Elkie Brooks 1964 NOTHING LEFT TO DO BUT CRY

[moscowandy]

awesome! )) anyone seen same thing, with stage perfomance but maybe a bit better sounds quality?

[henrypeckstv]

i'm cryin'...hear me cryin'.....

[Fifi48]

Crikey. She was only 19. Unbelievable. What a find - saw her live this evening and this is amazing to see now 45 years later!

[MrVincethevole]

- hey, thats a gem! - first saw Elkie in Vinegar Joe in a local club in 1972 - still have her autograph from the gig. great band, great singer.

It probably did her career good to leave VJ but they were a unique band while it lasted.

[sludgefingers]

Great voice even then.

[RLW1967]

It sounds great.

[paulspalace]

Amazing just how long this lady has been around be good to se how many of todays divas stick around

[sorcerer3117]

Excellent! To see this early stuff, her voice is amazing, then and now, so underrated!! Thanks for posting

[Ic1cle]

Wow !!!! What a rare piece of film. It is an incredible treat to see Elkie perform so early in her career.

Prior to YouTube, the earliest footage I had seen of her was from the "Pearl's a Singer" era.

I'm so used to seeing her with her long, lustrous 70's hairstyles, I don't think I would have recognized her with her 60's 'bob' ! She was cute then, and she's darn hot now.

[rtupin1956]

Something about this video keeps luring me back. I couldn't tell you how many times I have watched it. I don't know how old she was in this but probably pretty young yet the voice is of someone much more experienced. She really is quite extraordinary.

[dizzi0000]

Elkie was about 18 or 19 here. Fantastic voice. Sounds even better today. I would love to see in concert. Maybe I will get to the U. K. one day.

[terryclary]

Take my word for it, Elkie is at her very, very best performing live, in front of an audience. I have been to eighteen shows and I never tire of watching and listening to her.

Terry Clary

[X599]

Has there been a CD-release of "The Early Years"? I somehow missed to digitize this one from vinyl and do not want to move the Hi-Fi yet again...

And from the 10 stars this video would earn, I give the 5 available on YouTube.

[notholding2]

According to Elkie's publicist (when I inquired quite some time ago) there are NO plans to reissue this early material on CD. That is a shame as I'd love to find a copy in any format! If you want to dig it out and make a CD, I'd be the first to put in an order!!!

[X599]

I am quite sure, that, would I or anybody commence to privately distribute home-made CDs of those records, old or not, some authority would send out a bunch of their usual ugly looking secretaries to ring at my door and do terrible sings to me.

I deem it, though, unjust, that the natural evolution of technology should oblige me to "pay" once more for the more or less same product, that I have already purchased, before. That was around 1990 in Frankfurt, Germany.

[X599]

There is a typo, but it looks well-placed, so... whatever ;-)

[jfab64]

This is pretty edgy. I like her phrasing that occurs around 1:02; it sort of predates the type of phrasing Janis Joplin would do.

[zinesilol88]

Clever comment jfab64. Elkie was to be compared to Janis Joplin later on in the band Vinegar Joe.Perhaps the comparisons should have been reversed ...

[mpurves98]

on a tangent: curved air was called the response to it's a beautiful day who were called a response to jefferson airplane.

You make up your own opinion but I like Elkie Brooks and I like Sonja Kristina Linwood.

[jillyruss]

love the hair, reminds me of my sisters tape down curls. love the singer too

[fiona1580]

Elkie was fantastic even back then.Still is fantastic!!!

[fiona1580]

Elkie was fantastic even back then.Still is fantastic!!!

[rjlewis1977]

i'm still in shock. i never knew there was Elkie footage so early. a rare jem. Love ya Elkie.

[Daveynewport]

I agree the seed was there most certainly - but it's almost unrecognizable with Elkie's voice later on - still I guess that's what 20 years experience does for a talented singer.

[edmundo172]

Again Elkie proves at any age 19, she could sing fantastically. I guess this was too good for the charts.