FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 23 June 2012

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[AZamericonnie]

 

 

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Tunes For The Troops     **Artist Showcase** Nyro was born Laura Nigro in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of Gilda Mirsky Nigro, a bookkeeper, and Louis Nigro, a piano tuner and jazz trumpeter. Laura had a younger brother, Jan Nigro. Laura was of Russian Jewish and Italian ancestry. As a child, she taught herself piano, read poetry, and listened to her mother's records by Leontyne Price, Billie Holiday and classical composers such as Ravel and Debussy. She composed her first songs at age eight. With her family, she spent summers in the Catskill Mountains, where her father played the trumpet at resorts. While in high school, she sang with a group of friends in subway stations and on street corners. She said, "I would go out singing, as a teenager, to a party or out on the street, because there were harmony groups there, and that was one of the joys of my youth." Among her favorite musicians were John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Pete Seeger, Curtis Mayfield, Van Morrison, and girl groups such as The Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas and the Shirelles. Nyro's own renditions of her songs never attained hit status, but between 1968 and 1970 a number of other singers had achieved significant successes on the charts with her works. Other artists scored hit after hit with her songs, led by the 5th Dimension’s “Stoned Soul Picnic” and “Sweet Blindness” in 1968 (then “Wedding Bell Blues” in ’69 and “Blowin' Away” in ’70). Over two consecutive weeks in October 1969, Blood, Sweat & Tears entered the Hot 100 with “And When I Die,” and Three Dog Night followed with “Eli's Coming.” In 1970-71, Barbra Streisand charted three consecutive times with Laura Nyro songs, “Stoney End,” “Time And Love” and “Flim Flam Man.” Nyro's evocative vocal style mixed jazz and rhythm-and-blues with street pop, gospel, and Broadway, and her three-octave range has led her voice to be characterized as both "a blues soprano" and "a rich, charcoal-smudged alto." In 1996, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. After the diagnosis, Columbia Records prepared a double-disc CD retrospective of material from her years at the label. The company involved Nyro herself, who selected the tracks and approved the final project. She lived to see the release of Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best of Laura Nyro (1997), and was reportedly pleased with the outcome. Nyro died of ovarian cancer in Danbury, Connecticut, on April 8, 1997, at 49, the age at which the same disease had claimed the life of her mother. Nyro's influence on popular musicians has also been acknowledged by such artists as Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, Elton John, Cyndi Lauper, Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, and Melissa Manchester. Todd Rundgren stated that, once he heard her, he "stopped writing songs like The Who and started writing songs like Laura". On April 14th, 2012, Laura Nyro was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Enjoy the variety of musical selections that the Canteen Deejays provide throughout the thread. Please ping any DJ with your requests for the Troops! All music is removed on Monday. Thanks to all the DeeJay's for their time & effort providing entertainment for the Troops! *Canteen Mission Statement* Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before.

 

More Than a New Discovery	Eli Thirteenth Confession
Stoned Soul Picnic-The Best of Laura Nyro - Cd 1	Stoned Soul Picnic-The Best of Laura Nyro - Cd 2
New York Tendaberry	Christmas And The Beads Of Sweat-(Remastered)
Gonna Take A Miracle Ft. Patti LaBelle	Smile-(Remastered)
Season Of Light	Mothers Spiritual
Live at The Bottom Line	Walk The Dog & Light The Light
Angel in the Dark	The Loom's Desire-Live - Cd 1
> The Loom's Desire-Live - Cd 2
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[Drumbo]

I live high on a West (by God) Virginia ridge in the Ohio River valley at the foot of the mountains and I surely miss my ocean at Virginia Beach. I’m a born and raised seacoast boy and sometimes home seems forever ago.

[mylife]

As The Moon Speaks To The Sea

[mylife]

Were kinda from the same place but I love the Mountains.
Now I’m here in flat city LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome Troops, Veterans, Families, and Allies!
Music posted for your enjoyment. Thank you for serving our country.

Thanks, unique, for the Troops support.

Parents, you are responsible for previewing.

Jan & Dean ~ Surf City

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and sleep well, Drumbo. Thanks for playing the tunes and adding the notes for our troops. And thanks for your service to our country. You and Mikey are in my prayers.

[Drumbo]

The tracks pass within a mile of my Mission Ridge Kathy, but the whistles echo all through the valley and can be heard coming and going for miles off yonder.

I’ve noticed fewer coal trains lately. Arch Coal just announced a massive layoff and three more mines are closing down forever in WV, KY and VA as well as a few power plants that can’t jump through the EPA regulators flaming hoops. Mr. Peabody and Consol are next on the hit list I reckon and if things don’t chance soon, coal is as dead as the dinasaurs as well as all the service industries that support the coal fields. Our democratic Governor and senators won’t even attend the dem convention for fear they’ll be seen as supporting the obamamonster, but they haven’t the cajones to say they’ll vote against him either. They’ve raided the treasury and fiddle while Rome burns.

[mylife]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkM81FBxCyg&feature=related

[Drumbo]

After the curtin fell on Cream's final act, Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker moved on to a short-lived stint with Blind Faith featuring Steve Winwood and Jack Bruce persued a solo and writting career. One song in particular from his Songs For A Taylor album was written for Felix Pappalardi's new band Mountain, which faithfully carried on the new tradition Cream had established. It's a very nice song, "no regrets".

On November 26, 1968, Cream played their final farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall. It was the last time Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker would play together until their 1993 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

So ends another whirlwind music appreciation session buckaroos. Class dismissed. Stay safe, Happy FReeping, God bless, take nothing for granted and I'll see you in church.

Theme For An Imaginary Western
~ Jack Bruce ~

Theme For An Imaginary Western
~ Mountain ~

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[Cheapskate]

Center>Who is Bobby Caldwell?

A Stone cold Badass! That's who bobby Caldwell is!

[mylife]

Perzactly

[Drumbo]

Hi Pal. Do you think mylife actually knows that Clapton played with Atomic Rooster in the early 60’s before his Yardbirds gig, or did he just stumble over that video while surfing youtube and the sammitch made him hungry?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Every time I hear about your state, I think of the effort to kill the coal industry completely......it is appalling what the obamamonster has done to our once great country and some of the dims refuse/refused to see it. Now that their states are failing I wonder if the light is dawning.

We are fighting the feds, and the dims, and the enviro weenies now about using any of our resources. And much of our drilling equipment has gone down to North Dakota.

Rest well, Drumbo....((HUGS))

[bd476]

Thank you, MsB and sweet dreams to you!

[mylife]

I was just lookin for a sammitch

[mylife]

More properly stated “I was just lookin’ for a Sangwich”

[Drumbo]

ROTFL!

[Drumbo]

You don’t tawk good.

[Drumbo]

... and I don’t remember good. It was “The Roosters” that Clapton started out with, but I seem to recall Carl Palmer did a stint with Atomic Rooster before he hit it big with The Crazy World of Authur Brown. Old age ain’t pretty but it’s all I got.

[bd476]

Kathy in Alaska wrote: "Good evening/morning, bd. Feel free to FReepmail any of us. If one doesn’t have the request they check with the others. More often than not one of us has it. d:o) Lovely posies."

Thank you, Kathy. I'll send it. I'm so enjoying tonight's selection!

[mylife]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DYje57V_BY&feature=related