Hi again, Actually I had four questions: The first two are regarding the (I think) Curtis Mayfield song "Freedom(?) Train" that begins "People get ready/There's a train a comin'/Don't need no ticket/ You just get on board..." First of all, is that the right title? Second of all, for you fellow Laura Nyro fans, did she cover this on C&tBoS? Perhaps I'm confused (what else is new?) -- I haven't see or heard the album in many, many years. There was a lot of train imagery on that album. Particularly devastating was the song "Been On A Train", always gave me chills, and unless I misunderstood it completely, that one was about a friend of hers who died of a drug overdose. Train = drug trip, in Laura's poetic language...
The third question is: What's on the new Laura master-tapes album somebody mentioned? I'd go to her site but (as I've mentioned too many times lately) my browser is busted -- something that may get fixed *finally* this weekend). #4: The other thing that caught me off guard was when I was reading about famous people's most memorable moments from TV, in TV Guide's 50th Anniversary Issue, there was Dorthy Hamill talking about seeing the beatles for the first time on Ed Sullivan. Fine and good, but then she says, "...We went out and bought a beatles record the next day, but [emphasis mine] WHEN WE GOT IT HOME WE REALIZED IT WAS THEIR MUSIC BUT IT WASN'T THEM SINGING..." Whuh? This is the first I'd heard of this. I know the *Monkees* were accused (with some reason) of not *playing* much on their earlier albums, and Boyce and Hart and Neil Diamond wrote most of their songs, but they did sing. So maybe Ms. Hamill is confusing the groups *and* the facts? Or is she thinking of Milli Vanilli? :-) Did the Beatles *ever* put out an album on which they themselves didn't sing? If not, perhaps Ms. Hamill did too many triple jumps early in her career... (I have nothing against her, btw) Best to all, Walt
