Pattie Brooks -

Pattie Brooks is an American soul and disco singer who teamed with producer Simon Soussan on the 1977 release Love Shook, her first of four Casablanca albums. She scored dance hits with “After Dark” and “This Is the House Where Love Died.”

Background

Pattie Brooks was born March 17, 1943, in Fort Riley, Kansas, and grew up in a military family that moved frequently and spent four years in Germany. She studied operatic voice before she turned toward jazz and learned scat technique. Brooks worked as a PBX operator before she pursued professional singing work in Los Angeles.

Brooks won a chorus audition for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1968 and entered television work through the program. She subsequently joined the Young Generation ensemble led by Henry Mancini and appeared on The Bobby Darin Show. Brooks toured with Helen Reddy and recorded demonstration vocals for A&M Records.

Brooks sang in the 1973 film Cleopatra Jones and performed “Glory Bus,” written by Allen D. Allen, for the science-fiction film The Clones. She moved further into Los Angeles session work with backing vocals on Southern Nights by Glen Campbell and Rich Love, Poor Love by Syreeta and G.C. Cameron. Brooks also joined the backing-vocal lineup on the 1977 Donna Summer album I Remember Yesterday.

Brooks began solo work with producer Simon Soussan by 1977 and signed with Casablanca Records. They recorded material at Hollywood Sound Recorders, Larrabee Sound Studios, Star Track Studios, and the Record Plant for Love Shook, the first Casablanca album credited to Pattie Brooks and the Simon Orchestra.

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