That was a great official entrance for Laura... now I need to hear more lol. How could I not after hearing this??? Please leave any suggestions down below!
I’ll include her incredible song BEEN ON A TRAIN about drug addiction (Lee I’m a fellow recovering drug addict). It’s haunting, raging & gorgeous. No one writes and sings like Laura❤
Stoney End (a huge hit for Barbra Streisand) which Laura recorded when she was 19 Gibsom Street is a more challenging listen, but it's Laura at her emotionally-charged best
You can really hear the influence she had on Todd Rundgren. A great side by side would be Sweet Blindness by 5th Dimension & Laura. There’s a fantastic video of the 5th Dimension in France driving in a car down a Blvd.
I always am amazed by Laura Nyro. It feels like she arrived from another planet, fully formed in her own style -- compositions, arrangements, vocals. Still don't comprehend how she did it.
Thank you, Lee. You just made my day! Laura spoke to our young, restless and wild hearts . In my opinion, nobody else has ever come this close to capturing the the essence of the magical late '60s. !magical time to be to come of age. ❤❤❤
Absolutely blown away by these entrancing songs L33... No words could describe these and there are tears in my eyes from the magnificence! Thanks L33 and past commenters! ☮❤🎶
@L33Reacts please do! This whole album is amazing, and I don't say that very often. Great talent. This album especially is such a vibe and the songwriting is top-tier. IMHO of course, but I know I'm not alone. Thanks Lee!
She pulled this stuff off perfectly at the Monterey Pop Festival. I was there for the whole weekend and her set was right up there in the top 5 of that unbelievable gig.
Laura Nyro was the BEST! I saw her in concert more than a dozen times. One of my life’s biggest blessings. Btw: all of Laura’s versions are better than the covers IMO.
Poverty Train is so profound. December’s Boudoir is gorgeous. She was profoundly influenced by the city sounds of acapella groups out on the stoops of NYC. Her covers of Motown songs with La Belle on “Gonna Take A Miracle” is such a treat for the ears and pays tribute to her influences. For me she bookends Joni’s “folk” genius with her “city” portraits painted with words like only Laura Nyro can. She was madly respected by everyone.
I never heard her version of Eli's Comin. Very different vibe from 3 Dog Night. I love her changes and directions and od course VOie. Done to perfection.. Loved it!! Laura was a prolific songwriter. Another great singer/songwriter is Karla Bonoff ❤
I would suggest listening to the rest of the album these two songs came fro , Eli & The 13th Confession, not a bad cut on the album. The next album, New York Tenderberry, is also a masterpiece in it’s own rite👌
Absolutely. These two albums are my favorites of her. Stunning, somehow experimental, stellar. No easy listening. Grows on and on every time you hear it. Michele Kort wrote a very interesting biography about Laura. Greetings from Germany!
I know what you mean, but I think of her as under-appreciated. She was not underrated by those in the know and other professionals of the time. I agree, she was a genius and very unique compared to many of her contemporaries who were more folk/rock.
@@L33Reacts Wonderful. Love your reactions, man! For an enchanting love song, with those wonderful Nyro tempo changes, try "Emily." But really you can't go far wrong. For covers of other people's (all MoTown, as I recall) songs, try the album Gonna Take A Miracle, with LaBelles doing awesome back up. Every cut will blow you away
I agree she was under-appreciated by the listening audience of the time. I don't think she ever had a top 40 hit, even as many of her songs were big hits for other artists. Her style was too individualistic, too...sharp for popular radio. As a songwriter and singer, I'd put her right up there with Joni Mitchell -- so personal, so distinctive, so deep. And the song that to me best epitomizes this is "You Don't Love Me When I Cry" from her New York Tendaberry album. Listening to it is like peering into her naked soul.
@@jnagarya519 That's correct! She was definitely NOT played on top-40 AM radio, except maybe on the west coast for a short time, with one of her songs.
@@MissAstorDancer She was played a bit on ONE FM radio station in the New England region -- but that was 1968 when FM was just beginning to take off -- when it was still experimental and before it was commercialized.
So original and ahead of her time. I obviously heard the covers before I discovered her originals, and it was a delightful shock to see how true to her versions the covers were. Just hidden gems.
