Title: As timeless as Billie Holiday
Product review: Occasionally hearing an album for the first time burns itself into your memory, like where you were when Kennedy was shot or Neal and Buzz set foot on Luna. Such was my experience with my first hearing of "Eli." With one ego-shattering listen my dreams of ever singing the blues went out the window - Laura Nyro took care of that forever. I never did understand how Fifth Dimension's sappy remakes of "Stoned Soul Picnic" and "Sweet Blindness" ever got on the air when the originals heard here were better sung and orchestrated. The final pair of cuts, "December's Boudoir" leading into "Eli" is breathtaking. My daughter brought the CD home from college raving about it. I amazed her when I pulled out the LP complete with lavender-scented liner lyric sheet!
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