Winner (Renée Geyer album)
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| Studio album by Renée Geyer | ||||
| Released | 11 December 1978 | |||
| Recorded | Crystal Sound Recording, Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Soul/R & B | |||
| Length | 44.57 | |||
| Label | RCA Records/ Mushroom | |||
| Producer | Frank Wilson | |||
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Winner is Renée Geyer's seventh solo album and her second to be recorded in the USA. Motown's Frank Wilson again manned the console; however, this time The Renée Geyer Band provided the rhythm section. They were once again supported by some of the very best US session players. Winner contains two of Geyer's best ever performances in "Bad Side of the Blues" and the jazzy "I Miss You", on which she proved she could scat with the best. However, Geyer was neither happy with the album nor the promotion that US Polydor were providing and negotiated a release from her contract. She then brought the tapes home from Australia to be remixed but she still calls this, rather unfairly, "a bit of a loser". This album and Renée Live, are the only two albums in her entire catalogue not to be released on CD.
Track listing
- Money (That's What I Want) - 5.19 (Berry Gordy / Janie Bradford)
- I Miss You - 4.50 (Melvin Robinson / Judy Wieder)
- Save Me - 4.13 (Mark Punch / Garry Paige)
- Baby I'm the One - 4.36 (Dee Erwin/Alexandra Brown)
- Baby Be Mine - 3.46 (Jean Mc Clain)
- Sweet Kisses - 6.28 (Mark Punch)
- The Magic is Still There - 3.58 (Mark Punch / Garry Paige)
- Bad Side of the Blues - 4.03 (John Finley / Katherine Ornelas)
- Apartment C & D - 3.54 (John Footman / Judy Wieder / Ron Cederlund)
- I Don't Wanna Lose a Good Thing - 3.50 (Jack Allen / Shelby Flint)
Album credits
Producer: Frank Wilson
Recorded at Crystal Sound Recording, Los Angeles, California
Mixing: John Sayers, Renée Geyer, Christo Curtis at Studio 301, Sydney, Australia
Cover illustration: Shane Conroy
Musical credits
Renée Geyer Band
- Renée Geyer: vocals, backing vocals
- Mark Punch: guitar
- Tim Partridge: bass guitar
- Greg Tell: drums
Musicians
- Guitars: Melvin Robinson
- Piano, clavinet, synthesizer: Nate Morgan
- Special synthesizer work: Michael Boddicker
- Keyboards (tracks 1,5): Neil Larsen
- Saxophone: Ernie Watts
- Horns (3,5,7): Tower Of Power Horns
- Percussion: Jack Ashford, Frederick Lewis
Sources
- Original album
- Chris Spencer's Who's Who Of Australian Rock
- Confessions Of A Difficult Woman (autobiography) (Harper Collins Publications-2000)