I was one of the commenters recommending Laura when you did the 3 Dog Night cover so I’m SOOO HAPPY you decided to do her! I saw Laura twice in concert, the first time was the only concert I ever went to alone when I was 16 in 1974. Both times it was as if we all were seeing some mythical creature and she was awesome❤
Wow! I knew she wrote these songs, but I'd never listened to her version and a female version of Eli's coming by! by her was wow!!! 5th Dimension had this huge hit with this song. Laura can hold her own. More of her Lee!! daaaaaaaang
Laura Nyro was a bona fide *genius* with a unique talent. Her sequence of albums from Eli & The 13th Confession through to Gonna Take A Miracle are right up there with *anyone* - I mean including Joni Mitchell, Dylan, Paul Simon, all the greats. Her flame didn't burn for as long as those others, but it burned quite as brightly. You can't go wrong with literally any song from those albums; special recommendations, two from each album: Poverty Train and December's Boudoir; You Don't Love Me When I Cry and Gibsom Street; Brown Earth and Christmas In My Soul; You've Really Got A Hold On Me and Spanish Harlem.
I can tell from these two songs that she is absolute genius. I can’t imagine what the rest of her catalog sounds like. Thank you for the suggestions, I will definitely be doing more of her ASAP
How were these songs never played on the radio 📻? Amazing. The Fifth Dimension had big hits written by Laura Nyro but Nyro’s voice was a little brassy for the time.
Eli’s Comin’ (Three Dog Night) is celebratory for me… about falling in love with one you’ve just met…I forgot how good Laura is!! She was different. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Her Stoned Soul Picnic by The Fifth Dimension is engrained in my heart. Thanks, Lee!!
Saw her live I was 19. Such a pure talent. she didnt like perfrming live that much but was fabulous ....very NYC writer style. bit of Broadway ....Bit of Jazz Bit of pop roick folk.
I saw her when I was 16, by myself, in 1974 and she was indeed magical. Then again in 1988 at The Fillmore in SF. It felt as if she was an elusive creature and we all were so grateful to be in the same room with her. When she first opened her mouth to sing it was like a collective gasp because she was really in our midst❤
Apparently I have lived under a rock lo these many years. How have I never heard of her outside your channel? I blame drugs, lol. Fantastic songs from a wonderful singer gone too soon. So good, she brings me to tears. Thanks, L33, we need more from her. Blessings all.
She is in the same class as Carole King. At the age of seventeen, she wrote her first hit, “And When I Die,” which was later recorded and made famous by Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
Laura's final album, recorded shortly before her passing, is just as brilliant and soulful as her ear lier music. "Angel in the Dark" is a great mix of blues, funk, jazz and folk.
He said she changed his song writing approach. While he was with "Nazz" he tried to write songs the way the "Who" would. When he went solo he tried to write like "Laura Nyro" and he took off.
You should "review and react" to this entire album "Eli and the thirteenth confession" by Laura, this woman has passion, funk, soul, rock, she'll sing soft, then wails, along with a lot of these songs being accompanied by her piano playing and her writing all of these songs. This album has been "praised" through the years as one of the best album "ever'...Her "New York tendaberry" and "Christmas and my soul" albums are also EPIC!.
Laura was the first artist signed by David Geffen to the new Asylum records label. An amazing voice! Geffen certainly had a talent for finding great female singers. After Nyro, he discovered Joni Mitchell & Linda Ronstadt.
Oh, Laura was brilliant. Go for the non hits. "Timer", "Captain St. Lucifer", "Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp" (try the live version), "Blackpatch", "Mr. Blue", "To A Child"...the list is endless.
Pronounced NEE-roh. Great reactions. Probably the premier female singer-songwriter. Unique and ridiculously inventive. Of this great album I'd say tracks to try next: Poverty Train for its haunting trip; Emmie for the tender feminine cycle a girl becoming a woman and looking back at her youth; and December's Boudoir for its passion and sheer musical ingenuity.
Nice picks Lee..Keep it up Laura Nyro (near- row) Laura wrote many songs for other artists, not really being a performer "singer" herself, till later in her life. I believe a lot of writers didn't believe they had the voice to sing songs.
