Moving Along is the fifth solo album by Australian soul/R&B

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

 singer Renée Geyer

Renée Geyer

Renée Rebecca Geyer is an Australian singer who has long been regarded as one of the finest exponents of jazz, soul and R&B idioms. She had commercial success as a solo artist in Australia, with "It's a Man's Man's World", "Heading in the Right Direction" and "Stares and Whispers" in the 1970s and...

, and her first to be recorded in the US and released internationally. It was produced by famed Motown musician Frank Wilson

Frank Wilson (musician)

Frank Wilson is an African American former songwriter and record producer for Motown Records.-Biography:He was born to James Wilson and Samantha Gibbs...

 who assembled the cream of US session players to back Geyer. Some notables were members of Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...

's band including Nathan Watts

Nathan Watts

Nathan Lamar Watts, born 1954 in Detroit, Michigan is an American session bass guitar player, best known for his work with Stevie Wonder from the 1970s to the present...

, Ray Parker Jr.

Ray Parker Jr.

Ray Erskine Parker, Jr. , is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer and recording artist. Parker is known for writing and performing the theme song to the motion picture Ghostbusters, for his solo hits, and performing with his band Raydio as well as the late Barry White.-Early life and...

, Motown's most famous bass guitarist and Funk Brother

The Funk Brothers

The Funk Brothers was the nickname of Detroit, Michigan, session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown Records recordings from 1959 until the company moved to Los Angeles in 1972...

 James Jamerson

James Jamerson

James Lee Jamerson was an American bass player. He was the uncredited bassist on most of Motown Records' hits in the 1960s and early 1970s , and he is now regarded as one of the most influential bass players in modern music history...

, on backing vocals, Venetta Fields

Venetta Fields

Venetta Fields is an American singer best known as session musician for leading rock and pop acts of the 1970s including Pink Floyd, Barbra Streisand, Steely Dan and the Rolling Stones...

, 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.

Track listing

1. "Heading in the Right Direction" – 3.00 (Mark Punch / Garry Paige)
2. "Be There in the Morning" – 4.27 (Renée Geyer / Mal Logan / Barry Sullivan)
3. "Quicker Than the Eye" – 4.09 (Harry Booker / Judy Wieder)
4. "Tender Hooks" – 4.39 (Ruth Copeland / Eric Thorngren)
5. "Stares and Whispers" – 3.29 (John Footman / Frank Wilson / Terri McFadden)
6. "Just to Make Love to You" – 4.44 (Greg Poree / Gralin Jerald)
7. "Touch" – 4.52 (Frank Wilson / Pam Sawyer
   Pam Sawyer
   Pamela Sawyer, an American-based songwriter from Romford, East London.Sawyer worked with artists at Motown Records from 1967 to 1977. Before Motown she had been involved in hit records for the Young Rascals and Lulu, and wrote with Lori Burton with whom she also recorded as the Whyte Boots.Sawyer...
   
   )
8. "Moving Along" – 6.11 (Renée Geyer / Mal Logan / Barry Sullivan / Judy Wieder)

Album credits

• Producer, arrangements: Frank Wilson
  Frank Wilson (musician)
  Frank Wilson is an African American former songwriter and record producer for Motown Records.-Biography:He was born to James Wilson and Samantha Gibbs...
  
  : a Spec-O-Lite production
• Engineers: Kevin Beamish; Frank Wilson
• Recorded at Crystal Sound Recording, Los Angeles, California
• Art direction: Basil Pao. AGI
• Photography: Norman Seef

Thanks to the following musicians

• Guitars: Ray Parker, Jr.
  Ray Parker, Jr.
  Ray Erskine Parker, Jr. , is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer and recording artist. Parker is known for writing and performing the theme song to the motion picture Ghostbusters, for his solo hits, and performing with his band Raydio as well as the late Barry White.-Early life and...
  
  , Greg Poree, Stephen Beckmeier
• Keyboards: Harry Booker, Jerry Peters
• Piano: Reginald Burke
• Bass: James Jamerson
  James Jamerson
  James Lee Jamerson was an American bass player. He was the uncredited bassist on most of Motown Records' hits in the 1960s and early 1970s , and he is now regarded as one of the most influential bass players in modern music history...
  
  , Nathan Watts
  Nathan Watts
  Nathan Lamar Watts, born 1954 in Detroit, Michigan is an American session bass guitar player, best known for his work with Stevie Wonder from the 1970s to the present...
  
  
• Drums: Raymond Pounds
• Percussion: Jack Ashford
  Jack Ashford
  Jack Ashford , known to his friends as Jashford, is an African-American musician, widely known as the percussionist for Motown Records' in-house Funk Brothers band during the 1960s and early 1970s. Ashford is most famous for playing the tambourine on hundreds of Motown recordings...
  
  , Frederick Lewis
• Background Vocals: Venetta Fields
  Venetta Fields
  Venetta Fields is an American singer best known as session musician for leading rock and pop acts of the 1970s including Pink Floyd, Barbra Streisand, Steely Dan and the Rolling Stones...
  
  , Sherlie Matthews
  Sherlie Matthews
  Sherlie Matthews is an American singer, songwriter and record producer, best known as a backing vocalist for Pop, R&B and Rock groups from the mid 1960s to the present time.-Early life:...
  
  , Pat Henerson; Tiemeyer McCain, Otis Stokes, Frank Wilson

Trivia

Drummer/producer Norman Connors

Norman Connors

Norman Connors is an American jazz drummer, composer, arranger, producer, and headliner, who has led some influential jazz and R&B groups. He also achieved several big R&B hits of the day, especially with love ballads.-Biography:...

covered "Be There in the Morning" on his 1979 album Invitation.

External links

• http://www.reneegeyer.com.au/content/discography/disc_moving.html
• http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/en/geyerrenee/geyerrenee.htm