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Calm Down, Everything Is Fine

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

'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

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

Live recording in BBC studios, England '69

MELANIE Tuning My Guitar (BBC '69)

Peace Will Come-Melanie Safka (cover by Charlie)

Live at the Rotterdam Folk Festival, The Netherlands, '82, Melanie's version of the song made famous by Elvis, based on an old French folk song, "Plaisir d'Amour". Writers: Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore (music) and George David Weiss (lyrics).

MELANIE I Can't Help Falling In Love With You LIVE '82

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

Katelin Albert's Album

Remember me good

Drury Lane 1974

Maybe Not For A Lifetime

Melanie Safka,  an audience recording from The Other End, July 1983

Raindance/I Think It's Going To Rain Today (Live '83)

Melanie Safka playing The Box Tops "The Letter" live at The Bottom Line in 1976.

MELANIE Another Side

Melanian

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