Thank you man! She was hard to categorize: NY, soul, rock, blues, jazz…..I think that’s partly why she was not bigger. Duane Allman plays on Beads of Sweat, a rocker. You got it! Her versions are better than the covers, every time. Eli is a great LP. Others I like best are Christmas and the Beads of Sweat and Smile. Many like New York Tender berry more….I love some of it. She is intense early on (btw: her and When I Die is the best) and more mellow after she had a baby and took a break. No, she was never big.
The way her pitch never wavers on those "blue" notes that sparkle through all her songs. Her first four albums are, rightly, celebrated but her later stuff is top notch too. Try "I Am The Blues" from "Smile", "Mother's Spiritual" from the album of the same name, "Broken Rainbow" from "Walk the Dog and Light the Light". Just dip in anywhere- they're all great.
The track between these two on the album is my favorite song hers. It's called "Timer" and has about six major changes in three and a half minutes, never returning to any of them. Some people don't care for this one. She is the only one who understood the lyrics to it. At the end of the song you will be out of breath. Hands down, my favorite female vocalist. She was brilliant.
Laura Nyro was a young singer-songwriter who never had a big hit record of her own. Other artists would take her songs and re-arrange them slightly and get a gold record. And When I Die was written at age 17, and her songs were an inventive mix of genres, but perhaps not conventional enough for mass consumption. She began her recording career in 1966 when she was 18 years old. Her first album was released in February 1967 but it didn't sell, but even before this other artists were aware of her songs and asking to cover them. Nyro played at the Monterey Pop Festival in San Francisco but a critic panned her performance and called her music melodramatic. She wasn't comfortable on stage, and this didn't help her career any. The Fifth Dimension had hits with several Laura Nyro songs and may have been the best advocates of her music. They were a singing group, not a band, much like The Supremes or The Temptations. They had hits with these Nyro songs: -Sweet Blindness -Stoned Soul Picnic -Blowing Away -Wedding Bell Blues -Save The Country Other hits written by Laura Nyro: Eli's Comin' > Three Dog Night Stoney End > Barbra Streisand And When I Die > Blood Sweat and Tears After failing to achieve commercial success she left the music industry after her 1971 album Gonna Take a Miracle. She returned in 1976, and continued to write and perform, but never wrote another hit song. She was always out of sync with the industry and popularity.
She was writing these mini-operas that could have been a damn Broadway musical but was doing it at such a young age. The songs for this album (her 2nd in fact, as her debut was in 1966 when she was barely 18 but re-released after Eli and the Thirteenth Confession) were written at age 20 or younger. Many she wrote as a teenager. A damn composition genius but her songs were bigger hits in the hands of others and she even retreated from the spotlight a lot after 1971, emerging to tour and release albums every few years after a comeback in 1976. Imagine being so good you feel worn out of energy and ideas by age 23! :D Writing on the wall was her final release for 5 years was a covers album (albeit a superb one) where she showed her influences off before retiring for a few years.
Yes, I've heard a few younger female artists cite her as an influence. Alanis Morissette is one maybe. Todd Rundgren also credited her as an influence in his his approach to song writing.
@@jnagarya519 Sorry. Elton John has spoken about his love of Laura Nyro. See if you can find the interview he did on Elvis Costello's "Spectacle" TV show.
Thank you! For me 'Christmas and the beads of sweat 'album is wonderful. Please listen to 'Christmas In My Soul'. Not an easy listen, but nothing is that is that powerful. 'Joy to this world'.
Thank you, Lee. You just made my day! Laura spoke to our young, restless and wild hearts . In my opinion, nobody else has ever come this close to capturing the the essence of the magical late '60s. !magical time to be to come of age. ❤❤❤
I’m glad to hear it Cindy! Thank you for watching! Yes, I feel cheated that I grew up in a different time to be honest lol. I’m kinda stuck in a world that doesn’t understand me. If I came before or after I think I would have been just fine… but it’s all good. I’m here for a reason lol
Back in the day, I learned not to sweat the meaning of lyrics because their meaning was rarely accessible. For example, I only recently learned who "Aqualung" actually was--50 years after that album blew me away. I didn't find out who "Eli" was until 40 years later, when I read a biography of Laura (who was very elusive). Anyway, I learned that Laura wrote the song when ... wait for it! ... she was pregnant. So, there you have it. Her talent wasn't widely-acknowledged but those in the know loved her. Most notably Joni Mitchell.
