Laura Nyro, who died in 1997, was chosen to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame today. She's best known as a songwriter who wrote hits for others, so to vary things let's play a song that she sings but didn't write. This is the title song from her 1971 album of covers, featuring material that she loved from the early sixties, songs that had heavily influenced her own songwriting. She's accompanied by LaBelle, and the moment near the end where the four women's voices blend in a near-a-capella moment is, well, just listen for yourself.
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Thanks for acknowledging Laura Nyro. I'm very glad she finally got in the R'n R' Hall of Fame, she really deserves the honor!
I love the "Gonna take a miracle" album. In my opinion, Laura always did a much better job covering other Artist's songs, than other Artists did covering hers.
I just wish the dim bulbs in charge of radio programming in the '60s and '70s would have bought a clue, and played Laura's great originals, instead of the watered down, homogenized covers.
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