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John Howard - Goodbye Suzie
John Howard - Goodbye Suzie
published: 21 Jan 2016
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Goodbye Suzie
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Goodbye Suzie · John Howard
Collected: The Best of John Howard
℗ 2021 John Howard
Released on: 2021-07-09
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published: 02 Oct 2022
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John Howard - Goodbye Suzie (1974) from the album 'Kid In A Big World'
'Goodbye Suzie' was John Howard's first single release in October 1974, and the lead-off track on his 1975 debut L.P. 'Kid In A Big World'.
"I wrote Goodbye Suzie at my manager's office in Hanover Square, London, one autumn evening in 1973. As soon as I played it to him the next day he flipped over it and thought it could be a hit record. We tried a few different approaches with the song in the recording studios, one of them with composer Les Reed, who did a big orchestral arrangement with backing singers including Tony Burrows, legendary session man who had sung lead on hits like Love Grows, Let's Go To San Francisco and United We Stand.
"But none of the approaches sounded quite right, and it wasn't until Tony Meehan got to work on the song when he was commissioned to produce my first...
published: 05 Apr 2015
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Goodbye Suzie (Live at The Briton's Protection)
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Goodbye Suzie (Live at The Briton's Protection) · John Howard
More From The Room Upstairs
℗ 2008 John Howard
Released on: 2008-10-13
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published: 02 Oct 2022
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Goodbye Suzie (Single Edit)
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Goodbye Suzie (Single Edit) · John Howard
Technicolour Biography
℗ 1974 Transistor Music
Released on: 2005-01-12
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published: 02 Oct 2022
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John Howard - Goodbye Suzie - Servant Jazz Quarters, November 27 2013
Filmed during John Howard's first UK gig for eight years, this performance at London's Servant Jazz Quarters in November 2013, featured Howard on piano/vocals; Robert Rotifer, guitar/backing vocals; Andy Lewis, bass/backing vocals and Ian Button, drums/backing vocals.
The gig was much anticipated with several pre-gig write-ups in online magazines such as The Quietus, Pennyblack Music and MusicOMH, and didn't disappoint. Neon Filler's Patricia Turk wrote in her rave review, "THIS is how it's done!".
John was The Special Guest Artist of singer-songwriter Ralegh Long.
Goodbye Suzie was Howard's first single release back in October 1974, taken from his then debut album 'Kid In A Big World'. Although received less than enthusiastically by radio and press alike at the time, the album has si...
published: 09 Feb 2014
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John Howard - Goodbye Suzie (Live In London)
John Howard, performing "Goodbye Suzie" live at The Jermyn Street Theatre, London, April 2004. Featuring Pete Crowther on cello, Phil King on bass, Paul Aitken on drums and Howard on piano and vocals. The concert was filmed by Jodie Brooke Wilson, edited and mastered by Ian Shepherd of Mastering Media.
"Goodbye Suzie was the opening song of my debut album, Kid In A Big World, and became the first single to be released, in October 1974. It was immediately 'banned' by Radio 1 as being "too depressing for our audience", and that was the first of the glitches and hitches that hit the stumbling start of the album. It never recovered. The follow-up single, Family Man, was similarly dismissed as "unsuitable" by Radio 1 and by the summer of 1975 the album was a forgotten piece of CBS history. A...
published: 18 Nov 2012
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Olivier Rocabois -- Goodbye Suzie (John Howard cover)
For the event "Life is a Minestrone - Under The Covers"
"Goodbye Suzie" was featured on "Kid in a Big World" by John Howard
published: 24 May 2020
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John Howard - Goodbye Suzie (Original Tony Meehan Mix) (1974)
This was the first mix of John Howard's 'Goodbye Suzie', done during the sessions of John's debut album, 'Kid In A Big World'. The sessions and mix were done at Abbey Road Studios, by producer Tony Meehan and engineer Peter Bown. This mix was not issued until 2003 on the reissue of 'Kid In A Big World'.
