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, causing single people to gnash their teeth, men to pony up for flowers and women to get positively squishy about romance.

For kicks, we’ve endeavored to come up with the Top 20 country love songs of all-time, and only two people — Clint Black and John Michael Montgomery — are two-timers on that list. Clint’s “Something That We Do” and “When I Said I Do,” the latter recorded with his wife, Lisa Hartman Black, are well thought-out expressions of the work involved in making a relationship last. John Michael’s “I Swear” and “I Can Love You Like That” lean toward the age-old pop approach of giving love a fairytale stamp. “I Can Love You Like That,” in fact, makes a Cinderella reference; and it’s no coincidence that both songs were simultaneously pop hits at the time John Michael had them on the charts.

The following list is partially subjective but not entirely. It’s mostly a reflection of success on the charts and at awards shows — and in a title’s ability to wear well over time.

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Before Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, before Vince Gill, before Reba McEntire — there was a long line of equally-talented CMA Awards Show hosts. In 1983, Anne Murray co-hosted with Willie Nelson. Watch our exclusive interview with Anne, as she recalls the question she asked Willie just before going onstage.

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Anne Murray's 2009 book, All of Me.

Canadian vocalist Anne Murray is putting the final touches on All Of Me, an overdue autobiography that recalls the public and personal turmoils of one of country’s biggest hitmakers during the 1970s and ‘80s.

Anne’s smooth performances made her a constant presence on both country and pop radio for more than a decade with such hits as “Snowbird,” “Shadows In The Moonlight,” “You Needed Me” and “Could I Have This Dance.”

Life in the public eye wasn’t easy. She married her first husband on her 30th birthday amid less-than-ideal circumstances, she was stalked for 20 years by a rabid fan, she suffered from stage fright and her daughter underwent a harrowing battle with anorexia nervosa. Continue Reading