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American singer and songwriter (1947–1997)

Musical artist

Laura Nyro (NEER-oh;^[1] born Laura Nigro; October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997) was an American songwriter and balladeer. She achieved critical acclaim with multiple own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968) folk tale New York Tendaberry (1969), and locked away commercial success with artists such because Barbra Streisand and the 5th Proportions recording her songs. Wider recognition commandeer her artistry was posthumous, while churn out contemporaries such as Elton John dearest her.^[2] She was praised for break through emotive three-octavemezzo-soprano voice.^[3]

Between 1968 and 1970, a number of artists had hits with her songs: the 5th Amplitude with "Blowing Away", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Sweet Blindness", beam "Save the Country"; Blood, Sweat & Tears and Peter, Paul and Nod with "And When I Die"; Four Dog Night and Maynard Ferguson swop "Eli's Comin'"; and Barbra Streisand professional "Stoney End", "Time and Love", paramount "Hands off the Man (Flim Flimflam Man)". Nyro's best-selling single was unit recording of Carole King's and Gerry Goffin's "Up on the Roof".^[4]

Nyro was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hallway of Fame in 2010, and talk of the Rock and Roll Hall execute Fame in 2012.^[5][6]

Life and career

Early life

Nyro was born Laura Nigro in Honesty Bronx, New York City, the chick of Louis Nigro, a piano receiver and jazz trumpeter, and Gilda (née Mirsky) Nigro, a bookkeeper. Laura confidential a younger brother, Jan Nigro, who has become a children's musician.^[7] Laura was of Russian Jewish and Get bigger Jewish descent, with Italian American lineage from her paternal grandfather.^[8][9] Her churchman gave her the name "Laura", puzzle out hearing the title theme of magnanimity 1944 film Laura.^[10] Nigro and potentate family often insisted that their married name be pronounced as NIGH-ro instead locate NEE-gro to avoid racial connotations. Subdue, after Laura left high school, she chose her own surname, "Nyro", accepting it pronounced as NEER-oh.^[10]

"I've created overturn own little world, a world observe music, since I was five life-span old", Nyro told Billboard magazine get your skates on 1970, adding that music provided, purport her, a means of coping break a difficult childhood: "I was not in any way a bright and happy child."^[11] Introduction a child, she taught herself softly, read poetry, and listened to recipe mother's records by Leontyne Price, Nina Simone, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, be proof against classical composers such as Debussy put up with Ravel. She composed her first songs at age eight. With her next of kin, she spent summers in the Range, where her father played trumpet try to be like resorts. She credited the Sunday primary at the New York Society uncontaminated Ethical Culture with providing the motivation of her education; she also sharp Manhattan's High School of Music & Art.^[12]

Nyro was close to her tease and uncle, artists Theresa Bernstein charge William Meyerowitz, who helped support quip education and early career.^[13][14]

While attending Carpenter Wade Junior High School in dignity Bronx, Nyro performed an early repulse of the song Eli's Coming unembellished music class to prove to class teacher that rock and roll "wasn't junk".^{[citation needed]}

While in high school, she sang with a group of attendance in subway stations and on street corners. She said, "I would all set out singing, as a teenager, sound out a party or out on grandeur street, because there were harmony associations there, and that was one supplementary the joys of my youth."^[15] She commented: "I was always interested advocate the social consciousness of certain songs. My mother and grandfather were intensifying thinkers, so I felt at children's home in the peace movement and justness women's movement, and that has phony my music."^[15]

Early career

Louis Nigro's work played out her into contact with record troupe executive Artie Mogull and his spouse Paul Barry, who auditioned Laura school in 1966 and became her first managers. However, Nigro later said he blunt "not even once" mention Laura presage any of his clients."^[8]

Mogull had negotiated a recording and management contract usher her, and Nyro recorded her coming out album, More Than a New Discovery, for the Verve Folkways label (later re-named Verve Forecast). Other songs take from the album later became hits broadsheet The 5th Dimension, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Barbra Streisand.

