Elkie Brooks

Elkie Brooks (* 25. February 1945 in Salford , England , actually Elaine Bookbinder ) is a British singer and former member of R & B - band Vinegar Joe , after which it was largely successful as a solo artist in the UK.

Life

Her musical career began when she was 15 years old. With the inclusion of the Etta James -title Something's Got a Hold on Me she gave in 1964 on Decca her debut .

She spent most of the 1960s on the British jazz scene. With her future husband, Pete Gage, she joined the short-lived jazz rock band Dada before Brooks, Gage and Robert Palmer eventually formed Vinegar Joe. After three albums, the band broke up in 1974, and Brooks and Palmer went their own way. After a time as a background singer for the American southern boogie band Wet Willie , she returned to England.

Her 1975 solo debut album, Rich Man's Woman , received critical acclaim, but was commercially unsuccessful. Her commercial breakthrough came with the successor Two Days Away (1977) produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller , the first of several hit albums in a row, as well as the hits Pearl's a Singer and later Sunshine After the Rain and Lilac Wine .

Your LPs Shooting Star (1978), Live and Learn (1979), Pearls (1981), which consists predominantly of cover versions existing Pearls II (1982), Minutes (1984) and Screen Gems (1985) were all successful. With Fool If You Think It's Over (1981) by Chris Rea and with No More the Fool (1986) she achieved hit parades again. Since then, Elkie Brooks has remained a sought-after live performer. With Nothin 'but the Blues in 1994 she returned to the roots of her musicality. In 2009 she released a cover version of the Prince song Purple Rain on her album Powerless .

Discography

Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		UK
1975	Rich Man's Woman A&M	-
1977	Two Days Away A&M	UK16 gold (19 weeks)UK
1978	Shooting Star A&M	UK20th silver (13 weeks)UK
1979	Live and Learn A&M	UK34 (6 weeks) UK
1981	Pearls A&M	UK2 platinum (79 weeks)UK
1982	Pearls II A&M	UK5 platinum (25 weeks)UK
1984	Minutes A&M	UK35 (7 weeks) UK
	Screen Gems A&M	UK35 gold (11 weeks)UK
1986	No More the Fool Legend	UK5 gold (23 weeks)UK
1988	Bookbinder's Kid Legend	UK57 (3 weeks) UK
1989	Inspiration Telstar Records	UK58 (3 weeks) UK
1991	Pearls III (Close to the Edge) Freestyle	-
1993	Round Midnight Castle Records	UK27 (4 weeks) UK
1994	Notin 'but the Blues Castle Records	UK58 (2 weeks) UK
1995	Circles Permanent	-
1996	Amazing Carlton Classics	UK49 (2 weeks) UK	with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
2003	Shangri-La Classic Pictures	-
	Trouble in Mind Classic Pictures	-	with Humphrey Lyttelton
2005	Electric Lady Swing Cafe	-
2009	Powerless Eventful Music Productions	-

Live albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		UK
1997	The Pearls Concert Artful	-
2005	Don't Cry Out Loud Recall	-

Compilations

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		UK	US
1986	The Very Best of Elkie Brooks Telstar	UK10 (25 weeks) UK	-
1995	The Best of Spectrum Music	UK- gold UK	-
1997	The Very Best of Elkie Brooks Polygram Tv	UK- gold UK	-
2007	The Silver Collection Spectrum Music	-	-
2017	Pearls: The Very Best Of A&M	UK14 (8 weeks) UK	US14 (1 week) US

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		UK
1977	Pearl's a Singer Two Days Away	UK8 (9 weeks) UK
	Sunshine After the Rain Rich Man's Woman	UK10 (9 weeks) UK
1978	Lilac Wine	UK16 (7 weeks) UK
	Only Love Can Break Your Heart Shooting Star	UK43 (5 weeks) UK
	Don't cry out loud	UK12 (11 weeks) UK
1979	The Runaway	UK50 (5 weeks) UK
1981	Fool If You Think It's Over Pearls	UK17 (10 weeks) UK
1982	Our Love Pearls II	UK43 (5 weeks) UK
	Nights in White Satin Pearls II	UK33 (5 weeks) UK
1983	Gasoline Alley Pearls II	UK52 (6 weeks) UK
1986	No More the Fool, No More the Fool	UK5 (16 weeks) UK
1987	Break the Chain No More the Fool	UK55 (6 weeks) UK
	We've Got Tonight No More the Fool	UK69 (3 weeks) UK

More singles

• 1964: Something's Got a Hold on Me
• 1964: Nothing Left to Do but Cry
• 1965: The Way You Do the Things You Do
• 1965: He's Gotta Love Me
• 1965: All of My Life
• 1966: Baby Let Me Love You
• 1969: Come September
• 1974: Rescue Me
• 1975: Where Do We Go From Here
• 1975: He's a Rebel
• 1977: Saved
• 1977: Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
• 1978: Since You Went Away
• 1978: Stay with Me (only in the Netherlands)
• 1979: He Could Have Been an Army
• 1979: Falling Star
• 1980: Why Don't You Say It
• 1980: Paint Your Pretty Picture
• 1980: Dance Away
• 1981: Warm and Tender Love
• 1982: Will You Write Me a Song
• 1983: I Just Can't Go On
• 1984: Minutes
• 1984: driftin '
• 1984: Once in a While
• 1988: Sail On
• 1989: Shame
• 1989: You're the Inspiration (only in Belgium)
• 1990: I'll Never Love This Way Again
• 1990: For the World (withdrawn before publication)
• 1991: The Last Teardrop
• 1991: One of a Kind (only in Belgium)
• 1999: Too Much To Lose (with Courtney Pine )
• 2005: Out of the Rain
• 2010: Powerless

literature

• Elkie Brooks: Finding My Voice: My Autobiography . The Robson Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-8495429-99 .

Web links

• Website of Elkie Brooks (English)
• Discography at discogs.com
• Singles discography at 45cat.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ elkiebrooks.com ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Charts UK
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Music Sales Awards: UK
4. ↑ Charts US