The massive Hear My Song: The Collection, 1966 – 1995 contains 19 CDs and a foreword by Elton John
Laura Nyro‘s career and legacy will be examined in the new box set Hear My Song: The Collection, 1966 – 1995, out Dec. 6 via Madfish Records.
The massive collection spans 19 CDs, including her 10 studio albums, from her 1967 debut More Than a New Discovery to her posthumous 2001 record Angel in the Dark. The box set also boasts six live albums — two of which are previously unreleased — her 1966 demo tape, and a bonus disc of rarities.
Also included in the box set is a 90-page book, featuring a foreword by Elton John. “She wrote songs that had no kind of fixed compass point,” he writes. “They remain as unique and absolutely spellbinding to this day as when I first heard them in the 60s.”
Hear My Song follows 2021’s American Dreamer, a vinyl box set also released by Madfish. Nyro, who died in 1997, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Bette Midler gave a speech, Nyro’s son Gil Bianchini accepted the award, and Sara Bareilles performed her 1967 song “Stoney End” (which became a hit for Barbra Streisand).
“I do feel like Laura has been under-recognized over the years,” Bareilles told Rolling Stone at the time. “But I have to say, she’s a tough nut to crack musically. She’s not an artist that you can throw on and everyone is going to necessarily take to it immediately, but there’s so much depth and so much passion and so much bravery in her work.”
