If you’re not up for baseball or football, let me take you back to 1968 and the second album by Laura Nyro, who died of ovarian cancer at age 49 in 1997. You might say “Who?” Well, look at the track listing and see what you recognize:

Side one

“Luckie” – 3:00
“Lu” – 2:44
“Sweet Blindness” – 2:37
“Poverty Train” – 4:16
“Lonely Women” – 3:32
“Eli’s Comin'” – 3:58

Side two

“Timer” – 3:22
“Stoned Soul Picnic” – 3:47
“Emmie” – 4:20
“Woman’s Blues” – 3:46
“Once It Was Alright Now (Farmer Joe)” – 2:58
“December’s Boudoir” – 5:05
“The Confession” – 2:50

If you like what you heard, here’s her first album “More Than a New Discovery” on YouTube. It includes “Stoney End” and “Wedding Bell Blues.”