Australian singles charts:
Stares and Whispers entered the Kent Music Report charts on 2 May 1977 and peaked at #17. It was #89 on the Top 100 of 1977.
Album:
The song is on Moving Along which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 16 May 1977 and peaked at #11.
Songwriters:
John Footman, Frank Wilson, Terri McFadden
Producer:
Frank Wilson
Record label of Australian release:
RCA / Mushroom
Renee Geyer performing at the Mushroom Evolution Concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne in January 1982:
Wikipedia:
Moving Along is the fourth studio album by Australian soul/R&B singer Renée Geyer, and her first to be recorded in the US and released internationally. It was produced by famed Motown musician Frank Wilson who assembled the cream of US session players to back Geyer. Some notables were members of Stevie Wonder’s band including Nathan Watts, Ray Parker Jr, Motown’s most famous bass guitarist and Funk Brother James Jamerson, on backing vocals, Venetta Fields, and Mal and Barry from The Renée Geyer Band at Geyer’s insistence.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Along
Lyrics:
They just stare and whisper wherever I go
They just stare and whisper, now everyone knows
That the dream I thought I had found
Has come tumbl’in′ down
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