RIP Melanie Safka

I personally think that she sank her career with that Brand New Key song. It was so coy and childish, nothing like her previous stuff.

RIP

I was in college 1966 to 1970. Melanie was a dream, Beautiful People,

Among my CDs and LPs, this Live Melanie at Carnegie Hall is outstanding!!!

It is a damn shame she became known to so many by the stupid roller-skate song.

Saw her live a few times, smallest place was the Turning Point, Piermont, NY

Live in Central Park

I don't know about coy and childish.  Isn't the song pretty much all sexual innuendo?  What did people think was the roller skate and what was the key?

RIP…. and what artist of any enduring worth / substance / ? has not taken a path with risks ?….. 

thx Brian