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Shooting Star (Elkie Brooks album)

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Released
  
1978 (UK)

Shooting Star (1978)
  
Live and Learn (1979)

Release date
  
1978

Label
  
A&M Records

Recorded
  
1978

Artist
  
Elkie Brooks

Producer
  
David Kershenbaum

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Genres
  
Pop music, Rock music, Soul music, Funk

Similar
  
Live and Learn, Two Days Away, Round Midnight, Screen Gems, Bookbinder's Kid

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Shooting Star is an album by Elkie Brooks.

Contents

Background

Brooks' third album was a departure from her previous work and enjoyed relative success in the UK charts. Taking the place of Leiber & Stoller was renowned producer David Kershenbaum who guided Brooks along a more funk-orientated sound than on her previous work. The album has been released on CD, paired with its 1979 successor Live and Learn.

Single releases

  • "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" (UK #43, 1978)
  • "Since You Went Away" (1978)
  • "Stay With Me" (Netherlands only, 1978)

    • Details

  • Recorded in 1978 at CBS Studios in London, England, and at Producers Workshop in Los Angeles, USA. Mastered at A&M Studios in Los Angeles.
  • Issued on vinyl and cassette in 1978 through A&M Records.
  • Shooting Star reached number 20 and remained in the UK charts for 13 weeks.

    • Track listing

    1. "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" (Neil Young) - 3:07
    2. "Be Positive" (Elkie Brooks) - 3:50
    3. "Since You Went Away" (Jean Roussel, Jerry Knight) - 3:44
    4. "Putting My Heart On The Line" (Peter Frampton) - 3:11
    5. "Stay With Me" (Ron Wood, Rod Stewart) - 3:04
    6. "As" (Stevie Wonder) - 4:15
    7. "Learn To Love" (Ned Doheny) - 4:04
    8. "Too Precious" (Elkie Brooks, Tim Hinkley) - 4:25
    9. "Shooting Star" (Pete Gage) - 2:50
    10. "Just An Excuse" (Elkie Brooks) - 3:38

    Personnel

  • Elkie Brooks – vocals
  • Elliott Randall - guitars
  • Jean Roussel - keyboards
  • Andy Newmark - drums
  • Jerry Knight - bass, backing vocals

    • Additional personnel

  • Pete Gage - guitars
  • Simon Morton - percussion
  • Mike Ross, Andrew Clark, Mark Smith, Ed Schaff - engineering
  • Bernie Grundman - mastering
  • David Kershenbaum - production

    • Songs

    1Only Love Can Break Your Heart
    2Be Positive
    3Since You Went Away

    References

    Shooting Star (Elkie Brooks album) Wikipedia
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