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{{Infobox album
{{Infobox album
| name = If You Knew Suzi...
| name = If You Knew Suzi...
| type = Studio album
| type = studio
| artist = [[Suzi Quatro]]
| artist = [[Suzi Quatro]]
| cover = Suzi Quatro If You Knew Suzi.jpg
| cover = Suzi Quatro If You Knew Suzi.jpg
| alt =
| alt =
| released = 1978<ref name="QuatroOfficial">{{cite web |title=Discography |url=http://www.suziquatro.com/discography.html |website=The Official Website of Suzi Quatro |accessdate=15 November 2018}}</ref><ref name="AUS Charts" />
| released = December 1, 1978<ref name="QuatroOfficial">{{cite web |title=Discography |url=http://www.suziquatro.com/discography.html |website=The Official Website of Suzi Quatro |access-date=15 November 2018}}</ref><ref name="AUS Charts" />
| recorded = December 17, 1977 - September 1978 at EMI Electrola Studios, [[Cologne]]; MCA/Whitney Recording Studios, [[Glendale, California]]; mixed at Whitney Recording Studios, Glendale and Decca Studios, [[Paris]]<ref>https://www.discogs.com/Suzi-Quatro-If-You-Knew-Suzi/release/6303022</ref>
| 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
| venue =
| genre =
| studio =
| genre = {{flatlist|
* [[Rock music|Rock]]
* [[Rock music|Rock]]
* [[pop rock]]
* [[pop rock]]
* [[acoustic music|acoustic]]
* [[acoustic music|acoustic]]
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}}
| length = 36:39
| length = 36:39
| label = [[Rak Records|RAK]]<ref name="AUS Charts">
| label = [[Rak Records|RAK]]<ref name="AUS Charts">{{cite web
{{cite web
| title = australian-charts.com - Suzi Quatro - If You Knew Suzi
| title = australian-charts.com - Suzi Quatro - If You Knew Suzi
| work = australian-charts.com
| work = australian-charts.com
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| location = Dietikon, Switzerland
| location = Dietikon, Switzerland
| url = http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Suzi+Quatro&titel=If+You+Knew+Suzi&cat=a
| url = http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Suzi+Quatro&titel=If+You+Knew+Suzi&cat=a
| accessdate = April 9, 2012
| access-date = April 9, 2012
| archive-date = June 15, 2022
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| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220615115018/http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Suzi+Quatro
| url-status = dead
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}}</ref>
| producer = [[Mike Chapman]]
| producer = [[Mike Chapman]]
| prev_title = [[Aggro-Phobia]]
| prev_title = [[Aggro-Phobia]]
| prev_year = 1976
| prev_year = 1977
| next_title = [[Suzi ... and Other Four Letter Words]]
| next_title = [[Suzi ... and Other Four Letter Words]]
| next_year = 1979
| next_year = 1979
| misc = {{Singles
| misc = {{Singles
| name = If You Knew Suzi...
| name = If You Knew Suzi...
| type = Studio album
| type = studio
| single1 = [[If You Can't Give Me Love]]
| single1 = [[If You Can't Give Me Love]]
| single1date = 1978
| single1date = 1978
| single2 = [[Stumblin' In]]
| single2 = [[Stumblin' In]]
| single2date = 1978
| single2date = 1978
| single3 = [[The Race Is On (Suzi Quatro song)|The Race Is On]]
| single3 = The Race Is On
| single3date = 1979
| single3date = 1979
| single4 = [[Don't Change My Luck]]
| single4 = Don't Change My Luck
| single4date = 1979
| single4date = 1979
}}
}}
}}
}}
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'''''If You Knew Suzi...''''' is the fifth studio [[album]] by [[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|''Billboard'' 200]]).<ref name=Quatro.AllMusicReview /> 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|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] and the ''[[Billboard charts|Billboard]]'' [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Adult Contemporary]] charts.<ref name=Quatro.AllMusicReview>

