Bette Midler Inducts Laura Nyro into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame | 2012 Induction
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- Bette Midler Inducts Laura Nyro at the 2012 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
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This has to be the most emotional and heartfelt tribute ever made by one artist to another . Laura Nyro was the best. There simply is no one like her
Tears. Bette brought it big time.
Bette was magnificent. After I heard this, I was compelled to put on a Laura Nyro album!
She did a magnificent speech 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Loved her music and her soul!❤
A very authentic tribute by someone who knows what she's talking about.
What a fantastic introduction and narrative of Laura Nyro by Bette Midler. I'm a new fan of Laura Nyro and I'm reading, listening, and absorbing everything about this wonderful artist. I wish Laura Nyro was still around. Thank you, Bette Midler, for the best tribute I've ever heard to date!
Much Respect to her !
such an extraordinary tribute, Laura was the original earth mother, her and Carole King defined true feminism. Thank you Bette, you got her right, and for her loyal fans, we thank you deeply.
What a wonderful speech! Beautifully constructed, beautifully delivered, and very clearly from the heart. And such a fitting tribute to Laura.
Bette Midler deserves a standing ovation for her introduction of Laura👏🏽.
And her description of New York🗽 of the 60s and 70s.😅😆
Exactly
Undeniably one of the greatest artists of all time whose music influenced and continues to influence countless others.
Rest in powerful peace Laura Nyro 🙏
18 October 1947 ~
8 April 1997⚘
What a beautiful, tender and heart-wrenching tribute by Bette Midler for a beautiful, tender and heart-wrenching performer...Laura Nyro. The world was made a better place because Laura Nyro graced us with her presence and talent.
Wow...Better Midler just did such justice to yet another gem from the Bronx.
What a speech!! Laura means a lot, I love the wedding bell blues song 🌸🌸🌸
there aren't enough likes in the universe for nyro
The best tribute ever given by anyone ever in my opinion. I lucked out one day at a garage sale when I found a few albums a lady was selling, I went nuts. The lady was so excited that she gave them to me. She wanted someone who would enjoy them as much as she did. I still treasure those vinyls.
What a wonderful, long overdue honor! We've seen so many R'n'R Hall of Fame Inductions yet I can't recall one homage that was as moving/comprehensive/adoring as was Bette's. Just overcome. I surprised my sister with tickets to Laura's first Carnegie Hall show; it was simulcast on WNEW, and we had the cassette player working back at the apartment, as we watched her live. "Christmas In My Soul" always brings me to my knees. I loved Bette's re: to "Love My Love thing, Love is surely Gospel"and "Emily, you ornament the Earth to me..." She will always be one of the greatest artists we've ever had amongst us. I was born in the Bronx; knowing I shared my beginnings near Laura, always made me proud. I'm so grateful her son could experience the unimaginable impact his Mother had on sooo many. Miss her eternally. Historic moment...
On my goodness this was beautifully written!
I am an OLD rock and roller, I just learned of Laura Nyro's contributions to so many of my favorite bands and artists in the last 24 hours. What an amazing talent. I will be downloading all of her work and researching her history. What an amazing woman. (and Bette Midler, what a class act. She always shows respect for everyone around her. Another amazing talent but a more amazing human being.)
lovely. her music is amazing and timeless.
Bette, no one else can express the Laura we all knew and loved as you have at this ceremony! And we all wept with you...I've been singing her songs this morning just as I did in my bedroom when I was a teenager, over and over again. Laura is endless. And today, here I am at 70 ...she is imprinted in me, she runs through my veins, cells. I remember when she was coming to Minneapolis in the early nineties - I marked my calendar when her concert tickets were going on sale at 10:00 am and called at the very moment - buying a ticket in the front row for each performance....nirvanaaaah!! Bette, thanks for capturing her spirit, sharing it with the world - she cannot be lost. And Bette, thank you for being you.
Discovered her first album in the 60s.
Have been a fan since day one.
Laura Nyro - an incalculable loss.
I’m a 68 yr old Beatle maniac who found out about Laura later. I can’t imagine anyone who loves music that didn’t feel their soul stirred by this beautiful song bird. Thank you Bette for speaking my heart so well❤
Laura's songs are always best sung by her!