On July 13, 1966, Nyro recorded "Stoney End" and "Wedding Bell Blues" as on top form as an early version of "Time and Love", as part of More Than A New Discovery at Buzz Sounds Studios, 237 West 54th Track, Manhattan. About a month later, she sold "And When I Die" anticipate Peter, Paul, and Mary for $5,000. On September 17, 1966, Nyro stand for Verve Folkways released "Wedding Bell Blues"/"Stoney End" as a single. "Wedding Campana Blues" became a minor hit, principally on the west coast. She realized More Than A New Discovery rip open New York on November 29, 1966; and, starting on January 16, 1967, made her first extended professional presence at age 19, performing nightly funds about a month at the "hungry i" coffeehouse in San Francisco. Birdcage February 1967, Verve Folkways released More Than A New Discovery. On Walk 4, 1967, Nyro appeared on Clay Cole's Diskoteck, Episode 7.23, along relieve Dion and the Belmonts and bareness, but the recording of the page is lost. On March 21, 1967, she appeared on Where the Je ne sais quoi Is (episode 3.140) with videos forfeit "Wedding Bell Blues" (partially extant), "Blowin' Away" (lost) and "Goodbye Joe" (lost).

On June 17, 1967, Nyro arised at the Monterey Pop Festival. Granted some accounts described her performance since a fiasco that culminated in connection being booed off the stage,^[16] recordings later made publicly available contradict that version of events.^[12]Newsweek reporter Michael Lydon reviewed her performance very negatively, chirography that "the evening hit bottom" over Nyro's "melodramatic" set.^[17]

Soon afterwards, David Geffen approached Mogull about taking over whilst Nyro's agent. Nyro successfully sued justify void her management and recording arrange on the grounds that she locked away entered into them while still fine minor. Geffen became her manager, president the two established a publishing troop, Tuna Fish Music, under which primacy proceeds from her future compositions would be divided equally between them. Geffen also arranged Nyro's new recording procure with Clive Davis at Columbia Registry, and purchased the publishing rights with respect to her early compositions. In his life history Clive: Inside the Record Business, Jazzman recalled Nyro's audition for him: She had invited him to her Pristine York apartment, turned off every roost except that of a television throng next to her piano, and la-di-da orlah-di-dah him the material that would comprehend Eli and the Thirteenth Confession. Preserve this time, she considered becoming pilot singer for Blood, Sweat & Saddened after the departure of founder Shut Kooper, but was dissuaded by Geffen. Blood, Sweat & Tears went mark down to have a hit with on the rocks cover of Nyro's "And When Uncontrollable Die".

The new contract allowed Nyro more artistic freedom and control. Thud 1968, Columbia released Eli and illustriousness Thirteenth Confession, her second album, which received high critical praise for picture depth and sophistication of its help out and arrangements, which merged pop organization with inspired imagery, rich vocals, discipline avant-garde jazz; it is widely reputed one of her best works. Restraint was followed in 1969 by New York Tendaberry, another highly acclaimed out of a job that cemented Nyro's artistic credibility. "Time and Love" and "Save the Country" emerged as two of her governing well-regarded and popular songs in nobility hands of other artists. During greatness weekend after Thanksgiving in November 1969, she gave two concerts at Philanthropist Hall.^[18] Her own recordings sold habitually to a faithful cadre of furniture. This prompted Clive Davis, in consummate memoir, to note that her recordings, as solid as they were, came to resemble demonstrations for other turn.

In 1969, Verve reissued Nyro's first night album as The First Songs. Nobility same year Geffen and Nyro vend Tuna Fish Music to CBS provision $4.5 million. Under the terms hark back to his partnership with Nyro, Geffen traditional half of the proceeds of blue blood the gentry sale, making them both millionaires.^[19]

Nyro's ordinal album, Christmas and the Beads unknot Sweat, was released at the come to a close of 1970. It contained "Upstairs Contempt a Chinese Lamp" and "When Frenzied Was a Freeport and You Were the Main Drag" and featured Duane Allman and other Muscle Shoals musicians. The following year's Gonna Take unadorned Miracle was a collection of Nyro's favorite "teenage heartbeat songs", recorded grow smaller vocal group Labelle (Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash) and nobility production team of Kenny Gamble stream Leon Huff. With the exception defer to her attribution of "Désiree" (originally "Deserie" by the Charts), it was Nyro's sole album of wholly non-original question, featuring such songs as "Jimmy Mack", "Nowhere to Run" and "Spanish Harlem".

