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About a month later, she sold "And When I Die" to Peter, Paul, and Mary for $5,000. [46], On April 14, 2012, Laura Nyro was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She had a relationship with singer/songwriter Jackson Browne in late 1970 to early 1971. "I idolized her," he concluded. Saatavuus Varastossa. Nyro invited Rundgren to become the musical director of her backing group, but his commitments to Nazz obliged him to decline. She said, "I would go out singing, as a teenager, to a party or out on the street, because there were harmony groups there, and that was one of the joys of my youth. Print and Download Wedding Bell Blues sheet music. Wedding Bell Blues Laura Nyro. She credited the Sunday school at the New York Society for Ethical Culture with providing the basis of her education; she also attended Manhattan's High School of Music & Art. Alvin Ailey choreographed Quintet in 1968 with 5 female members of his troupe dancing to several of Laura's songs from the first two albums. [Intro] (x2) Am G F G [Verse] Am G F G C Am Dm Bill, I love you so, I always will G C E Am F Em I look at you and see the passion, eyes of May Gm7 C7 F Bb F Dm G C G Oh, but am I ever gonna The same year Geffen and Nyro sold Tuna Fish Music to CBS for $4.5 million. Nyro wrote "Wedding Bell Blues" at the age of 18 as a "mini-suite". [citation needed]. Laura had a younger brother, Jan Nigro, who has become a well-known children's musician. In 1968, Columbia released Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, her second album, which received high critical praise for the depth and sophistication of its performance and arrangements, which merged pop structure with inspired imagery, rich vocals, and avant-garde jazz, and is widely considered to be one of her best works. Nyro was a feminist and openly discussed it on a number of occasions, once saying, "I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. This prompted Clive Davis, in his memoir, to note that her recordings, as solid as they were, came to resemble demonstrations for other performers. On September 17, 1966, Laura Nyro and Verve-Folkways released “Wedding Bell Blues"/"Stoney End” as a single. Laura attended the prestigious Manhattan's High School of Music and Art. A little-known fact, at this time, Laura was approached to become the lead singer for Blood, Sweat & Tears, but Geffen advised against this and she did not pursue this. While recording with Purdie, Arnold mentioned his love of Nyro's music; the drummer responded with a story about Nyro: at Nyro's home one night in the late 1970s, Purdie mentioned that he had been the uncredited drummer for Orpheus. "[13] Nyro commented: "I was always interested in the social consciousness of certain songs. Nyro performed increasingly in the 1980s and 1990s with female musicians, including her friend Nydia "Liberty" Mata, a drummer, and several others from the lesbian-feminist women's music subculture, such as members of the band Isis. [11][12]。, While in high school, she sang with a group of friends in subway stations and on street corners. She then embarked on a four-month tour with a full band, which resulted in the 1977 live album Season of Lights. Ellei kuvakansia ole, niin levy toimitetaan 7” singlelle tarkoitetussa levypussissa. Nyro's life and music were celebrated in a 2005 BBC Radio 2 documentary, Shooting Star – Laura Nyro Remembered, which was narrated by her friend Bette Midler and included contributions from her one-time manager David Geffen, co-producers Arif Mardin and Gary Katz, and performers Suzanne Vega and Janis Ian. [19] She never released an official video, although there was talk of filming some The Bottom Line appearances in the 1990s. She also sang Nyro's "I Never Meant to Hurt You" in her film Without You I'm Nothing. Louis Greenstein and Kate Ferber wrote "One Child Born: The Music of Laura Nyro," a one-woman show featuring Ferber and directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt. On June 17, 1967, Nyro appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival. The song originally featured several dramatic rhythmic changes—a trait Nyro explored on future albums. Geffen also arranged Nyro's new recording contract with Clive Davis at Columbia Records, and purchased the publishing rights to her early compositions. The album, which debuted as a concert to a sold-out house at Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series in January 2007, includes several of Nyro's biggest hits ("Stoned Soul Picnic", "Stoney End") as well as some of her lesser known gems. He also addressed Nyro's influence on his 1970 song "Burn Down the Mission", from Tumbleweed Connection, in particular. Poslechněte si skladbu Wedding Bell Blues od Laura Nyro, s počtem shazamů: 4,699, je součástí playlistů Laura Nyro Essentials a Fiona Apple: Influences ve službě Apple Music. In the 2004 drama film A Home at the End of the World can be heard Nyro's recordings of "Désiree" and "It's Gonna Take a Miracle", both songs from the album Gonna Take a Miracle. Wedding Bell Blues by Laura Nyro is featured in Yes/No, the tenth episode of Season Three.It is sung by Emma with Shannon and Sue singing back-up. With the exception of her attribution of "Désiree" (originally "Deserie" by The Charts), this was Nyro's sole album of wholly non-original material, featuring such songs as "Jimmy Mack", "Nowhere to Run", and "Spanish Harlem". [20] Her ashes were scattered beneath a maple tree on the grounds of her house in Danbury.