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That was a great official entrance for Laura... now I need to hear more lol. How could I not after hearing this??? Please leave any suggestions down below!
You must listen to her song Beads of Sweat, Duane Allman plays slide guitar on it. It's awesome!
Wedding Bell Blues. The Fifth Dimension did an excellent cover of it too.
I’ll include her incredible song BEEN ON A TRAIN about drug addiction (Lee I’m a fellow recovering drug addict). It’s haunting, raging & gorgeous.
No one writes and sings like Laura❤
Stoney End (a huge hit for Barbra Streisand) which Laura recorded when she was 19
Gibsom Street is a more challenging listen, but it's Laura at her emotionally-charged best
“It’s Gonna Take a Miracle”. You won’t be disappointed.
YEAH!!!! Someone FINALLY reacts to Laura Nyro
That’s a damn crime if I’m the first person to react to her
Listen to Poverty Train. Listen to Buy and Sell. Listen to Christmas In My Soul. Listen to Save The Country (album version).
@@L33Reacts
It’s a shame that most people under 60 years old have never heard of her.
Never got the praise that she deserves.
She was an insane prodigy. 19 when this record came out, 15, 16 when she wrote some of the songs.
Laura is still a sorely underappreciated genius. She was absolute gold.
Agreed and we'll said.
“ When I Was In Freeport & You Were The Main Drag” from Christmas Beads Of Sweat album.
You can really hear the influence she had on Todd Rundgren.
A great side by side would be Sweet Blindness by 5th Dimension & Laura. There’s a fantastic video of the 5th Dimension in France driving in a car down a Blvd.
Laura Nyro could sing and write with the best of them. So influential. Thanks Lee
That was my first time hearing her and WOW 😮 I know who I'm listening to tonight. 💘
I hope you enjoy! I can’t wait to listen to more as well
Welcome to the Laura tribe. #nyrotics.
Eli's Coming was a huge hit for Three Dog Night. Stoned Soul Picnic was a hit for the Fifth Dimension. Surrey on down!
"Stoney End" should be next from Laura. Big hit for Barbara Streisand. "Wedding Bell Blues" is another one. Big hit for the 5th Dimension.
I second that motion😊
Oh yeah! This ought to be good! "Red, yellow, honey, sassafras and moonshine..."
I always am amazed by Laura Nyro. It feels like she arrived from another planet, fully formed in her own style -- compositions, arrangements, vocals. Still don't comprehend how she did it.
Ive never heard of this lady. She is so good.
You probably know a lot of her songs which were covered by many different artists.
stoney end, is my favourite😮
Thank you, Lee. You just made my day! Laura spoke to our young, restless and wild hearts . In my opinion, nobody else has ever come this close to capturing the the essence of the magical late '60s. !magical time to be to come of age. ❤❤❤
RUclips keeps deleting my comments wtf
I had a nice reply and everything and now it’s gone 😂😂😂this is the third time today
@@L33Reacts 😢⁉😠
Wedding Bell Blues was my favorite, took me a while to remember, LOL!
Absolutely blown away by these entrancing songs L33... No words could describe these and there are tears in my eyes from the magnificence! Thanks L33 and past commenters! ☮❤🎶
Laura Nyro is a forgotten giant of the mid 60s early 70s songwriters.
Laura stayed to herself. But, she was absolutely electric. 💯
I get chills
This was terrific. I've heard these songs, but never heard this singer. More from Laura please.
“Brown Earth” from Christmas Beads Of Sweat
“New York Tendaberry” album, uniquely sparsely spaced personal masterpiece 👌
The entire album is a revelation, progressive singer songwriter pop jazz in the 60s. Nothing else quite like it!
Her first four albums were loaded with pop hits for many artists! ❤
Wow, I heard of her but never HEARD her. I say again...WOW. She is/was fantastic (RIP). Gonna listen to more
Yes, the original is leagues ahead of the cover. That goes for both of these!
It goes for all her songs. The covers don’t come close to Laura herself.
She left us way too soon. A fantastic songwriter.
I'm glad you enjoyed her music so much, but I'm not surprised. Even more amazing is that she was 20 years old when she recorded this album.
