Elkie Brooks

Elkie Brooks, Coventry Apollo 1983
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About the artist

Elkie Brooks (born Elaine Bookbinder on 25 February 1945, Broughton, Salford, England) is an English singer, formerly a vocalist with Vinegar Joe, and later a solo artist. A professional singer since she was fifteen, Brooks' début, a cover of Etta James's "Something's Got A Hold On Me", was released on Decca in 1964. 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.

Top songs

  1. Pearl's A Singer
  2. Fool If You Think It's Over
  3. Sunshine After The Rain
  4. Lilac Wine
  5. No More the Fool
  6. Don't Cry Out Loud
  7. Nights In White Satin
  8. If You Leave Me Now
  9. Gasoline Alley
  10. Our Love
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  1. The Way You Do The Things You Do
  2. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
  3. Superstar
  4. Running To The Future
  5. Love Ain’t Something You Can Get For Free
  6. I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
  7. Warm And Tender Love
  8. Mojo Hannah
  9. The Runaway
  10. Dance Away
  11. We've Got Tonight
  12. Goin' Back
  13. Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
  14. Paint Your Pretty Picture
  15. Money
  16. Rising Cost Of Love
  17. Givin' It Up For Your Love
  18. Blue Moon
  19. Just An Excuse
  20. I'd Rather Go Blind
  21. Learn To Love
  22. Loving Arms
  23. Growing Tired
  24. He's Gotta Love Me
  25. Ain't Misbehavin'
  26. Mercedes Benz
  27. Spiritland
  28. Honey Can I Put On Your Clothes
  29. Do Right Woman Do Right Man
  30. Fool (If You Think It's Over)
  31. Hard Habit to Break
  32. Don't Stop
  33. Only Women Bleed
  34. Stairway to Heaven
  35. Love Potion No. 9
  36. I Just Can't Go On
  37. Minutes
  38. Cry Me A River
  39. Tell Me More And More And Then Some
  40. Love Potion No.9
  41. Black Coffee
  42. Forgive And Forget
  43. Make You Feel My Love
  44. Saved
  45. As
  46. Too Much Between Us
  47. Night Bird
  48. You Did Something For Me
  49. Pearls A Singer
  50. 'Round Midnight
  51. Powerless
  52. He Could Have Been An Army
  53. Break the Chain
  54. Dreamdealer
  55. Purple Rain
  56. Broken Wings
  57. Will You Write Me A Song
  58. Pearl´s A Singer
  59. Something's Got A Hold On Me
  60. Electric Lady
  61. Where Do We Go From Here
  62. So Good Looking
  63. He's A Rebel
  64. Road House Blues
  65. All or Nothing
  66. I Can't Make You Love Me
  67. Trouble In Mind
  68. Don't Want to Cry No More
  69. What'll I Do
  70. Hiding Inside Yourself
  71. Only Love Will Set You Free
  72. Sail On
  73. Shooting Star
  74. All Night Long
  75. Someday We'll All Be Free
  76. The Rose
  77. Out Of The Rain
  78. Nothing Left To Do But Cry
  79. Try A Little Love
  80. Maybe I'm Amazed
  81. Kiss Me for the Last Time
  82. Hello Stranger
  83. Since You Went Away
  84. Why
  85. Stay With Me
  86. No Secrets (Call of the Wild)
  87. The Rising Cost Of Love
  88. Blue Jay
  89. Perl's A Singer
  90. I Think I'm Going Back

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