[28]. [10], Nyro was close to her aunt and uncle, artists Theresa Bernstein and William Meyerowitz, who helped support her education and early career. Nyro's best-selling single was her recording of Carole King's and Gerry Goffin's "Up on the Roof". Rundgren and Nyro remained friends for much of her professional career and he subsequently assisted her with the recording of her album Mother's Spiritual. "One Child Born" was developed at CAP21 in New York City and has sold out Joe's Pub and the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York, World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, and other venues. [4][5], Nyro was born Laura Nigro in the Bronx, the daughter of Louis Nigro, a piano tuner and jazz trumpeter, and Gilda (née Mirsky) Nigro, a bookkeeper. Browne was Nyro's opening act at the time.[21]. In 1978, a short-lived relationship with Harindra Singh produced a son, Gil Bianchini (also known as musician Gil-T), whom she gave the surname of her ex-husband. Add all to Wantlist Remove all from Wantlist. [4], A hybrid daylily named for Laura Nyro was introduced in 2000.[47]. Écoutez en ligne et obtenez de nouvelles recommandations, uniquement sur Last.fm In February 1967, Verve Folkways released More Than A New Discovery. During the weekend after Thanksgiving in November 1969, she gave two concerts at Carnegie Hall. As a teenager, Laura went by various surnames. Add to Collection Add to Wantlist Remove from Wantlist. [41], On October 27, 1997, a large-scale tribute concert was produced by women at the Beacon Theatre in New York. Ian described her as looking like a "Morticia Addams" caricature with her long, dark hair, and called her a "brilliant songwriter" but "oddly inarticulate" in terms of musical terminology. Rickie Lee Jones's album Pirates and songs such as "We Belong Together" and "Living It Up" are reminiscent of early Laura Nyro songs, and Jones acknowledged Nyro's influence. Mogull had negotiated her a recording and management contract, and she recorded her debut album, More Than a New Discovery, for the Verve Folkways label (later re-named Verve Forecast). After the diagnosis, Columbia Records, with Nyro's involvement, prepared a two-CD retrospective of material from her years at the label. The album was nominated for three Grammys, with the "New York Tendaberry" track featuring Renee Fleming and Yo-Yo Ma winning for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals. In 1969 Verve re-issued Nyro's debut album as The First Songs. [18] Among her last performances were at Union Chapel, Islington, London, England in November 1994; The New York Bottom Line Christmas Eve Show in 1994; and at McCabe's in Los Angeles February 11 and 12, 1995. Edit Release All Versions of this Release New Submission . Martin's Press. [35] Several of the band's songs (specifically those written by Emma Anderson) have echoed Nyro's music in their titles – "When I Die", "Single Girl". In his memoir Clive: Inside the Record Business, Davis recalled Nyro's audition for him: she'd invited him to her New York apartment, turned off every light except that of a television set next to her piano, and played him the material that would become Eli and the Thirteenth Confession. The song "Stoney End" was performed by singer Sara Bareilles at the induction ceremony. Add to Collection Add to Wantlist Remove from Wantlist. And in fact, she wrote "Wedding Bell Blues" and the young age of 17! Nyro was born Laura Nigro in the Bronx, the daughter of Louis Nigro, a piano tuner and jazz trumpeter, and Gilda (née Mirsky) Nigro, a bookkeeper. Laura was of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent, with Italian ancestry from her paternal grandfather. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1966 Vinyl release of Wedding Bell Blues on Discogs. Deezer : musique en streaming gratuite. By the end of 1971, Nyro was married to carpenter David Bianchini. Nyro's influence on popular musicians has also been acknowledged by such artists as Joni Mitchell,[29] Carole King,[30] Tori Amos,[30] Patti Smith, Kate Bush, Diamanda Galas, Bette Midler,[31] Rickie Lee Jones,[31] Elton John,[30] Jackson Browne,[30] Alice Cooper,[31] Elvis Costello,[31] Cyndi Lauper,[31] Todd Rundgren,[31] Steely Dan,[31] Sarah Cracknell, Melissa Manchester, Lisa Germano, and Rosanne Cash. Laura Nyro: Wedding Bell Blues / Stoney End (7", Promo) Verve Forecast: KF5024: US: 1968: Sell This Version: Reviews Add Review [r12346028] Release. She pulled out well-worn copies of every Orpheus LP, as well as copies sealed for posterity. In the early 1980s, Nyro began living with painter Maria Desiderio (1954–1999),[23] a relationship that lasted 17 years, the rest of Nyro's life. Monterey Festival,June 16 to June 18, 1967, Monterey County Fairgrounds, California. On July 13, 1966, Laura Nyro recorded “Stoney End” and “Wedding Bell Blues”, as well as an early version of “Time and Love”, as part of More Than A New Discovery at Bell Sounds Studios, 237 West 54th Street, Manhattan. She lived to see the release of Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro in 1997. Under the terms of his partnership with Nyro, Geffen received half of the proceeds of the sale, making them both millionaires.