Shadows in the Moonlight
| "Shadows in the Moonlight" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Anne Murray | ||||
| from the album New Kind of Feeling | ||||
| Released | May 1979 | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Recorded | 1978 | |||
| Genre | Country, pop | |||
| Length | 3:25 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Writer(s) | Charlie Black and Rory Michael Bourke | |||
| Producer | Jim Ed Norman | |||
| Anne Murray singles chronology | ||||
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"Shadows in the Moonlight" is a song recorded by country and pop music singer Anne Murray. Released in 1979, the song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart that July, and was one of three chart-toppers for her during the year. "Shadows in the Moonlight" was Murray's third No. 1 single on the country chart and fourth overall (counting "You Needed Me," which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978).
"Shadows in the Moonlight" was released during Murray's peak as a crossover artist, and the song was one of several that also charted on the Hot 100. The song peaked at #25 in July, around the time it topped the country chart. The song also spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in 1979.
The song was included on Murray's 1979 album New Kind of Feeling.
[edit] Chart performance
| Chart (1979) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
| Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks | 1 |
| Canadian RPM Top Singles | 10 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 25 |
| Preceded by "She Believes in Me" by Kenny Rogers |
Billboard Adult Contemporary (chart) number-one single June 16, 1979 (3 weeks) |
Succeeded by "Lead Me On" by Maxine Nightingale |
| Preceded by "Amanda" by Waylon Jennings |
Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single July 21, 1979 |
Succeeded by "You're the Only One" by Dolly Parton |
| Preceded by "You're the Only One" by Dolly Parton |
RPM Country Tracks number-one single August 4, 1979 |
Succeeded by "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" by Johnny Cash |
[edit] Sources
- New Kind of Feeling by Anne Murray at Allmusic
- Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.
- Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
