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| From | "Paul Myers" <pulmyears@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Laura Nyro "Triple Goddess Twilight" |
| Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:25:39 -0700 |
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I agree vis-a-vis the Todd / Laura continuum, (See Todd's song "Baby Let's
Swing" from Runt, the first line is "Laura, I saw you open in L.A....."
I'll bet he did. I grew up with the Todd version of the Laura piano-based
Gospel Show Tunes balladry. When I finally heard the original, via her
stunningly beautiful song "Triple Goddess Twilight", I realized just how
much of "We Gotta Get You A Woman" began there. Not to take away from Todd,
those records will always hold a mysteriously unquantifiable magic for me,
but "Triple Goddess Twilight" is like the blueprint, the template for most
things that came after it (within genre of course). I hear it in Rickie Lee
Jones as well. And I've always wondered if the early, folkie Joni Mitchell
made the Blue transition to stark piano ballads after hearing Laura. Of
course I always loved the cover versions too, Fifth Dimension "Stone Soul
Picnic" comes to mind.
I would have been nice if she'd lived, maybe done a soul ballad album with
kindred spirits like Prince.
Bless her dearly departed soul. Save the country!
Paul.
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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:12:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Alter <shteevea@yahoo.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Is it just me? Part II
Message-ID: <932480.55749.qm@web54406.mail
>
> .yahoo.com>
>
> There's a real good reason Todd Rundgren wanted to be Laura
> Nyro. :-) When I play those first few records for youngsters who have
> never heard of her, their look of awe is priceless.
>
> Marty Rudnick <mrudnick@marturo.com> wrote: ...or is Laura Nyro's first
> album, "More Than a New Discovery" (aka "The
> First Songs"), the greatest thing ever?
>
> Martya
>
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