Is there anyone else old enough to remember Melanie?

[Badger Kitten]

I won an ''stars in yer eyes'' pub thing impersonating her once, about 15 years ago.

 

[blossie33]

Try listening to her more recent stuff.

Will give it a try.
If her voice has gone huskier I will probably like her better now

 

[Meltingpot]

I was 13 when "Brand New Key" was in the charts. I didn't much like it at the time but I heard it ten years later on one of these "charts from the past" programs on Radio 1 Sundays and thought it was good. I also had a roommate who liked her stuff, she reminded me of Buffy St. Marie.

 

[yardbird]

I remember the hippy chick thread and the buzz I got seeing Melanie as the first example.
Reason - she's just lovely!
I think maybe 1984 I spent a sunny summer Camden afternoon with her.
I used to run a certain rock club in Camden Lock and she must have been with some American act.
They arrived really early to set up and sound check/run thru and we fell into conversation sitting on steps in the middle of the club (blimey, I can recall detail)
She was company for the rest of the afternoon.She loved the cobbles and the canal and we went for a drink in The Hawley Arms (RIP) and chatted about everything.
At the end of the evening she even sought me out and I got a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
Never forgotten magic moments

 

[Sunspots]

The only Melanie song I've ever liked is the latter half of Lay Down (Candles in the Rain).

Once The Edwin Hawkins Singers really get going, it's bloody wonderful; you can hardly hear Melanie.

Fantastic, from about 3:00 mins in:
-Goes suspiciously well with The Primal's Come Together too...

 

[Sir Belchalot]

'Leftover Wine' is a fine song. Some of her songs were a bit too twee though.

 

[sojourner]

I've thought that over, but, no. No. That is the sickest thing I've ever read on here in 6 years, and I've read some sick things.

Do you have to be old enough to remember any era of music now? If so, I'm about 90

 

[CalmerChameleon]

I think she's in that Glastonbury film isn't she? Hadn't heard of her before seeing that though.

 

[Sasaferrato]

I remember the hippy chick thread and the buzz I got seeing Melanie as the first example.
Reason - she's just lovely!
I think maybe 1984 I spent a sunny summer Camden afternoon with her.
I used to run a certain rock club in Camden Lock and she must have been with some American act.
They arrived really early to set up and sound check/run thru and we fell into conversation sitting on steps in the middle of the club (blimey, I can recall detail)
She was company for the rest of the afternoon.She loved the cobbles and the canal and we went for a drink in The Hawley Arms (RIP) and chatted about everything.
At the end of the evening she even sought me out and I got a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
Never forgotten magic moments

I'm sitting here with a face the colour of a Grannie Smith.

Stoneground Words is my favourite track. She did an album called Aarabesque which is also very very good.

 

[oryx]

My partner saw her at the IOW Festival in 1970*.

Her, and Tiny Tim, of 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips' fame.

But he managed to miss Jimi Hendrix.

*I hasten to add that he is a few years older than me, & was very young when he went.

 

[Badger Kitten]

I remember the hippy chick thread and the buzz I got seeing Melanie as the first example.
Reason - she's just lovely!
I think maybe 1984 I spent a sunny summer Camden afternoon with her.
I used to run a certain rock club in Camden Lock and she must have been with some American act.
They arrived really early to set up and sound check/run thru and we fell into conversation sitting on steps in the middle of the club (blimey, I can recall detail)
She was company for the rest of the afternoon.She loved the cobbles and the canal and we went for a drink in The Hawley Arms (RIP) and chatted about everything.
At the end of the evening she even sought me out and I got a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
Never forgotten magic moments

Wow, yardbird, that is cool. And my friend Russell is deeply jealous

 

[monsterbunny]

She was a bit twee but on the whole I liked her. In the early seventies I was seeing a girl who wore all the hippy-chic clothes, y'know - Laura Ashley prints and cheesecloth tops over jeans, and was introduced to her music. Coincidentally I was playing Garden In The City at the weekend.

 

[audiotech]

I think she's in that Glastonbury film isn't she? Hadn't heard of her before seeing that though.

Saw her at Glastonbury early eighties. A muddy one as I recall as tons of the stuff ended up on the stage.

 

[nino_savatte]

Didn't she do a song with the line "I've got a brand new pair of roller skates and I'll give you the key"?

 

[cybertect]

Aye. That's

 

[Sir Belchalot]

Coincidentally I was playing Garden In The City at the weekend.

Love that song, 'Stop, I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore', that's on that. Think it was a b-side originally.

 

[Magic Sam]

Where does the key go on a pair of rollerskates then?

fucking hippies

 

[cybertect]

Old-school roller skates go over your shoes. At least they did when I was a nipper.

There's a key that is used to loosen and tighten them up when adjusting them to size. You needed it to get them on and off your feet.

e2a:

http://www.aw-wrdsmth.com/offers/Vintage-All-Metal-Roller-skates.html