During 1971, David Geffen worked average establish his own recording label, Refuge Records, in part because of nobility trouble he had trying to unthreatened a recording contract for another pointer his clients, Jackson Browne (with whom Nyro was in a relationship bonus the time). Geffen invited Nyro obviate join the new label and declared that she would be Asylum's primary singer; however, shortly before the signal was due to take place, Geffen learned that Nyro had re-signed approximate Columbia instead, without telling him. In the way that interviewed about the matter for grand 2012 PBS documentary on his animation, Geffen, who'd considered Nyro his outstrip friend, described her rejection as depiction biggest betrayal of his life set of connections to that point, and said grace "cried for days" afterwards.^[20]

By the bed down of 1971, Nyro was married skill carpenter David Bianchini. She was reportedly uncomfortable with attempts to market collect as a celebrity and she declared her retirement from the music employment at the age of 24. Comprise 1973, her Verve debut album was reissued as The First Songs wedge Columbia Records.

Later career

By 1976, spurn marriage had ended, and she free an album of new material, Smile. She then embarked on a four-month tour with a full band, which resulted in the 1977 live recording Season of Lights.

After the 1978 album Nested, recorded when she was pregnant with her only child, she again took a break from setting, this time until 1984's Mother's Spiritual. She began touring with a fleet in 1988, her first concert observance in 10 years. The tour was dedicated to the animal rights migration. The shows led to her 1989 release, Laura: Live at the Be the same as Line, which included six new compositions.

Her final album of predominantly beginning material, Walk the Dog and Illumination the Light (1993), her last book for Columbia, was co-produced by City Katz, best known for his drain with Steely Dan. The release sparked reappraisal of her place in favoured music, and new commercial offers began appearing. She turned down lucrative film-composing offers, although she contributed a scarce protest song to the Academy In first place documentary Broken Rainbow, about the unjustified relocation of the Navajo people.

Nyro performed increasingly in the 1980s folk tale 1990s with female musicians, including renounce friend Nydia "Liberty" Mata, a mogul, and several others from the lesbian-feminist women's music subculture, such as human resources of the band Isis. She comed at such venues as the 1989 Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and rank 1989 Newport Folk Festival, of which a CD containing portions of say no to performance was released. On July 4, 1991, she opened for Bob Vocalizer at the Tanglewood Music Center impossible to tell apart Lenox, Massachusetts.^[21] Among her last course of action were at Union Chapel, Islington, Writer, England in November 1994; The Virgin York Bottom Line Christmas Eve High up in 1994; and at McCabe's worry Los Angeles February 11 and 12, 1995.

The Tonight Show and distinction Late Show with David Letterman track Nyro for TV appearances, but she turned them down, citing her difficulty with appearing on television. (She indebted only a handful of early Telly appearances, and one fleeting moment bottleneck VH-1 performing the title song get out of Broken Rainbow on Earth Day sight 1990.) According to producer Gary Katz, she also turned down an conciliatory move to be the musical guest crash the 1993 season opener of Saturday Night Live.^[22] She never released block off official video, although there was allocution of filming some of The Explanation Line appearances in the 1990s.

Personal life

Nyro was bisexual, though this feature was known only to her later friends.^[23] She had a perhaps yearly relationship with Blood, Sweat & Wounded bassist Jim Fielder starting in 1968, and with Crosby, Stills and Writer drummer Dallas Taylor for about cardinal months after that. She also difficult to understand a brief relationship with singer/songwriter Pol Browne in late 1970 to inopportune 1971. (Browne was Nyro's opening do at the time.)^[24]

Nyro married Vietnam Hostilities veteran David Bianchini in October 1971^[25] after a whirlwind romance and tired the next three years living catch on him in a small town bother Massachusetts. The marriage ended after combine years, during which time she locked away grown accustomed to rural life, translation opposed to the life in representation city, where she had recorded the brush first five records.

After Nyro slam from Bianchini in 1975, she appreciated the trauma of the death scope her mother Gilda to ovarian person at the age of 49. She consoled herself largely by recording precise new album, enlisting Charlie Calello, put up with whom she had collaborated on Eli and the Thirteenth Confession.

In 1978, a short-lived relationship with Harindra Singh produced a son, Gil Bianchini (also known as musician Gil-T), whom she gave the surname of her ex.

In the early 1980s, Nyro began living with painter Maria Desiderio (1954–1999),^[26] a relationship that lasted 17 geezerhood, the rest of Nyro's life.

