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Laura Nyro's songs were successfully covered by 5th Dimension (Stoned Soul Picnic, Wedding Bell Blues), Barbra Streisand (Stoney End), Cass Elliott (He's a Runner), Three Dog Night, and Peter, Paul and Mary. Laura was a songwriting genius, rather like Carole King, and I think her best album is Eli and the 13th Confession (1968). I am annoyed with myself for not putting her in my list of favourites.
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Big Ears Wrote:Laura Nyro's songs were successfully covered by 5th Dimension (Stoned Soul Picnic, Wedding Bell Blues), Barbra Streisand (Stoney End), Cass Elliott (He's a Runner), Three Dog Night, and Peter, Paul and Mary. Laura was a songwriting genius, rather like Carole King, and I think her best album is Eli and the 13th Confession (1968). I am annoyed with myself for not putting her in my list of favourites.
Heckuva cover artist too. She did this one a few times--this is my fave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yPvZkJFQyE She kills on this too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRf7_qa__F8 RIP Laura--taken from us much too soon (ovarian cancer--the same thing that claimed her mother). She was a major influence on a very disparate group of artists/songwriters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Nyro
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19-11-2014, 23:48
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^ Wow! I didn't know she had worked with Manhattan Transfer. I'll definitely have to look into that. Her untimely death was absolutely tragic.
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I've looked into it via Google and I think I need to get the Tonin' album.
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20-11-2014, 02:14
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Big Ears Wrote:^ Wow! I didn't know she had worked with Manhattan Transfer. I'll definitely have to look into that. Her untimely death was absolutely tragic.
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I've looked into it via Google and I think I need to get the Tonin' album.
Despite only a 2-star rating by AMG, it's worth your time and ears. Ironic that the only tune I didn't like is the Beach Boys song--all the rest just sparkle. This one breaks my heart every time I hear it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR0EucGpDTY << I thought no one but Bobby Darin could do this song justice--I was mistaken. Sam Cooke comes damn close but he doesn't have the lean-in pith, the angst, the tortured soul the others do. His is just a plea; the other 2 are expressing raw need. Been there and I'm still there....
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Interesting conversation. One of my favorite Laura Nyro releases is "Smile". It was a Jazz Folk oriented kind of album released in 76'. Although I love all of her work from the 60's, this particular album takes the music to a different level...sort of like how Joni Mitchell changed her approach on The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
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I got your singer-songwriter right here pal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5FCdx7Dn0o << The Buffalo Soldiers were African-American soldiers, especially feared by Native Americans because they were especially ruthless (they had a lot more to prove).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGqrvn3q1oo << If a universal theme is expressed, doesn't that make a singer-songwriter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy58Gc1Tce0 << there's gonna come a time when this sentiment takes hold in the US--circuses without bread just doesn't make it and the increasingly hollowed-out middle class will learn what entitlements really mean--The RBs are entitled because they bought legislators and courts; the rest of us get empty promises. Have a nice day.
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jazzboCR Wrote:Despite only a 2-star rating by AMG, it's worth your time and ears. Ironic that the only tune I didn't like is the Beach Boys song--all the rest just sparkle. This one breaks my heart every time I hear it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR0EucGpDTY << I thought no one but Bobby Darin could do this song justice--I was mistaken. Sam Cooke comes damn close but he doesn't have the lean-in pith, the angst, the tortured soul the others do. His is just a plea; the other 2 are expressing raw need. Been there and I'm still there....
^ By AMG, do you mean AllMusic? Sometimes I agree with them and sometimes I definitely do not. I did notice that Laura Nyro only sings on one track and Phil Collins is on the album.
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21-11-2014, 17:38
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Big Ears Wrote:^ By AMG, do you mean AllMusic? Sometimes I agree with them and sometimes I definitely do not. I did notice that Laura Nyro only sings on one track and Phil Collins is on the album.
My post was a bit misleading--I should have said it ( Tonin') was a compendium, not single-artist. And like yourself, I disagree with the AllMusicGuide sometimes. Even then, the quality of writing is good and even those I disagree with usually have good reasons presented for the value judgments. It's the first place to look, not the only.
Here's that Phil Collins track--not a big fan of the drummer but they do a good job on this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfLZpFXUqL0
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