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Elkie Brooks – Pearl’s A Singer
“Pearl’s a Singer” – Single by Elkie Brooks from the album Two Days Away. B-side “You Did Something for Me”
Released 25 February 1977.
“Pearl’s a Singer” is a song made famous by the British singer Elkie Brooks, as taken from her 1977 album Two Days Away which was produced by the song’s co-writers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The original version of “Pearl’s a Singer” had been introduced by the duo Dino and Sembello – also the song’s co-writers – on their 1974 self-titled album which Leiber and Stoller had produced.
With “Pearl,” Leiber and Stoller re-wrote the song for Brooks, changing the lyrics to make it more appropriate for a female singer and adding a new piece of music for the bridge.
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The song is about a female nightclub singer, but not specifically Janis Joplin, whose nickname was “Pearl.” In a 2016 interview Elkie Brooks said, that is actually a song about Janis.
“Pearl’s a Singer” afforded Elkie Brooks her debut chart single – thirteen years after she’d recorded her first track – reaching No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart in spring 1977.
Pearl’s a singerShe stands up when she plays the pianoIn a nightclub
Pearl’s a singerShe sings songs for the lost and the lonelyHer job is entertaining folksSinging songs and telling jokesIn a nightclub
Pearl’s a singerAnd they say that she once was a winnerIn a contest
Pearl’s a singerAnd they say that she once cut a recordThey played it for a week or soOn the local radio, it never made it
She wanted to be Betty GrableBut now she sits there at that beer stained tableDreaming of the things she never got to doAll those dreams that never came true
Pearl’s a singerShe stands up when she plays the pianoIn a nightclub
Pearl’s a singerShe sings songs for the lost and the lonelyHer job is entertaining folksSinging songs and telling jokesIn a nightclub
Pearl’s a singerShe stands up when she plays the pianoIn a nightclub
Pearl’s a singerShe sings songs for the lost and the lonelyHer job is entertaining folksSinging songs and telling jokesIn a nightclub
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Jerry Leiber / John Sembello / Mike Stoller / Ralph Palladino
Pearl’s a Singer lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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