Nicolette Larson

Cafe Society
1

I was in the used CD store and I came across her “Greatest Hits” CD and I bought it.

Of course outside of “Lotta Love” a cover of the “Neil Young” song, I hadn’t heard anything by her.

She’s got a lot of talent, and anyway I was looking her up on the Internet and I was surprised to see just how favourable she was regarded especially by other singers. Of course that could be 'cause, evidently she was a backup singer on just about every other album made in the 70s :slight_smile:

So what did you think of Larson if anything

2

That’s the only thing I’ve ever heard by her. I love it. She made a big hit of that back in the 70s, to the extend I didn’t know Neil Young wrote it.

3

Neil did a great live version of “Lotta Love” on his album Live Rust—as much as I enjoy the music of Neil Young, I even like Nicolette Larson’s cover of Lotta Love more…

4

I just read the Wiki link saying she passed away several years back—A shame, she had such a lovely voice.

5

I remember hearing her “Lotta Love” song on the radio all the freaking time in 1978-79, and thinking that the line ‘Cause my heart needs relating not solitude’ was “Cause my heart needs a lady not solitude”. After that single peaked, I heard “Rhumba Girl” a couple times, but that’s all I knew about her until I looked her up on Wikipedia.

6

The “Musician” magazine review of her album “All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go” said “If you believe the quality of a record is inversely proportional to the amount of clothes a woman is wearing on the cover photo, be advised Larson is wearing only a towel”.