“Stoned Soul Picnic” a widely known cowl by The fifth Dimension is an American widespread music vocal group, whose repertoire contains pop, R&B, soul, jazz, gentle opera and Broadway—the melange was coined as “Champagne Soul.”
The track was additionally recorded by its composer, Nyro, and launched on her Eli and the Thirteenth Confession album in the identical yr and an instrumental model was recorded by jazz vibraphonist Roy Ayers.
The phrase surry, used often within the lyric (e.g. “Surry right down to a stoned soul picnic”), is a neologism by Nyro; its which means is unclear. The verb surry is spelled in a different way from the noun surrey (an old-time carriage). When requested by producer Charlie Calello what the phrase meant, Nyro advised him, “Oh, it’s only a good phrase.”[2] One doable which means is that surry is a shortening of “let’s hurry.”
Crystal Waters sampled the track on her single “Ghetto Day” from her 1994 album Storyteller. The British pop group Swing Out Sister recorded a cowl model on their 1997 album, Shapes and Patterns. Afro-Celtic artist Laura Love coated the track in 2000 on her album ‘Fourteen Days.’ It was coated by Julie London on her 1969 album Yummy, Yummy, Yummy; and by the New York Voices on their 2007 album A Day Like This. It additionally appeared on the 2004 album Don’t Speak, recorded by British jazz singer Claire Teal. Singer-Songwriter Jill Sobule coated it as a single in 2001. It additionally seems on the Billy Childs album Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro sung by Ledisi
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