Talk:Laura Nyro/Archive 1

Todd's debt to Laura
There are better lyrics to quote from Todd Rundgren's 'Baby's Let's Swing':

Laura, I saw you open in LA / There's something I gotta say / Laura, you know it's really been such a long, long time / And you know Laura, I knew you'd make it good someday / And you knew it anyway...

...Laura, I saw you in that magazine / You looked like a gypsy queen...

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 145.246.240.14 (talk) 14:33, 13 February 2007 (UTC).

NPOV?
I'm as big a Laura Nyro fan as anyone but this article seems to violate the NPOV rules with phrases like "She possessed a beautiful, angelic voice" and "Nyro was also blessed" both of which are not only not neutral but presuppose the existence of a deity and angels. If there is no reasonable objection, I'd like to replace these and others similar remarks with something a bit more in keeping with NPOV. SuperDuperMan 00:06, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Very true comments. The substance of the current text was inserted by User:65.106.144.66 on 15 February 2006 - it needs a thorough rewrite in NPOV language.  I would offer, but having just tackled Dion I think I need a break ...  Ghmyrtle 22:28, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, I've had a quick go. Still needs improvement, and I'd be happy if some references to her quality as a singer and writer could be put back in.  Ghmyrtle 22:59, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I thought it was just me. This article sounds very unencyclopedic. It's from a fan's POV and not a NPOV.--angrykeyboarder (a/k/a:Scott) 21:17, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, it still needs work. I'm going to be away for a week or two - if no-one else has addressed the POV issues before then I'll try to give some time to it when I get back.Ghmyrtle 21:51, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
 * There you are ..... Ghmyrtle 14:00, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
 * ... and if anyone is fluent in German (I'm not), there's an "excellent" article at Laura Nyro Ghmyrtle 14:13, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Pronunciation
How is her surname pronounced - [náirou]? --1523 10:37, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Her name is pronounced: NEAR-oh. As in the guy who fiddled while Rome burned.

Actually he pronounced his own name NAY-roh. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.248.192.48 (talk) 08:26, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

List of hits
They should add a list of her hit songs performed by other artists. I don't think she had any real hits on her own as a performer. Stoned Soul Picnic, Wedding Bell Blues (5th Dimension); Stoney End, Flim Flam Man (Barbra Streisand); Eli's Coming (Three Dog Night). Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

I'd do it myself, but don't really know the whole Wiki syntax, etc.

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intro sentence
the intro sentence here is totally messed up. 67.172.48.126 05:23, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

"Désiree"
User:Ralph, Let's call her Ralph has persistently tried to insert the following (or similar) text :- ''Her treatment of the song "Desiree", a cover which she adapted and re-titled, is considered by Ari Fox Lauren, the foremost authority on the music of Laura Nyro, to be an open expression of same-sex attraction on Laura's part. It is a noteworthy coincidence that the name Desiree and the last name of Laura's eventual life partner, Maria Desiderio, both mean desire.'' This has now been reverted several times asPOV and unverified. Firstly, the coincidence is irrelevant (she recorded the song before meeting Desiderio). Secondly, the view that the song is "an open expression of same-sex interest" is just that, a view, unverified. The comment COULD (though I'm not really recommending it) be modified further to make it more tentative, but I really don't think there's any merit in a specific reference to Ari Fox Lauren - who may or may not be an "authority" on Nyro. In my view, the paragraph is better without any reference to the interpretation of "Desiree", but if anyone can come up with a better compromise wording than the one I suggested earlier, please do so. Ghmyrtle 21:48, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * That part of the text is now (as of today, 17 July 07) pretty much OK. I've just added an article on The Charts, which incidentally points out that the spelling "Desiree" (rather than "Deserie") was first used by The Charts themselves in a 1967 re-recording (rather than first being used by Nyro in 1971). Ghmyrtle 11:12, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
 * IN REPLY The actual spelling by Laura was "Désiree." It is not irrelevant that Desiderio and "Désiree," both mean desire; it is remarkable! There is no evidence gainsaying that Laura and Maria knew each other prior to 1971. In fact, Michele Kort in Soul Picnic (p. 196) wrote "None of Nyro's close friends are certain how she met Maria..." Kort also wrote about Maria and "Laura- who friends say had not previously been with a woman lover-..." No one knows exactly how, when or where Laura and Maria first met. I issue this challenge. "you tube" The Charts "Deserie" and then listen to Laura's "Désiree." Just count the number of times the Charts recite Deserie (3) and Laura sings Désiree (13). Tell me "Désiree" is not unmistakably a Sapphic reverie. Parenthetically, there is authoritative evidence, that as far back as 1967, Laura was wooing a woman. If as Kort wrote Maria was Laura's first "women lover," then it stands to reason that Maria was also the inspiration for "Emmie."   Pete Johnson in his June 1968 review of Eli and the Thirteenth Confession in Coast FM & Fine Arts(p. 50) commented about the song “Emily.” “There is a momentary shock at hearing a woman romancing another woman...” Alanna Nash in her April 25, 1997 musical comment “Passion Player” on EW.com touted "Emmie" as “pop’s first lesbian love song.” My thanks to Ghmyrtle for "disputing the passage." My profound appreciation to Wikipedia for providing this forum. Ralph, let's call her Ralph 17:47, 28 July 2008
 * Thanks for your input, ...Ralph. I don't know enough about the details of her life to question your comments, but I will put a  tag on your claim that they met in 1967, which as far as I can see is still unreferenced.  Information on Wikipedia must be verifiable through published sources, and not original research. Thanks.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 18:18, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Laura being pursued by The Tonight Show and The David Letterman Show for an appearance in the early 1990s
This was referenced in Michelle Kort's biography "Soul Picnic". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.252.240.27 (talk) 04:32, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Unused sources don't belong in the external links section but they do belong here
These sources do not belong in External links. I have moved the link farm from there to this talk page where they do belong. Warning! I didn't check them to see if they follow criteria per WP policy, so be careful in choosing any potential references I've moved here. Thank you! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 14:28, 29 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Laura Nyro authorised fan site
 * [//worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr89-11548 Works by or about Laura Nyro/Archive 1] in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
 * Laura Nyro at American National Biography
 * Laura Nyro singing Save the Country at Kraft Music Hall
 * Laura Nyro singing Poverty Train Monterey Pop Festival 1967
 * [//worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr89-11548 Works by or about Laura Nyro/Archive 1] in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
 * Laura Nyro at American National Biography
 * Laura Nyro singing Save the Country at Kraft Music Hall
 * Laura Nyro singing Poverty Train Monterey Pop Festival 1967


