| I Don't Wanna Talk It Over Anymore | ||||
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| Studio album by Connie Smith | ||||
| Released | October 1976 | |||
| Recorded | 1976 Columbia Recording Studio (Nashville), (New York) |
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| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Ray Baker | |||
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| Singles from I Don't Wanna Talk It Over Anymore | ||||
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I Don't Wanna Talk It Over Anymore is the twenty ninth studio album by American country music artist, Connie Smith. The album was released in October 1976 on Columbia Records and was produced by Ray Baker. It was Smith's final album released on the Columbia label, before switching to Monument Records in 1977.
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I Don't Wanna Talk It Over Anymore consisted of ten tracks and was recorded in 1975 at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee and New York City, New York. The album included a cover version of The Everly Brothers hit, "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)," which was released as the album's first single. It also included a cover version of Jessi Colter's "Storms Never Last," which was released on her 1975 album, I'm Jessi Colter. Smith herself also recorded her own composition entitled, "Constantly." Smith also recorded two songs composed by Eddy Raven: the title track and "The Latest Shade of Blue." The Dottie Rambo composition, "I Wonder If the Angels Could Use Another Singer" was the final track on the album and was included as the album's only religious song.[1] The album was released on a 12-inch LP album, with five songs on each side of the record.[2]
I Don't Wanna Talk It Over Anymore spawned three singles. The first single was Smith's cover of "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)," which was released in May 1976, becoming a Top 40 hit in the United States, reaching #31 on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Songs chart. The title track was the second single and became a Top 20 hit reaching #13 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The final single, "The Latest Shade of Blue" was released in February 1977 and peaked outside of the Top 40 at #42, becoming Smith's first single to miss the Top 40.[3] The album charted as well, peaking at #33 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart upon its release in October 1976.[4]
| Chart (1976) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Top Country Albums | 33 |
| Year | Song | Chart positions |
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| US Country | ||
| 1976 | "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)" | 31 |
| "I Don't Wanna Talk It Over Anymore" | 13 | |
| 1977 | "The Latest Shade of Blue" | 42 |