If You Knew Suzi...
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{{Infobox album
| name = If You Knew Suzi...
| type = studio
| artist = Suzi Quatro
| cover = Suzi Quatro If You Knew Suzi.jpg
| alt =
| released = December 1, 1978{{cite web |title=Discography |url=http://www.suziquatro.com/discography.html |website=The Official Website of Suzi Quatro |access-date=15 November 2018}}
| recorded= December 17, 1977 – September 1978
| studio = EMI Electrola, Cologne; MCA/Whitney Recording Studios, Glendale, California; mixed at Whitney Recording Studios, Glendale and Decca Studios, Paris
| genre =
| length = 36:39
| label = RAK{{cite web
| title = australian-charts.com - Suzi Quatro - If You Knew Suzi
| work = australian-charts.com
| publisher = Hung Medien
| location = Dietikon, Switzerland
| url = http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Suzi+Quatro&titel=If+You+Knew+Suzi&cat=a
| access-date = April 9, 2012
| archive-date = June 15, 2022
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220615115018/http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Suzi+Quatro
| url-status = dead
}}
| producer = Mike Chapman
| prev_title = Aggro-Phobia
| prev_year = 1977
| next_title = Suzi ... and Other Four Letter Words
| next_year = 1979
| misc = {{Singles
| name = If You Knew Suzi...
| type = studio
| single1 = If You Can't Give Me Love
| single1date = 1978
| single2 = Stumblin' In
| single2date = 1978
| single3 = The Race Is On
| single3date = 1979
| single4 = Don't Change My Luck
| single4date = 1979
}}
}}
If You Knew Suzi... is the fifth studio album by American singer Suzi Quatro, released at the end of 1978, but with a 1979 copyright date. {{As of|2012|08|alt=By August 2012}} this was still Quatro's highest-charting album in the United States (it peaked at number 37 on the Billboard 200). The album also yielded Quatro's biggest US single hit, a duet with Chris Norman named "Stumblin' In" (which reached number 4 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts.
{{cite web
| last = Unterberger
| first = Richie
| title = Suzi Quatro – Awards
| website = AllMusic
| location = Ann Arbor, US
| url = http://www.allmusic.com/artist/suzi-quatro-mn0000033560/awards
| access-date = August 25, 2012
}} It also had an advertising billboard on Sunset Boulevard.
The credits show the album to be a multinational production: tracks were recorded in Cologne (Germany), Paris (France), and Glendale (California). It was then mixed in California and mastered in London to be distributed by a company based in New York City.
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
{{cite web
| last = Thompson
| first = Dave
| title = If You Knew Suzi - Suzi Quatro, AllMusic Review
| website = AllMusic
| location = Ann Arbor, US
| url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/if-you-knew-suzi-r47401/review
| access-date = January 6, 2012
}}
| rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide
| rev2score = C+{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: Q|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=Q&bk=70|access-date=March 10, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}
}}
The Associated Press wrote that, "although her new album is straight rock 'n' roll, 'Stumblin' In' is a relaxed-sounding love song, hardly representative of the have a good time, scream and shout rock Miss Quatro has been churning out all these years."{{cite news |title=Quatro's hard rock hits home at last |work=The Globe and Mail |agency=AP |date=3 Aug 1979 |page=P16}}
Track listing
- "Don't Change My Luck" (Chinn, Chapman){{spaced ndash}}3:43
- "Tired of Waiting" (Ray Davies){{spaced ndash}}3:29
- "Suicide" (Quatro, Len Tuckey){{spaced ndash}}4:05
- "Evie" (Harry Vanda, George Young){{spaced ndash}}4:35
- "The Race Is On" (Chinn, Chapman){{spaced ndash}}4:02
- "If You Can't Give Me Love" (Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman){{spaced ndash}}3:53
- "Breakdown" (Tom Petty){{spaced ndash}}3:24
- "Non-Citizen" (Quatro, Tuckey){{spaced ndash}}3:17
- "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" (Rick Derringer){{spaced ndash}}3:24
- "Wiser Than You" (Quatro, Tuckey){{spaced ndash}}3:53
=Notes=
The US and Canadian pressing of the album omitted the Vanda and Young-penned song "Evie" and included "Stumblin' In" in its replacement. When If You Knew Suzi... was re-released as a "two-fer" with the Suzi ... and Other Four Letter Words album, both "Evie" and "Stumblin' In" were included.
Personnel
- Mike Chapman{{spaced ndash}} producer, writer
{{cite web
| last = Thompson
| first = Dave
| title = If You Knew Suzi - Suzi Quatro, AllMusic, Credits
| website = AllMusic
| location = Ann Arbor, US
| url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/if-you-knew-suzi-r47401/credits
| access-date = April 9, 2012
}}
- Nicky Chinn{{spaced ndash}} writer
- Mike Deacon{{spaced ndash}} keyboards, piano, synthesizer, backing vocals
- Dave Neal{{spaced ndash}} drums, percussion, backing vocals
- Suzi Quatro{{spaced ndash}} lead vocals, backing vocals, bass guitar, congas, writer
- Len Tuckey{{spaced ndash}} rhythm guitar, lead guitar, backing vocals, writer
Charts
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+Chart performance for If You Knew Suzi... !scope="col"|Chart (1978) !scope="col"|Peak |
| scope="row"|Australian Albums (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=243}}
|align="center"|36 |
|---|
| {{album chart|Canada|31|chartid=4551a|rowheader=true|access-date=September 23, 2023}} |
| {{album chart|Sweden|24|artist=Suzi Quatro|album=If You Knew Suzi...|rowheader=true|access-date=September 23, 2023}} |
| {{album chart|Billboard200|37|artist=Suzi Quatro|rowheader=true|access-date=September 23, 2023}} |
References
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