"This was one of three 'Kid' tracks I'd recorded with Tony and Peter at Abbey Road which the label wanted either remixed or re-recorded. The remix of 'Goodbye Suzie' was not all that radical really, the piano and vocal were lifted, the bass was brought down in the mix, the sax links into the middle 8 were taken out and the guitar fills were lowered or taken out of certain sections of the track. I'm not sure why Tony wasn't asked to remix it himself, but big organisations in those days did...
published: 07 Sep 2014
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Goodbye Suzie
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Goodbye Suzie · John Howard
Collected: The Best of John Howard
℗ 2021 John Howard
Released on: 2021-07-09
Au...
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Goodbye Suzie · John Howard
Collected: The Best of John Howard
℗ 2021 John Howard
Released on: 2021-07-09
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https://wn.com/Goodbye_Suzie
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Goodbye Suzie · John Howard
Collected: The Best of John Howard
℗ 2021 John Howard
Released on: 2021-07-09
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- published: 02 Oct 2022
- views: 36
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John Howard - Goodbye Suzie (1974) from the album 'Kid In A Big World'
'Goodbye Suzie' was John Howard's first single release in October 1974, and the lead-off track on his 1975 debut L.P. 'Kid In A Big World'.
"I wrote Goodbye S...
'Goodbye Suzie' was John Howard's first single release in October 1974, and the lead-off track on his 1975 debut L.P. 'Kid In A Big World'.
"I wrote Goodbye Suzie at my manager's office in Hanover Square, London, one autumn evening in 1973. As soon as I played it to him the next day he flipped over it and thought it could be a hit record. We tried a few different approaches with the song in the recording studios, one of them with composer Les Reed, who did a big orchestral arrangement with backing singers including Tony Burrows, legendary session man who had sung lead on hits like Love Grows, Let's Go To San Francisco and United We Stand.
"But none of the approaches sounded quite right, and it wasn't until Tony Meehan got to work on the song when he was commissioned to produce my first album, Kid In A Big World, at Abbey Road in the Spring of '74 that it all came together. Tony treated the song as an out-and-out dramatic pop ballad, got in drummer Bob Henrit to keep it grounded and did a fabulous brass and string arrangement. He built the structure of the song beautifully with his treatment.
"The head of CBS UK, the label which had signed me at the end of '73, Dick Asher, fell in love with the track, declaring it 'a smash!'. My A & R manager, Paul Phillips, thought it needed a remix to lift the vocals and piano and make it a little crisper for radio, and in October 1974 Goodbye Suzie was released as my first single. It was very exciting.
"However, we hadn't expected the instantly negative reaction to the track from BBC Radio 1, which more or less meant the single was bound to flop. I wasn't doing any public appearances so radio was all we had back then. Fab 208 Radio Luxembourg did play it, and in fact it got into their airplay chart, but without BBC radio backing it, we were stymied.
"Fast forward thirty years to 2004, RPM Records re-released my debut album and from the outset Goodbye Suzie was lauded with praise by music journalists, picked out in all the reviews and quickly became 'the standout track', since when the momentum around it has grown and has never stopped growing. It's the nearest thing to my 'classic hit record', topping all John Howard download and streaming sites regularly, mentioned in Tweets and shared on Twitter and on several other Social Media sites. It seems to strike a chord with all who hear it.
"Whenever I perform on stage Goodbye Suzie is the one people ask for, time and again.
"This new video for the track features shots from the August 1974 photo session for the Kid In A Big World album sleeve. They were taken in a derelict house in Shepherds Bush, and while at the time it felt very odd being dressed up to the nines surrounded by dirt and dereliction, the pictures work really well. Only one was ever used at the time, for the L.P. sleeve, and RPM chose another similar shot for their CD release. The photos bring back memories of my life back then, only recently moved to London from Lancashire, with a new record deal and all those hopes and dreams ahead.