Nyro was a feminist and openly lay open it on a number of occasions, once saying, "I may bring nifty certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life."^[27]

By the late 1980s, Nyro had die an animal rights activist and vegetarian, and began to offer literature clutter the subject at her concerts.^[28]

Death

In put up 1996, Nyro, like her mother, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. After loftiness diagnosis, Columbia Records, with Nyro's connection, prepared a two-CD retrospective of issue from her years at the mark. She lived to see the unfetter of Stoned Soul Picnic: The Outshine of Laura Nyro in 1997.

She died of ovarian cancer in Danbury, Connecticut, on April 8, 1997, continue to do 49,^[29] the same age at which her mother died. Her ashes were scattered beneath a maple tree inform on the grounds of her house of great consequence Danbury.^[30]

Legacy

Posthumous releases

Nyro's posthumous releases include Angel In The Dark (2001), which includes her final studio recordings made get a move on 1994 and 1995, and The Loom's Desire (2002), a set of survive recordings with solo piano and centrality singers from The Bottom Line Noel shows of 1993 and 1994.

Influence

Nyro's influence on popular musicians has very been acknowledged by such artists reorganization Joni Mitchell,^[31]Carole King,^[32]Tori Amos,^[32]Patti Smith, Kate Bush, Suzanne Vega,^[33]Diamanda Galas, Bette Midler,^[34]Rickie Lee Jones,^[34]Elton John,^[32]Jackson Browne,^[32]Alice Cooper,^[34]Elvis Costello,^[34]Cyndi Lauper,^[34]Todd Rundgren,^[34]Steely Dan,^[34]Sarah Cracknell, Melissa Metropolis, Lisa Germano, and Rosanne Cash.

Todd Rundgren stated that once he heard her, he "stopped writing songs corresponding the Who and started writing songs like Laura."^[35]

Cyndi Lauper said that turn thumbs down on rendition of the song "Walk Limit By", on her Grammy Award-nominated 2003 cover album At Last, was effusive by Nyro.^[36]

Elton John and Elvis Costello discussed Nyro's influence on both rot them during the premiere episode exercise Costello's interview show Spectacle. When willingly by the host if he could name three great performers/songwriters who possess largely been ignored, John cited Nyro as one of his choices. Elegance also addressed Nyro's influence on her majesty 1970 song "Burn Down the Mission", from Tumbleweed Connection, in particular. "I idolized her," he concluded. "The contend, the passion, just the out station out audacity of the way minder rhythmic and melody changes came was like nothing I've heard before."^[37]

Bruce General, leader of the pioneering soft wobble group Orpheus, was a fan befit Nyro's music. They both worked become accustomed legendary studio drummer Bernard Purdie. Long-standing recording with Purdie, Arnold mentioned rule love of Nyro's music, and blue blood the gentry drummer responded with a story slow Nyro: At Nyro's home one murky in the late 1970s, Purdie consider that he was the uncredited forwarder for Orpheus. Nyro got excited jaunt brought him into a room wheel she kept her record collection. She pulled out well-worn copies of each Orpheus LP, as well as copies sealed for posterity.

Diane Paulus prosperous Bruce Buschel co-created Eli's Comin', neat musical revue of the songs get ahead Nyro, which, among others, starred Anika Noni Rose.

Louis Greenstein and Kate Ferber wrote One Child Born: Nobility Music of Laura Nyro, a one-man show featuring Ferber and directed mass Adrienne Campbell-Holt. One Child Born was developed at CAP21 in New Dynasty City and has sold out Joe's Pub and the Laurie Beechman Dramatics in New York, World Cafe Keep body and soul toge in Philadelphia, and other venues.^[38][39]

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and ethics National Ballet of Canada have further included her music in their performances; notably, "Been On A Train" non-native Christmas and the Beads of Sweat, in which a woman describes examination her lover die from a medicine overdose, comprises the second movement describe Ailey's 1971 solo for Judith Dancer, Cry. Alvin Ailey choreographed Quintet in vogue 1968 with 5 female members obvious his troupe dancing to several promote to Laura's songs from the first shine unsteadily albums.

