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On Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best Of Laura Nyro, a
compilation of her twenty-five years with Columbia Records,
the innovative artistry of Laura’s singing and songwriting
is in full celebration. Contained in this collection are
her original songs of spiritual, social and sensual vision.
Experimenting with form and feeling, her work shares a
connection with modern poetry and art. Her songs have
inspired musicians and music lovers for over three decades.

“I would go out singing, as a teenager, to a party or out
on the street, because More...

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Dan Nigro and I commented on this subject at lenght | Reviewer: Ralph Bruno
------ About the song Emmie performed by Laura Nyro

Please see - "An Open Letter to Dan Nigro Re: Laura Nyro."

http://rabdrake.wordpress.com/category/laura-nyro-dan-nigro/

To say any more would be to abuse the very generous allowance to state my views that sing365 has already afforded me. Agape Rabdrake

Reason for ur pain | Reviewer: Sameena
------ About the song Buy and Sell performed by Laura Nyro

There were days where I had my doubts, and the memories of u I tried to washout; but it was really hard to let u go, and that now I have, I feel like a shadow. *[.I'm the reason for ur pain, I'm the one u should blame; these r things i cant explain, but there's one thing I should say, u drive me insane.].

The Bells, Laura Nyro | Reviewer: combo
------ About the song The Bells performed by Laura Nyro

word to the bird reviewer above me.
i have a three minute version of Laura Nyro singing "the bells" with a group called LaBelle and it's among the most breathtaking accomplishments of a group of a vocalists on record, ever since before records began. if anyone is a fan of "60s girl groups", "harmonic vocal arrangements", "soul", "the gospel music", "deep song", "singer/songwriters", "jazz", "american songbook", "spirituals" - check this song out, it's none of those things but it's worth hearing for all of those things, as is the whole album Gonna Take a Miracle (they do "Dancing In the Street", "You've Really Got A Hold On Me", "Spanish Harlem", "Up On the Roof", "Ain't Nothin Like the Real Thing", "You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman")

Talk to the right man | Reviewer: RW Donn
------ About the song Desiree performed by Laura Nyro

To: "Ralph Bruno"

Regarding all this reconstructionist supposition about Laura Nyro I ask you:

has ANYone talked to Laura Nyro's ex-husband?

Funny how much an ex-wife can know about her ex- and she gets asked about it over and over. Yet, David Balinchini doesn't seem to field ANY questions from ANYbody about his ex-wife, Laura Nyro. I think there is a guy who would know alot. And, Jackson Browne is still alive and around.

Maybe she found her life's partner in a woman. Maybe she just found someone she could live with and deal with the hurt of having lost a man she loved. And, it may be no one we know about.

Go listen to Wedding Bell Blues. THAT is also the real Laura Nyro. And, she spoke to millions with that song. It could be the eHarmony theme song. And, we KNOW what chemistry.com thinks of eHarmony's sexual orientation!

A love song to her future husband | Reviewer: Ralph Bruno
------ About the song American Dove performed by Laura Nyro

"American Dove" was an origianl work by Laura. She introduced the song in live concert at the Fillmore East on May 30, 1971. According to the liner notes for the CD "SPREAD YOUR WINGS AND FLY," Laura opened the concert with "Amercian Dove" before a capacity house. (Loew's Commodore - seating 2600)
Laura made it clear as to what this song was about. "It's been a long time comin' I mean love." It is significant that as she was to marry in late 1971, the song was variously addressed to "Mama" and "Father." In the several verses addressed to her parents, she emphasized to each of them that "it's been a long time comin I mean love."
Michele Kort, in her biography, "Soul Picnic" corroborates : that David Bianchini was Laura's fiance'; that he was a decorated Vietnam War Veteran; and that they would marry near the end of 1971. Vicki Wickham, the manager of Labelle verified , that at this time "David was around."
The lyric "...but Johnny (ain't) come home from war" identifies her love object as a soldier.
The final stanza exhorted the listener to "tell them the young lord's come (gone) to bring liberty to every one..."
"American Dove" was a love song honoring her future husband. Apart from the live concert and the 2004, CD "SPREAD YOUR WINGS AND FLY," the song was neither perfomred nor recorded again.

