I worked with some guys back in the early 70's who loved Nyro. I got into her
stuff via 5th Dimension and early singles. In the last year or so I've been
listening to her again. The version of Poverty Train on the expanded Monterey
Pop film is great. Funny, reviews at the time said she got booed off stages,
and only played because her manager was also someone else's. Was it albert
Grossman, or Simon And Garf's. I don't remember now.

I played Poverty Train on the radio a while back and the boss came in and said
"you're not suppose to be playing this on your show, we can't believe it". They
were of couse joking, and jealous that they never think to...

I think I've gathered up all the Columbia albums. I used to have the Verve
issue of the early stuff, but I'm afraid I traded it away and replaced it with
the reissue...

Julie Driscoll and the Trinity do a fab version of Save The Country on Street
Noise. Always dug that.

RS

moteeko@telerama.com wrote:

> Quoting Marty Rudnick <mrudnick@marturo.com>:
>
> > I truly love Laura Nyro.  Especially her first two albums.
> >
> > Sadly, gone...but not forgotten.
> >
> > ...I just needed to say that.
> >
> > Marty
> >
> >
>
> I'm with ya, bro. I started to pick up her CDs out of curiosity based on the
> hits other people had with her songs. Read the bio, then got more. Whatta
> talent.
>
> Greg,
> not surreying or picnicing at the moment...

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