If You Knew Suzi... is the fifth studio album by American singer Suzi Quatro, released on December 1, 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). 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. 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.
Contents
Critical reception
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."
Track listing
"Don't Change My Luck" (Chinn, Chapman) – 3:43
"Tired of Waiting" (Ray Davies) – 3:29
"Suicide" (Quatro, Len Tuckey) – 4:05
"Evie" (Harry Vanda, George Young) – 4:35
"The Race Is On" (Chinn, Chapman) – 4:02
"If You Can't Give Me Love" (Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman) – 3:53
"Breakdown" (Tom Petty) – 3:24
"Non-Citizen" (Quatro, Tuckey) – 3:17
"Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" (Rick Derringer) – 3:24
"Wiser Than You" (Quatro, Tuckey) – 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 – producer, writer
Nicky Chinn – writer
Mike Deacon – keyboards, piano, synthesizer, backing vocals
Dave Neal – drums, percussion, backing vocals
Suzi Quatro – lead vocals, backing vocals, bass guitar, congas, writer
Len Tuckey – lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals, writer