"It was a long time coming, but finally, Goodbye Suzie is getting its day in the sun." - JH
Goodbye Suzie, like the album it comes from, Kid In A Big World, can be downloaded from iTunes and all other good download sites. The CD of the album can be purchased from Cherry Red, Amazon and all good music shops.
https://wn.com/John_Howard_Goodbye_Suzie_(1974)_From_The_Album_'Kid_In_A_Big_World'
'Goodbye Suzie' was John Howard's first single release in October 1974, and the lead-off track on his 1975 debut L.P. 'Kid In A Big World'.
"I wrote Goodbye Suzie at my manager's office in Hanover Square, London, one autumn evening in 1973. As soon as I played it to him the next day he flipped over it and thought it could be a hit record. We tried a few different approaches with the song in the recording studios, one of them with composer Les Reed, who did a big orchestral arrangement with backing singers including Tony Burrows, legendary session man who had sung lead on hits like Love Grows, Let's Go To San Francisco and United We Stand.
"But none of the approaches sounded quite right, and it wasn't until Tony Meehan got to work on the song when he was commissioned to produce my first album, Kid In A Big World, at Abbey Road in the Spring of '74 that it all came together. Tony treated the song as an out-and-out dramatic pop ballad, got in drummer Bob Henrit to keep it grounded and did a fabulous brass and string arrangement. He built the structure of the song beautifully with his treatment.
"The head of CBS UK, the label which had signed me at the end of '73, Dick Asher, fell in love with the track, declaring it 'a smash!'. My A & R manager, Paul Phillips, thought it needed a remix to lift the vocals and piano and make it a little crisper for radio, and in October 1974 Goodbye Suzie was released as my first single. It was very exciting.
"However, we hadn't expected the instantly negative reaction to the track from BBC Radio 1, which more or less meant the single was bound to flop. I wasn't doing any public appearances so radio was all we had back then. Fab 208 Radio Luxembourg did play it, and in fact it got into their airplay chart, but without BBC radio backing it, we were stymied.
"Fast forward thirty years to 2004, RPM Records re-released my debut album and from the outset Goodbye Suzie was lauded with praise by music journalists, picked out in all the reviews and quickly became 'the standout track', since when the momentum around it has grown and has never stopped growing. It's the nearest thing to my 'classic hit record', topping all John Howard download and streaming sites regularly, mentioned in Tweets and shared on Twitter and on several other Social Media sites. It seems to strike a chord with all who hear it.
"Whenever I perform on stage Goodbye Suzie is the one people ask for, time and again.
"This new video for the track features shots from the August 1974 photo session for the Kid In A Big World album sleeve. They were taken in a derelict house in Shepherds Bush, and while at the time it felt very odd being dressed up to the nines surrounded by dirt and dereliction, the pictures work really well. Only one was ever used at the time, for the L.P. sleeve, and RPM chose another similar shot for their CD release. The photos bring back memories of my life back then, only recently moved to London from Lancashire, with a new record deal and all those hopes and dreams ahead.
"It was a long time coming, but finally, Goodbye Suzie is getting its day in the sun." - JH
Goodbye Suzie, like the album it comes from, Kid In A Big World, can be downloaded from iTunes and all other good download sites. The CD of the album can be purchased from Cherry Red, Amazon and all good music shops.
- published: 05 Apr 2015
- views: 3849
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Goodbye Suzie (Live at The Briton's Protection)
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Goodbye Suzie (Live at The Briton's Protection) · John Howard
More From The Room Upstairs
℗ 2008 John Howard
...
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Goodbye Suzie (Live at The Briton's Protection) · John Howard
More From The Room Upstairs
℗ 2008 John Howard
Released on: 2008-10-13
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Goodbye Suzie (Live at The Briton's Protection) · John Howard
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℗ 2008 John Howard
Released on: 2008-10-13
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- published: 02 Oct 2022
- views: 6
3:44
Goodbye Suzie (Single Edit)
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Goodbye Suzie (Single Edit) · John Howard
Technicolour Biography
℗ 1974 Transistor Music
Released on: 2005-01...