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'''''If You Knew Suzi...''''' is the sixth regular studio [[album]] by [[Suzi Quatro]], released at the end of 1978, 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]]).<ref name=Quatro.AllMusicReview /> The album also yielded Quatro's biggest US single hit, a duet with [[Chris Norman]] named "[[Stumblin' In]]" (which reached number 4 in both [[The Billboard Hot 100]] and the ''[[Billboard charts|Billboard]]'' [[Adult Contemporary (chart)|Adult Contemporary]] charts.<ref name=Quatro.AllMusicReview>
{{cite web
{{cite web
| last = Unterberger
| last = Unterberger
| first = Richie
| first = Richie
| title = Suzi Quatro - Awards : AllMusic
| title = Suzi Quatro – Awards
| work = www.allmusic.com
| website = [[AllMusic]]
| publisher = [[Rovi Corporation]]
| location = Ann Arbor, US
| location = Ann Arbor, USA
| url = http://www.allmusic.com/artist/suzi-quatro-mn0000033560/awards
| url = http://www.allmusic.com/artist/suzi-quatro-mn0000033560/awards
| accessdate = 25 August 2012
| access-date = August 25, 2012
}}</ref> It also had an advertising billboard on [[Sunset Boulevard]].
}}</ref> 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|Glendale]] (California). It was then mixed in California and mastered in [[London]] (United Kingdom) to be distributed by a company based in [[New York City]].
The credits show the album to be a multinational production: tracks were recorded in [[Cologne]] (Germany), [[Paris]] (France), and [[Glendale, California|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==
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The [[Harry Vanda|Vanda]] and [[George Young (rock musician)|Young]]-penned song "[[Evie (song)|Evie]]" was omitted from the US pressing and included "Stumblin' In" in it's place. 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.
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{{cite web
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| first = Dave
| title = If You Knew Suzi - Suzi Quatro, AllMusic Review
| title = If You Knew Suzi - Suzi Quatro, AllMusic Review
| work = www.allmusic.com
| website = [[AllMusic]]
| publisher = [[AllMusic]]
| location = Ann Arbor, US
| location = Ann Arbor, USA
| url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/if-you-knew-suzi-r47401/review
| url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/if-you-knew-suzi-r47401/review
| accessdate = January 6, 2012
| access-date = January 6, 2012
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| rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
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| rev2score = C+<ref name="CG">{{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}}</ref>
| noprose = yes
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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."<ref>{{cite news |title=Quatro's hard rock hits home at last |work=The Globe and Mail |agency=AP |date=3 Aug 1979 |page=P16}}</ref>

==UK Track listing (RAK/EMI)<ref>Original album</ref>==
#"Don't Change My Luck" (Chinn, Chapman){{spaced ndash}} 3:43
#"[[Tired of Waiting for You|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 and the Heartbreakers song)|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


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
#"[[If You Can't Give Me Love]]" ([[Nicky Chinn]], [[Mike Chapman]]){{spaced ndash}} 3:53
#"Don't Change My Luck" (Chinn, Chapman){{spaced ndash}}3:43
#"[[Stumblin' In]]" (Chinn, Chapman){{spaced ndash}} 3:57
#"[[Tired of Waiting for You|Tired of Waiting]]" ([[Ray Davies]]){{spaced ndash}}3:29
#"Suicide" (Quatro, [[Len Tuckey]]){{spaced ndash}} 4:05
#"Suicide" (Quatro, Len Tuckey){{spaced ndash}}4:05
#"[[Tired of Waiting for You|Tired of Waiting]]" ([[Ray Davies]]){{spaced ndash}} 3:29
#"[[Evie (song)|Evie]]" (Harry Vanda, George Young){{spaced ndash}}4:35
#"The Race Is On" (Chinn, Chapman){{spaced ndash}} 4:02
#"The Race Is On" (Chinn, Chapman){{spaced ndash}}4:02
#"Don't Change My Luck" (Chinn, Chapman){{spaced ndash}} 3:43
#"[[If You Can't Give Me Love]]" ([[Nicky Chinn]], [[Mike Chapman]]){{spaced ndash}}3:53
#"[[Breakdown (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song)|Breakdown]]" ([[Tom Petty]]){{spaced ndash}} 3:24
#"[[Breakdown (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song)|Breakdown]]" ([[Tom Petty]]){{spaced ndash}}3:24
#"Non-Citizen" (Quatro, Tuckey){{spaced ndash}} 3:17
#"Non-Citizen" (Quatro, Tuckey){{spaced ndash}}3:17
#"[[Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo]]" ([[Rick Derringer]]){{spaced ndash}} 3:24
#"[[Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo]]" ([[Rick Derringer]]){{spaced ndash}}3:24
#"Wiser Than You" (Quatro, Tuckey){{spaced ndash}} 3:53
#"Wiser Than You" (Quatro, Tuckey){{spaced ndash}}3:53

Remastered release adds bonus tracks "Cream Dream", "Born to Run", "Wiser Than You-Alt", "Stranger With You"
===Notes===
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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==
==Personnel==
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| first = Dave
| first = Dave
| title = If You Knew Suzi - Suzi Quatro, AllMusic, Credits
| title = If You Knew Suzi - Suzi Quatro, AllMusic, Credits
| work = www.allmusic.com
| website = [[AllMusic]]
| publisher = [[AllMusic]]
| location = Ann Arbor, US
| location = Ann Arbor, USA
| url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/if-you-knew-suzi-r47401/credits
| url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/if-you-knew-suzi-r47401/credits
| accessdate = April 9, 2012
| access-date = April 9, 2012
}}</ref>
}}</ref>
* [[Nicky Chinn]]{{spaced ndash}} writer<ref name="Allmusic credits" />
* [[Nicky Chinn]]{{spaced ndash}} writer<ref name="Allmusic credits" />
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* [[Suzi Quatro]]{{spaced ndash}} lead vocals, backing vocals, bass guitar, congas, writer<ref name="Allmusic credits" />
* [[Suzi Quatro]]{{spaced ndash}} lead vocals, backing vocals, bass guitar, congas, writer<ref name="Allmusic credits" />
* [[Len Tuckey]]{{spaced ndash}} rhythm guitar, lead guitar, backing vocals, writer<ref name="Allmusic credits" />
* [[Len Tuckey]]{{spaced ndash}} rhythm guitar, lead guitar, backing vocals, writer<ref name="Allmusic credits" />

