Elkie Brooks - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: Golders Green Hippodrome, London, Britain, 10-8-1977

This is the second of four BBC albums I'm posting for British singer Elkie Brooks. The first one consisted of studio sessions, but this one is a full concert.

Elkie Brooks began releasing singles as far back as 1964. But for many years, success eluded her. Then everything thing changed for her in 1977. She had her first hit early in the year, with the song "Pearl's a Singer." Later in the year, she had a second hit with "Sunshine After the Rain." Both of those reached the Top Ten in Britain. (She never had any hits in the U.S.) From that year on, it was like a switch was flipped, and she became a hit-making machine in Britain for the rest of the 1970s and all through the 1980s.

This concert catches her at the end of that pivotal year for her, 1977. It came after her two big hits that year, and both of them are included. It also includes "Lilac Wine," which wasn't released by her yet, but would be another hit for her in early 1978.

Brooks always had a great voice, but she'd never had success writing her own songs. However, by 1977 at least, she and/or her producers (the songwriting team of Leiber and Stoller) developed a knack for finding the right songs for her to sing. As an example, both of her 1977 hits, "Pearl's a Singer" and "Sunshine After the Rain" had been released by other artists years earlier, but they hadn't met with success until she did her versions. For most of the rest of the concert, she stuck with classic songs that had been hits in previous decades, going as far back as "Sophisticated Lady" from the 1930s.

The music here remains unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 57 minutes long. 

01 I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (Elkie Brooks)
02 Be Positive (Elkie Brooks)
03 talk (Elkie Brooks)
04 Rich Man's Woman (Elkie Brooks)
05 Love Potion No. 9 (Elkie Brooks)
06 Sunshine After the Rain (Elkie Brooks)
07 Mojo Hannah (Elkie Brooks)
08 Slippin' and Slidin' (Elkie Brooks)
09 Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (Elkie Brooks)
10 Sophisticated Lady (Elkie Brooks)
11 Lilac Wine (Elkie Brooks)
12 If the World Was Run by Little Children - Mercedes Benz (Elkie Brooks)
13 Pearl's a Singer (Elkie Brooks)
14 Saved (Elkie Brooks)

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The cover image comes from this exact concert. I took a screenshot from a YouTube video. The original was very blurry and low-res. I used Krea AI to fix it up, but it could only do so much with a bad source.