Renée Live is 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...

's tenth solo and second live album. Having recently enjoyed her biggest hit, her confidence shows in the extra power her vocals had gained in the ensuing years. This is shown to best effect on her duet with Vanetta Fields on Sam & Dave

Sam & Dave

Sam & Dave were an American soul and rhythm and blues duo who performed together from 1961 through 1981. The tenor voice was Samuel David Moore , and the baritone/tenor voice was Dave Prater .Sam & Dave are members of...

's 1968 hit "You Don't Know What You Mean To Me". Little River Band

Little River Band

Little River Band is an Australian rock band, formed in Melbourne in early 1975.The group chose the name after passing a road sign leading to the Victorian township of Little River, near Geelong, on the way to a performance. Little River Band enjoyed sustained commercial success in not only...

's Glenn Shorrock

Glenn Shorrock

Glenn Barrie Shorrock is an English-born Australian singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of pop groups The Twilights, Axiom and Little River Band as well as being a solo performer....

 also performs a duet on Dusty Springfield

Dusty Springfield

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'BrienSources use both Isabel and Isobel as the spelling of her second name. OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield and dubbed The White Queen of Soul, was a British pop singer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s...

's "Goin' Back", which was released as a single and became a minor hit. On the album she also pursues the harder rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 edge shown on the previous album, without sacrificing her 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...

 roots.

Track listing

1. Intro (Excerpt From "Be Yourself") - 1.08 (Cameo
   Cameo (band)
   Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s. Cameo was initially a 13-member group known as the New York City Players; this name was later changed to Cameo to avoid a lawsuit from Ohio Players, another group from that era. Since then, Cameo has recorded several...
   
   -Larry Blackmon/Thomas Jenkins/Charles Singleton)
2. Look What You've Done - 4.06 (Leo Nocentelli)
3. Baby I've Been Missing You - 4.01 (Chuck Jackson
   Chuck Jackson
   Chuck Jackson is an R&B singer who was one of the first artists to record material by Burt Bacharach and Hal David successfully. He has performed with moderate success since 1961...
   
    / Marvin Yancy)
4. I Got News For You - 4.55 (Jonathan Zwartz / Jane Lindsay)
5. Say I Love You - 5.09 (Eddy Grant
   Eddy Grant
   Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant is a musician, born in Plaisance, Guyana.- Life and career :When he was still a young boy, his parents emigrated to London, UK, where he settled. He lived in Kentish Town and went to school at the Acland Burghley Secondary Modern at Tufnell Park...
   
   )
6. Goin' Back (with Glenn Shorrock
   Glenn Shorrock
   Glenn Barrie Shorrock is an English-born Australian singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of pop groups The Twilights, Axiom and Little River Band as well as being a solo performer....
   
   ) - 3.54 (Carole King
   Carole King
   Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King had an album, Tapestry, top the U.S...
   
    / Gerry Goffin
   Gerry Goffin
   Gerry Goffin is an American lyricist. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 with former songwriting partner and first wife, Carole King. he has co-written six Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers.-Career:Goffin enlisted with the Marine Corps Reserve after graduating from...
   
   )
7. You Don't Know What You Mean To Me (with 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...
   
   ) - 3.05 (Eddie Floyd
   Eddie Floyd
   Eddie Lee Floyd is an American soul/R&B singer and songwriter, best known for his work on the Stax record label in the 1960s and 1970s and the song "Knock on Wood".-Biography:...
   
    / Steve Cropper
   Steve Cropper
   Steve Cropper , also known as Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T...
   
   )
8. Since I Fell For You
   Since I Fell for You
   "Since I Fell for You" is a jazz and pop standard. The blues ballad was composed by Buddy Johnson in 1945 and was first popularized by his sister, Ella Johnson, with Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra. The biggest hit version was recorded by Lenny Welch in 1963, reaching number four on the U.S...
   
    - 7.04 (Buddy Johnson
   Buddy Johnson
   Not to be confused with Budd Johnson.Buddy Johnson was an American jazz and New York blues pianist and bandleader, active from the 1930s through the 1960s...
   
   )
9. I Can Feel the Fire - 4.55 (Ron Wood
   Ron Wood
   Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a former member of The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, and current member of The Rolling Stones. He also plays lap and pedal steel guitar....
   
   )

Album credits

Producers: Renée Geyer, Mal Logan, Jim Barton

Recorded at The Tivoli Theatre, Sydney, Australia, 17/18 December 1982

Design and Artwork: Mushroom Art

Renée Geyer Band

Renée Geyer: vocals

Vanetta Fields: vocals (tracks 7,8), backing vocals

Stuart Fraser (> Noiseworks

Noiseworks

Noiseworks is an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1986 with bass guitarist Steve Balbi, guitarist Stuart Fraser, drummer Kevin Nicol, keyboardist Justin Stanley and lead vocalist Jon Stevens...

; John Farnham

John Farnham

John Peter Farnham, AO, formerly billed as Johnny Farnham , is an English-born Australian pop singer. He was a teen pop idol from 1964 to 1979, and has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer. His career has mostly been as a solo artist although he briefly replaced Glenn Shorrock as...

 Band): guitars

Mal Logan: keyboards

Chris Haig: bass guitar

Steve Hopes: drums

Geoff Oakes: sxophone, percussion

Russell Smith: trumpet, flugle, percussion

Sunil De Silva: percussion

Trevor White

Trevor White

Trevor Alan White is a Canadian actor who has worked in theatre, film, television and radio since 1994, and has been based out of London, England, since 2001.-Life:...

: backing vocals

Peter Chambers: backing vocals

Glenn Shorrock

Glenn Shorrock

Glenn Barrie Shorrock is an English-born Australian singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of pop groups The Twilights, Axiom and Little River Band as well as being a solo performer....

: vocals on track 6

External Links

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