The whole album is genius! Poetry, R&B, timing and soaring vocals… she is sooooo missed
I have to hear the rest after hearing this. It was so good!
@L33Reacts please do! This whole album is amazing, and I don't say that very often. Great talent. This album especially is such a vibe and the songwriting is top-tier. IMHO of course, but I know I'm not alone. Thanks Lee!
Glad you found Laura. Your response is exactly the same as mine, the beauty, the soul, the power of Laura's music, melody and voice.
She is awesome! I felt the impact almost immediately in the first song when the chorus first starts. Absolutely great 👍
My favourite of the day! Wonderful!
Such a great talent, great songwriter. Her songs were hits, as covered by many artists.
❤🎉❤brilliant writer and singer! Now I know why Chuck put those high notes in Eli's Coming, amazing!! 🤩😍
Stone Soul 🎉🎉
You have made me cry twice today now! Blood Sweat and Tears and now Laura!! ❤❤❤❤❤Thank you!!! ❤ from Vegas!! Memories ❤
Stoned, Soul picnic is one of my favorites 😊
FYI: Fagen & Becker were big fans of this record
I always loved her she deserves so much more credit than she gets
Those just BLEW me away ❤
I'm so happy for you that you have decided to explore Laura's music. She was special and those who had the opportunity to cover her songs knew it.
Beautiful songs
Never heard of her. She's wonderful.
Bette Midler inducted her into the RRHF.
She pulled this stuff off perfectly at the Monterey Pop Festival. I was there for the whole weekend and her set was right up there in the top 5 of that unbelievable gig.
So thrilled to see you doing Laura Nyro!
Laura Nyro was the BEST! I saw her in concert more than a dozen times. One of my life’s biggest blessings. Btw: all of Laura’s versions are better than the covers IMO.
@@jimscholle2932 you were so lucky!!!
Stoney End - Barbra Streisand covered it. Fabulous song.
Poverty Train is so profound. December’s Boudoir is gorgeous. She was profoundly influenced by the city sounds of acapella groups out on the stoops of NYC. Her covers of Motown songs with La Belle on “Gonna Take A Miracle” is such a treat for the ears and pays tribute to her influences. For me she bookends Joni’s “folk” genius with her “city” portraits painted with words like only Laura Nyro can. She was madly respected by everyone.
"Stoned Soul Picnic" is so beautiful, I bought a c.d. in a charity shop that had both these tracks by Laura Nyro. Been a fan ever since
I never heard her version of Eli's Comin. Very different vibe from 3 Dog Night. I love her changes and directions and od course VOie. Done to perfection.. Loved it!! Laura was a prolific songwriter. Another great singer/songwriter is Karla Bonoff ❤
Laura Nyro (neero) is an all time favorite. Miss her to this day. 👏
Noted for her time changes, a/the pioneer in that regard👌✅
I would suggest listening to the rest of the album these two songs came fro , Eli & The 13th Confession, not a bad cut on the album.
The next album, New York Tenderberry, is also a masterpiece in it’s own rite👌
Absolutely. These two albums are my favorites of her. Stunning, somehow experimental, stellar. No easy listening. Grows on and on every time you hear it. Michele Kort wrote a very interesting biography about Laura. Greetings from Germany!
Thanks for reacting to this underrated genius
My pleasure… I’m definitely gonna do more!
I know what you mean, but I think of her as under-appreciated. She was not underrated by those in the know and other professionals of the time. I agree, she was a genius and very unique compared to many of her contemporaries who were more folk/rock.
@@rorystorm4284 "She was not underrated by those in the know and other professionals of the time. " True that!"
@@L33Reacts Wonderful. Love your reactions, man! For an enchanting love song, with those wonderful Nyro tempo changes, try "Emily." But really you can't go far wrong. For covers of other people's (all MoTown, as I recall) songs, try the album Gonna Take A Miracle, with LaBelles doing awesome back up. Every cut will blow you away
I agree she was under-appreciated by the listening audience of the time. I don't think she ever had a top 40 hit, even as many of her songs were big hits for other artists. Her style was too individualistic, too...sharp for popular radio. As a songwriter and singer, I'd put her right up there with Joni Mitchell -- so personal, so distinctive, so deep. And the song that to me best epitomizes this is "You Don't Love Me When I Cry" from her New York Tendaberry album. Listening to it is like peering into her naked soul.
