Moving Along Explained

Moving Along
Type:studio
Artist:Renée Geyer
Cover:Renee_Geyer_-_Moving_Along.gif
Released:May 1977
Recorded:1976–77
Studio:Crystal Sound, Los Angeles
Length:35:34
Label:RCA/ Mushroom (Australia/UK)
Polydor (US)
Producer:Frank Wilson
Prev Year:1976
Next Title:Renée Geyer at Her Very Best
Next Year:1977

Moving Along (self-titled in the US) is the fourth studio album by Australian soul/R&B singer Renée Geyer, and her first to be recorded in the US and released internationally. It was produced by famed Motown musician Frank Wilson who assembled the cream of US session players to back Geyer. Some notables were members of Stevie Wonder's band including Nathan Watts, Ray Parker Jr., Motown's most famous bass guitarist and Funk Brother James Jamerson, on backing vocals, Venetta Fields, and Mal and Barry from The Renée Geyer Band at Geyer's insistence. For this album, she re-recorded her Australian hit "Heading in the Right Direction" for the US market.

Reception

Cash Box magazine said "Geyer is an Australian songstress with dynamic interpretive qualities in her voice and material that ranged from disco to MOR. Already with an established reputation in her homeland... she seems poised and ready for a listen by the Yanks."[1]

Track listing

Vinyl/ cassette (VPL1-0140 / PD-1-6101, 2391 275)Side One
  1. "Heading in the Right Direction" (Mark Punch, Garry Paige) – 3.00
  2. "Be There in the Morning" (Renée Geyer, Mal Logan, Barry Sullivan) – 4.27
  3. "Quicker Than the Eye" (Harry Booker, Judy Wieder) – 4.09
  4. "Tender Hooks" (Ruth Copeland, Eric Thorngren) – 4.09

Side Two

  1. "Stares and Whispers" (John Footman, Frank Wilson, Terri McFadden) – 4.09
  2. "Just to Make Love to You" (Greg Poree, Gralin Jerald) – 4.09
  3. "Touch" (Frank Wilson, Pam Sawyer) – 4.09
  4. "Moving Along" (Renée Geyer, Mal Logan, Barry Sullivan, Judy Wieder) – 6:11

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Album Reviews . Cash Box. World Radio History. 59. 7 May 1977. 25 November 2021.
  2. 124.