Elkie Brooks - Two Days Away (1977)

Artist:  Elkie Brooks

Title:  Two Days Away

Year:  1977

Format:  LP

Label:  A&M

Genre:  Pop

Catalog#  AMLH 68409

Brooks' breakthrough second album "Two Days Away", released in 1977, propelled her into solo stardom in the UK and Europe. Featuring the top ten hits "Pearl's a Singer" and "Sunshine After the Rain", it had a distinct American sound largely due to the work of legendary writers and producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

Her husky voice drips through "Two Days Away like" a big dollop of natural honey bits of bee and all doing as much justice to the more pop oriented numbers such as "Spiritland" , as it does to the more soulful numbers such as the sultry album opener "Love Potion No.9" and the surprisingly decent cover of Aretha Franklin’s "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man".

Side one

1.  Love Potion No. 9  (3:42)

2.  Spiritland  (3:19)

3.  Honey, Can I Put On Your Clothes  (3:22)

4.  Sunshine After The Rain  (3:23)

5.  Pearl's a Singer  (3:39)

Side two

1.  Mojo Hannah  (3:00)

2.  Do Right Woman, Do Right Man  (3:28)

3.  You Did Something For Me  (2:50)

4.  Nightbird  (3:06)

5.  Saved  (2:40)