NYRO LAURA Hear My Song: the Collection 1966-1995

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Be ready for the deepest dive yet into the womblike creativity of the idiosyncratic, unmistakable musical force that is Laura Nyro. Acknowledged as a genuine original, expressing a whirlpool nexus of r’n’b, doowop, Broadway, opera, folk and her own individual sort of soul, she thought like a bandleader even when she was solo.

“She wrote songs that had no kind of fixed compass point. They remain as unique and absolutely spellbinding to this day as when I first heard them in the ‘60s.” – Sir Elton John, 2024

10 Original Studio Albums, 6 Live Albums including 2 Previously Unreleased Live Concerts, Laura’s original demo tape from 1966 and bonus disc of rarities including mono versions, alternative versions and live tracks • All albums remastered especially for this collection • All housed in a deluxe, lift-off lid box • Coffee-table book with in-depth liner notes by Vivien Goldman, foreword from Sir Elton John and testimonials from Charlie Calello, Will Lee, John Sebastian, Jackson Browne, Clive Davis, Lou Adler, Randy Brecker, Bernard Purdie, Scott Billington, John Sebastian and Gary Burden • Rare, previously unseen photographs including intimate family shots illuminate the book. Included within this set are all of Laura’s ten studio albums: More Than A New Discovery (1967) Eli And The Thirteenth Confession (1968) New York Tendaberry (1969) Christmas And The Beads Of Sweat (1970) Gonna Take A Miracle (1971) Smile (1976) Nested (1978) Mother’s Spiritual (1984) Walk The Dog & Light The Light (1993) and her posthumously released masterwork Angel In The Dark (2001)

Six live albums: Spread Your Wings And Fly: Live At The Fillmore East (1971) Season Of Lights… Laura Nyro In Concert (1977) Live / The Loom's Desire (1993 & 1994) and two previously unreleased concert recordings from San Francisco (1994).

Rounding off this complete collection is Laura’s first ever demo tape Go Find The Moon (1966) and a collection of Rarities. All remastered and housed in individual sleeves with original artwork.

At the centre of this deluxe package is a 94-page coffee table hardback book with liner notes by acclaimed author Vivien Goldman, forewords from Sir Elton John, Laura’s son Gil Bianchini, and brother Jan Nigro. Featuring contributions and testimonials from Charlie Calello, Will Lee, John Sebastian, Jackson Browne, Clive Davis, Lou Adler, Randy Brecker, Bernard Purdie, Scott Billington, John Sebastian and Gary Burden. Never-before-seen photographs and intimate family shots illustrate this detailed compendium. — During the singer/songwriter movement in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Laura Nyro was one of the most celebrated artists of her day. She penned soulful, literate songs that took the folky introspection of her peers and infused it with elements of soul, R&B, jazz, and gospel, giving them an emotional heat that set her apart. Nyro was a hugely respected recording artist, whose confident piano work and rich, expressive vocals made other sonic trailblazers such as Miles Davis and Alice Coltrane navigate towards her. She has influenced the greatest of songwriters - Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Elton John, Neil Young, Carole King, Kate Bush and Elvis Costello among them. That influence continues today being heard in the works of Alicia Keys, Tori Amos, Suzanne Vega, Jenny Lewis and more. Nyro’s wonderfully expressive and poetic songs – of which many became major hits by other artists, most notably The 5th Dimension, Three Dog Night and Barbra Streisand – remain hallmarks of outstanding quality. ‘Eli’s Comin’, ‘Gibsom Street’, ‘Wedding Bell Blues’, ‘And When I Die’, ‘Stoned Soul Picnic’, ‘Map To The Treasure’, ‘Sweet Blindness’ and ‘Stoney End’ are magnificent examples. Nyro was 18 years old when she signed her first recording contract and wrote the songs for which she is likely to be best remembered. By the time she was 22, she had become one of the most successful composers in American popular music. But at the age of just 24, she drew back from her creativity and fame, battered and drained by the sheer energy and nerve required to sustain her career. Fortunately for those of us who loved her music, that was not the end of the story. She returned briefly to the fray for three turbulent years in the mid-to-late 1970s, and then enjoyed a final decade of artistic achievement and public acclaim, before illness took her from us at the tragically early age of 49 in 1997. Nyro found her early fame challenging yet despite living under an unrelenting spotlight, she was able to create this series of utterly beautiful and stunningly unique albums. Eli And The Thirteenth Confession was featured in Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and Uncut’s 100 Greatest Albums of All Time as well as being deemed by New York Times as, “one of the 1960’s most influential pop recordings”. “An optimist might suggest that 1968's Eli And The Thirteenth Confession lives on in martyrdom, its influence apparent on everyone from Kate Bush and Tori Amos to St. Vincent and Joanna Newsom. But Laura Nyro's effervescent second album deserves more explicit canonization…..Forty-six years after Thirteenth Confession, and thanks in large measure to it, we've come to accept and nurture strident, talented, slightly idiosyncratic female artists.” - Rolling Stone

