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 Shitao rated 4 months ago -
Best known as a commercial success as a composer and lyricist rather than as a performer. Between 1968 and 1970 a number of other singers had significant hits with her songs: the Fifth Dimension with "Blowing Away", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Sw...
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- kdh9910 rated 15 months ago
- Can you believe that Laura could write a song like this, about peace, way back in her 20s, in 1969? If you are fortunate to be able to ever find her LPs, you will find all words to her songs printed in her handwriting with her celestial doodling on the back of them. She did her own piano, wrote her own songs, sung backup, engineered her albums, arranged her music...what a fantastic musician! We just don't find many like her. I was so young when I first heard her--her music was a motivating factor of my entire life.
- Shitao rated 4 months ago
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Best known as a commercial success as a composer and lyricist rather than as a performer. Between 1968 and 1970 a number of other singers had significant hits with her songs: the Fifth Dimension with "Blowing Away", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Sweet Blindness", "Save The Country" and "Black Patch"; Blood, Sweat & Tears and Peter Paul & Mary with "And When I Die"; Three Dog Night with "Eli's Coming"; and Barbra Streisand with "Stoney End" and "Hands off the Man (Flim Flam Man)". Ironically, Nyro's best-selling single was her recording of Carole King and Gerry Goffin's "Up on the Roof."
I dug her for this tune and her generous heart. She died in 1997 at 49 years of age of ovarian cancer, the same age it claimed her mom. It's a rough recording but she makes it sweet enough fer me. Please enjoy....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjdowef1oKE
Come on, people! Come on, children!
COme on down to the glory river.
Gonna wash you up, and wash you down,
gonna lay the devil down, gonna lay that devil down.
I got fury in my soul,fury's gonna take me to the glory goal.
In my mind I can't study war no more.
Save the people! Save the children! Save the country now!
Come on, people! come on, children!
Come on down to the glory river.
Gonna wash you up and wash you down.
Gonna lay the devil down, gonna lay that devil down.
COme on people! Sons and mothers!
Keep the dream of the two young brothers.
Gonna take that dream and ride that dove.
We could build the dream with love, I know,
We could build the dream with love, I know,
We could build a dream with love, children,
We could build the dream with love, oh people,
We could build the dream with love, I know,
We could build the dream with love.
Come on, people! Come on, children!
There's a king at the glory river.
And the precious king, he loved the people to sing;
Babes in the blinkin' sun sang
We Shall Overcome.
- akapearlofagirl rated 4 months ago
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Tanks Timbo
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