Agreed
Fifth Demension Excellent on these songs ; Stoned Soul Picnic - Wedding Bell Blues - 👍
I began crying at the very instant Bette did. An extraordinary tribute from one extraordinary woman to an even more extraordinary woman. Thanks infinitely for posting xx
I had no idea Laura wrote all those songs, I have a lot of them, wow. Bette Midler you did an awesome job presenting it in her honor, bless your tender heart.
Reuben Finklestein, me too, it is so hard to watch her cry, I feel her hurt, I have been through some things that make you humble & tender hearted,
Laura Nyro was part of life listening and owning, and still do all of her hit 33 rpm vinyl. Her music and style of singing was unique, special and very soulfully hypnotic.❤
Nailed it. Thank you for including Christmas and The Beads of Sweat in your speech!
I'm proud to say that I caught on to the greatness of Laura Nyro from the beginning. I have her album, "First Songs" and I'm sure that if inspected you'll find Stoney End almost worn through the vinyl.
Know what you mean. It was a very cool feeling knowing you knew of Laura. I turned everyone I knew onto her early works. Even the guys liked a lot of her songs. I think it might have been the brownies, but I was spreading the Gospel according to Ms. Laura- any way I could. What Wonderful, New York days! I listen to "Christmas and the Beads of Sweat", every season. I suspect Laura would be aghast at her Country, today. Who ever expected America to go backwards!?! Historians, perhaps...
Tears all around. I’m an 18 year old, and play music. I grew up listening to everything from Billy Joel, to even Radiohead sometimes, but when I started my own journey of music away from my parent’s taste, I found myself in Laura’s hands. I found myself there by looking at a picture of one of my favorite actors, the one from Grease, Jeff Conaway. I have the picture hanging up in my room, and it’s a black and white photo of Jeff, legs sprawled out on his floor in Hollywood Hills, and he has records of every kind from the 50s, to the 70s. He had many, and I wanted to know them, to feel what he felt when he put these records on. So it took me forever, but finally someone pointed it out for me, and it was Laura’s Eli and The Thirteenth Confession. Jeff had Laura’s album, he probably had it considering he grew up in that gritty New York that Bette described in this video. He grew up a pure street kid just as Laura did. I listened to that record a over and over, and it is still an absolute treasure to me. Laura’s music has this magical halo around it that makes it so incredibly unique and filled with true and most importantly-real passion. May she Rest In Peace knowing that she has touched someone as young as me.
You are a good girl. On youtube you can discover and listen to all the best musicians of the past, I'm sure you will
@@fabrizioalbanese514 I definitely have for sure! I just got my first Laura vinyl record the other day!
Wow this was beautifully written really enjoyed reading
@@Suri-o7w yes it was, Bette is great, her emotions & all, you can tell Bette really feels it, her tears are real.
It’s wonderful to see the entire Bette tribute unedited. I’m so glad you shared this. Laura was a complete original. Listening to her music now in lossless audio gives me chills.
It's just so crazy to spend decades being taken to places by a songwriter and never have known her name. Just feel gratitude for where she took me through music.
Underrated Laura before her time
She gave the soul of her songs their colors and beating ❤
Saw her with my friend...just a piano and she on the onset of 1969 in Sage Hall, MA
So real she was like the snow coming down in our hearts
She is a "forever"
I always say that Laura was a goddess who came down to earth briefly to touch us all.
Everyone should listen to Ms Midler's podcast tribute to Laura Nyro, titled Shooting Star. It is very moving and also beautiful.
Oh my goodness I am weeping i began weeping because I feel like Miss Nyro was exceptionally special and deserved this award long before she had long passed away I found out she had been in the music far more than twenty years before somebody even had the the courage too finally acknowledge laura and her beautiful artistic vision wow I just wish Laura Nyro was around to receive this extraordinary award what an honor to recognized this Amazing woman on behalf of Miss Nyro and her one and only "one child born'' son, I say thank you Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Academy Congratulation Ms Nyro well deserved long overdue Honor!
I knew the music but never knew her. Been listening this week and I'm astounded she isn't better known. Crazy great body of work.
Anyone who loves Laura as deeply as the people making these comments do can completely feel and understand everything that Bette is saying here. What a lovely tribute. I too am emotional just listening. We love you, Laura!
