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Gorgeous take of the George and Ira Gershwin classic, during the Atlantic sessions at Fidelity Studios, Los Angeles, in '77.

MELANIE Embraceable You

MELANIE Consider It Something Good

Melanie Safka first attracted national attention when she stepped onto the stage at Woodstock. The summer of '69. As dawn broke, and rain began to fall, she performed on a stage that transformed a generation and changed music forever.

Angel Watching

"For the first time, I'm not afraid to voice exactly what I feel. I used to feel that I didn't want to say too much, but now I can say anything. I feel like a person who's never been heard. Maybe people think they've heard me, but they never really have. I'm a new artist who is having so much fun with my voice -- a person shouldn't be allowed to have so much fun. I'm the woman I wanted to be when I was sixteen and going for Edith Piaf. It's me -- I'm back."

Hushabye

Session recording from '77, Melanie's homage to Joan Armatrading who she says is her favourite songwriter.

MELANIE Down To Zero (J.Armatrading)

'You can put your light in my dark sky'
Unreleased treasure that was asked for in the Q&A for Melanie Monday on Twitter

Horny Organic Farmer Lady Shuffle

Melanie with the crowd on stage in New York City at the Metropolitan Opera House in '74. A rare recording from the soundboard with grateful thanks to Mark Sumner!

MELANIE Love To Lose Again — Metropolitan Opera NYC '74

Live at the Other End, New York, 1983. Unrestored audience recording.

MELANIE Nothing Ever Happened

Melanie's unique version of the World War 2 smash hit, from the unreleased album "Crazy Lady", 1979.

MELANIE Yes My Darling Daughter

Melanie and Mike Heron (Incredible String Band) recorded this together in '75, the year after it was written by Heron to perform with Melanie at Drury Lane, London, in '74.

MELANIE and MIKE HERON The Desert Song

A Kiss From The Heart

Fred Neil wrote this song, originally titled "The Other Side Of This Life". It was included on his 1965 album "Bleecker And Macdougal" and has been recorded by Peter, Paul & Mary, the Lovin' Spoonful, the Youngbloods, and, most famously, the Jefferson Airplane, as well as by Melanie who in '75 recorded this version that has come to be known as Another Side. but was never released. Original lyrics:

Would you like to know a secret
It's just between you and me
I don't know where I'm going next
I don't know where I'm gonna be
 
But that's the other side to this life
I've been leading
But that's the other side of this life
 
Well my whole world's in an uproar
My own world's upside down
I don't know where I'm going
But I'm always bumming around
And that's another side to this life
I've been leading
And that's another side of this life
 
Well I don't know what I'm doing
Half the time I don't know where I'll go
I think I'll get me a sailing boat
And sail the gulf of Mexico
 
And that's another side to this life
I've been leading
And that's another side of this life
 
Well I think I'll go to Nashville
Down to Tennessee
The ten cent life I've been leading here
Gonna the be the death of me
 
But that's the other side to this life
I've been leading
But that's the other side of this life
And that's another side of this life
 
Would you like to know a secret
It's just between you and me
I don't know where I'm going next
I don't know where I'm gonna be
 
But that's another side to this life
I've been leading
But that's another side of this life

MELANIE Another Side

AIN’T NOBODY’S BUSINESS BUT MY OWN
Writer: Irving Taylor
FULL SESSION from Creative Workshops, Nashville, 1975
 (Lyrics as sung by Melanie)
I get a man to love on Sunday
Then I get another on Monday
Ain’t nobody’s business but my own
Well it ain’t nobody’s business
And it ain’t nobody’s business
It’s nobody’s business but my own
 
You come over sayin' “Here I am”
Then you hear the back door slam
It’s nobody’s business but my own
Well it ain’t nobody’s, no, no, it ain’t
It ain’t nobody’s business
It’s nobody’s business but my own
 
Well it ain’t nobody’s business
It ain’t nobody’s business
It’s nobody’s business but my own
Well it ain’t nobody’s business
It ain’t nobody’s business
It’s nobody’s business but my own
 
Nobody’s business
Well it ain’t nobody’s business
Nobody’s business but my own
Well it ain’t no, no, no, it ain’t
It ain’t nobody’s business
It’s nobody’s business but my own
 
Well ain’t so smart and I ain’t good lookin’
How come I got so much cookin’
Well its nobody’s business but my own
Well it ain’t nobody’s business
No, nobody’s business
It’s nobody’s business but my own
 
Well you tell me you’re in bed by seven
How come your lights are on past eleven
Well nobody’s business but my own
Oh it ain’t nobody’s business
It’s nobody’s business
It’s nobody’s business but my own
 
Well it ain’t nobody’s business
It ain’t nobody’s business
It’s nobody’s business but my own
Oh, oh, it ain’t nobody’s business
It ain’t nobody’s business
It’s nobody’s business but my own
 
Nobody’s business
It ain’t nobody’s no, no it ain’t
It ain’t nobody’s business but my own
Oh it ain’t nobody’s, no, no
It ain’t nobody’s business
It’s nobody’s business but my own
Nobody’s business etc…
 
NOTES
 This recording session dates from 1975 at Creative Workshops, Nashville, Tennessee. These sessions resulted in SUNSET AND OTHER BEGINNINGS, originally intended as a double album.

MELANIE Ain't Nobody's Business (Full Session)

Original recording from '79 of this fabulous song, never officially released before the "1984" live album in 2015.

MELANIE The Champagne Song

WPLJ-FM New York - Melanie with Tony Pigg 

Originally broadcast 1974 to promote "Madrugada". Includes a live performance of "Sweet Misery" and the debut of the new single "Love To Lose Again" (with unique ending).

Melanie - Archived Interview 1974

Happy Birthday, Beau

Unreleased, unrestored session recording  from Fidelity Studios, Los Angeles, 1977. Words by Paul Campbell and Music by Huddie Ledbetter

MELANIE SAFKA Sweeter Than Wine

Amazing unreleased cover of a song by Carole Bayer Sager and Peter Allen, recorded in '74 during the 'As I See It Now' sessions

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