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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

And the saddest thing under the sun above
is to say goodbye to the ones you love
سخت ترین چیز زیر گنبد کبود
خداحافظی کردن با کسانیست که عاشقشان هستید

All the things that I have known
became my life, my very own

تمام چیزهایی که شناخته ام, زندگی ام شد, قسمتی از وجودم

But before you know you say goodbye
ooh good time goodbye, it's time to cry

آه که قبل از اینکه بدانی, خداحافظی میکنی
ای روزهای خوب خداحافظ که زمان گریستن است

But I will not weep nor make a scene
just say thank you life for having been

اما نه من نه هرگز ناله ای می کنم و نه جار میزنم بین مردم
تنها میگویم زندگی ازت ممنونم که جاری بوده ای

And the hardest thing under the sun above
it's to say goodbye to the ones you love

و سخترین چیز زیر گنبد کبود,
 خداحافظی کردن با کسانیست که عاشقشان هستید

No, I will not weep nor make a scene
I'm gonna say oh thank you life for having been

اما نه من نه هرگز ناله ای می کنم و نه جار میزنم بین مردم
تنها میگویم زندگی ازت ممنونم که جاری بوده ای

The loudest cry under the sun above
is the silent goodbye from the ones you love

بلندترین گریه زیر گنبد کبود
خداحافظی خاموشیست که از آنها که عاشقشان هستید میشنوید

The Saddest Thing   Melanie Safka

Newly unearthed recording from Long View Farm in '87 of a song which appeared on albums in '87 and '89 in slightly different forms.

MELANIE SAFKA Chosen Few ('87)

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

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

Stunning live performance of an enigmatic song unreleased elsewhere, at Carnegie Hall in '78.

MELANIE Singing 'em Blue (live)

Unreleased recording made at 914 Studios, New York, on November 21, 1973. Originally a hit by the Five Stairsteps, it was written by Stan Vincent. Melanie subtly altered the lyrics in a couple of places; can you pick them? 

MELANIE Ooh Child (S.Vincent)

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

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 Another Side

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