That was the best induction speech for R&R HOF I've seen/heard on TH-cam.
Bette said it all and then some but of course enough is never enough for the special talent that was Laura Nyro the superlatives can go on forever.
Bette, thank you for a tribute and introduction worthy of this renowned beauty and TALENT, Laura Nyro!
A speech worthy of a Goddess! Bette also spoke so wonderfully years ago during a tribute to Laura that included singers doing their versions of her tunes (2007, perhaps).
😭😭😭😭😭😭
I have fond memories of Laura's songs never realizing she wrote them! What a great talent...Thank you Laura from the bottom of my heart!
What a great tribute to one of my favorites singers. Thank you Bette. You made this old man cry and it was good . Peace.. Love
Astoundingly good homage to Laura Nyro.
Almost impossible not to cry..
Victor Carrillo- yeah, it is hard not to cry when Bette cries, she has the most saddest cry I've ever heard, bless her heart, she is very tender hearted & it shows
I love Bette Midler and respect her loving contribute to Laura Nyro
Laura Nyro is unbeliavably talented.
One of my favorite singer songwriters just like Bette I to am emotionally happy for her and her son
one of a kind Legend
The RRHF got one right for a change.
Thank you Bette Middleton for that amazing tribute to one of music’s best. Her voice and music has always brought me joy.
kudos for using her birth name...I always do the same
Beautiful Bette⚘ on
Lovely Laura⚘
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Surely one of the most splendid, extraordinarily gifted and wholly unique and enchanted human beings God ever sculpted out of His Divine Clay!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@maxcomise/ what a beautiful poetic and exquisite thing to say.
I don't like Bette Midler, can't stand her for many reasons.
I have not seen this before.
But God, she nailed this.
I love Laura Nyro. A true, talented original.
And so does Bette Midler. Thanks Bette.
Thank you Bette and Thank you Laura
I'm entirely into Classical, and 08:15 this might be a little too gay-sentimental for me, but let me tell that Laura Nyro is one of a few popular voices that I immediately accepted. Can't stand some of the material sounding just like "pop" but she was really a great artist. Got all of her albums now, an odd sequence in my record collection.
I am crying now too! 😭
What a lovely speech from the heart from Bette.
wow. that is how to do it.
I resisted listening to this induction speech because I expected the usual showbiz nonsense. I couldn't have been more wrong. A really big thank you to Bette for such a beautiful, heartfelt and moving tribute. Just hearing Laura's voice again today can bring tears to my eyes. It's been a full fifty years since I first heard that amazing passionate voice so full of love for humanity and for the world, back when I was clueless 18 year old searching for something "real" in a world obsessed with the artificial and with appearances. I found that "real" in Laura and her music and she became an anchor for my young heart.
They were very close friends
Proud to say that I’m 18 right now, anchoring myself to someone real, Laura. 💗
@@mimibarrett6819 good for you Mimi. Stay true to your heart and you'll find your way in this rather mad world.
thanks bett
The Divine Miss M
Wow, never heard of her until now. What a speech.💕
Love me some Laura 👏🏾💐💝🎤
It’s ridiculous that Bette Midler hasn’t ever been nominated for the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. She should’ve been inducted years ago.
Wow, hits the spot!✌
Rundgren's recollections of producing her record are entertaining.
I’m crying. Oh hush, you are too.💜
This is one of the best induction speeches I've ever heard
Tears here too.
The best induction speech ever! Thanx Bette!!
I loved her! Laura Nyro….”He’s a Runner”., gave me the best advice, I’ve ever had!
The hit song 'Runner' by indie pop duo references 3 Laura songs, the other being Beads of Sweat and Stoned Soul Picnic, as well as Gonna take a Miracle. The Tennis song 'Mean Streets' from about 2014 is a tribute to Laura.
The indie pop duo 'Tennis'.
Jew taking about A Jew.
Finally!
I am a huge fan of Laura Nyro. I still marvel at her magnificent talents. She not only wrote her own songs, she sang them with her unforgettable fabulous voice & also did all the backup vocals & harmony vocals on recorded songs. If that wasn't enough she also accompanied herself on the piano. And man oh man could she play piano! She was just amazing! Those of you who aren't familiar with her I encourage you to Google her singing "ELI'S COMING". (which she wrote). You can thank me later.
