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Judi Jai - Act Right (Freestyle)

A re recording of Melanie's hit song Brand New Key

Brand New Version Brand New Key

Melanie Safka - Candles In The Rain (Young Edits Candles In The Cosmic Version)

MELANIE Do You Believe

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

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

Melanie is poised to enlighten new generations about what it means to sing with both passion and eloquence, to write at once with intelligence and emotion, and to inspire through song.

The Ballad of Crazy Love

'Here I Am'is to be found on Stoneground Words. Stoneground Words is in another class altogether -- a mature, intelligent and ambitious work, easily as good as most singer/songwriter fare of its time. 

Here I Am

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)

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)

I look across to the waterline 
the shore ~ trees 
then sky knowing full well 
there's more 
when will I see the rest

Eyes Of Man

'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

Ruby Tuesday (Melanie Safka cover)

Melanie Safka - People in the Front Row (Edit)

God gave me the morning. Yes, he wrapped it up for me.
Just to see what I would be - if the sun came out on me.
And the morning looks like you.
I wouldn't lie you see, if it's coming out of me, you know it must be true.
God gave me a rainbow. Till the very day I die there'll be a rainbow in my eye.
Since you called my name I'll never be the same.

The Morning written by Melanie Safka {:::lyrics:::}

Live radio broadcast from Telstar Studios, Sarasota, Florida, September '78. 

Photo: source unknown

MELANIE Buckle Down (Coffee Break Concert)

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

(2015 Version)Look What They've Done To My Song Ma - Miley Cyrus & Melanie Safka - Backyard Sessions

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

There are several unreleased Melanie songs in the 1972 songbook ANOTHER SIDE OF MELANIE. Thought I would try a few. Hope you find this one interesting. 1:28 length.

Love, a curse or a joy, I can't make up my mind, it's music in the day but lonely in the night
I walked out to the sea with all it's tempting foam. I drowned when the waves came in, but I never drowned again.
I can't make up my mind. I can't make up my mind. Love, a curse of a joy? I can't make up my mind.

Curse Or A Joy - written by Melanie Safka {::::lyrics::::}

The track has been slowed down 20% which has caused the song to have a much more dreary sound.

Oh, and now Melanie sounds like a guy.

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

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