RIP Melanie Safka

My first musical crush in my teen years. RIP, Melanie, thanks for your contributions and memories!

I was surprised when I read this this  morning as she really wasn’t that old.

 Thank you for the music you left me with.

Cheers @tomic601

I saw her at a small concert with about 100 in attendance about 10 years ago. It was an intimate and stoned (her not me) affair but only got going at the end, after she got past the novelty tracks.

When she does the serious stuff, she really excels in raw emotion.

https://youtu.be/0b9W_z7Rm9E

I don't begrudge Melanie Safka's success with the roller skate love song, "Brand New Key", which I still sing along with-- in private.  I would guess that song fed and clothed her (and her family) for many a year (although her husband, her record producer, was successful as well). The song probably brought otherwise unaware listeners to her body of work. Like me, a high school hard rocker. I still have "Gather Me". the first Melanie record I bought. I used to be asked to bring records to parties. Melanie's face on that cover was vandalized one night. I took it personally. But the act bonded me to her. She and I were of the same generation. God speed, Melanie