[16]. An analysis of Nyro's music by music theorist Ari Shagal was written at the University of Chicago in 2003, linking Nyro's work to the Great American Songbook by demonstrating the similarities between her chordal language and those of Harold Arlen, Harry Warren, and George Shearing. [citation needed], Michele Kort, Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro, Thomas Dunne Books/St. [2], Nyro was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010, and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. "The soul, the passion, just the out and out audacity of the way her rhythmic and melody changes came was like nothing I've heard before."[34]. Ian was a fan of Nyro's work with producer Charlie Calello and chose him as the producer of her 1969 album Who Really Cares on the basis of his work with Nyro.[45]. She achieved critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) and New York Tendaberry (1969), and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and The 5th Dimension recording her songs. "[24][25], By the late 1980s, Nyro had become an animal rights activist and vegetarian, and began to offer literature on the subject at her concerts.[26]. [7][8], "I've created my own little world, a world of music, since I was five years old," Nyro told Billboard magazine in 1970, adding that music provided, for her, a means of coping with a difficult childhood: "I was never a bright and happy child. [38], Paul Stanley of Kiss has mentioned on several occasions that he is a big admirer of Nyro's music. She turned down lucrative film-composing offers, although she contributed a rare protest song to the Academy Award-winning documentary Broken Rainbow, about the unjust relocation of the Navajo people. Kanye West sampled Nyro on his 2007 album Graduation. More recently, in 2012, Anderson has referred to Laura Nyro as "wondrous" on her Twitter account.[36]. She completed More Than A New Discovery in New York on November 29, 1966 and, starting on January 16, 1967, Laura Nyro made her first extended professional appearance at age 19, performing nightly for about a month at the "hungry i" coffeehouse in San Francisco. Edit Release All Versions of this Release New Submission . On October 2, 2007, three-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn released her new album Serious Playground: The Songs of Laura Nyro. The song "Mean Streets" by the band Tennis is a tribute to Nyro. Eli’s Coming (much better than Blood, Sweat and Tears IMHO), 1967 - More Than a New Discovery (later reissued as Laura Nyro, 1969, and as The First Songs, 1973), 1971 - Gonna Take a Miracle (with Labelle), 2001 - Angel in the Dark (posthumous album recorded 1994-1995), 2000 - Live at Mountain Stage (recorded 1990), 2002 - Live: The Loom's Desire (recorded 1993-1994), 2004 - Spread Your Wings and Fly: Live at the Fillmore East May 30, 1971, 1972 - Laura Nyro sings her Greatest Hits (released in Japan only), 1997 - Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro, Geffen also arranged a new recording contract with Clive Davis at Columbia Records, and he also arranged purchase of her publishing rights to her earlier compositions. Todd Rundgren stated that once he heard her, he "stopped writing songs like The Who and started writing songs like Laura. Her style was a hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop,[clarification needed] jazz, rhythm and blues, show tunes, rock, and soul. 3,00 € Lisää ostoskoriin. Performers included Rickie Lee Jones, Sandra Bernhard, Toshi Reagon, and Phoebe Snow. Nyro successfully sued to void her management and recording contracts on the grounds that she had entered into them while still a minor. While a member of the pop group Nazz, his great admiration for Nyro led him to arrange a meeting with her (which took place shortly after she had recorded the Eli and the Thirteenth Confession LP). Laura Nyro wrote this song when she was just 18, and released it on her first album in 1967. After Nyro split from Bianchini in 1975, she suffered the trauma of the death of her mother Gilda to ovarian cancer at the age of 49. