Winner (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Winner
US/UK Title = Renée Geyer
Type = Album
Artist = 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
Reviews =
Last album = "Renée Geyer At Her Very Best"
(1977)
This album = "Winner"
(1978)
Next album = "Blues License"
(1979)

"Winner" is Renée Geyer's 6th solo album and her 2nd to be recorded in the U.S.A. Motown's Frank Wilson again manned the console howevever this time "The Renée Geyer Band" provided the rhythm section. They were once again ably supported by some of the very best U.S. session players. Winner contains 2 of Geyer's best ever performances in "Bad Side of the Blues" and on the jazzy "I Miss You", 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 2 albums in her entire catalogue not to see CD release.

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
*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)

External Links:

http://www.reneegeyer.com.au/content/discography/disc_winner.html

http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/en/geyerrenee/geyerrenee.htm