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From | "Gene Good" <javagene@hotmail.com> |
Subject | Re: Laura and Todd |
Date | Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:06:31 +0000 |
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"Magic Garden" is one of my all time favorite albums.Can never get enough
Jimmy Webb.
Where would the Fifth Dimension be without Jimmy Webb or Laura Nyro?
>From: cloudeleven@comcast.net
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org, audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Laura and Todd
>Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 04:27:56 +0000
>
>Gene wrote:
><Is the Laura/Todd connection touched on in the book at all?I believe,
>aside
>from mutual admiration ,that they were freinds.It is amazing to listen to
>those early TR solo albums and hear so much of her in there.
>thanks for the heads up on the Cosmic Rough Riders song.Have their first
>one
>but wasn't sure about any after that.>
>
>Laura and Todd were indeed good friends according to the book. Laura
>actually wanted Todd to head up her band at one time but he was starting
>his own band, The Nazz. She also asked him to produce some of Mother's
>Spiritual but they ended up clashing a bit, so he only played synth on that
>album. Interesting that Todd's obsession with Laura showed up on those
>early recordings, but to me he sounded more like Carole King on a lot of
>that stuff.
>
>Who ever it was that asked about 'The Girls' Song', that one was written by
>Jimmy Webb, another great talent. The 5th Dimension's album The Magic
>Garden, which that song is from, is a masterpiece. All Jimmy Webb songs,
>except for their version of Ticket To Ride.
>
>Rick G.
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