"Any Time" is a Tin Pan Alley song written by Herbert "Happy" Lawson. The song was published in 1921 and first recorded by
Emmett Miller for
OKeh Records in 1924, accompanying himself on
ukulele, Lawson recorded his own version for
Gennett Records on July 31, 1925. It became associated with
Country music when
Eddy Arnold rescued it from obscurity in 1948, topping the
Billboard Juke Box Folk Records Chart for nine weeks.[7]
Charted versions
Eddy Arnold released a version in 1948 that reached #1 on the U.S. country chart and #17 on the U.S. pop chart.[8]