 * From my reading of WP:External links, I do not see any guidance that states external links must be used as sources; in fact, it is clear to me from the guidance and examples in WP:EL that external links do not have to be used as sources in the subject article. Therefore, I plan to revert this edit to Laura Nyro and restore those external links. If anyone thinks any of the individual links do not meet the criteria specified in WP:EL, or meets the criteria of links to be avoided, feel free to delete those individual external links. --hulmem (talk) 22:35, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
 * At the very least, Leahtwosaints should explain her/his justification for removing the links - some of which (not all) look OK to me as well. Ghmyrtle (talk) 22:42, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Laura Nyro - Live at Carnegie Hall: The Classic 1976 Radio Broadcast CD
Isn't this a legitimate issue and shouldn't it be in her Live Performances Section?

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8864365

albabe -  The Writer /Artist Formally Known as  Al Gordon 19:17, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 15:14, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

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Poem about Laura Nyro published in Peacock Journal
My poem about Ms. Nyro appeared in the Dec. 16 Peacock Journal:

"You can hear the walls roar, see your brains on the floor, become God, become cripple, become funky and split. Why was I born?" Laura Nyro

Scrumptious syllable wench of fractured ice, you burn my soul’s cold, cold flames, a killing intensity, I stretch to grab your hand, but like frozen glass it shatters, cutting my heart and freezing my head, you write so damn good it shames my damnable proselike pap, but what did it get you? I want to hug you, pull you from your exorcised self, but you’re turned to stone and anyway, you were alien to my flesh. (for the late, great, brilliant and beautiful Laura Nyro)

http://peacockjournal.com/r-bremner-four-poems/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rongnan (talk • contribs) 19:07, 15 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Nice, but please see WP:TALKNO and WP:NOTFORUM. The talk page is really only for discussion of how to improve the article. --hulmem (talk) 02:54, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

description
The description of her music is odious. There's nothing Tin Pan Alley about it. It reeks of originality. No one else in pop music had influences from Debussy as well as Gospel and jazz in it. I would say her main influences are jazz, gospel and classical music. Several songs are not pop, they are serious cabaret songs, where her lyrics become real poetry and not ersatz poetry, like many lyrics that are just strings of images. She was one of the first singer-songwriters and helped define the genre.98.140.79.183 (talk) 15:52, 13 April 2018 (UTC)


 * I can hear similarities to Carole King, who clearly did come out of the Brill Building set up - I don't see that it odious suggesting that her music draws something from there. -- Beardo (talk) 03:51, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

"I would say", "I can hear", "I don't see" -- these are all irrelevant to Wikipedia. -- 72.194.4.183 (talk) 03:49, 17 November 2020 (UTC)