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Nyro, Laura
Hear My Song: the Collection 1966-1995

- 1 -
1. Goodbye Joe
2. Billy`S Blues
3. And When I Die
4. Stoney End
5. Lazy Susan
6. Hands Off the Man (Flim Flam Man)
7. Wedding Bell Blues
8. Buy and Sell
9. He`S a Runner
10. Blowin` Away
11. I Never Meant To Hurt You
12. California Shoeshine Boys
13. Goodbye Joe
14. Billy`S Blues
15. And When I Die
16. Stoney End
17. Lazy Susan
18. Hands Off the Man (Flim Flam Man)
19. Wedding Bell Blues
20. Buy and Sell
21. He`S a Runner
22. Blowing Away
23. I Never Meant To Hurt You
24. California Shoeshine Boys
- 2 -
1. Luckie
2. Lu
3. Sweet Blindness
4. Poverty Train
5. Lonely Women
6. Eli`S Comin`
7. Timer
8. Stoned Soul Picnic
9. Emmie
10. Woman`S Blues
11. Once It Was Alright Now (Farmer Joe)
12. December`S Boudoir
13. The Confession
- 3 -
1. Luckie
2. Lu
3. Sweet Blindness
4. Poverty Train
5. Lonely Women
6. Eli`S Comin`
7. Timer
8. Stoned Soul Picnic
9. Emmie
10. Woman`S Blues
11. Once It Was Alright Now (Farmer Joe)
12. December`S Boudoir
13. The Confession
- 4 -
1. You Don`T Love Me When I Cry
2. Captain For Dark Mornings
3. Tom Cat Goodbye
4. Mercy On Broadway
5. Save the Country
6. Gibsom Street
7. Time and Love
8. The Man Who Sends Me Home
9. Sweet Lovin` Baby
10. Captain Saint Lucifer
11. New York Tendaberry
- 5 -
1. Brown Earth
2. When I Was a Freeport and You Were the Main Drag
3. Blackpatch
4. Been On a Train
5. Up On the Roof
6. Upstairs By a Chinese Lamp
7. Map To the Treasure
8. Beads of Sweat
9. Christmas In My Soul
- 6 -
1. I Met Him On a Sunday
2. The Bells
3. Monkey Time/Dancing In the Street
4. Desiree
5. You`Ve Really Got a Hold On Me
6. Spanish Harlem
7. Jimmy Mack
8. The Wind
9. Nowhere To Run
10. It`S Gonna Take a Miracle
- 7 -
1. Sexy Mama
2. Children of the Junks
3. Money
4. I Am the Blues
5. Stormy Love
6. The Cat-Song
7. Midnite Blue
8. Smile
- 8 -
1. Mr. Blue (the Song of Communications)
2. Rhythm & Blues
3. My Innocence
4. Crazy Love
5. American Dreamer
6. Springblown
7. The Sweet Sky
8. Light-Pop`S Principle
9. Child In a Universe
10. The Nest
11. Emmie / the Nest
- 9 -
1. To a Child...
2. The Right To Vote
3. A Wilderness
4. Melody In the Sky
5. Late For Love
6. A Free Thinker
7. Man In the Moon
8. Talk To a Green Tree
9. Trees of the Ages
10. The Brighter Song
11. Roadnotes
12. Sophia
13. Mother`S Spiritual
14. Refrain
- 10 -
1. Oh Yeah Maybe Baby (the Heebie Jeebies)
2. A Woman of the World
3. The Descent of Luna Rose
4. Art of Love
5. Lite a Flame (the Animal Rights Song)
6. Louise`S Church
7. Broken Rainbow
8. Walk the Dog & Light the Light (Song of the Road)
9. To a Child
10. Medley: I`M So Proud/Dedicated To the One I Love
- 11 -
1. Angel In the Dark
2. Triple Goddess Twilight
3. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
4. He Was Too Good To Me
5. Sweet Dream Fade
6. Serious Playground
7. Be Aware
8. Let It Be Me
9. Gardenia Talk
10. Ooh Baby, Baby
11. Embraceable You
12. La La Means I Love You
13. Walk On By
14. Animal Grace
15. Don`T Hurt Child
16. Coda / Come and Get These Memories
- 12 -
1. American Dove
2. Medley: Ain`T Nothing Like the Real Thing/(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman
