Live and Learn (Elkie Brooks album)

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Live and Learn
Studio album by Elkie Brooks
Released	1979 (UK)
Recorded	1979; The Record Plant, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Rock/funk/pop/soul
Label	A&M
Producer	Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
Elkie Brooks chronology
Shooting Star (1978) Live and Learn (1979) Pearls (1981)

Live and Learn is an album by Elkie Brooks, released in 1979.

Background[]

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[]

• "He Could Have Been An Army" (1979)
• "Falling Star" (1979)

Details[]

• 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[]

1. "Viva La Money" (Allen Toussaint) - (3:23)
2. "On the Horizon" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) - (3:31)
3. "He Could Have Been an Army" (Mickey Jupp, Leiber, Stoller) - (4:31)
4. "The Rising Cost of Love" (Len Ron Hanks, Zane Grey, Bobby Martin) - (5:01)
5. "Dreamdealer" (Leiber, Stoller, Elkie Brooks, Pete Gage) - (4:01)
6. "Who's Making Love" (Homer Banks, Don Davis, Bettye Crutcher, Raymond Jackson) - (3:37)
7. "If You Can Beat Me Rockin' (You Can Have My Chair)" (Ronald Dunbar, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland) - (3:22)
8. "The Heartache is On" (Leiber, John Sembello) - (3:24)
9. "Not Enough Lovin' Left" (Elkie Brooks, Pete Gage, Leiber, Stoller) - (3:48)
10. "Falling Star" (Leiber, Stoller) - (4:09)

Personnel[]

• Elkie Brooks - vocals
• Jean Roussel - keyboards

Additional personnel[]

• John Barnes, Mike Stoller - piano/keyboards
• Michael Boddicker - synthesizers
• Marlow Henderson, Spencer Bean, Paulinho da Costa, 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[]