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 at the beginning of the following year on the Folkways imprint of the Verve label (this imprint was changed to Verve/Forecast after Verve was threatened with legal action by Moses Asch who owned the Folkways label.

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  • 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 at the beginning of the following year on the Folkways imprint of the Verve label (this imprint was changed to Verve/Forecast after Verve was threatened with legal action by Moses Asch who owned the Folkways label. The album was reissued, with a revised track order and with the song "Hands Off the Man" retitled to "Flim Flam Man", in 1973 by Columbia Records as The First Songs. It is this version that survives on CD formats, and gave Nyro a chart entry at #97 on the Billboard 200, then known as the Pop Albums chart. The album is notable for producing a trove of hits for other artists. Blood Sweat and Tears scored with "And When I Die", The 5th Dimension with "Wedding Bell Blues" and "Blowin' Away", and Barbra Streisand with "Stoney End" . Various other artists covered songs from the album. In 1999, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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