Gonna Take a Miracle (Exp)
(Audio CD) by Laura Nyro
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Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date:
June 25, 2002
Studio:
Sony
Number Of Discs:
1
Format:
Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Average Customer Rating:
based on 36 reviews
Description:
1971 album is Nyro's only album of non-original music including 'Spanish Harlem', 'Monkey Time/Dancing In The Street' and 'Jimmy Mack'. Remastered & featuring the previously unreleased live bonus tracks 'Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing', '(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman', 'O-o-h Child' & 'Up On The Roof'. 2002.
Track Listing:
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)
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Like Obama's Mama?Nov 15, 2008 Laura Nyro's "Gonna Take A Miracle" is one of the greatest albums you never heard of. I bought this album when it first came out in 1971, and played it for everyone I knew: all my black friends hated Laura's voice, and my white friends hated the background vocals (by the incomparable LaBelle, long before "Lady Marmalade"). My friends, they didn't get it. But like the Hendrix song, "I Don't Live Today", Laura Nyro dropped this album for the future, when black and white would not be seen as opposites, but as complements, trading riffs, and not caring who sings lead, if the music grooves. Like Stanley Ann Dunham, Laura Nyro died of ovarian cancer, much too soon to see that her romanticism, like all love, never dissipates, but forever recreates in another place and time. Laura's one child did not become president, but in the music of everyone from Joni Mitchell to Alicia Keys, Laura's spirit of unconquerable hope was there when I needed it, and has inspired millions.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Classic songs from a classic songwriterOct 15, 2007 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.
LaBelle and Laura create magicJul 16, 2007
Pure soul. Pure Laura Nyro. God bless Gamble & Huff for putting them together.
OMG This is HeavenApr 27, 2007 A couple of tracks from this are featured (significantly) in that Colin Farrell film 'A Home at the End of the World'. That prompted me to check it out at Amazon and for an attractive price just days later it was mine. My 3rd and 4th years of college I wore this one out. Yes, I had taste way back then. The confluence of Nyro's voice with Labelle, signing Motown covers like they really meant them, is for me just indescribable bliss. I would say it's too bad she died, I miss her, but when you turn this on, she lives! (Yeah, that's the miracle). If I'm ever stranded on a desert island with one CD, I hope to hell it's this one. Buy it, you heard me, buy it! Your friends will say, OMG, where did you get that??? I guarantee it!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Laura Nyro "Gonna Take A Miracle"Apr 01, 2007 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
based on 36 reviews