Did Not Know About Timer | Reviewer: Ralph Bruno
------ About the song Timer performed by Laura Nyro

ELI and the THIRTEENTH CONFESSION is an example of the superb talent Laura Nyro possessed for blending Tin Pan Alley and the Brill Building. Laura listed herself on the vinyl back cover as "the writer, composer, voices, piano and witness to the confession."
It is widely accepted that her earthy musical style and candid sexual imagery are about her men, e.g. Eli's Coming,""December's Boudoir," and "The Confession," e.g. “love my lovething – super ride inside my lovething.”
Her bi-sensual style in "Emmie" has become accepted as an open expression of same-sex attraction on Laura's part. The actual person, if a particular person, is still an intriguing poser.
She was reported to have said at concerts that the song "Timer" was about one of her pets. The opening musical phrasing conjures a pace and the lyrics evoke an imagery of a dog walk.
The song is her musings about love, e.g. "you're a fine one Timer you got me walking thru the gates of Space."
But, who was "My lady…, she broke down, she got up, she let go."?
Who was the muse for "I like her song and if the song goes minor - I won't mind"?
Who is being put on notice in “And Timer knows the lady’s gonna love again if you don’t love me” and “The lady rambles never more if you love me true” and
“If you love me true - I’ll spend my life with you - you and Timer.”?
Any doubt as to the lover being a woman was dispelled by Laura’s redacted version of “Timer” performed on May 30, 1971 in live concert at the Fillmore East. It becomes apparent when viewed in the context of the song “American Dove” which was Laura’s love song to her fiancé, a decorated Vietnam war veteran. Both songs were released on SPREAD YOUR WINGS AND FLY.
Is the woman also the inspiration for “Désiree” on the album Gonna take a miracle?
Is it the young woman silhouetted with Laura on the back cover of the vinyl album jacket of ELI and the THIRTEENTH CONFESSION?
The picture is worth 1,000 confessions and renderings of the image are an easy find on-ine.
The songs are a treat, a treasure trove of her musical precocity and lyrical poetry. Even though the silhouetted picture is not on the back of the CD, the re-mastered songs beat the dust off the vinyl.

Laura Nyro | Reviewer: Anonymous
------ About the song He's a Runner performed by Laura Nyro

Laura Nyro was a singer songwriter who was very popular in the 60's-70's period.Many of her songs were remade by other singers and it is those versions you hear on the radio today.This is unfortunate,because the remakes sound very much like the originals(with less feeling) ,and as a consequence when they play her music they usually credit some pop group instead of Laura Nyro.Check out her album for the real deal.

The Bells, Laura Nyro | Reviewer: JIm Hosp
------ About the song The Bells performed by Laura Nyro

05/15/07 "The Bells" is simply one of the most moving songs I have ever heard. I am greatful to have first heard Laura Nyro in 1969. To this day Laura Nyro connects with me better than any other singer/song writer. Her songs became the favorites of several of my girlfriends over the years. Her songs were "our songs". I cried when I learned of her passing. Listening to "The Bells" touches my very soul. I hope you get a chance to listen to Laura Nyro music. You will come away a better person.

Strident, maybe, but funny and seem to look at another side | Reviewer: mianfeinàn
------ About the song The Right to Vote performed by Laura Nyro

The second song on her 1984 album "Mother's Spiritual", this is the most stridently feminist song in her canon. The whole song is a fantasy - almost - of an escape from what she sees, in the manner of Elizabeth Gould Davis' "The First Sex", as the constricting nature of patriarchy. She sees that merely giving women the vote is not going to liberate them and that only when they are freed from the judgmental viewpoints of patriarchal religion can women become truly liberated.

Yet, Laura fails to succumb to the trap of becoming aggressive and violent in her tone. In the second verse, in particular, she sings "Patriarchal great religions/Full of angels/Forgiving and fair" critics would no doubt say Nyro really does knows how egocentric the views she puts forward are and that the utopia put forward in "The First Sex" etc. really could not exist.

Musically, this song has the closest links to Nyro's pre-"Smile" work of any song on "Spiritual", owing to its funky bassline and prominent piano. In places it is very reminiscent of a stripped-down, slowed-down version of very early ("First Songs") Nyro - though with usefully less thin production.

Moving | Reviewer: doug
------ About the song He's a Runner performed by Laura Nyro

From the days of old--performed also by the 5th dimension and also by Blood, sweat and Tears--I believe.

Laura sang and played it on her first album. One can only wonder to whom she was referrng.

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