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Dreams of a Kitten

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of “More Than A New Discovery” at Bell Sounds Studios, 237 West

54th Street, Manhattan. About a month later, she sold "And When

I Die" to Peter, Paul, and Mary for $5,000. On September 17,

1966, Nyro and Verve Folkways released "Wedding Bell

Blues"/"Stoney End" as a single. "Wedding Bell Blues" became a

minor hit, especially on the west coast. She completed “More

Than A New Discovery” in New York on November 29, 1966; and,

starting on January 16, 1967, made her first extended

professional appearance at age 19, performing nightly for about

a month at the "Hungry I" coffeehouse in San Francisco. In

February 1967, Verve Folkways released “More Than A New

Discovery.” On March 4, 1967, Nyro appeared on Clay Cole's

“Diskoteck,” Episode 7.23, along with Dion and the Belmonts and

others, but the recording of the episode is lost. On March 21,

1967, she appeared on “Where the Action Is” (episode 3.140) with

videos of "Wedding Bell Blues" (partially extant), "Blowin'

Away" (lost) and "Goodbye Joe" (lost).

On June 17, 1967, Nyro appeared at the “Monterey Pop Festival.”

Although some accounts described her performance as a fiasco

that culminated in her being booed off the stage, recordings

later made publicly available contradict this version of events.

Soon afterwards, David Geffen approached Mogull about taking

over as Nyro's agent. Nyro successfully sued to void her