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Goodbye Suzie (Single Edit) · John Howard
Technicolour Biography
℗ 1974 Transistor Music
Released on: 2005-01-12
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Goodbye Suzie (Single Edit) · John Howard
Technicolour Biography
℗ 1974 Transistor Music
Released on: 2005-01-12
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- published: 02 Oct 2022
- views: 9
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John Howard - Goodbye Suzie - Servant Jazz Quarters, November 27 2013
Filmed during John Howard's first UK gig for eight years, this performance at London's Servant Jazz Quarters in November 2013, featured Howard on piano/vocals; ...
Filmed during John Howard's first UK gig for eight years, this performance at London's Servant Jazz Quarters in November 2013, featured Howard on piano/vocals; Robert Rotifer, guitar/backing vocals; Andy Lewis, bass/backing vocals and Ian Button, drums/backing vocals.
The gig was much anticipated with several pre-gig write-ups in online magazines such as The Quietus, Pennyblack Music and MusicOMH, and didn't disappoint. Neon Filler's Patricia Turk wrote in her rave review, "THIS is how it's done!".
John was The Special Guest Artist of singer-songwriter Ralegh Long.
Goodbye Suzie was Howard's first single release back in October 1974, taken from his then debut album 'Kid In A Big World'. Although received less than enthusiastically by radio and press alike at the time, the album has since become something of a rediscovered Lost Classic, and the song itself is now in effect John Howard's Theme Song, as he says "the greatest hit I never had". It is requested whenever he plays live, which has become increasingly less often as the years go by. However, as a result of this performance and the response from fans and media, there is now talk of Howard doing another UK gig in 2014.
This clip was filmed by Alex Pyper; Mixed by Ian Button; Edited by Ralegh Long.
https://wn.com/John_Howard_Goodbye_Suzie_Servant_Jazz_Quarters,_November_27_2013
Filmed during John Howard's first UK gig for eight years, this performance at London's Servant Jazz Quarters in November 2013, featured Howard on piano/vocals; Robert Rotifer, guitar/backing vocals; Andy Lewis, bass/backing vocals and Ian Button, drums/backing vocals.
The gig was much anticipated with several pre-gig write-ups in online magazines such as The Quietus, Pennyblack Music and MusicOMH, and didn't disappoint. Neon Filler's Patricia Turk wrote in her rave review, "THIS is how it's done!".
John was The Special Guest Artist of singer-songwriter Ralegh Long.
Goodbye Suzie was Howard's first single release back in October 1974, taken from his then debut album 'Kid In A Big World'. Although received less than enthusiastically by radio and press alike at the time, the album has since become something of a rediscovered Lost Classic, and the song itself is now in effect John Howard's Theme Song, as he says "the greatest hit I never had". It is requested whenever he plays live, which has become increasingly less often as the years go by. However, as a result of this performance and the response from fans and media, there is now talk of Howard doing another UK gig in 2014.
This clip was filmed by Alex Pyper; Mixed by Ian Button; Edited by Ralegh Long.
- published: 09 Feb 2014
- views: 1109
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John Howard - Goodbye Suzie (Live In London)
John Howard, performing "Goodbye Suzie" live at The Jermyn Street Theatre, London, April 2004. Featuring Pete Crowther on cello, Phil King on bass, Paul Aitken ...
John Howard, performing "Goodbye Suzie" live at The Jermyn Street Theatre, London, April 2004. Featuring Pete Crowther on cello, Phil King on bass, Paul Aitken on drums and Howard on piano and vocals. The concert was filmed by Jodie Brooke Wilson, edited and mastered by Ian Shepherd of Mastering Media.
"Goodbye Suzie was the opening song of my debut album, Kid In A Big World, and became the first single to be released, in October 1974. It was immediately 'banned' by Radio 1 as being "too depressing for our audience", and that was the first of the glitches and hitches that hit the stumbling start of the album. It never recovered. The follow-up single, Family Man, was similarly dismissed as "unsuitable" by Radio 1 and by the summer of 1975 the album was a forgotten piece of CBS history. Although the company had held such high hopes for it just a few months earlier it was never mentioned again. It felt as though the album had never happened.
