LAST NIGHT A RECORD CHANGED MY LIFE
Elkie Brooks
The Grand Dame of blues, rock and jazz hails Dino & Sembello’s Pearl’s A Singer (A&M, 1974).
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It was 1976. I was in AIR Studios in London with my producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. We were looking for songs for my second LP [1977’s]
Two Days Away.
Jerry said he had one to play me, he knew I liked blues and jazz so he wasn’t sure if I’d like it because it was more in a country style, but he knew I was open-minded and I already liked some country. So he put on Pearl’s A Singer by Dino & Sembello. Ralph Dino and John Sembello were singers and writers in America. They’d already written songs for The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Turtles and Tim Hardin and they had worked with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller on their only album [1974’s]
Dino & Sembello.
Anyhow, this song was from that album and I immediately got it.