Elki Brooks & Robert Palmer

Subject: Elki Brooks & Robert Palmer
From: RWJ
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 04:19 AM

Can any one recall the bands name it was some time ago

Subject: RE: Elki Brooks & Robert Palmer
From: stallion
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 04:27 AM

vinegar Joe

Subject: RE: Elki Brooks & Robert Palmer
From: woodsie
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 06:38 AM

Da Da before that!

Subject: RE: Elki Brooks & Robert Palmer
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 01:45 PM

Great track on their first album (lots really) called 'Early One Morning' Elk does a sax solo on vocals - Abso-bleedin'-lutely amazin'

Aah had it on cassette and it wore oot - Tried to download from a num ber of MP3 sites but nowt available

Does anybody remember Elkie's first appearance on 'Ready Steady Go'? Singing a love song a la Cilla Black - Somebody in the audience booed her! She's done canny for hersel' since mind!

D'ye knaah she was a sister to the guitarist in The Dakotas - Billy J Kramer's band - Consequently she was managed by Brian Epstein for a short while

Aah wrote a parody of 'Pearl's A Singer'

Here it is

Pearl's a minger
And they say she eats blokes like me for dinner
I should be so lucky

Pearl's a minger
And they say that she once broke a record
She had the local rugby club in a big Jacuzzi tub
She stayed for hours

She wanted to be Nicole Kidman
Now she's lucky if she pulls the bin men
Her looks and figure have long petered out of sight
She looks best in the dead of the night

Pearl's a minger
She stands up when she has a bloke in 'er
Two or three of them a night
And they see her home alright
To the Hostel

Pearl's a minger

Subject: RE: Elki Brooks & Robert Palmer
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 02:47 PM

Actually (Charlie Anorak here) Elkie (Elaine Bookbinder) is the suster of the Dakotas drummer. I first saw her doing a creditable cover of Etta James's "Something's Got A Hold On Me" on TV.
I saw VInegar Joe and they were pretty good n'all.

Subject: RE: Elki Brooks & Robert Palmer
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 02:56 AM

Roger Cardigan here. First saw Elkie singing with Humphrey Lyttelton band, saw her with her own band last year- still got it!
Her uncle was a labour councillor in Derbyshire or Staffordshire.
RtS

Subject: RE: Elki Brooks & Robert Palmer
From: alanabit
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 03:50 AM

I saw her singing with Humphrey Littleton again back in the seventies. There was a small jazz/blues event appended to the main festival. A nice afternoon it was too.

Subject: RE: Elki Brooks & Robert Palmer
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 08:22 AM

Geordie Porgie, excellent parody ! Thank you.

Subject: RE: Elki Brooks & Robert Palmer
From: RWJ
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 06:37 AM

Not what i expected but keep it comeing

Subject: RE: Elki Brooks & Robert Palmer
From: Ritchie
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 04:57 PM

What a coincidence, the week before last I was in 'Flip' a second hand clothing store in Newcastle and I got chatting with the owner a John Woods.

We were talking about music and somehow I mentioned Robt Palmer. John went on to tell me how he was the drummer for Vinegar Joe and roomed with Robt. He went on to tell me some great tales about Elkie et all.

RWJ if you are up in Newcastle drop in and see him for a chat, he's a 'cracking' bloke.

He plays with the Junco Partners a more than local R & B band, of whom, it must be said, have a lot of promise ;-)

nice to see the blues rear it's ugly head on this site occasionally :-)