I was there…..she was Big!!! She was all over the radio in those days
The COVERS were all over the radio.
@@jnagarya519 That's correct! She was definitely NOT played on top-40 AM radio, except maybe on the west coast for a short time, with one of her songs.
@@MissAstorDancer She was played a bit on ONE FM radio station in the New England region -- but that was 1968 when FM was just beginning to take off -- when it was still experimental and before it was commercialized.
Thanks for your review. Captain Saint Lucifer is another great track from her that rarely, if ever, gets a Reaction.
I still sing that song often around the house and I haven’t heard it for a long while😊
So original and ahead of her time. I obviously heard the covers before I discovered her originals, and it was a delightful shock to see how true to her versions the covers were. Just hidden gems.
Laura was and is NEW YORK SOUL, hands down.
You need to hear "Captain Saint Lucifer" from her New York Tendaberry album.
I was one of the commenters recommending Laura when you did the 3 Dog Night cover so I’m SOOO HAPPY you decided to do her!
I saw Laura twice in concert, the first time was the only concert I ever went to alone when I was 16 in 1974. Both times it was as if we all were seeing some mythical creature and she was awesome❤
I’m glad I listened to you guys! That was incredible lol. She is fantastic. I need to hear more!!
Good description of a Laura Nyro concert.
Glad to learn about and hear her! Thanks.
She was the best...
From just two songs I totally agree bro
Wow! I knew she wrote these songs, but I'd never listened to her version and a female version of Eli's coming by! by her was wow!!! 5th Dimension had this huge hit with this song. Laura can hold her own. More of her Lee!! daaaaaaaang
Laura Nyro was a bona fide *genius* with a unique talent. Her sequence of albums from Eli & The 13th Confession through to Gonna Take A Miracle are right up there with *anyone* - I mean including Joni Mitchell, Dylan, Paul Simon, all the greats. Her flame didn't burn for as long as those others, but it burned quite as brightly. You can't go wrong with literally any song from those albums; special recommendations, two from each album: Poverty Train and December's Boudoir; You Don't Love Me When I Cry and Gibsom Street; Brown Earth and Christmas In My Soul; You've Really Got A Hold On Me and Spanish Harlem.
I can tell from these two songs that she is absolute genius. I can’t imagine what the rest of her catalog sounds like. Thank you for the suggestions, I will definitely be doing more of her ASAP
Upstairs by a chinese lamp is gorgeous too.
@@elgato6053 They all are, let's face it.
How were these songs never played on the radio 📻? Amazing. The Fifth Dimension had big hits written by Laura Nyro but Nyro’s voice was a little brassy for the time.
I heard this album for the first time the same day I heard Astral Weeks for the first time. An amazing day of music I remember 35 years or so later.
Eli’s Comin’ (Three Dog Night) is celebratory for me… about falling in love with one you’ve just met…I forgot how good Laura is!! She was different. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Her Stoned Soul Picnic by The Fifth Dimension is engrained in my heart.
Thanks, Lee!!
Saw her live I was 19. Such a pure talent. she didnt like perfrming live that much but was fabulous ....very NYC writer style. bit of Broadway ....Bit of Jazz Bit of pop roick folk.
I saw her when I was 16, by myself, in 1974 and she was indeed magical. Then again in 1988 at The Fillmore in SF. It felt as if she was an elusive creature and we all were so grateful to be in the same room with her. When she first opened her mouth to sing it was like a collective gasp because she was really in our midst❤
Laura Nyro is very addicting. Those songs get in your system. I also suggest "Stoney End" and "Save the Country."
This whole album is AMAZING. Keep going!
Wedding Bell Blues (she wrote when she was very young, I believe) - the Fifth Dimension did a nice version of it, but Nyro's is the best. Iconic.
Elton John confessed that she was a major influence on him and inspiration to him
“Timer” from the same album.
I love Laura! I used to listen to this album on repeat. Glad you found her!
Apparently I have lived under a rock lo these many years. How have I never heard of her outside your channel? I blame drugs, lol. Fantastic songs from a wonderful singer gone too soon. So good, she brings me to tears. Thanks, L33, we need more from her. Blessings all.
