Moving Along

Moving Along
Studio album by Renée Geyer
Released	May 1977
Recorded	1976–77
Studio	Crystal Sound, Los Angeles
Genre	Funk soul disco
Length	35:34
Label	RCA/ Mushroom (Australia/UK) Polydor (US)
Producer	Frank Wilson
Renée Geyer chronology
Really Really Love You: Live at the Dallas Brooks Hall (1976) Moving Along (1977) Renée Geyer at Her Very Best (1977)
Singles from Moving Along
"Stares and Whispers" Released: April 1977 "Tender Hooks" Released: July 1977 "Moving Along" Released: 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

• Mal Logan - keyboards
• Barry 'Big Goose' Sullivan - bass guitar
• Ray Parker Jr., Greg Poree, Stephen Beckmeier - guitar
• Harry Booker, Jerry Peters - keyboards
• Reginald Burke - piano
• James Jamerson, Nathan Watts - bass
• Raymond Pounds - drums
• Venetta Fields, Sherlie Matthews, Pat Henerson, Tiemeyer McCain, Otis Stokes, Frank Wilson - backing vocals

Charts

Weekly chart performance for Moving Along

Chart (1977)	Peak position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[2]	11

References

1. "Album Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 7 May 1977. p. 59. Retrieved 25 November 2021 – via World Radio History.
2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992: 23 years of hit singles & albums from the top 100 charts. St Ives, N.S.W, Australia: Australian Chart Book. p. 124. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.