Music CD - Laura Nyro, Labelle: Gonna Take a Miracle (Exp)

	Music CD: Gonna Take a Miracle (Exp) Artist: Laura Nyro, Labelle List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $7.49 Your Save: $ 4.49 ( 37% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks: 1. I Met Him On A Sunday 2. The Bells 3. Monkey Time/Dancing In The Street 4. Desiree 5. You've Really Got A Hold On Me 6. Spanish Harlem 7. Jimmy Mack 8. The Wind 9. Nowhere To Run 10. It's Gonna Take A Miracle 11. Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing (Live) (Bonus Track) 12. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman (Live) (Bonus Track) 13. O-o-h Child (Live) (Bonus Track) 14. Up On The Roof (Live) (Bonus Track)
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0696998576223 Format: Live Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: 2002-06-25 Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Classic songs from a classic songwriter Comment: One of the Greatest Singer/Songwriters of the 60's-70's along with a great backing group (Patti Labelle). The CD is easiy worth the price of the outstanding performances of "Jimmy Mack" and "Spanish Harlem". The live "bonus" tracks are pretty good also. Customer Rating: Summary: LaBelle and Laura create magic Comment: Pure soul. Pure Laura Nyro. God bless Gamble & Huff for putting them together. Customer Rating: Summary: Laura Nyro "Gonna Take A Miracle" Comment: This CD Is Just As Wonderful As I Remember It Being Over 30 Years Ago. I Was Very Pleased Also, With How Quickly I Recieved It. As Always A Pleasure. Thank You, Carol Customer Rating: Summary: Laura was a great artist Comment: This CD captures the real Laura, soulful and able to deliver a tune like nobody before or since. Her song " It's gonna take a miracle" should resonate with anyone who has ever loved someone. Customer Rating: Summary: Don't Leave Before The Miracle Happens Comment: Laura Nyro was stunning in every respect - singer, composer, performer. Nobody hung it all out to dry quite like Laura Nyro. Eli and the Thirteenth Confession is a landmark album, as is New York Tendaberry. This effort stands apart, a nostalgic tribute to the pop classics Nyro grew up loving. The bare bones recording and choice of LaBelle for background vocals are both inspired decisions, making for an effect that is casual and authentic. Chilling a cappella renditions of Desiree and The Wind offer a spiritual beauty, while Monkey Time and Dancing In The Street deliver feel good funk. (Plenty of vocal gymnastics from Patti LaBelle on those two in particular.) The bonus tracks seem to be taken from a college concert and include interesting renditions of classics like Up On The Roof, Ain't Nothin' Like The Real Thing, and others. If you are only going to own one Nyro CD, it should be Eli and the Thirteenth Confession. If you want a quirky minor masterpiece, this is for you. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: More Than a New Discovery, Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, and New York Tendaberry established Laura Nyro as one of the early 1970s' brightest and most uncompromising singer-songwriters. But just as the budding success of 1969's Tendaberry seemed to establish her persona in the public's mind, Nyro reached back to the beloved Brill Building pop, doo-wop, and '50s R&B for inspiration, extended a hand in partnership to then-down-on-their-luck soul vets LaBelle, and tossed off this loving blast from the past. Producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff (who would later formulate the vaunted Philly soul sound) were ostensibly in charge, though the voices of Nyro and LaBelle carry the day. Whether the bare-bones production harked back to the mindset of Nyro's moody Tendaberry or (as Amy Linden's new liner notes suggest) they simply ran out of time and had to finish the project, there's a sense of immediacy to the recordings that outstrips even some of the originals. Tracks like "Jimmy Mack" and "I Met Him on a Sunday" feel like they spontaneously came together around an upright piano, their rhythm section a chorus of joyous hand claps. Others, like "Desiree" and "The Wind," have a haunting, ethereal sense that's pure Nyro. This is one of the oddest collections of Nyro's career, but also one of the most joyously heartfelt. This reissue features four live bonus tracks, soulful solo covers of "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," "O-o-h Child," and "Up on the Roof," that fit the theme of the studio album to a T. --Jerry McCulley