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| Monday, October 23rd, 2006 | 12:20 pm
[ralphieboy333]
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First post:
Fave song by Nyro - difficult but I'll go with "Woman Of The World".
Best Nyro album as a whole - probably New York Tendaberry; seems like a song cycle or operetta. Most songs very closely related.
Song that Got Me Hooked - her version of "Gonna Take A Miracle", although William's version is good too.
Current Music: "Nyquil Blues" - Alvin Crow and the Pleasant Valley Boys | | Monday, May 8th, 2006 | 12:46 pm
[ladiorange]
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YouTube - Check it Out In addition to being able to watch a 7 minute mini-bio of Laura featuring some music and performances (including a snippet of the Monterey Pop Festival where she wasn't booed) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgFQWWbVbSI- YouTube also have music performances by Blood Sweat and Tears (And When I Die Live), Eli's Coming by Three Dog Night (obviously miming but worth a glimpse), as well performances from the lady herself!!! Please feel free to Comment with links of other performances/videos etc from YouTube or any other site that you think is worth a look. Current Music: something written by Laura Nyro | | Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 | 12:23 pm
[roxy641]
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Laura Nyro tonight on RADIO TWO Thought you'd all like to know about this. Spotted it on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/listings/day.shtml?day=today20:30-21:30 Shooting Star: Laura Nyro Remembered Hollywood superstar Bette Midler presents this documentary about the life and music of singer-songwriter, Laura Nyro, who died on 8th April 1997 aged just 49. A contemporary of Joni Mitchell and Carole King, Laura is regarded as one of the great lost talents of popular music and is best known for songs such as Stoned Soul Picnic and Stoney End, The programme features interviews with key people in Laura's life and a rare recording of her performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. By the way you can listen outside of the UK, just go to the radio 2 website or if you miss tonight's broacast, they usually keep it for 7 days after the show. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/Listen and enjoy. :) Roxy641 Current Mood: busyCurrent Music: MORRISSEY "How Soon Is Now" | | Tuesday, January 17th, 2006 | 8:23 pm
[brettopia]
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home
Mmmm, "A Home at the End of the World" had about ten minutes worth of Laura Nyro in it. Not only are the songs played, but they actually play into the film. "Laura Nyro is a goddess." I feel all warm and gooey after watching it.
The songs are "Desiree" and "It's Gonna Take A Miracle" (oddly enough, played one after another on vinyl--I wonder if the song order was different than the CD, or if this was just a fiction of the movie?) | | Thursday, December 15th, 2005 | 12:53 pm
[professor_mom]
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My first album of Laura's was "New York Tendeberry," which I listened to my senior year of high school '70-'71. I saw her in concert at the University of Iowa during that year as well. Over the years I've collected several of her albums, but there's a few songs that I came across recently that some of you might be interested in. A few years ago before they started cracking down on song pirating, I found a song that Laura Nyro did with Kenny Rankin called "Promenade." I ran a copy off and it's totally beautiful. I read somewhere that he was in love with her and you can totally hear the love in his voice when they're singing together. It's way too bad that song never came out on a compilation or something. I'm not sure where it came from. The other song of hers that I found that I totally totally love is on an album that Manhattan Transfer did with famous stars. The album is called "Tonin." They got her to sing "La-la Means I Love You." Which she does totally beautifully. By the way, she did that one solo on her last album and I think that's one of her best songs ever. The amount of feeling in that song just touches me so deeply. (A side note: The CD "Tonin" has Bette Midler singing "It's Gonna Take a Miracle." Of course Bette Midler can't hold a candle to Laura singing that song. Bette Midler trying to sing that song is truly SAD.) Current Mood:  contemplative | | Friday, November 25th, 2005 | 4:29 am
[brettopia]
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I've really been enjoying listening to the concert from 1978 on  under the Audio & Visual tab. The set list includes a ton of songs from Nested, which I've never had the pleasure of listening to (except a couple of songs on the two-disc anthology) 1. Rhythm and Blues 2. Mr. Blue 3. Sweet Blindness 4. American Dreamer 5. Crazy Love 6. Man in the Moon 7. Mama Roux 8. In A Country Way 9. Child of A Universe | | Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005 | 2:56 pm
[ladiorange]
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| | Sunday, March 6th, 2005 | 7:50 pm
[roadnotes]
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song of communication
Quick introduction, having just found this community:
As you can see, my username is a Laura Nyro song title, from Mother's Spiritual. Not that I'm obsessed with her or anything... I just have most of her albums, two copies of her sheet music book that I've worn apart, my paper journal for the last eighteen years has been named Roadnotes as well, and more of the individual book titles are quotes from her songs than anything else... okay, so I'm obsessed. But she was brilliant, and sui generis, and fascinating.
I learned about her, oddly enough, through her covers. I grew up listening to the 5th Dimension, and on their 1971 live double album, they did two medleys of their hits, one of songs written by Jimmy Webb, the other of songs written by Laura Nyro. That's when I first realized that people wrote songs, and that Laura Nyro had written most of the ones I loved best.
In the 1970s, my family moved back to Harlem, and I found a copy of New York Tendaberry in the local library. I borrowed it, and returned it, and took it out the next day, over and over, until I could buy my own copy. Something about the songs, and how her voice rang out, with joy and pain, and the look of the woman on the covers, a woman with dark eyes, looking almost bruised by life in the city, but loving it, resonated deeply.
(Aside: after her live album, Season of Lights, came out in 1977, a DJ on WNEW-FM used to play the version of "Captain Saint Lucifer" from it at about 4:45 every weekday morning. I was in high school then, and I set my clock radio to 4:43, so that that would be the first thing I heard when I woke up.)
