FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 23 June 2012

Our Troops Rock!!!! | The Canteen DJ's

[AZamericonnie]

 

 

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~ Tunes For Our Troops ~

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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
*Website*

[mylife]

Carl Palmer did play with The Atomic Rooster

[Drumbo]

WV is turning into a black hole and the only industry left are meth cookers run by the Detroit gangs. We’ve had 53 arson house fires in Huntington since November and they had to close the Days Inn because of a toxic meth lab in one of the rooms. They arrested the guy and his girlfriend and two weeks later, busted them again cooking meth in the trunk of a car! Everyone is down sizing. Pizza Hut have closed three restaurants here and reopened a single tiny carry-out kitchen in a strip mall. Times are tuff.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Amongst us there is all sorts of music. If anyone can’t find something they like, they don’t like music. LOL!

I love that picture.

It’s pushing midnight here and sunset was at 11:42p...I’m hoping some of the “passing showers” find us tonight.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Everyday prayers for you...

[Drumbo]

I just checked Wiki and it says Palmer left Authur Brown to become a founding member of Atomic Rooster and jumped from there to ELP. I never even heard of AR until the 80s but I saw TCWoAB with Carl in 1968. That guy was as nutty as Screaming Lord Sutch (who employed Jeff Beck before he was a Yardbird).

[mylife]

Weird ol **** but Rick Parnell is kicking the drums

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soy4x-H4gI4

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the guys.

my.....#200 and #400!!
Luv.....#300!!
ms b.....#350!!

[mylife]

Gnight Gang Long Way To Get

[bd476]

dKathy in Alaska wrote: Amongst us there is all sorts of music. If anyone can’t find something they like, they don’t like music. LOL! I love that picture. It’s pushing midnight here and sunset was at 11:42p...I’m hoping some of the “passing showers” find us tonight.

Sunset at 11:42 pm eh? That's right, you're in the land of midnight Sun where you also can see the Aurora Borealis. Lovely! That tree was a picture I found then tweaked a bit because it reminded me of night time plus I've been in the mood for purple for some reason. :P

Music is something I wake up singing or humming and go to sleep at night doing the same. Today the tune I was humming as I woke up was Rule, Britannia and I have no explanation for that other than it's a great tune LOL! I have always loved music and don't know why one tune catches my ear and another doesn't.

[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.

Skeeter Davis ~ The End of The World

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[E.G.C.]

Music bumps for all the songs in the Canteen.

[bd476]

Classy class, Drumbo! It was very interesting. Thank you!
Cream contributed many fine tunes to the world of music
in a relatively short period of time.

[mylife]

Colosseum~ 2003

[bd476]

E.G.C. wrote: Music bumps for all the songs in the Canteen.

BTTT!
Oh, and here's another one:

[Kathy in Alaska]

d:o) The move is happening! Planned date of new habitation?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Oh my goodness....what a great picture!!! What a memory! Good job, John Man!!

I am jealous!!

[luvie]

Happy that you enjoyed the tunes! Come back for more next Friday! :)

[Drumbo]

Thanks for the kind words bd. I enjoyed this jukebox myself because after the Beatles, Cream (along with Jimi) were the most formative band of my teenage years and my roots grew strong in blues throughout my music career. Blues aren't something you learn, they are something you live and in the living comes the sharing. None of these men were the all-time best, but the combination was a magical moment in time.

I've always respected Clapton though he barely makes my top ten. I spoke of his integrety and was reminded of a story Paul Shaffer told in his book, We'll Be Here For The Rest Of Our Lives. He was rehearsing the band for the televised Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame one year and Eric Clapton and B.B. King were jamming. Paul was trying to sketch out the performance and he suggested Eric sing a verse and then B.B. and then Eric solo for 16 bars and then B.B. .... and Clapton interupted him and coldly said, "Paul, it's the blues - let it happen." Frustrated, Paul tried to explain that they had a strict 3 minute time-slot, they had to hit the commercial breaks, they needed to rehearse so everyone would be on the same page and everyone got a chance to perform. Again, Clapton just looked at him, shook his head and said something like, "Paul, I understand, but it's the blues. You can't force the blues." That's stuck with me, because as a bandleader, I've always said, "Spontaneity on stage is great, as long as it's well reheased." But Eric's right. You can't force the blues and you sure can't fool the blues.

You Can't Fool The Blues
~ Gary Moore, Jack Bruce & Ginger Baker ~

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[Drumbo]

Tears Came Rollin'
~ Drumbo Thunder & The BoatRocker Blues Band ~

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[eyedigress]

Will be in place Tuesday afternoon. Coming back to Nashville Thursday evening. Lot’s of good friends getting free stuff.
A few days to relax then off to RI for 3 weeks of training.