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Elkie Brooks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 23, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polygram UK
• ASIN: B00000DB4L
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #211,565 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pearl's A Singer

2. Sunshine After The Rain

3. Don't Cry Out Loud

4. Nights In White Satin

5. Gasoline Alley

6. I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

7. Growing Tired

8. Ain't Misbehavin'

9. Goin' Back

10. Fool If You Think It's Over

11. Our Love

12. Only Love Can Break Your Heart

13. The Runaway

14. Money

15. If You Leave Me Now

16. Blue Moon

17. Minutes

18. Lilac White

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pop singer with soulful voice, popular in Britain, November 5, 2004

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

Elkie Brooks was around in the sixties but failed utterly to make an impact in that decade. She eventually achieved success in the late seventies and remained popular throughout the eighties and nineties, though her chart success was patchy. Elkie's soulful voice is well suited to the songs she recorded.

Elkie was particularly good at cover versions, always stamping her own identity on any songs that she recorded. So good were her covers that some of them are indelibly associated with Elkie. Don't cry out loud (a Peter Allen song) will forever be thought of by most Brits as an Elkie Brooks original. And if you ask most Brits who Peter Allen is, chances are that they'll tell you he's a BBC radio presenter (of course, that's a different Peter Allen).

This collection covers the most commercially successful period of Elkie's career - the late seventies and early eighties. Elkie had three British top ten hits but the last of them (No more the fool) is omitted from this collection as it was recorded later for a different record label. However, it is the only major omission and its absence should not put you off buying this collection.

The two biggest hits here are Pearl's a singer (about a singer who never made the big time) and Sunshine after the rain (about a brighter future after a bad time). Other songs indelibly associated with Elkie are Fool if you think it's over (a Chris Rea song) and Lilac wine. You get all of these here as well as great covers of If you leave me now (Chicago), I guess that's why they call it the blues (Elton John), Nights in white satin (Moody blues), Blue moon (Elvis Presley - or Marcels), Goin' back (Dusty Springfield) and the old jazz/blues standard Ain't misbehaving.

Although this is not the ultimate Elkie Brooks collection, it is a very strong one that amply demonstrates just how brilliant and versatile Elkie was - and it's great value for money at the price.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The voice, November 6, 2004

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dave jones "d.j." - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

Elkie Brooks, is one of the finest vocalist to come out of the U.K. Her voice is one that sticks in your mind. The tracks on this album will appeal to music lovers everywhere.If you ever get a chance to see this lady live, Its a must.

1 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars sunshine after the rain, October 29, 2001

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lauren jones (keyworth,nottingham,london,england) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

sunshine after the rain rullzzzzzz