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"What Have They Done to My Song Ma" is a song written and performed by Melanie (Safka). It was released in 1970 as the B-side of Melanie's "Ruby Tuesday" single and included on the album Candles in the Rain. The single reached the number 39 in the United Kingdom and peaked within the top 20 in Norway and the Wallonia region of Belgium.
All songs written by Melanie Safka except where noted. "Candles in the Rain" 1:42 "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" (accompanied by the Edwin Hawkins Singers) 3:49 "Carolina in My Mind" (James Taylor) 3:37 "Citiest People" 3:32 "What Have They Done to My Song Ma" 4:02 "Alexander Beetle" (Safka, A.A. Milne) 2:35 "The Good Guys" 3:08
The group's next album Beautiful People would be the group's first album release in English-speaking North America and also in Australia, the edition of the album released in those territories including "Look What They've Done to My Song Ma". Potger co-wrote two songs on the album, and his former Seekers bandmate Bruce Woodley contributed one.
Miley Cyrus enlisted her for a duet of Melanie’s “Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma” in 2015. More recently, Jarvis Cocker did a live, on-stage interview with her in the U.K.
AllMusic wrote that "a gospel feel mixed with R&B locomotion is the engine that drives things here, but [Charles] also uses it to transform Melanie's 'What Have They Done to My Song, Ma' into a syncopated strut, and bring a Sunday Baptist church feel to the Dion hit 'Abraham, Martin and John'."
Ballroom Streets is a 1978 double album released by Melanie.The album is essentially a live album but recorded in the studio with a small audience. It mixed new recordings of old songs with some new songs and featured the vocals of the Persuasions.
"My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)", also known as simply "Light Em Up", is a song by American rock band Fall Out Boy, released as the lead single for the band's fifth studio album, Save Rock and Roll. [1] It serves as the band's first single following the group's three-year hiatus and regrouping in early 2013. [2]
The first single, "They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy", was released in April 1974 [5] and peaked at No. 4 on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. The album's second single, "Trouble in Paradise", was released in August 1974 [6] and peaked at No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, Lynn's eleventh No. 1 single.