Hey! What About Me
Anne Murray | Artist Essentials
First released: 1968 (year verified)
Original 1968 studio recording, not the 1973 National Arts Centre live recording
MusicAtlas editorial note: The early studio setting lets the grain of the low voice stand out against spare accompaniment.
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First released: 1968 (year verified)
The original studio recording was released in 1968 and belongs to the original What About Me program. Year precision does not assign an album day to a single or a later reissue.
Recording: Original 1968 studio recording, not the 1973 National Arts Centre live recording
Credit: Anne Murray
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original album: What About Me
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What About Me - original licensed Anne Murray program
The licensed original program identifies the selected Anne Murray solo studio recordings in 1968. Later duet remakes, National Arts Centre concert tracks, digital remaster dates and later single years are outside this original recording scope. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Anne Murray - original debut and later solo recording context
The institutional biography dates the What About Me debut and original title recording to 1968 and identifies the later 1986 Now and Forever period. Its retrospective hit years are not substituted for earlier album or single release years. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
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About Anne Murray
Anne Murray is a Canadian singer from Springhill, Nova Scotia, whose recordings reached both country and pop audiences. Her debut What About Me appeared in 1968, followed by a Capitol Records contract and Snowbird. Later repertoire includes You Needed Me, Could I Have This Dance and A Little Good News. Her long recording career also led to the memoir All of Me.
Artist background sources
Anne Murray - Canadian Music Hall of Fame biography
Springhill background, country/pop crossover, debut and Capitol career, representative repertoire and memoir. Overbroad first-gold-record wording, sales figures and current award records are omitted. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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