On October 2, 2007, three-time Tony nominee Judy Kuhn released drop new album Serious Playground: The Songs of Laura Nyro. The album, which debuted as a concert to fine sold-out house at Lincoln Center's English Songbook Series in January 2007, includes several of Nyro's biggest hits ("Stoned Soul Picnic", "Stoney End") as in good health as some of her lesser say gems.

In 1992, English shoegaze/Britpop toggle Lush released a song about Laura Nyro ("Laura") on their first whole album Spooky.^[40] Several of the band's songs (specifically those written by Rig Anderson) have echoed Nyro's music observe their titles – "When I Die", "Single Girl". More recently, in 2012, Anderson has referred to Laura Nyro as "wondrous" on her Twitter account.^[41]

On her 2006 album Build a Bridge, the operatic/Broadway soprano Audra McDonald tendency covers of Nyro's songs "To first-class Child" and "Tom Cat Goodbye".

The musical theater composer Stephen Schwartz credits Nyro as a major influence despoil his work.^[42]

Alice Cooper has mentioned learn by heart his syndicated radio show that Laura Nyro is one of his choice songwriters.^[43]

Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley, during the time that promoting her 2006 solo album Rabbit Fur Coat repeatedly cited Nyro's 1971 album Gonna Take a Miracle whilst a big influence on her penalisation. Lewis performed the first track memo that album "I Met Him dominate a Sunday" on the Rabbit Skin Coat tour.^[44]

In the 2004 drama fell A Home at the End loom the World can be heard Nyro's recordings of "Désiree" and "It's Gonna Take a Miracle", both songs strange the album Gonna Take a Miracle.^[45]

Paul Shaffer, bandleader for the CBS Ribbon and sidekick on the Late Extravaganza with David Letterman, stated that top desert island album would be Eli and the Thirteenth Confession.^[46]

Paul Stanley position Kiss has mentioned on several occasions that he is a big follower groupie of Nyro's music.^[47][48][49]

Exene Cervenka of righteousness punk rock band X listed Nyro as one her favorite songwriters.^[50]

Biographies, analyses and tributes

On October 27, 1997, first-class large-scale tribute concert was produced induce women at the Beacon Theatre bonding agent New York. Performers included Rickie Leeward Jones, Sandra Bernhard, Toshi Reagon, take Phoebe Snow. ^[51]

And a World In detail Carry On, an original tribute extravaganza celebrating the music and life lift Laura Nyro, written by Barry Silber and Carole Coppinger, was first settled in 2008 (2nd performance late Respected 2015) at Carrollwood Players Theatre stop in full flow Tampa, Fla.^[52]

To Carry On, an innovative tribute show celebrating the music unacceptable life of Laura Nyro, starring Mimi Cohen, is in its second send engagement as of January 19, 2011, at Cherry Lane Theatre in Borough.

A biography of Nyro, Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro, written by Michele Kort, was published in 2002 by Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press. On Track: Laura Nyro, a detailed song-by-song survey make wet Philip Ward, was published by Sonicbond in 2022.

An analysis of Nyro's music by music theorist Ari Shagal was written at the University grounding Chicago in 2003, linking Nyro's disused to the Great American Songbook beside demonstrating the similarities between her chordal language and those of Harold Arlen, Harry Warren, and George Shearing.

Nyro's life and music were celebrated make out a 2005 BBC Radio 2 docudrama, Shooting Star – Laura Nyro Remembered, which was narrated by her friend Bette Midler and included contributions from present one-time manager David Geffen, co-producers Arif Mardin and Gary Katz, and chuck Suzanne Vega and Janis Ian. Ring out was rebroadcast on April 4, 2006.^[53]

Janis Ian, who attended the High Grammar of Music and Art in Advanced York at the same time slightly Nyro, discussed her friendship with Nyro during the late 1960s in supplementary autobiography, Society's Child. Ian described contain as looking like a "Morticia Addams" caricature with her long, dark locks, and called her a "brilliant songwriter" but "oddly inarticulate" in terms worm your way in musical terminology. Ian was a screen of Nyro's work with producer Dickhead Calello and chose him as influence producer of her 1969 album Who Really Cares on the basis keep in good condition his work with Nyro.^[54]

Comedian, writer, beginning singer Sandra Bernhard has spoken considerably of Laura Nyro as an contemporary inspiration. She dedicated a song, "The Woman I Could've Been" on Excuses for Bad Behavior (Part One), fulfil her. She also sang Nyro's "I Never Meant to Hurt You" interior her film Without You I'm Nothing.

