Live and Learn (Elkie Brooks album)
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| Live and Learn | ||||
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| Released | 1979 (UK) | |||
| Recorded | 1979; The Record Plant, Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Rock/funk/pop/soul | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Producer | Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller | |||
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Live and Learn is an album by Elkie Brooks, released in 1979.
Background
[edit]Released on the back of two singles ("Don't Cry Out Loud" and "The Runaway"), A&M released Live and Learn choosing to omit these songs. Leiber & Stoller returned as producers for the album and gave it a distinct funk and disco feel which, after the middle of the road offerings of the non-album singles, perhaps alienated some of her fanbase[according to whom?]. Neither of the singles from this album made the charts which made promotion for this album problematic. As Elkie had become pregnant during the recording, A&M decided to pull back the promotion even further. However, she did continue to perform live until late in her pregnancy.
Single releases
[edit]- "He Could Have Been An Army" (1979)
- "Falling Star" (1979)
Details
[edit]- Recorded in 1979 at The Record Plant in Los Angeles, USA. Mastered at A&M Studios, Hollywood, USA.
- Live and Learn reached number 34 and remained in the UK charts for 6 weeks.
- Available on CD, paired with its predecessor Shooting Star.
Track listing
[edit]- "Viva La Money" (Allen Toussaint) - (3:23)
- "On the Horizon" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) - (3:31)
- "He Could Have Been an Army" (Mickey Jupp, Leiber, Stoller) - (4:31)
- "The Rising Cost of Love" (Len Ron Hanks, Zane Grey, Bobby Martin) - (5:01)
- "Dreamdealer" (Leiber, Stoller, Elkie Brooks, Pete Gage) - (4:01)
- "Who's Making Love" (Homer Banks, Don Davis, Bettye Crutcher, Raymond Jackson) - (3:37)
- "If You Can Beat Me Rockin' (You Can Have My Chair)" (Ronald Dunbar, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland) - (3:22)
- "The Heartache is On" (Leiber, John Sembello) - (3:24)
- "Not Enough Lovin' Left" (Elkie Brooks, Pete Gage, Leiber, Stoller) - (3:48)
- "Falling Star" (Leiber, Stoller) - (4:09)
Personnel
[edit]- Elkie Brooks - vocals
- Jean Roussel - keyboards
Additional personnel
[edit]- John Barnes, Mike Stoller - piano/keyboards
- Michael Boddicker - synthesizers
- Marlow Henderson, Spencer Bean, Paul Warren, Oliver Leiber, Fred Tackett, Tim May, Adam Chase Benay - guitars
- Scott Edwards, Ed Watkins Jr, Brian Garofalo - bass guitar
- James Gadson, Ed Greene, Hal Blaine - drums
- Corky Hale - harp
- Lenny Pickett - woodwind
- Tower of Power Horn Section
- Mic Gillette
- Greg Adams
- Lenny Pickett
- Emilio Castillo
- Steve Kupka
- Jim Decker
- Alan Robinson
- Marni Robinson.
- Venetta Fields, Darlene Love, Julia Tillman Waters, Maggie Henry, Jim Gilstrap, Oren Waters, Edna Wright[1] - backing vocals
- Michael Stone, Kevin Eddy - engineering
- Bernie Grundman - mastering
- Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller - production
References
[edit]- ^ "Edna Wright | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 14 September 2020.