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+Chart performance for ''If You Knew Suzi...''
!scope="col"|Chart (1978)
!scope="col"|Peak<br />position
|-
!scope="row"|Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{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}}</ref>
|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}}
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|}


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}

==External links==


{{Suzi Quatro}}
{{Suzi Quatro}}
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Latest revision as of 02:19, 14 June 2024

This article is about Suzi Quatro's album. For the song from the 1920s, see If You Knew Susie. For the film, see If You Knew Susie (film).
If You Knew Suzi...
Studio album by
Suzi Quatro
ReleasedDecember 1, 1978[1][2]
RecordedDecember 17, 1977 – September 1978
StudioEMI Electrola, Cologne; MCA/Whitney Recording Studios, Glendale, California; mixed at Whitney Recording Studios, Glendale and Decca Studios, Paris
Genre
Length36:39
LabelRAK[2]
ProducerMike Chapman
Suzi Quatro chronology
Aggro-Phobia
(1977) 		If You Knew Suzi...
(1978) 		Suzi ... and Other Four Letter Words
(1979)
Singles from If You Knew Suzi...
  1. "If You Can't Give Me Love"
    Released: 1978
  2. "Stumblin' In"
    Released: 1978
  3. "The Race Is On"
    Released: 1979
  4. "Don't Change My Luck"
    Released: 1979

If You Knew Suzi... is the fifth studio album by Suzi Quatro, released at the end of 1978, but with a 1979 copyright date. By August 2012 this was still Quatro's highest-charting album in the United States (it peaked at number 37 on the Billboard 200).[3] 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.[3] 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

[edit]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Christgau's Record GuideC+[5]

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."[6]

Track listing

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  1. "Don't Change My Luck" (Chinn, Chapman) – 3:43
  2. "Tired of Waiting" (Ray Davies) – 3:29
  3. "Suicide" (Quatro, Len Tuckey) – 4:05
  4. "Evie" (Harry Vanda, George Young) – 4:35
  5. "The Race Is On" (Chinn, Chapman) – 4:02
  6. "If You Can't Give Me Love" (Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman) – 3:53
  7. "Breakdown" (Tom Petty) – 3:24
  8. "Non-Citizen" (Quatro, Tuckey) – 3:17
  9. "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" (Rick Derringer) – 3:24
  10. "Wiser Than You" (Quatro, Tuckey) – 3:53

Notes

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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

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  • Mike Chapman – producer, writer[7]
  • Nicky Chinn – writer[7]
  • Mike Deacon – keyboards, piano, synthesizer, backing vocals[7]
  • Dave Neal – drums, percussion, backing vocals[7]
  • Suzi Quatro – lead vocals, backing vocals, bass guitar, congas, writer[7]
  • Len Tuckey – rhythm guitar, lead guitar, backing vocals, writer[7]

Charts

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Chart performance for If You Knew Suzi...
Chart (1978) Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[8] 36
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[9] 31
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[10] 24
US Billboard 200[11] 37

References

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  1. ^ "Discography". The Official Website of Suzi Quatro. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  2. ^ a b "australian-charts.com - Suzi Quatro - If You Knew Suzi". australian-charts.com. Dietikon, Switzerland: Hung Medien. Archived from the original on June 15, 2022. Retrieved April 9, 2012.
  3. ^ a b Unterberger, Richie. "Suzi Quatro – Awards". AllMusic. Ann Arbor, US. Retrieved August 25, 2012.
  4. ^ Thompson, Dave. "If You Knew Suzi - Suzi Quatro, AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Ann Arbor, US. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
  5. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: Q". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 10, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  6. ^ "Quatro's hard rock hits home at last". The Globe and Mail. AP. 3 Aug 1979. p. P16.
  7. ^ a b c d e f Thompson, Dave. "If You Knew Suzi - Suzi Quatro, AllMusic, Credits". AllMusic. Ann Arbor, US. Retrieved April 9, 2012.
  8. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 243. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  9. ^ "Top RPM Albums: Issue 4551a". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved September 23, 2023.
  10. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Suzi Quatro – If You Knew Suzi...". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 23, 2023.
  11. ^ "Suzi Quatro Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved September 23, 2023.
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