The First Songs

More Than a New Discovery is the debut album by Bronx-born singer, songwriter and pianist Laura Nyro. It was recorded during 1966 and released early in the following year on the Verve Folkways imprint of the Verve Records label. The name of the label was later changed to Verve Forecast and the album was re-issued on that label as The First Songs in 1969. This re-issue has a different track order and revised cover design. It peaked at No. 97 on the Billboard 200, then known as the Pop Albums chart. Starting with this release, the song "Hands Off the Man" was retitled "Flim Flam Man". Columbia Records re-issued The First Songs with all-new cover art in 1973. In 1999 the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2008 Rev-Ola Records released a remastered version of the original album on Compact Disc with the original song order and the original cover art. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Th...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)