Laura Nyro "Smile" LP (1976)

Details: Laura Nyro's 1976 album "Smile" released on CBS/Columbia in 1976. Noticeable ring and shelf wear on album cover. Record is fantastic on Side 1, but Side 2 does have a noticeable scratch/scuff but plays through/tested. Fantastic album for Nyro fans of her late 70s pop-jazz.

Description: "After a five-year hiatus, singer/songwriter Laura Nyro returned in 1976 with Smile. Nyro's somewhat idiosyncratic writing and performance style is decidedly subdued. In its stead is a light pop and jazz feel similar to that of Maria Muldaur's mid-'70s recordings."

"Smile is the sixth album by New York singer, songwriter and pianist Laura Nyro. It was released in early 1976, following a four-year hiatus from the music industry during which time she both married and divorced, and lived away from the spotlight. She dedicated the album to her mother. The music of Smile is smooth jazz-pop, and Nyro was reunited with producer and arranger Charlie Calello, who had worked with Nyro on her 1968 opus Eli and the Thirteenth Confession."

Grade: VG (Record/Sleeve)

TRACK LISTING SIDE A:

A1. Sexy Mama
A2. Children of the Junks
A3. Money
A4. I Am The Blues

TRACK LISTING SIDE B:

B1. Stormy Love
B2. The Cat Song
B3. Midnite Blue
B4. Smile