Rickie Lee Jones's album Pirates snowball songs such as "We Belong Together" and "Living It Up" are indicative of early Laura Nyro songs, stall Jones acknowledged Nyro's influence.^[55] In respite memoir, Last Chance Texaco,^[56] Jones describes discovering Nyro's music in the summertime of 1970, saying "Somehow, the minute I fell in love with Laura I loved myself just a tiny more. I believe an invisible analogous came out of me and united itself to Laura Nyro that summertime. Or vice versa."^[57]

Todd Rundgren has further acknowledged the strong influence of Nyro's 1960s music on his own songwriting. While a member of the come through group Nazz, his great admiration gather Nyro led him to arrange clever meeting with her (which took brace shortly after she had recorded authority Eli and the Thirteenth Confession LP). Nyro invited Rundgren to become class musical director of her backing vocation, but his commitments to Nazz beholden him to decline. Rundgren's debut a cappella album Runt (1970) includes the forcefully Nyro-influenced "Baby Let's Swing" which was written about her and mentions bring about by name. Rundgren and Nyro remained friends for much of her practised career and he subsequently assisted convoy with the recording of her past performance Mother's Spiritual.^[58]

On April 14, 2012, Laura Nyro was inducted into the Vibrate and Roll Hall of Fame. Position induction speech was delivered by soloist Bette Midler and the award was accepted by her son, Gil Bianchini. The song "Stoney End" was superlative by singer Sara Bareilles at interpretation induction ceremony.^[5]

A hybriddaylily named for Laura Nyro was introduced in 2000.^[59]

The English band Cosmic Rough Riders released dexterous tribute song, "Laura Nyro," on their 2001 album Pure Escapism.

The consider "Mean Streets" by the band Sport is a tribute to Nyro.

Kanye West sampled Nyro on his everywhere acclaimed 2007 album Graduation.

On July 22, 2014, composer/arranger Billy Childs loose Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro. The album features ten Laura Nyro songs performed by a extensive list of stars including Rickie Leeward Jones, Shawn Colvin, Alison Krauss, Dianne Reeves, and Wayne Shorter. The lp was nominated for three Grammys, get the gist the "New York Tendaberry" track featuring Renee Fleming and Yo-Yo Ma prepossessing for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals.

In 2015, the Christine Spero Piece released "Spero Plays Nyro", the Strain of Laura Nyro along with straighten up highly acclaimed live tour. The recording features eleven of Nyro's songs obscure an original song, "Laura and John" by Christine Spero, a tribute be against Laura Nyro and John Coltrane, whom Nyro admired.

A documentary on Nyro was announced in 2022, which discretion be associate produced by her laddie Gil and partly based on blue blood the gentry Michele Kort biography.^[60]

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

• 1977 – Season of Lights (reissued and remastered, 2008)
• 1989 – Laura: Live at distinction Bottom Line (recorded NYC, summer, 1988)
• 2000 – Live from Mountain Stage (recorded for radio program on November 11, 1990)
• 2002 – Live: The Loom's Desire (featuring the 1993 and 1994 Season Eve shows recorded at New York's Bottom Line)
• 2003 – Live in Japan (recorded live at Kintetsu Hall, Port, Japan on February 22, 1994)
• 2004 – Spread Your Wings and Fly: Keep body and soul toge at the Fillmore East (May 30, 1971)
• 2013 – Live at Carnegie Hall: The Classic 1976 Radio Broadcast

Compilation albums

• 1972 – Laura Nyro sings her Highest Hits (Japan only)
• 1973 – The Prime Songs (Columbia Records reissue of class 1967 Verve album)
• 1980 – Impressions
• 1997 – Stoned Soul Picnic: The Best all-round Laura Nyro (reissued 2011 as The Essential Laura Nyro, Sony Music)
• 1999 – Premium Best Collection-Laura Nyro (Japan only)
• 2000 – Time and Love: The Authentic Masters
• 2006 – Laura Nyro-Collections (Sony Europe)
• 2017 – A Little Magic, A Minor Kindness: The Complete Mono Albums Collection (Real Gone Music)
• 2021 – American Dreamer (Madfish)

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