You needed a better record store 😊
@@docnflossie7351 Small town had no record store, but not an excuse.
Shirley she blew me away too! I can’t wait to do more from her.
You should do her “Stoney End” as well as Barbra Streisand’s cover.
She is in the same class as Carole King. At the age of seventeen, she wrote her first hit, “And When I Die,” which was later recorded and made famous by Blood, Sweat, and Tears.
I just did that song today too! That’s why I did this video as well. It’s Laura day! lol
Carole King is boring.
Laura's final album, recorded shortly before her passing, is just as brilliant and soulful as her ear
lier music. "Angel in the Dark" is a great mix of blues, funk, jazz and folk.
She was hugely influential on Todd Rundgren.
He said she changed his song writing approach. While he was with "Nazz" he tried to write songs the way the "Who" would. When he went solo he tried to write like "Laura Nyro" and he took off.
You should "review and react" to this entire album "Eli and the thirteenth confession" by Laura, this woman has passion, funk, soul, rock, she'll sing soft, then wails, along with a lot of these songs being accompanied by her piano playing and her writing all of these songs. This album has been "praised" through the years as one of the best album "ever'...Her "New York tendaberry" and "Christmas and my soul" albums are also EPIC!.
Haven't heard Laura Nero in decades! Thanks L33. 👍
Laura was the first artist signed by David Geffen to the new Asylum records label. An amazing voice! Geffen certainly had a talent for finding great female singers. After Nyro, he discovered Joni Mitchell & Linda Ronstadt.
Oh, Laura was brilliant. Go for the non hits. "Timer", "Captain St. Lucifer", "Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp" (try the live version), "Blackpatch", "Mr. Blue", "To A Child"...the list is endless.
You don't have to pick from the two. Just love them both. 🙂👧🧑❤
Yes she loved to play w time & meter. Look up Todd Rundgren's wonderful song about her, Laura/How I Love to Shuffle.
“Woman’s Blues” from the same album.
Pronounced NEE-roh. Great reactions. Probably the premier female singer-songwriter. Unique and ridiculously inventive. Of this great album I'd say tracks to try next: Poverty Train for its haunting trip; Emmie for the tender feminine cycle a girl becoming a woman and looking back at her youth; and December's Boudoir for its passion and sheer musical ingenuity.
Ivan, thank you for watching and for the suggestions. I will definitely be doing more from her. This was incredible
@@L33Reactsyou've made my day getting home from work and seeing this. I can't say enough about how great she is, and this album especially to me.
Nice picks Lee..Keep it up Laura Nyro (near- row) Laura wrote many songs for other artists, not really being a performer "singer" herself, till later in her life. I believe a lot of writers didn't believe they had the voice to sing songs.
Thank you man! She was hard to categorize: NY, soul, rock, blues, jazz…..I think that’s partly why she was not bigger. Duane Allman plays on Beads of Sweat, a rocker. You got it! Her versions are better than the covers, every time. Eli is a great LP. Others I like best are Christmas and the Beads of Sweat and Smile. Many like New York Tender berry more….I love some of it.
She is intense early on (btw: her and When I Die is the best) and more mellow after she had a baby and took a break.
No, she was never big.
That was amazing ❤ thank you so much, Lee.
Her background singers are the LaBells. Yeah that’s Patty LaBell before she became a star herself.
Right, but only for the album "Gonna take a miracle".
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I didn’t realize that Patty and her sisters only sang on that album.
Gonna take a miracle is a great song with great vocals.
The way her pitch never wavers on those "blue" notes that sparkle through all her songs. Her first four albums are, rightly, celebrated but her later stuff is top notch too. Try "I Am The Blues" from "Smile", "Mother's Spiritual" from the album of the same name, "Broken Rainbow" from "Walk the Dog and Light the Light". Just dip in anywhere- they're all great.
While in Jr High school, she preformed an early version of Eli's Coming in music class to prove to the teacher that rock and roll wasn't junk.
The track between these two on the album is my favorite song hers. It's called "Timer" and has about six major changes in three and a half minutes, never returning to any of them. Some people don't care for this one. She is the only one who understood the lyrics to it. At the end of the song you will be out of breath. Hands down, my favorite female vocalist. She was brilliant.
