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Elkie Brooks singles chronology. "Warm & Tender Lover". (1981) " Fool If You Think It's Over ". (1981) "Our Love". (1982) " Fool (If You Think It's Over) " is a popular song originally released in 1978 by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea. Rea also wrote the lyrics and composed the music of the song, which appears on his 1978 debut album ...
Pearl's a Singer. " Pearl's a Singer " is a song made famous by the British singer Elkie Brooks, as taken from her 1977 album Two Days Away which was produced by the song's co-writers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The original version of "Pearl's a Singer" had been introduced by the duo Dino and Sembello – also the song's co-writers – on ...
Elkie Brooks (born Elaine Bookbinder; 25 February 1945) is an English rock, blues and jazz singer. She was a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe, and later became a solo artist. She gained her biggest success in the late 1970s and 1980s, releasing 13 UK Top 75 singles, and reached the top ten with " Pearl's a Singer ", " Sunshine After ...
Elkie Brooks released a version of the song for the UK market with Gus Dudgeon producing. Brooks' "Don't Cry Out Loud" reached its number 12 peak on the UK top 50 dated 16 December 1978—two weeks before Manchester's version reached the US Top 40— [13] and was also a hit in Ireland (number 14).
The song was written by English producer and songwriter Russ Ballard, whom Elkie Brooks ' new label Legend Records commissioned to make an album with her. [6] He had originally intended the song for Kim Wilde, but was persuaded to give it to Brooks. [7] As the singer recalls in her book Finding My Voice, when she and her husband, Trevor Jordan ...
Cat Stevens singles chronology. "Banapple Gas". (1976) " (Remember the Days of the) Old Schoolyard ". (1977) "Was Dog a Doughnut?" (1977) " (Remember the Days of the) Old Schoolyard " is a song by English singer-songwriter Cat Stevens. It was released as the lead single from his tenth studio album Izitso (1977).
Screen Gems. (1984) No More the Fool. (1986) The Very Best of Elkie Brooks. (1986) No More the Fool is a 1986 album by Elkie Brooks. It includes the title track single which became the biggest hit of Brooks' career. Both the album and single peaked at No. 5 on the UK charts in early 1987.
Elkie Brooks released a version of the song on her album Pearls in 1981. [67] The album reached No. 2 in the UK. [68] The single of it by Upside Down, a British boy band, charted at number 27 in the UK in 1996. [69] The Isley Brothers recorded it for their 2001 album Eternal. [70] 3T recorded a duet of the song with Brazilian girl group T-Rio ...