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Rumer's old music: Laura Nyro – American Dove The Guardian (blog) People had been talking to me about Laura Nyro for years, but I was more familiar with her songs that had become hits for other performers; see the Fifth Dimension in particular (Wedding Bell Blues, Stoned Soul Picnic). It wasn't until I was a little ...
Playlist: Tune up for the summer The Virginian-Pilot "Stoned Soul Picnic," Laura Nyro The 5th Dimension scored a big hit with this sunny hippie classic, but Nyro wrote and recorded it first in 1968. Her version soars. "Love Come Down," Evelyn "Champagne" King An evergreen from 1982, whose chime-like ...
Blues Alley serves a second helping of Karla Chisholm's jazz vocals Washington Examiner In covers such as "Pennies from Heaven" and Bobby Hebb's 1966 hit "Sunny," this petite women in a sultry evening gown could belt out her songs much like Laura Nyro, or slide smoothly and deeply from note to note like one of her idols, Nancy Wilson.
Boston-area to do list Boston Globe 617-253-5927. www.web.mit.edu/museum Shepley's coming The Fifth Dimension, Barbra Streisand, Blood Sweat and Tears, and Three Dog Night have been passengers on the Laura Nyro bandwagon. Singer Shepley Metcalf jumps onboard with “Can You Surry?
Air guitars New York Post MUSIC OF LAURA NYRO and GIL SCOTT-HERON: Aug. 11 & 12; Roots of American Music Festival (Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center). Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash of Labelle lead a tribute to Bronx-born songstress Laura Nyro, while the late Gil Scott-Heron gets ...
The Lady: A Homage to Sandy Denny, Barbican, London Financial Times Joan Wasser (Joan As Police Woman) found the missing link between Denny and Laura Nyro, switching from electric guitar to piano. Green Gartside's brittle agit-pop from Scritti Politti might have seemed a remove too far, but his magpie flutter of a ...
Why I Won't Be Watching The Stone Roses Sabotage Times Inside the house, the 1960's ruled the roust: Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Melanie, early Beatles and Motown but, to be honest, as an increasingly testosterone soaked young man the hippie vibe didn't really do it for me either. What I was missing, ...
Happiest sad songs A.V. Club DC I didn't have an immediate answer to this question, but as if the hand of fate was guiding me, I decided on a whim to give Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best Of Laura Nyro a spin this weekend, and I was struck like a bolt out of the blue by the lyrics to ...
HBO's 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Special Debuts Saturday WFJA Classic Hits and Oldies 105.5 FM On April 14, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame welcomed the latest group of musical luminaries into the hallowed Cleveland institution, including The Faces/Small Faces, Donovan, Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys and Laura Nyro.
Alterna-grass band Roxie Watson on twang, tradition and honoring foremothers The GA Voice I just watched the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame induction and Laura Nyro was the only woman who got in. Joan Jett was nominated but didn't make it. Heartbreaking! Lenny: I know! There's just a misogynistic mentality in the music business.
