Re: Laura Nyro. I had a very sweet, but kind of sad, occurrence at a piano bar many years ago. It was the week Laura died, and for some reason without even really thinking about it, I started playing "Captain St. Lucifer," hardly one of her best known songs, but a favorite of mine. All of a sudden a woman across the room started weeping, and she came up to me and told me she not only recognized the tune, but that she had grown up with Laura and the two had been best friends at a summer camp they went to for several years running. Amazing--all of this in Portland, Oregon.