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the National Ballet of Canada have also included her music in their performances; notably, "Been On A Train" from Christmas and the Beads of Sweat, in which a woman describes watching her lover die from a drug overdose, comprises the second movement of Ailey's 1971 solo for Judith Jamison, Cry. Blood, Sweat & Tears would go on to have a hit with a cover of Nyro's "And When I Die". It was rebroadcast on April 4, 2006. Nyro Laura: Wedding Bell Blues / Stoney End (7") Yksittäiskappale. Geffen became her manager, and the two established a publishing company, Tuna Fish Music, under which the proceeds from her future compositions would be divided equally between them. According to producer Gary Katz, she also turned down a request to be the musical guest on the 1993 season opener of Saturday Night Live. Comedian, writer, and singer Sandra Bernhard has spoken extensively of Laura Nyro as an ongoing inspiration. Add to Collection Add to Wantlist Remove from Wantlist. Her final album of predominantly original material, Walk the Dog and Light the Light (1993), her last album for Columbia, was co-produced by Gary Katz, best known for his work with Steely Dan. "Wedding Bell Blues" became a minor hit, especially on the west coast. 3 Comments; 0 Tags; Bill I love you so I always will I look at you and see the passion eyes of May Oh but am I ever gonna see my wedding day? Paul Shaffer, bandleader for the CBS Orchestra and sidekick on the Late Show with David Letterman, stated that his desert island album would be Eli and the Thirteenth Confession. She composed her first songs at age eight. [44], Janis Ian, who attended the High School of Music and Art in New York at the same time as Nyro, discussed her friendship with Nyro during the late 1960s in her autobiography, Society's Child. Share. Soon afterwards, David Geffen approached Mogull about taking over as Nyro's agent. The tour was dedicated to the animal rights movement. She began touring with a band in 1988, her first concert appearances in 10 years. [citation needed], Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley, when promoting her 2006 solo album Rabbit Fur Coat repeatedly cited Nyro's 1971 album Gonna Take a Miracle as a big influence on her music. "[9] As a child, Nyro taught herself piano, read poetry, and listened to her mother's records by Leontyne Price, Nina Simone, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, and classical composers such as Debussy and Ravel. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1966 Vinyl release of "Wedding Bell Blues / Stoney End" on Discogs. Laura Nyro: Wedding Bell Blues (7", Promo) CBS: S CBS 1352: UK: 1973: Sell This Version: S CBS 1352: Laura Nyro: Wedding Bell Blues (7", Single, 4-p) CBS: S CBS 1352: UK: 1973: Sell This Version: Reviews Add Review [m333585] Master Release. Around this time, Nyro considered becoming lead singer for Blood, Sweat & Tears, after the departure of founder Al Kooper, but was dissuaded by Geffen. Diane Paulus and Bruce Buschel co-created Eli's Comin', a musical revue of the songs of Nyro, which, among others, starred Anika Noni Rose. During this period, Nyro made appearances at such venues as the 1989 Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and the 1989 Newport Folk Festival, of which a CD containing portions of her performance was released. The album features eleven of Nyro's songs and an original song, "Laura and John" by Christine Spero, a tribute to Laura Nyro and John Coltrane, whom Nyro admired. [6] Laura was of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent, with Italian ancestry from her paternal grandfather. In 1992, English shoegaze/Britpop band Lush released a song about Laura Nyro ("Laura") on their first full-length album Spooky. Vinyl and CD Sell Copy. The set contained "Upstairs By a Chinese Lamp" and "When I Was a Freeport and You Were the Main Drag" and featured Duane Allman and other Muscle Shoals musicians. In 2015, The Christine Spero Group released "Spero Plays Nyro", the Music of Laura Nyro along with a highly acclaimed live tour. To Carry On, an original tribute show celebrating the music and life of Laura Nyro, starring Mimi Cohen, is in its second return engagement as of January 19, 2011, at Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan. She consoled herself largely by recording a new album, enlisting Charlie Calello, with whom she had collaborated on Eli and the Thirteenth Confession. "[32], Cyndi Lauper acknowledged that her rendition of the song "Walk On By", on her Grammy Award-nominated 2003 cover album At Last, was inspired by Nyro. [42], And a World To Carry On, an original tribute show celebrating the music and life of Laura Nyro, written by Barry Silber and Carole Coppinger, was first performed in 2008 (2nd performance late August 2015) at Carrollwood Players Theatre in Tampa, Fla.[43]. It was recorded in 1966 for Verve Folkways on her debut album More Than a New Discovery. Rundgren's debut solo album Runt (1970) includes the strongly Nyro-influenced "Baby Let's Swing" which was written about her and mentions her by name. Label: Verve Folkways - VS 1502 • Format: Vinyl 7 Laura Nyro - Wedding Bell Blues (1966, Vinyl) | Discogs She accredited this time to being one of the best times of her life. Tuotekuvaus; Kaikki Lekassa myynnissä olevat 7” singlet ovat Vg+ tai Ex- tasoisia, ellei toisin ole ilmoitettu. Nyro got excited and brought him into a room where she kept her record collection. 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