Laura Nyro Its gonna take a miracle 1971

Laura Nyro (October 18, 1947 April 8, 1997) was an American composer, lyricist, singer, and pianist. Her style was a hybrid of Brill Buildingstyle New York pop, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, show tunes, rock and soul. She was best known, and enjoyed her greatest commercial success, as a composer and lyricist rather than as a performer. Between 1968 and 1970 a number of other singers had significant hits with her songs: The 5th Dimension with Blowing Away, Wedding Bell Blues, Stoned Soul Picnic, Sweet Blindness, Save The Country and Black Patch; Blood, Sweat Tears and Peter, Paul Mary with And When I Die; Three Dog Night with Eli s Coming; and Barbra Streisand with Stoney End, Time and Love, and Hands off the Man (Flim Flam Man). Nyro s bestselling single was her recording of Carole King and Gerry Goffin s Up on the