Thursday music corner: Australian singer Renee Geyer has been singing professionally since the early 1970s, and scored six Australian top 40 singles between 1975 and 1984. The lead single from her 1981 LP So Lucky, her seventh studio album, Say I Love You reached number 5 in the Australian pop charts and number 1 in New Zealand. The song topped the New Zealand charts for five weeks. Geyer was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2005.
Say I Love You was written by British reggae artist Eddy Grant, and originally appeared on his 1978 album Walking on Sunshine (the title track of which is a completely different song to the 1985 hit by Katrina & the Waves). Grant had two major smashes in 1982-3 with I Don’t Wanna Dance and Electric Avenue, the former of which also achieved number 1 status in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland and New Zealand.
Renee Geyer – Say I Love You (1981)
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