Laura Nyro (/ˈnɪəroʊ/ NEER-oh; born Laura Nigro; October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter and singer. She achieved critical acclaim...
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Smile is the sixth album by New York singer, songwriter and pianist Laura Nyro. It was released in early 1976, following a four-year hiatus from the music...
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Spanish Harlem (song) (section Laura Nyro version)
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Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (category Laura Nyro albums)
album by New York City-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro, released in 1968. Nyro premiered some of the songs that were to appear on the album...
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significant success, including Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Laura Nyro, Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Chicago, Billy Joel, Donovan, Bay City Rollers...
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Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro is the second retrospective album by American musician Laura Nyro and the most comprehensive overview of her...
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Stoned Soul Picnic (song) (category Laura Nyro songs)
"Stoned Soul Picnic" is a 1968 song by Laura Nyro. The best-known version of the song was recorded by the 5th Dimension, and was the first single released...
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compilation retrospective album by Bronx-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. It was released in the UK in 1980 and features material from her first...
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31, 1995. Kuhn's second solo album, Serious Playground: The Songs of Laura Nyro, was released on October 2, 2007. In 2013, she released her third album...
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Told Me Not to Come"), Paul Williams ("An Old Fashioned Love Song"), Laura Nyro ("Eli's Comin'") and Hoyt Axton ("Joy to the World", "Never Been to Spain")...
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And When I Die (category Laura Nyro songs)
American singer and songwriter Laura Nyro. It was first recorded by the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary in 1966. Nyro released her own version on her...
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More Than a New Discovery (redirect from Laura Nyro (album))
Discovery is the debut album by Bronx-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. It was recorded during 1966 and released early in the following year...
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Eli's Comin' (category Songs written by Laura Nyro)
1967 by American singer-songwriter and pianist Laura Nyro. The song was first released in 1968 on Nyro's album, Eli and the Thirteenth Confession. While...
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2014. He also produced Billy Childs' Map of The Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro. He produced Melody Gardot's 2015 studio album Currency of Man, and her...
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Symphony Orchestra On her 1971 album Gonna Take a Miracle, singer-songwriter Laura Nyro performed a version of "The Bells" with backing vocals by the group Labelle...
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Wedding Bell Blues (category Laura Nyro songs)
"Wedding Bell Blues" is a song written and recorded by Laura Nyro in 1966. The best known version was a number one hit for the 5th Dimension in 1969. The...
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Monterey Pop Festival set list (section Laura Nyro)
Fest: Weekend to Remember". Cash Box. p. 7, 46. Kort, Michele. Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro. New York: St. Martin's Press, p. 71....
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New York Tendaberry (category Laura Nyro albums)
the third album by New York City-born singer, songwriter and pianist Laura Nyro. It was released in the autumn of 1969, on Columbia Records, some eighteen...
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Vinnie Vincent (section With Laura Nyro)
Instrument Guitar Years active 1970–1998 2018–present Member of Vinnie Vincent Invasion Formerly of Kiss Dan Hartman Treasure Laura Nyro Warrior Heat...
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group is also notable for having more success with the songs of Laura Nyro than Nyro did herself, particularly with "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Sweet Blindness"...
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Gonna Take a Miracle (category Laura Nyro albums)
the fifth album by New York City-born singer, songwriter and pianist Laura Nyro, with assistance by vocal trio Labelle. It was released on Columbia Records...
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original music, the group is known for arrangements of popular songs by Laura Nyro, James Taylor, Carole King, the Band, the Rolling Stones, Billie Holiday...
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1969), and Nazz III (1971). In March 1968, New York singer-songwriter Laura Nyro released her second album, Eli and the Thirteenth Confession. When Rundgren...
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Christmas and the Beads of Sweat (category Laura Nyro albums)
singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. The album was released on the Columbia Records label in November 1970 after Nyro had recorded it in the early...
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interpretations, and their cover choices gave exposure to Harry Nilsson, Laura Nyro, Randy Newman, Hoyt Axton, Russ Ballard and Leo Sayer. Their backing musicians...
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Angel in the Dark (category Laura Nyro albums)
from American singer-songwriter Laura Nyro, released after her death and made up of recordings from 1994 and 1995. Nyro recorded the album while participating...
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Stoney End (song) (category Songs written by Laura Nyro)
written by Laura Nyro and released in February 1967 on her debut album More Than a New Discovery. According to childhood friend Alan Merrill, Nyro originally...
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recording. A 20-year-old Laura Nyro gave one of her earliest performances at the Monterey Pop Festival. Lydon wrote that Nyro's "melodramatic" set, "accompanied...
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participated in Billy Childs' 2014 tribute album to Laura Nyro, Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro, performing on the track "And When I Die". Krauss...
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Laura: Live at the Bottom Line is the second live album by New York City-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro and her tenth original album in...
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