I saw her perform live, perhaps a half-dozen times -- and I am (to my mingled embarrassment and joy) audible on the Live at the Bottom Line album, whooping with delight at the introduction to one of her songs. (I was there both nights.)
I don't think there's any singer-songwriter whose work has affected me as deeply. I often think that if you listen carefully, you can hear her voice and her chords underlying everything I do and say. And when I sing, I try to remember the strength and courage and love I always hear in her voice. | | Monday, January 31st, 2005 | 4:59 pm
[crystalsticks] |
A DOCUMENTARY PLEASE!!!!!!
Will it happen? I was listening to a radio show on the BBC called The Critical List, in which a Mr Stuart Marconi features a certain album of which he feels is an essential purchase for any music collection. This Saturday just gone, Mr Marconi featured 'Eli and the Thirteenth Confession'. He then said that(I hope that I heard correctly) this proceeds a definitve documentary on Laura Nyro. I have, for a while now, longed for this to happen. When writing to Michele Kort, who wrote a biography on Ms. Nyro, I asked her if she thought that a documentary of some kind would be a realistic consideration. She was very positve about the idea and told me that a broadcaster named Steve Bradshaw, who works on the current affairs programme 'Panorama' for the BBC, expressed interest in making a documentary about her. If a documentary has been made and is soon to be broadcast then that's great news. IF THIS IS NOT SO, it should be the duty of EVERY fan to bombard the BBC websites demanding a documentary. As Mr Marconi stated on his show, 'we have been taught to love the music of Nick Drake'. Now MUST be the time for the world to FINALLY be taught to love Laura Nyro. She must NOT be kept in the 'cult closet' any longer! Contact the BBC NOW!!!! A sudden rise of support WILL make it happen!!! | | Friday, January 7th, 2005 | 5:51 pm
[crystalsticks] |
Thoughts on Ms. Nyro
Does anyone know if there are any small vigils or celebrations for Laura Nyro in New York come Christmas time? I only ask this as she seemed to make it a tradition of playing 'The Bottom Line' club every Christmas Eve as illustrated, audio-wise, on the 'Live at The Bottom Line' and 'The Loom's Desire' CDs. It would be such a beautiful thing to do as it plainly seemed to be a very special time for her. The version of 'Christmas In My Soul' on her 'Live At The Filmore East' CD is about the most moving performance ever, don't you think? Laura repeating the final two chords to simmulate bells of hope at the end, is pure genius. | | Monday, December 6th, 2004 | 12:42 am
[cherrybomb_com]
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| | Sunday, November 7th, 2004 | 8:44 pm
[davidluffsyou]
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oh sweet blindness
About 2 years ago, my dad gave me Laura Nyro's "Stoned Soul Picnic" Best of Compilation. i was completely blown away (or should i say blowin' away..haha, sorry for the terrible pun) by her songs, i have never heard music quite like hers, it is so soulful, and so unique. her chord changes are simply amazing, as is the way she blends so many different styles of music together. and don't get me started on her voice.
anyways, i kind of forgot about her for a little while, but "rediscovered" her just a few days ago when i bought "Eli and the Thirteenth Confession" on vinyl. what a masterpiece.
so, what would any of you recommend for another album? i want to own it all of course, she's probably my favorite female artist, but are there any that really stand out?
Thanks so much!
JANE | | Tuesday, July 27th, 2004 | 6:29 pm
[suelee]
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I have ALL of Laura Nyro's albums. Over the years there is just one thing I have never understood and that is "Why was she so little known?" Sometimes I lie in bed at night and wonder things - Like, how come someone like Britney Spears is so famous and makes so much money when someone like Laura Nyro never achieved fame and fortune (I mean not really, just a small cult following in comparison to others, right?) and yet Laura had talent that was beyond belief. She was brilliant. I guess the same could be said about artists like Patty Scialfa. She's only known for being Mrs. Bruce Springsteen, but she's great in her own right. And Katie Webster. Has anyone listened to her? Man, that's a treat! Trust me. Ahhh, the thoughts I ponder. | | Saturday, July 17th, 2004 | 4:33 am
[i_amthecosmos]
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I have four Laura Nyro records/cds, here's the list:
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
New York Tendaberry
Angel In the Dark
Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro
I think my favorite songs are "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Stoney End", "Sweet Blindness" "Wedding Bell Blues" "Triple Goddess Twilight" "The Bells", many more.
I need more Laura records! | | Friday, July 16th, 2004 | 1:27 pm
[ladiorange]
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I only own one album by Laura Nyro. Eli and the 13th Confession. I love it from beginning to end. I have heard other covers of her songs by the 5th Dimension, Thelma Houston, Bobby Darin, Three Dog Night, Blood Sweat and Tears, Barbra Streisand, and the Staple Singers. I'm sure there are others. What albums do you guys like/own? Or maybe just which songs do you like? I love all the songs on Eli, but stand-out tracks for me are Timer, Poverty Train, and Woman's Blues. I love in Timer when she sings: "You're a jigsaw Timer
God is a jigsaw"I love in Poverty Train when she sings: "A million night tramps tricks and tracks
will come and go"I love in Woman's Blues when she sings... uh... Everything. I think that might be my favorite song by her. | | Friday, June 4th, 2004 | 3:47 am
[i_amthecosmos]
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Hi, don't know if anyone's reading this, but I love Laura Nyro. I started listening to her a few years ago. If she had lived, I'm pretty sure she'd have collaberated with Rufus Wainright (okay, wishful thinking, but I still think it would have been a good idea).
I'll tell my freind Gabby about this place.
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