"In 2003, RPM Records included Goodbye Suzie on their '70s singer-songwriter compilation Zig Zag, and the response it got from reviewers convinced Mark Stratford, who ran the label, it would be worth re-releasing the full Kid In A Big World album - though I believe some heavy lobbying from Phil King was also responsible for that decision! (See bassist Phil's beatific smile throughout this performance as witness).
"I was astonished at the response my performance of the song got that day, and after the show when I met many of those in the audience, people told me how much that song meant to them. It slowly dawned on me just how important the Kid L.P. had been, both when it was released and since, to more people than I had dreamed of. I'd previously thought it was a forgotten piece of '70s nostalgia, instead it seemed to not only have taken on a Lost Classic aura but was also still relevant. I was being asked to sign L.P. sleeves and CD booklets which were pulled out of satchels and bags as I stood chatting to so many smiling faces. Everyone had a story as to why the album meant something to them. It was very heartwarming and a complete surprise to me.
"Since that day, I have been knocked out by people's reactions to not only the reissues of my 1970s material, but to my newer recordings as well, and to date, in 2012, I have released seven new studio albums, recorded between 2006 and 2012. Before that day in April 2004, I could never have dreamed such a thing was possible." - JH
'Goodbye Suzie' is available on the RPM CD Kid In A Big World, and on the album 'These Fifty Years - The Best of John Howard', and also available to download from iTunes, eMusic, 7Digital, Amazon MP3 and all other good download stores.
https://wn.com/John_Howard_Goodbye_Suzie_(Live_In_London)
John Howard, performing "Goodbye Suzie" live at The Jermyn Street Theatre, London, April 2004. Featuring Pete Crowther on cello, Phil King on bass, Paul Aitken on drums and Howard on piano and vocals. The concert was filmed by Jodie Brooke Wilson, edited and mastered by Ian Shepherd of Mastering Media.
"Goodbye Suzie was the opening song of my debut album, Kid In A Big World, and became the first single to be released, in October 1974. It was immediately 'banned' by Radio 1 as being "too depressing for our audience", and that was the first of the glitches and hitches that hit the stumbling start of the album. It never recovered. The follow-up single, Family Man, was similarly dismissed as "unsuitable" by Radio 1 and by the summer of 1975 the album was a forgotten piece of CBS history. Although the company had held such high hopes for it just a few months earlier it was never mentioned again. It felt as though the album had never happened.
"In 2003, RPM Records included Goodbye Suzie on their '70s singer-songwriter compilation Zig Zag, and the response it got from reviewers convinced Mark Stratford, who ran the label, it would be worth re-releasing the full Kid In A Big World album - though I believe some heavy lobbying from Phil King was also responsible for that decision! (See bassist Phil's beatific smile throughout this performance as witness).
"I was astonished at the response my performance of the song got that day, and after the show when I met many of those in the audience, people told me how much that song meant to them. It slowly dawned on me just how important the Kid L.P. had been, both when it was released and since, to more people than I had dreamed of. I'd previously thought it was a forgotten piece of '70s nostalgia, instead it seemed to not only have taken on a Lost Classic aura but was also still relevant. I was being asked to sign L.P. sleeves and CD booklets which were pulled out of satchels and bags as I stood chatting to so many smiling faces. Everyone had a story as to why the album meant something to them. It was very heartwarming and a complete surprise to me.
"Since that day, I have been knocked out by people's reactions to not only the reissues of my 1970s material, but to my newer recordings as well, and to date, in 2012, I have released seven new studio albums, recorded between 2006 and 2012. Before that day in April 2004, I could never have dreamed such a thing was possible." - JH
'Goodbye Suzie' is available on the RPM CD Kid In A Big World, and on the album 'These Fifty Years - The Best of John Howard', and also available to download from iTunes, eMusic, 7Digital, Amazon MP3 and all other good download stores.
