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FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 23 June 2012
Our Troops Rock!!!! | The Canteen DJ's

Posted on 06/22/2012 5:59:49 PM PDT by 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.
 

 

 




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Gnight all,have great week~Going Down
421 posted on 06/24/2012 7:58:42 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Good Rats~Tasty
422 posted on 06/24/2012 8:10:30 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTv1hwRekuo&feature=related


423 posted on 06/24/2012 8:15:28 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnH2EZQt0xc&feature=relmfu


424 posted on 06/24/2012 8:26:20 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxxfsBG894s&feature=related


425 posted on 06/24/2012 8:29:42 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: AZamericonnie; LUV W; MS.BEHAVIN; HiJinx; SandRat; Kathy in Alaska

Hi guys, just catching up on my posts . . . so sorry I’ve been late posting the pledge, but the Zoni’s were here. Afghan Man, Penquin Girl, and the granddaughters, Miss Penelope and Miss Sophia. They left yesterday and are safely home in Arizona. Missing them already . . . maybe a trip to Tucson is called for soon . . . perhaps when the new baby is due in Dec. . . . SMILE!


426 posted on 06/25/2012 2:09:47 PM PDT by HopeandGlory (Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)
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To: HopeandGlory

It’s ok...we just miss you when you aren’t in your “spot”. :)

How much fun that there is a NEW one to love!...soon.... Yay, you!


427 posted on 06/25/2012 2:16:26 PM PDT by luvie (Never forget...WE have THEM surrounded! ~ Rush Limbaugh)
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To: LUV W; HiJinx

Oh btw if the new baby is a girl, they are thinking of calling her Piper. Oh boy! 3 Canteen grand babies called Piper . . . is that unheard of or what? . . . LOL!


428 posted on 06/25/2012 2:17:17 PM PDT by HopeandGlory (Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)
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To: HopeandGlory; HiJinx

Oooo....it doesn’t GET any better than that! She is bound to be a pistol! :)

Just like the other two! LOL!


429 posted on 06/25/2012 2:24:44 PM PDT by luvie (Never forget...WE have THEM surrounded! ~ Rush Limbaugh)
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To: HopeandGlory; LUV W

It’s a good name, Ms. Hope. Very good.

If you do come out in December, we may have to look into an Arizona Winery tour. We have several nice ones here in Cochise and Santa Cruz counties!

Or, perhaps we can send mom and dad on the tour while Nana Hope takes care of the grandbabies!


430 posted on 06/25/2012 2:32:01 PM PDT by HiJinx (He who controls the water, controls life.)
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To: HiJinx

How about is Nana and Grandad go on the Wine Tour and Mummy and Daddy stay home with the Munchins . . . works for me . . . SMILE!


431 posted on 06/25/2012 3:39:35 PM PDT by HopeandGlory (Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)
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To: HiJinx

Oops that should be . . . how about if.


432 posted on 06/25/2012 3:41:10 PM PDT by HopeandGlory (Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)
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To: HopeandGlory

One of my better laughs today!

Love it...


433 posted on 06/25/2012 4:08:58 PM PDT by HiJinx (He who controls the water, controls life.)
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To: HopeandGlory

Oh boy....a Nana again! Congratulations!!

Thanks for letting us know all is well. ((HUGS))

Trips are nice. d:o)


434 posted on 06/25/2012 5:25:13 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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To: HopeandGlory

Don’t you dare be sorry! lol

So glad you had such a wonderful visit & congrats on the new baby due.

We are spoiled with your dedicated posts & can almost set the “canteen watch” by you that I just got worried when I didn’t see you!

Love Love your granddaughters names & yes.....you should be Tucson bound in Dec. *Hugs*


435 posted on 06/25/2012 5:49:42 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
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To: HopeandGlory; LUV W; HiJinx
3 Canteen grand babies called Piper

Oh Hope....it would be a "THReeper"! :)

436 posted on 06/25/2012 5:52:10 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
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To: Drumbo

Awesome! I never met anyone who had even heard of atomic.rooster! I saw them live in Wheaton, md when l was a kid


437 posted on 06/25/2012 5:54:46 PM PDT by AbnSarge
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To: AZamericonnie

LOL! Good call, Connie! :)


438 posted on 06/25/2012 6:09:51 PM PDT by luvie (Never forget...WE have THEM surrounded! ~ Rush Limbaugh)
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To: LUV W; HopeandGlory

Too cute right Luvie?

Actually it was Hope that coined the phrase....should be lexicon!:)


439 posted on 06/25/2012 7:27:15 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
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To: AZamericonnie

It should! If we knew where the heck it was, we could add it. LOL!


440 posted on 06/25/2012 7:32:58 PM PDT by luvie (Never forget...WE have THEM surrounded! ~ Rush Limbaugh)
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