Laura Nyro was a young singer-songwriter who never had a big hit record of her own. Other artists would take her songs and re-arrange them slightly and get a gold record. And When I Die was written at age 17, and her songs were an inventive mix of genres, but perhaps not conventional enough for mass consumption. She began her recording career in 1966 when she was 18 years old. Her first album was released in February 1967 but it didn't sell, but even before this other artists were aware of her songs and asking to cover them. Nyro played at the Monterey Pop Festival in San Francisco but a critic panned her performance and called her music melodramatic. She wasn't comfortable on stage, and this didn't help her career any.
The Fifth Dimension had hits with several Laura Nyro songs and may have been the best advocates of her music. They were a singing group, not a band, much like The Supremes or The Temptations. They had hits with these Nyro songs:
-Sweet Blindness
-Stoned Soul Picnic
-Blowing Away
-Wedding Bell Blues
-Save The Country
Other hits written by Laura Nyro:
Eli's Comin' > Three Dog Night
Stoney End > Barbra Streisand
And When I Die > Blood Sweat and Tears
After failing to achieve commercial success she left the music industry after her 1971 album Gonna Take a Miracle. She returned in 1976, and continued to write and perform, but never wrote another hit song. She was always out of sync with the industry and popularity.
Lara Fabian is another great writer and amazing singer who wrote so many top hits for others. She is Dimash' s idol( so to speak) .😮
She was writing these mini-operas that could have been a damn Broadway musical but was doing it at such a young age. The songs for this album (her 2nd in fact, as her debut was in 1966 when she was barely 18 but re-released after Eli and the Thirteenth Confession) were written at age 20 or younger. Many she wrote as a teenager. A damn composition genius but her songs were bigger hits in the hands of others and she even retreated from the spotlight a lot after 1971, emerging to tour and release albums every few years after a comeback in 1976. Imagine being so good you feel worn out of energy and ideas by age 23! :D Writing on the wall was her final release for 5 years was a covers album (albeit a superb one) where she showed her influences off before retiring for a few years.
Now you know where Tori Amos gets her sound from.
Yes, I've heard a few younger female artists cite her as an influence. Alanis Morissette is one maybe. Todd Rundgren also credited her as an influence in his his approach to song writing.
She died at the age of 47 of ovarian cancer.
I think she was 49, but of note her mother died of the same condition at the very same age. That's genetics.
A big influence on both Elton John and Rickie Lee Jones.
Rickie Lee Jones yes. But Elton John!? -- please.
@@jnagarya519he has said so. It may not be obvious but I believe him
@@jnagarya519 Sorry. Elton John has spoken about his love of Laura Nyro. See if you can find the interview he did on Elvis Costello's "Spectacle" TV show.
@@jnagarya519 Sorry. Elton John has spoken about his love for Laura Nyro. Look for the interview he did on Elvis Costello's
Spectacle" TV show.
freaking love laura nyro. try wedding bell blues and i met him on a monday.
Thank you! For me 'Christmas and the beads of sweat 'album is wonderful. Please listen to 'Christmas In My Soul'. Not an easy listen, but nothing is that is that powerful. 'Joy to this world'.
Thank you, Lee. You just made my day! Laura spoke to our young, restless and wild hearts . In my opinion, nobody else has ever come this close to capturing the the essence of the magical late '60s. !magical time to be to come of age. ❤❤❤
I’m glad to hear it Cindy! Thank you for watching! Yes, I feel cheated that I grew up in a different time to be honest lol. I’m kinda stuck in a world that doesn’t understand me. If I came before or after I think I would have been just fine… but it’s all good. I’m here for a reason lol
Sorry for the novel. 😂
Oh never mind here they are… lol
Back in the day, I learned not to sweat the meaning of lyrics because their meaning was rarely accessible. For example, I only recently learned who "Aqualung" actually was--50 years after that album blew me away. I didn't find out who "Eli" was until 40 years later, when I read a biography of Laura (who was very elusive). Anyway, I learned that Laura wrote the song when ... wait for it! ... she was pregnant. So, there you have it. Her talent wasn't widely-acknowledged but those in the know loved her. Most notably Joni Mitchell.