Name: 17 WPIX Interview Before Carnegie Hall by David Boldinger
Duration: 16 min 56 s
Description: Interview Before Carnegie Hall

. Melanie in London @ Paris 1975 - Remember Me Good

The recording session as it used to be:

I would prepare as for a stage performance with more emphasis even, on my voice. Vocal exercises teas and elixirs. If an evening session my last meal eaten would be at noon. An afternoon session hardly ever for me, nothing except maybe broth. Then I’d get there usually before the musicians, and they’d come in with shop talk and jokes. Session musicians. These were my songs. They were about to be flushed out and embellished for the purpose of reaching the masses. The first sessions were painful mostly. There was usually a session leader; union guys, arrangers (Roger Kellaway), charts, an engineer. Through these people with me as focal point, (sometimes), as we are talking a lot of male in the room. All the musicians were union; had all graduated from Berkeley or Julliard. Roger had worked with Ballanchine. Labels were loose with funds. The return on investment being greater than the investment, or so easily recoupable by keeping the Artist “in the red”!

I digress. The point is it was me having to defend, protect and keep pure my songs. Peter was the defender of my voice, but had his idea of my next “hit”. Hit? Me? For me it was to communicate the songs from my intensely personal feelings to “out there”.
Who knows what or where it will land “out there“. In the spirit of releasing the trapped thing ~ and always up to a higher place where it could be heard by others, lift spirits or share pain, amplifying itself to the God ear and so on. Later on, sessions became more about the drug of choice, depending on the times and what was cool, and what was not.

Present Day 

Now a sessions is ~ “Mama, do you feel good? I need you to do a vocal” “On what?”
“I Tried To Die Young” (Now in it’s third incarnation.)

“I’m going to chop this broccoli first, and then I’ll be up in about twenty minutes.” And in less than a month: There it is ~ And it’s finished! Right up to the God ear and more. It is my personal sway. As if it were all me. It is my second heartbeat. The true soul of the songs. The life I’ve sworn to protect and release; Keeping intact the ever so delicate essence, the heart and soul of it for you, my dear ones. Immaculate ~ The best recording ever made. Thanks to Beau-Jarred, my child’s brainchild, George Wurzbach and Peter.
I’ve got to go and cook the broccoli… Neuvorganic

-Love, Melanie

I Tried To Die Young

17 WPIX Interview Before Carnegie Hall

Katelin Albert - Acoustic Guitar and Vocals -- sings Melanie Safka's "Remember me good."

Katelin Albert's Album

Remember me good

My favorite recording of Close To It All, with beautiful guitar accompaniment by Beau Jarred.

Beautiful People

Close To It All

Heal The World

Harmony Is Paradise

Make a commotion
Make a little difference
Shake up the rafters
And rock the boat
We're are all in this together
Never forget it
And say a prayer till they all get home

Crazy Love

Make a little difference

From EP GIve me Love, here is an acoustic take on song Are we even. 
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Are We Even (Acoustic)

In my mind I have turned this one into a fully orchestrated waltz. Call me crazy...

17 WPIX Interview Before Carnegie Hall

David Boldinger

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