Best induction ever……..❤
❤️
Bette Midler, your induction of Laura Nero here is heart- stopping. Thank-you
No lip service there. Beautiful Bette. Here' s to Laura and the Luxury of HER.
And let's not forget her 1968 love song to her Maria...way ahead of her time.
She Absolutely DID NOT write a love song to Maria in 1968! She didn't know Maria in 1968! PLEASE STOP spreading this false information! How do I know? Because I knew Maria and Laura. They were my friends. I met Laura through Maria in 1988. So, Please Stop. It's not true. Thank you.
Sounds off the cuff, props for that, and I was young and livin in the city in the 60's, but it was the best, not the pits, but that's her, she's glam, no subways she admits. I wouldn't go there now cus it's lawless and criminals aren't even charged
Laura was before my time, I was 22 when I heard this speech for the first time in 2012. Boy, was I blown away. Thank you, Better Midler for introducing me to the stunning ground breaking, beautiful and ethereal Laura Nyro. I too fell in love with her voice and consider myself a fan.
Up on the Roof is one of my favorite song. It spoke to me. Finding peace,. solitude ,and nature in the middle of a city,
earth mother, my hero, my inspiration
Geez after all that you cut off her son going up there and I read what he went through just to be there and how the woman who snatched up her estate wouldn't even let him have any of the items from the estate and then later said oh I didn't think he was interested in having any of the items .
Terrible how her son was just a teenager when Laura died and this woman thought nothing of giving him any of the mother's estate just really wicked and then he fought to be here because originally they allowed him to have a seat way up in the nose bleeds section I didn't even offer to pay for his ticket and I wouldn't be surprised if it was Bette Midler who got him to be allowed to come up to get the award
A beautiful moment! My son is an avid fan! Shared with me! ♥️
Love love love........
It's Gonna Take a Miracle" 🥰😘
great tribute ..
Wow what a great speech!!!
Love you, Laura.
Damn! Made me cry.
8:17
Don't forget "Broken Rainbow ".
Won an oscar
I can only watch this every so often but it's always within me. Thank you Bette for acknowledging our youth, our passion and our grief. We will never give up.
Neil Sedaka,Jim Croce,Jim Weatherly, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Carole King, Carly Simon and Austin Roberts
I didn't know Laura raised Patti LaBelle's 1st son after Patti's bout of depression in the early to mid-70s.
Also considered Laura Nyro's own childhood wasn't all that great and she later died at the same age with the same condition as her mother.
FYI: Patti, herself, also suffers a condition her late mother also died of.
what hapened to Bette's eyes?; have they always been slits, or did they become way with time?
what!? we don't get to see her son acecpt the award ?????
Yeah...but Al had it and Sinatra too.
Laura passed away in 1997. Eleven years later, Janis Ian came out with a memoir in which she falsely and unfairly portrayed Laura as a hardcore drug user.
She was very envious of her
I wish they had recorded Gil Bianchini also.
They did record him. It's available on TH-cam
So many people including myself have been waiting so long for Neil sedaka to be inducted . How long are we to be kept waiting ?. From Michael from Yorkshire and proud of it.
why does laurs son sound like he was raised in the east bronx with no education?
why are you such a judgemental worm?
2:19 "Christmas and the Beads of Sweat...People used to line up outside Sam Goodies and wait for hours for that record to show up". That seems unlikely. It peaked at #51 on the Billboard charts while her more successful (and my favorite) New York Tendaberry peaked at #32. It's possible her fans were told of the release date and were waiting for Sam Goody to open that day, but I'd like corroboration on this story. Is it possible Bette was confusing this with a line up for concert tickets, which would be more believable?
not rock and roll
Her music wasn't rock n roll but she was inducted for her immeasurable contribution to rock n roll - she wrote numerous songs that went #1 or charted on the rock and pop charts in the 60s and 70s. She was also arguably the first female singer songwriter who opened the door for everyone that was since followed - Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Fiona Apple, Elton John, Todd Rundgren, Suzanne Vega etc...
she did plenty of great rock'n'roll
she didn't ONLY do rock'n'roll
as is true of a lot of folks in R&R HOF
She is SOUL which is where R&R came from. Please do some research. I don't think many groups inducted R truly R&R