3. Spanish Harlem
4. I Am the Blues
5. Medley: Walk On By/Dancing In the Street
6. Emmie
7. Map To the Treasure
8. Christmas In My Soul
9. Save the Country
10. Medley: Timer/O-O-H Child/Up On the Roof
11. Medley: Lu/Flim Flam Man
12. Mother Earth
- 13 -
1. Money
2. Sweet Lovin` Baby
3. And When I Die
4. The Morning News
5. Upstairs By a Chinese Lamp
6. I Am the Blues
7. When I Was a Freeport and You Were the Main Drag
8. Captain St. Lucifer
9. Smile
10. Mars
11. Sweet Blindness
12. The Cat-Song
13. Emmie
14. The Confession
15. Timer
16. Midnite Blue
17. Timer (Alternate Live Version) (From Seaon of Lights Reissue)
18. Emmie (From Seaon of Lights Reissue)
- 14 -
1. Oh Yeah, Maybe Baby (the Heebie Jeebies)
2. Dedicated To the One I Love
3. The Wind
4. Lite a Flame (the Animal Rights Song)
5. Walk the Dog and Light the Light (Song of the Road)
6. To a Child
7. And When I Die
8. Japanese Restaurant Song
9. My Innocence / Sophia
10. Wedding Bell Blues
11. Art of Love
12. Emmie
13. Let It Be Me
- 15 -
1. Dedicated To the One I Love
2. A Woman of the World
3. Gardenia Talk
4. Save the Country
5. Oh Yeah Maybe Baby (the Heebie Jeebies)
6. Lite a Flame (the Animal Rights Song)
7. Walk the Dog & Light the Light (Song of the Road)
8. Japanese Restaurant
9. To a Child
10. The Descent of Luna Rosie
11. Broken Rainbow
12. And When I Die
13. The Wild World
14. Louise`S Church
15. The Wind
16. Blowin` Away
17. Trees of the Ages
18. Emmie
19. It`S Gonna Take a Miracle
20. Let It Be Me
- 16 -
1. Dedicated To the One I Love
2. A Woman of the World
3. Gardenia Talk
4. Save the Country
5. Oh Yeah Maybe Baby (the Heebie Jeebies)
6. Lite a Flame (the Animal Rights Song)
7. Walk the Dog & Light the Light (Song of the Road)
8. Japanese Restaurant
9. To a Child
10. The Descent of Luna Rose
11. Broken Rainbow
12. The Wild World
13. Louise`S Church
14. The Wind
15. Blowin` Away - Wedding Bell Blues
16. Trees of Age / Emmie
17. It`S Gonna Take a Miracle / Ooo Baby Baby
18. Let It Be Me
- 17 -
1. Angel In the Dark
2. Gardenia Talk
3. Save the Country
4. Louise`S Church
5. Wild World
6. A Woman of the World
7. The Descent of Luna Rose
8. Broken Rainbow
9. Blowin` Away - Wedding Bell Blues
10. Trees of the Ages - Emmie
11. Ooh Baby, Baby
- 18 -
1. And When I Die
2. Lazy Susan (False Start)
3. Enough of You
4. In and Out
5. Go Find the Moon
6. Luckie / Studio Talk
7. When Sunny Gets Blue (Fragment) / Kansas City (Fragment) / I Only Want To Be With You (Fragment)
8. Lazy Susan
- 19 -
1. Angel In the Dark
2. Ooh Baby, Baby
3. Don`T Hurt Child
4. Stoney End (Single Version) [Mono Version] (From More Than a New Discovery Reissue)
5. Eli`S Comin ((Single Version) [Mono Version])
6. Save the Country (Mono Version) (From Eli Reissue)
7. Lu (Demo)
8. Stoned Soul Picnic (Demo)
9. Emmie (Demo)
10. Save the Country (Single Version)
11. In the Country Way (Album Version)
12. Someone Loves You (Demo)
13. Get Me My Cap (Demo)
14. Coffee Morning (Demo)
15. Man In the Moon (Live) (From Mother`S Spiritual Reissue)
16. Let It Be Me/the Christmas Song (From Walk the Dog Reissue)
17. He Was Too Good To Me (From Walk the Dog Reissue)
18. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (From Walk the Dog Reissue)