Live at KRAFT MUSIC HALL Thank you all for commenting and loving Laura! =D. + Informações

Song: "Stoned Soul Picnic" Artist: Laura Nyro Album: Eli & the Thirteenth Confession Year: 1968. + Informações

Laura Nyro "POVERTY TRAIN" Monterey Pop Festival 1967. + Informações

NBC's 'Kraft Music Hall Presents the Sounds of the Sixties' aired January 15, 1969. *Not the best quality*. + Informações

Song: "And When I Die" Artist: Laura Nyro Album: The First Songs Year: 1973. + Informações

Laura Nyro (October 18, 1947 -- April 8, 1997) was an American composer, lyricist, singer, and pianist. Her style was a hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, show tunes, rock and soul. She was best known, and enjoyed her greatest commercial success, as a composer and lyricist rather than as a performer. Between 1968 and 1970 a number of other singers had significant hits with her songs: The 5th Dimension with "Blowing Away", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Sweet Blindness", "Save The Country" and "Black Patch"; Blood, Sweat & Tears and Peter, Paul & Mary with "And When I Die"; Three Dog Night with "Eli's Coming"; and Barbra Streisand with "Stoney End", "Time and Love", and "Hands off the Man (Flim Flam Man)". Nyro's best-selling single was her recording of Carole King and Gerry Goffin's "Up on the Roof." Lyrics: Loving you so I was too blind to see you letting me go But now that you've set me free It's gonna take a miracle Yes, it's gonna take a miracle To make me love someone new Cause I'm crazy for you Oh oh, didn't you know It wouldn't be so easy lettin' you go I could have told you that it's gonna take a miracle oh-uh Yes, it's gonna take a miracle To make me love someone new Cause I'm crazy for you Oh, tho' I know I can't forget? about you or come so? will show you how much You're turning me around, destroying me I'll never be the same anymore You must realize You took your love and left me Quite by surprise You can .... + Informações

Here is Laura Nyro's earliest recording of "And When I Die" in 1966, age 18. Also afterward is a short spoken clip of Laura in 1995.. + Informações

Fifth song on Christmas and the Beads of Sweat, final track on side one of the LP. A Drifters cover, this was the first single and Laura's only charting one as a performer, peaking at #92. How saddeningly ironic... When this old world starts getting me down, and people are much too much for me to take, (Up on the roof...) I climb right up to the top of the stairs, and all my cares just drift right into space... On the roof, the only place I know Where you just have to wish to make it snow... Up on the roof... When I get home, feeling tired and beat, I go up where the air is fresh and sweet (Up on the roof...); I get away from the hustling crowd, and all that rat-race noise down in the street... At night, the stars put on a show for free... Darling, you can share it all with me; Let's go, I keep telling you... Right smack dab in the middle of town, I've found a paradise that's trouble-proof; And if this world starts getting you down, there's room enough for two up on the roof... Up on the roof... (Up on the roof... Come on, baby, come on, baby, up on the roof...) Up on the roof.... + Informações

from the 1966 album LAURA NYRO - THE FIRST SONGS (aka MORE THAN A GREAT DISCOVERY). + Informações

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This song, later a hit for Barbra Streisand, was the original b-side to Nyro's debut single "Wedding Bell Blues" (pictured). The song was selected from Nyro's debut album ("More Than a New Discovery"), but when it came time to put it on a b-side, the record company balked at the line about being "raised on the good book Jesus," fearing that might be offensive. Nyro wrote a few substitute lines but she didn't just punch them in -- she re-recorded the entire vocal. So this version has never been rereleased on LP or CD, although it would have made a nice bonus track. The mix is also slightly different than on the original LP. Nyro's altered opening lines are "I was born from love/ and I was raised on golden rules/ till the love of a winsome Johnny/ taught me love was made for fools." Interestingly, Nyro would go on to use the uncommon word "winsome" on her next album in the closing track: ("Oh, I hate my winsome lover").. + Informações

