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Post by Carl LaFong on Jul 27, 2021 21:57:28 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Jul 28, 2021 4:49:55 GMT
As I recall she enjoyed a niche back then, mostly as a songwriter but I knew people who had her albums.
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Post by Zos on Jul 28, 2021 15:16:06 GMT
Thing is, people have been saying that for well over a decade now, she isn't overlooked, just one of those artists like Nick Drake who are beloved by other musicians more than the critics at the time.
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Post by petrolino on Jul 30, 2021 23:23:20 GMT
The picture in the article of Laura Nyro in New York, 1968, that's one of my favourite photographs of a musician.
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Post by petrolino on Jul 30, 2021 23:35:11 GMT
Thing is, people have been saying that for well over a decade now, she isn't overlooked, just one of those artists like Nick Drake who are beloved by other musicians more than the critics at the time.
Despite the constant rubbishing of the Rock Hall Of Fame by some people here, I believe it brought Laura Nyro's music to a lot of people when she was inducted posthumously in 2012, I believe just two years on from being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. If Janis Ian, for example, were to to receive a similar honour, I'm pretty sure her music would reach a whole new audience, as it did with the last generation raised on the comedy of Tina Fey. Leonard Bernstein recognised both women as musical prodigies.
"Classical music and jazz joined Laura Nyro's playlist. She attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, where singer Janis Ian was a year behind her. Ian says both of their families shared roots in progressive politics. "We were surrounded by the civil-rights movement, by the women's-rights movement, by the gay-rights movement," Ian says. "All of those things were flourishing in New York." Laura Nyro reflected them in her music. In the wake of the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, Nyro wrote a gospel-tinged number calling for peace and understanding. Nyro knew how she wanted her songs to sound, and Felix Cavaliere says the Bronx native was tough in the studio when he produced a record for her. "She would talk with a cigarette in her mouth dangling, like you see in the movies. If she didn't like something I said, she'd hit me," Cavaliere says. "She'd punch me in the friggin' arm like a guy: Wham!" Cavaliere says Nyro was fond of unusual song structures and tempo changes. But the complexities of her music didn't endear Nyro to broadcasters, who pretty much dictated what a record needed to sound like if it was to get airplay. And, Cavaliere says, that's why other artists such as Blood, Sweat & Tears and The 5th Dimension had more success with her songs. "All they did was, they took all those little nuances out. They took those things out and made them more palatable to the program directors," Cavaliere says. "Seriously, that's all they did, because her voice was fine. It was certainly good enough to be on the radio."
- David Barnett, National Public Radio
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Post by petrolino on Jul 31, 2021 13:21:47 GMT
Despite the constant rubbishing of the Rock Hall Of Fame by some people here, I believe it brought Laura Nyro's music to a lot of people when she was inducted posthumously in 2012, I believe just two years on from being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. If Janis Ian, for example, were to to receive a similar honour, I'm pretty sure her music would reach a whole new audience, as it did with the last generation raised on the comedy of Tina Fey. Leonard Bernstein recognised both women as musical prodigies.
"Classical music and jazz joined Laura Nyro's playlist. She attended the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, where singer Janis Ian was a year behind her. Ian says both of their families shared roots in progressive politics. "We were surrounded by the civil-rights movement, by the women's-rights movement, by the gay-rights movement," Ian says. "All of those things were flourishing in New York." Laura Nyro reflected them in her music. In the wake of the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, Nyro wrote a gospel-tinged number calling for peace and understanding. Nyro knew how she wanted her songs to sound, and Felix Cavaliere says the Bronx native was tough in the studio when he produced a record for her. "She would talk with a cigarette in her mouth dangling, like you see in the movies. If she didn't like something I said, she'd hit me," Cavaliere says. "She'd punch me in the friggin' arm like a guy: Wham!" Cavaliere says Nyro was fond of unusual song structures and tempo changes. But the complexities of her music didn't endear Nyro to broadcasters, who pretty much dictated what a record needed to sound like if it was to get airplay. And, Cavaliere says, that's why other artists such as Blood, Sweat & Tears and The 5th Dimension had more success with her songs. "All they did was, they took all those little nuances out. They took those things out and made them more palatable to the program directors," Cavaliere says. "Seriously, that's all they did, because her voice was fine. It was certainly good enough to be on the radio."
- David Barnett, National Public Radio
If you need the "Rock hall Of Fame" (I will happily rubbish it, nothing to do with music apart from promoting a rip off industry amid ego boosting) to find new music then you can't really claim to be a music fan anyway. Far better to dig out music and find it yourself, then you make many happy new connections with many artists on your travels.
No, it's just the usual music snobbery as far as I can see.
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