Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends
Duets: Friends & Legends is the thirty-second studio album by Canadian country artist Anne Murray. The album features seventeen of Murray's best-known songs re-recorded as duets with her favourite female singers. While the record mostly consists of new studio tracks, Murray's duet with Celine Dion on "When I Fall in Love" was taken from a 1996 TV special. The late Dusty Springfield's vocal on "I Just Fall in Love Again" was lifted from Springfield's 1978 recording of the track.
The album was released in Canada on November 13, 2007, where it reached #4 on the Canadian Albums Chart and has since been certified 2× Platinum in that country. It received two nominations at the 2008 Juno Awards, although it was originally omitted from the Album of the Year category after a calculation error.
Anne Murray - Friends & Legends is also the title of a one-hour television special produced for CBC Television by Out to See Entertainment Inc. The show features duets by Anne Murray with her daughter Dawn Langstroth, Jann Arden and various other artists.
In the United States, the album was released on January 15, 2008, and peaked at #42 on the Billboard 200 as well as #8 on the Top Country Albums chart. As of 2016, the album has sold approximately 300,000 copies in the United States.
This is Murray's final album of wholly new recordings. The following year, Murray made her final studio recordings—four new tracks for the compilation Anne Murray's Christmas Album, which consisted mostly of previously released material.
Tour
To promote the album, Murray embarked on the 'Coast-to-Coast – One Last Time' tour.Personnel
Musicians
Rhythm Section- Steve Nathan – keyboards
- Lou Pomanti – acoustic piano, electric piano, organ
- Doug Riley – keyboards
- Jim Cox – keyboards, rhythm arrangements
- Rob Mathes – keyboards, Hammond B3 organ, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar
- Chris Caswell – additional keyboards
- Gil Goldstein – accordion
- Brian Gatto – keyboards
- Steve Sexton – keyboards
- Brent Mason – electric guitar
- Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
- Michael 'Pepe' Francis – guitar
- Dean Parks – guitar
- Billy Masters – electric guitar
- Georges Hébert – guitar
- Aidan Mason – guitar
- Michael Rhodes – bass
- Peter Cardinali – bass
- Kevin Axt – bass
- David Finck – bass
- Peter Bleakney – bass
- Eddie Bayers – drums
- Barry Keane – drums, percussion
- Gregg Field – drums
- Shawn Pelton – drums
- Gary Craig – drums
- Gil Goldstein – arrangements and conductor
- Rob Mathes – arrangements and conductor
- Andy Snitzer – alto saxophone
- George Flynn – bass trombone
- Birch Johnson – tenor trombone
- Tony Kadleck – trumpet
- Jeff Kievit – trumpet
- Chris Hall – tuba
- Katherine Fink – alto flute
- Liz Mann - alto flute
- Pamela Sklar – bass flute
- David Weiss – bass flute
- Virgil Blackwell – bass clarinet
- Diane Lesser – English horn
- Bob Carlisle – French horn
- Philip Myers – French horn
- Gil Goldstein – arrangements and conductor
- Rob Mathes – arrangements and conductor
- Jill Dell'Abate – contractor
- Elena Barere – concertmaster
- Diane Barere
- Jeanne LeBlanc
- Richard Locker
- Irene Breslaw
- Desiree Elsevier
- Vincent Lionti
- Craig Mumm
- Abe Appleman
- Elena Barere
- Eva Burmeister
- David Chan
- Enrico DiCecco
- Jonathan Dinklage
- Katherine Fong
- Ann Leathers
- Laura McGinniss
- Catherine Ro
- Ricky Sortomme
- Sylvia Danburg Vlope
- Carol Webb
- Hae Young Ham
Backing Vocals
- Dawn Langstroth
- Will Langstroth
- Anne Murray
- Peter Cardinali
- Michael Francis
- Barry Keane
- Nathan Moore
- Bruno Moynie
- Raine Munro
- Jeff Pelletier
- Lou Pomanti
- Anastasia Saradoc
- Qadi Soraya
Production
- Phil Ramone – producer
- Robert John "Mutt" Lange – vocal producer for Shania Twain
- Anne Murray – producer
- Steve Sexton – pre-production
- Portia Gauthier – production assistance
- Jill Dell'Abate – production manager
- Patrick Duffy – art direction, design
- Monic Richard – photography
- P'tricia – hair, manicure
- Dany Cournoyer – make-up
- Bruce Allen – management
- Larry LeBlanc – liner notes
- Jeff Balding – recording
- Frank Filipetti – recording, brass/string/woodwind recording, mixing
- Al Schmitt – recording
- Jeff Wolpert – recording
- Olle Romo – vocal recording
- George Seara – additional vocal engineer
- Glenn Matullo – vocal recording
- Peter Hamilton – recording
- Doug McClement – recording
- Kevin Doyle – mixing
- Luiz Breves – assistant engineer
- Allen Ditto – assistant engineer
- Steve Genewick – assistant engineer, Pro Tools operator
- Don Goodrick – assistant engineer
- Chris Jennings – assistant engineer
- Greg Kolchinsky – assistant engineer
- Missy Webb – assistant engineer, mix assistant
- Bob Ludwig – mastering
- Recorded at Orphan Studios ; Blackbird Studios ; Capitol Studios ; Legacy Recording Studios ; Phase One Studios and The Orange Lounge.
- Mastered at Gateway Mastering.