Seventh song on New York Tendaberry and the earliest written. It's likely the most accessible song on the album, apparently being one of the two tracks universal enough to be covered (the other being "Save the Country"). So winter froze the river, and winter birds don't sing; So winter makes you shiver, so time is gonna bring you spring... So he swears he'll never marry, says that cuddles are a curse; Just tell him plain, "You're on the next train if our love don't get there first..." Time and love, everybody, time and love (oh, time and love!) Nothing cures like time and love... Don't let the Devil fool you - here comes a dove; Nothing cures like time and love... For the man if you please, if you think, and if you can... So winter froze the river, and winter birds don't sing; So winter makes you shiver, so time is gonna bring you spring... You've been running, you've been rambling, and you don't know what to do A holy golden wager says that love will see you through... Time and love, everybody, time and love (oh, time and love!) Nothing cures like time and love... Don't let the Devil fool you - here comes a dove; Nothing cures like time and love... For the man if you please, if you think, and if you can... (Love for the man if you please...) So Jesus was an angel, and mankind broke His wing, But Jesus gave His lifeline so sacred bells could sing... Now, a woman is a fighter, gathered white or African; A woman is a woman inside, has miracles for her man at night... Time .... + Informações

Eleventh and final song on New York Tendaberry. Words fail me. New York tendaberry... blue berry... A rush on rum, of brush and drum, And the past is a blue note, inside me... So I ran away in the morning... New York tendaberry, blue berry... Rugs and drapes, and drugs and capes... Sweet kids in hunger slums; Firecrackers break and they cross and they dust and they skate, and the night comes... I ran away in the morning... Now I'm back, unpacked... Sidewalk and pigeon; You look like a city, but you feel like religion to me... New York tendaberry... true berry... I lost my eyes in east wind skies... Here where I've cried, where I've tried, Where God and the tendaberry rise... Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life, for precious years... Join for life, through silver tears... New York tendaberry.... + Informações

The first track on Laura Nyro's epic, best album New York Tendaberry. Two mainstream die; You don't love me when I cry... Have to say goodbye - I don't wanna say goodbye - baby, goodbye... And mister, I, I got funky blues all over me; Such tender persuasion... I want, I want to die; You don't love me when I cry... Made me love to play, made me promise I would stay, then you stayed away... Mister, I got drawn-blinds' blues all over me; Rubies and smoke-rings... Whoa, whoa... No, no, no, you, no, no, no... I will go, I will stay, in the hours of my crying day... In the hours of my crying day... In the hours of my crying day... In the hours of my crying day, ah, hey... In the hours of my crying day, uh, hey, hey... .. ? EMI BLACKWOOD MUSIC INC.;. + Informações

Tenth song on New York Tendaberry, with just an AMAZING chorus. Lyrically, it seems to be about a young woman leaving home to be with her lover, with snatches of lyrics that seem to make little sense (that bridge?). The piano work is awe-inspiring. Mama, Mama, you're a whiz and a scholar too - Mama, open up the room lock; Sip sip, I'm going to the moon dock.. He gives to me buckles off shingles off a cockleshell, on Norway basin... Coke and tuna, boots, and roses from Russia; Now I'll live and die and rise with my captain; Mama, told my Mama, say go Meet me, Captain Saint Lucifer; Darlin', I'll be there, don't you know? Whoa, whoa... Meet me, Captain Saint Lucifer; Darlin', I'll be there, and don't you know? Now, don't you know I love you? Meet me, Captain Saint Lucifer... La la la la la la la la, oo, I love you... love you I do! Mama, Mama, you're a whiz and a scholar too - Mama, I'm at anchor in your glow now, Sip sip - Even as I go now... He gives to me buckles off shingles, and a jangle from a Congo love chase; Early bloomers made of earth and love lace... Now I'll live and die and rise with my captain; Mama, told my mama "Be happy..." Meet me, Captain Saint Lucifer; Darlin', I'll be there, don't you know? Whoa, whoa... Meet me, Captain Saint Lucifer; Darlin', I'll be there, and if you know... Gutters in stacks is where I come from, buckles off a poverty drum; Oh, my love, trumpet soul, Tell Gabriel to tell the captain, "Thank you, baby - You're my baby, now...". + Informações

*Audio only* Nyro is interviewed by William Kloman on 'Critique', a public television series. From 1/1/69. + Informações

Laura Nyro performing a rare version of her classic song, "Emmie" at Fillmore East, 1970.. + Informações

