MELANIE Do You Believe

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

Achingly beautiful, live in London, '75...

MELANIE Leftover Wine (live '75)

Melanie at Long View Farm recording studio, 1987. This song appeared (in slightly different forms) on 'Melanie' (The Dutch Album, '87), 'Cowabonga' ('89) and 'Precious Cargo' ('91).

MELANIE SAFKA It Only Goes To Show You ('87)

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

MELANIE Down To Zero (J.Armatrading)

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

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

Melanie Safka in Central Park, New York City, with Ron Frangipane on piano, summer '74. (Photograph ©Henk Vos)

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MELANIE Love To Lose Again — Central Park NYC '74

Melanie Safka at the Paris Theatre, London, in November '75, bringing back vivid memories of hearing her do this live a few months later in Australia. Thanks to Didier Kelvin. Second guitar: Barry Lee Harwood.

MELANIE Remember Me Good LIVE '75

For die-hard Safka enthusiasts, an audience recording captured by ME on a portable cassette recorder in Melbourne, 40 years ago in June.

Cyclone / Lay Down — Australia, June '77

Live in Melbourne, June '77. Audience recording for Safka afficionados. Photo: ©Donna Santisi

MELANIE SAFKA Save Me — Australia '77

"Like Leon Redbone mighta done it, slow and rough"

Brand New Key (Swamp Version) '78

A rather astonishing cassette recording from 40 years ago! We thought this was Melanie's last Melbourne show (the 4th) but she returned after Queensland by popular demand, for a 5th. The previous year she had been booked for two Melbourne shows, and ended up doing...5. Melanie LOVES Melbourne!
(Words: Keith Richards, Music: Keith Richards/Mick Jagger)

MELANIE Ruby Tuesday — Australia 77

Vibrant, witty, excellent song, recorded a few years ago.

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Yeah (Yaw) Baby !

Melanie Safka's take on the Hammond/Hazlewood song from around '75.

MELANIE The Air That I Breathe

Melanie interviewed on 'The Friday Review' (ABC Australia) 15/02/19

The hit song inspired by candle lighting at Woodstock

Crazy Love

MELANIE Come Away Come Go

Breathtaking performance of a song that has become an anthem for the people of South Korea. From the album 'United Kingdom Live', originally entitled 'Live in Morecambe UK '08'.

MELANIE SAFKA The Saddest Thing (LIVE '08)

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

MELANIE SAFKA Shy As A Violet

A favourite of many fortunate to have heard this unreleased recording from the Suntreader Sessions, Sharon, Vermont, 1978. Written just before Melanie's Carnegie Hall appearance in June that year (she aired it at that show) and later included as part of her musical, 'Ace Of Diamonds'. We hope that this, along with a lot more wonderful unreleased material, will be officially released, at last, in the not too distant future.

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