RIP Melanie

[Chromatic]

Melanie, of Brand New Key fame, has died.

https://variety.com/2024/music/obit...ad-brand-new-key-singer-woodstock-1235886892/

 

[Dave7]

Just heard that.
Hadn't realised she was that age. I am "that age" but still think of her as a young woman.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I'd forgotten just how good she was. This song is what she's mainly known for, but Youtube has quite a few more -


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCTMTflcuug

 

[presta]

One pair of roller skates for sale.

 

[Accy cyclist]

She inspired this tune. Is that good, or bad?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0zxE0SUG1c

 

[richardfm]

I bought her 1971 album a year or two ago. It is very good. Brand New Key is on it and many other god songs

Gather Me​

 

[Cycleops]

I always liked her rendition of this Stones hit. She really injects a lot of emotions into it that Mick missed:


View: https://youtu.be/9alAuYr2g_8?si=kJbHtnFibqdKu1Lk


I'm sure @Oldhippy hippy was a fan.

 

[richardfm]

Just read this in the Guardian
"...she was one of only three solo women appearing at the Woodstock festival in 1969 – “an unbelievably frightening day”, she later said. “I never even felt like I was a hippy, I didn’t like the term. If anything, I was the beat generation..."
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...w-key-dies-aged-76?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

 

[Accy cyclist]

I always liked her rendition of this Stones hit. She really injects a lot of emotions into it that Mick missed:


View: https://youtu.be/9alAuYr2g_8?si=kJbHtnFibqdKu1Lk


I'm sure @Oldhippy hippy was a fan.

I bet he was here.

 

[Badger_Boom]

She inspired this tune. Is that good, or bad?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0zxE0SUG1c

Probably good. According to some of the obituaries, the popularity of their version gave her royalties an unexpected boost.

 

[gbb]

Very sad. I'd be around 13 when Brand New Key was released and loved it, such a unique voice. Music means so much when you first get tuned into it ( pardon the pun ), it's like a whole new world is opening up to you.

 

[JtB]

When I was a child I thought the key was a house key and I couldn’t for the life of me work out the connection between Melanie’s roller skates and the boy’s house key.