Sixth song on New York Tendaberry, begins side 2 of the original LP. Seems to be about a crude, backstreet abortion. Don't go to Gibsom 'cross the river; The devil is hungry, the devil is sweet... If you are soft then you will shiver; They hang the alley cats on Gibsom Street... They hang the alley cats on Gibsom Street... Whoa, Gibsom, Gibsom Street... I wish my baby were forbidden; I wish that my world be struck by sleet... I wish to keep my mirror hidden, To hide the eyes that looked on Gibsom Street... To hide the eyes that looked on Gibsom Street... Whoa, Gibsom, Gibsom Street... Oh, my sorrow, oh, my morning, Oh, my sorrow, oh, my morning, Oh, my sorrow, oh, my morning... There is a man, he knows where I'm going, yes; He gave me a strawberry to eat... I sucked its juices, never knowing That I would sleep that night on Gibsom Street.... + Informações

Ninth song on New York Tendaberry. A sort of sequel to "The Man Who Sends Me Home", but more lyrically obtuse. I have had this song stuck in my head for the past week. The last picture, the back cover of the original artwork for New York Tendaberry, bears the "Where is the night luster? / Past my trials" lyric as an inscription, in case you can't read it. :) I belong to the man; Don't belong without him... When I sleep without him, Loneliness... Loneliness... My dreams with God, softly waiting... I belong to the man.... Sweet lovin', baby, oh, sweet lovin' baby; I want you - I could almost die... He says, "There's gold in you darling, drew gold when I woke her; She's an ole chain smoker... Grace and the Preacher, blown fleets of sweet eyed dreams tonight..." Loneliness! Comes down like loneliness, loneliness... Natural windmill, wheel weave and bless... My bed... my bed... my man... My man... Get up, oh, yeah... That's lovin, baby... oh, sweet lovin' baby... Where is the night luster? Past my trials... Sparkling in flight in your arms, for all of my life.... + Informações

Fourth song on New York Tendaberry. It's so freewheeling, and I love it, even though I have little clue what it means - maybe I'll find out when I move to NY. The "HAH!" at the very end kills me. Madison smiled, and she hung with a band of strays; Band was gone, bringin' it on to the Broadway blaze... Once, I lived under the city in my sweet July... July, mercy on Broadway! Don't you believe it! You better know what I say - she'll make you pay... Down the alleyway, slippin' off a sidestreet; Shine, everybody, shine, everybody, Everybody, shine, everybody... On Broadway, jive and pray, there ain't no mercy now on Broadway... People and the landlords shine, down and gay wine In the doom, swept the band away... (Baby, on Broadway...) Is she mild, like mother and child? Does she obey? Once, I lived under the city in my sweet July... July, mercy on Broadway! Don't you believe it! You better know what I say - she'll make you pay... Black city fair, ole road-runner there; Shine, everybody! (Everybody!) Everybody, shine, everybody... shine, everybody... Baby, no mercy on Broadway, mercy on Broadway, mercy on Broadway... HAH!. + Informações

Lyrics: I'll never hear the bells if you leave me I'll never hear the bells I'll never hear the bells if you leave me I'll never hear the bells Do you hear what I hear When your lips are kissing mine Can you hear the bells darling Can you hear them when I'm kissing you What do I have to do to make you feel the tingling too Can you hear the bells darling Can you hear them when I'm kissing you Oh yeah Oh, I hear the bells, ringing in my ear Oh, saying do you love me, do you love me, do you love me, do you love me like I love you Oh, there's one thing that I want you to remember If you ever leave me I believe I'll go insane And I'll never hear the bells again No, I'll never hear the bells again No, I'll never hear the bells again. + Informações

Laura Nyro Sings "Save The Country". + Informações

From Eli and The 13th Confession, 1969 (Japan). Fantástica pianista e cantora norte-americana. 1947-1997.. + Informações

Neste video (um extrato do programa "Spectacle Elvis Costello with...") Elton John fala sobre a importância da obra de Laura Nyro ea tremenda influência da cantora em sua carreira. Ao comentar sobre as peculiaridades de Nyro ao compor, suas marcas de estilo, ele demonstra diretamente como isso o influenciou em algumas de suas canções. Além disso, John fala sobre Patti LaBelle (com quem Laura gravou o disco "Gonna Take a Miracle", em 1971), a turnê que fizeram juntos, e as dificuldades financeiras pelas quais alguns artistas de R&B e da gravadora Montown passaram nos anos 60. - Legendado em português - Visitem o site/blog que fiz em homenagem a Laura: lauranyro.blogspot.com. + Informações

Rumer performs a mesmerizing rendition of Laura Nyro's "American Dove" at the World Cafe Live's intimate upstairs venue in Philadelphia on Oct. 23, 2011.. + Informações