Winner (Renée Geyer album)

Winner
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
Renée Geyer chronology

Renée Geyer At Her Very Best
(1977)		 Winner
(1978)		 Blues License
(1979)

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

  1. Money (That's What I Want) - 5.19 (Berry Gordy / Janie Bradford)
  2. I MIss You - 4.50 (Melvin Robinson / Judy Wieder)
  3. Save Me - 4.13 (Mark Punch / Garry Paige)
  4. Baby I'm the One - 4.36 (Dee Erwin/Alexandra Brown)
  5. Baby Be Mine - 3.46 (Jean Mc Clain)
  6. Sweet Kisses - 6.28 (Mark Punch)
  7. The Magic is Still There - 3.58 (Mark Punch / Garry Paige)
  8. Bad Side of the Blues - 4.03 (John Finley / Katherine Ornelas)
  9. Apartment C & D - 3.54 (John Footman / Judy Wieder / Ron Cederlund)
  10. 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

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