Elkie Brooks - One Of A Kind flac album

Backing Vocals – Elkie Brooks, Jerry Knight (tracks: A1, A3, B1). Bass – Jerry Knight. Album produced by David Kershenbaum at CBS Studios, London and Producers Workshop, Los Angeles - Spring 1978 Sleeve printed in England by Gothic Print Finishers Ltd. Original sound recording made by A & M Records Ltd. Published by: Warner Bros. Music Lt. Riva Music Ltd (A5) Jobete Music (. Ltd. (B1) Warner Bros. Music Ltd. (B2) Rondor Music (London) Ltd. (B3 & B5) Chrysalis Music Ltd. (B4). Matrix, Runout (Side A label): AMLH 64695-A

The great British vocal stylist Elkie Brooks was born Elaine Bookbinder in Salford on 25 February 1945. Elkie has enjoyed huge solo success in a remarkable and ongoing career that also has connections with The Beatles, the Small Faces, Robert Palmer and others. Elkie’s distinguished chart history in the UK includes three top ten singles, three more top 20s, four top ten albums and seven more in the top 40. Ever active, she released the new compilation Pearls: The Very Best Of Elkie Brooks in 2017. 1977 brought the belated chart breakthrough that reshaped Brooks’ career. Her second solo album Two Days Away, masterfully produced by the great Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, contained the single ‘Pearl’s A Singer,’ which hit No. 8 in the UK and helped the LP into the top 20. That was soon followed by another top ten single from the album, with the Ellie Greenwich song ‘Sunshine After The Rain.

Pop diva Elkie Brooks will be 69 next week and if anyone deserves to put their feet up and settle down to a leisurely retirement it’s her. After all she spent years belting out chart-topping numbers such as Pearl’s A Singer and Lilac Wine and worked with some of the biggest names in the business, including legendary songwriting duo Lieber and Stoller, who wrote a string of hits for Elvis Presley. In 1981 her album Pearls became the biggest selling by a British female artist in the UK and she became known as the British Queen Of The Blues  . I thought he was close to having some kind of breakdown or even a heart attack.

Her first solo album on A&M records was Rich Man's Woman (1975). It was released to critical acclaim, but Brooks was given a hard time because of the album's cover shot of a naked Brooks with a feather boa, which was considered outrageous for the time . It came before a run of 16 albums in 20 years, starting with Two Days Away (1977), produced by the songwriting duo Leiber & Stoller, who had also worked with Elvis Presley and many others. Brooks also wrote some tracks with them.

Listen to music from Elkie Brooks like Pearl's A Singer, Fool If You Think It's Over & more. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from Elkie Brooks. Later she became the vocalist with a British 12-piece Stax-influenced, jazz-rock fusion band called Dada that released one, eponymous, album in 1970.

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Elkie Brooks (born Elaine Bookbinder, 25 February 1945) is an English singer, a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe, and later a solo artist. She gained her biggest success in the late 1970s and 1980s and has been nominated twice for Brit Awards. She is known for her powerful husky voice and hit singles such as "Pearl's a Singer", "Lilac Wine", "Don't Cry Out Loud", "Fool (If You Think It's Over)", and "No More the Fool", and top-selling album Pearls. Nothin' but the Blues (Elkie Brooks album). Nothin' But the Blues is an album by Elkie Brooks.