Raise your hand if you remember such songs from the 1960s and 1970s as “Eli’s Coming,” “Stoney End,” “Wedding Bell Blues,” and “And When I Die.” Very good, class. Now, for three gold stars, name the composer.

Gotcha, didn’t I? They were all written by Laura Nyro, a New Yorker born-and-bred, and they were all hits for other artists. Her originals are excellent, but she never got the attention that she deserved. She died of ovarian cancer twenty years ago at the age of 49.

Here she is singing “Flim Flam Man,” which seems to fit our newly-elected monarch President quite well.