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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. When first issued on CD in 1989, it did not contain "Holding Out", "Any Guy", "Groundhog Day ...
Melanie and the Record Man made its premiere on October 19, with performances scheduled until October 28. The musical, conceived and designed by Haldoupis, featured Melanie's music and told the story of meeting Peter, falling in love, and working together to produce her music. Melanie performed during the musical and was also the narrator.
Candles in the Rain is singer Melanie's third album. Released in 1970, the album produced Melanie's first Top Ten single in North America, "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)", which was inspired by the crowd's reaction to her performance at Woodstock. The cover of the Rolling Stones' 1967 song "Ruby Tuesday" reached the Top Ten in the United Kingdom.
The album was a conscious effort to move away from the pop sensibilities of her #1 song "Brand New Key" and focus on more introspective material.“I saw Stoneground Words as a sort of statement, something that would remind people that "Brand New Key" was a complete one-off for me."
Her voice, her lyrics, her guitar all work for her to produce a tight unit of action and reaction." [6] U.K. publication NME called it an "interesting album," calling Melanie "a young lady who sings in a strange, arresting way, as if she cant quite remember the words (or the tune at times). She wrote most of the songs and is a sort of female ...
A version of the song entitled the "Combine Harvester", with new rustic-themed lyrics by Irish songwriter Brendan O'Shaughnessy (including "I've got a brand new combine harvester An' I'll give you the key"), was recorded by Irish comedian Brendan Grace, reaching No. 1 on the Irish Charts during 1975.
Melanie wrote the song after performing at Woodstock in August 1969. The song describes what she felt as she looked out at the sea of people in the audience. [2] The song's lyrics include the lines "We all sang the songs of peace. Some came to sing, some came to pray, some came to keep the dark away."
The album also features "Birthday of the Sun", a track Melanie originally performed at Woodstock in 1969. The album was the last 'official' Melanie release from Buddah Records - she left the company to form her own label; however several Buddah albums were later issued featuring 'leftover' material from earlier sessions; in addition to several ...