- published: 18 Nov 2012
- views: 969
3:57
Olivier Rocabois -- Goodbye Suzie (John Howard cover)
For the event "Life is a Minestrone - Under The Covers"
"Goodbye Suzie" was featured on "Kid in a Big World" by John Howard
For the event "Life is a Minestrone - Under The Covers"
"Goodbye Suzie" was featured on "Kid in a Big World" by John Howard
https://wn.com/Olivier_Rocabois_Goodbye_Suzie_(John_Howard_Cover)
For the event "Life is a Minestrone - Under The Covers"
"Goodbye Suzie" was featured on "Kid in a Big World" by John Howard
- published: 24 May 2020
- views: 258
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John Howard - Goodbye Suzie (Original Tony Meehan Mix) (1974)
This was the first mix of John Howard's 'Goodbye Suzie', done during the sessions of John's debut album, 'Kid In A Big World'. The sessions and mix were done at...
This was the first mix of John Howard's 'Goodbye Suzie', done during the sessions of John's debut album, 'Kid In A Big World'. The sessions and mix were done at Abbey Road Studios, by producer Tony Meehan and engineer Peter Bown. This mix was not issued until 2003 on the reissue of 'Kid In A Big World'.
"This was one of three 'Kid' tracks I'd recorded with Tony and Peter at Abbey Road which the label wanted either remixed or re-recorded. The remix of 'Goodbye Suzie' was not all that radical really, the piano and vocal were lifted, the bass was brought down in the mix, the sax links into the middle 8 were taken out and the guitar fills were lowered or taken out of certain sections of the track. I'm not sure why Tony wasn't asked to remix it himself, but big organisations in those days did what they did and we did as we were told 'or no release'. That was my feeling all through my time signed to CBS. They messed around with my name, my image, my recordings and finally my career, but hey, I did have fun during all the hassles too! AND I got to record at both Abbey Road and Apple Studios, a Beatles fan's dream.
"Tony's original mix was not included on the 'Kid' L.P. and went unreleased until, in 2003, RPM asked me to find some rare bonus cuts for their reissue of the album on CD. This mix of 'Suzie' seemed one of the perfect choices. I'm glad it finally got an airing. The other two tracks, which were re-recorded completely at Apple, were 'Family Man' and 'Kid In A Big World'. The original Tony Meehan productions of those can be found on the 'Technicolour Biography' CD, released in 2004 by RPM, through Cherry Red.
https://wn.com/John_Howard_Goodbye_Suzie_(Original_Tony_Meehan_Mix)_(1974)
This was the first mix of John Howard's 'Goodbye Suzie', done during the sessions of John's debut album, 'Kid In A Big World'. The sessions and mix were done at Abbey Road Studios, by producer Tony Meehan and engineer Peter Bown. This mix was not issued until 2003 on the reissue of 'Kid In A Big World'.
"This was one of three 'Kid' tracks I'd recorded with Tony and Peter at Abbey Road which the label wanted either remixed or re-recorded. The remix of 'Goodbye Suzie' was not all that radical really, the piano and vocal were lifted, the bass was brought down in the mix, the sax links into the middle 8 were taken out and the guitar fills were lowered or taken out of certain sections of the track. I'm not sure why Tony wasn't asked to remix it himself, but big organisations in those days did what they did and we did as we were told 'or no release'. That was my feeling all through my time signed to CBS. They messed around with my name, my image, my recordings and finally my career, but hey, I did have fun during all the hassles too! AND I got to record at both Abbey Road and Apple Studios, a Beatles fan's dream.
"Tony's original mix was not included on the 'Kid' L.P. and went unreleased until, in 2003, RPM asked me to find some rare bonus cuts for their reissue of the album on CD. This mix of 'Suzie' seemed one of the perfect choices. I'm glad it finally got an airing. The other two tracks, which were re-recorded completely at Apple, were 'Family Man' and 'Kid In A Big World'. The original Tony Meehan productions of those can be found on the 'Technicolour Biography' CD, released in 2004 by RPM, through Cherry Red.
- published: 07 Sep 2014
- views: 159