The first snowflake? Melenie 1970

Youtube ^ | 3/21/20 | dallasbifff

[DallasBiff]

Lay it Down by Melenie, fifty years a go.

[wardaddy]

Melanie once rented self storage here in Nashville from me....she was very sweet....truly an older hippie

I had her and Bonnie Tyler and Kim Carnes all at same time as renters

[bryan999]

Love this song.

Lyrics are timely...

[poconopundit]

I like your fantasy world, Leaning Right.  Beautifully said.

Surfing Youtube I found Melanie's mesmerizing version of Dust in the Wind.

[IrishBrigade]

‘Dimly recall some name like that.’

same here...but, back in the day, she was smoking hot...

[equaviator]

"We’ve got so much in common

I go the same direction that you do

So if you take care of me

Maybe I’ll take care of you"

"Maybe I'll take care of you?" WTF! /s

[Monterrosa-24]

Wow !!! I am impressed Wardaddy. I knew she was living in the Nashville area. She had a voice that was absolute tops.

[Psalm 73]

Thanks! Edwin Hawkins singers. Melanie Safka. And a bongo drummer.

Bought this album when it first came out, then lost it along the way.

And found a decent copy lst year at a record shop going-out-of-business sale. For a buck. "Lay it all down"

[Migraine]

Other snowflakes from that time: Buffy Ste Marie, Joni Mitchell.

[VTenigma]

Yup

[Psalm 73]

Wow! Thanks for posting this link - what an awesome live version.

(BTW - Battle of Hastings? Interesting nom-de-cyber)

[Oscar in Batangas]

I got to see Melenie at a live performance in the Cellar Door in Washington DC (Georgetown?) in early 1968.

Bused up from NAS Oceana, Virginia Beach with a guy named Bill Cruise who was in my barracks. His father, a USN Captain, put us up for the weekend. For a lowly E-3 puke, that was a BIG DEAL in itself.

Oh, by the way, Melenie had an AWESOME show in a room with an audience of WELL under 100 souls

Returned to Oceana in the back “seat” of a Karmann Ghia driven by Bill’s neighbor, another USN Captain, who dropped us curbside at our barracks. Those three days had faded from my memory until this thread was born. But I learned to treasure the cultivation of ‘connections’ from that very weekend onward.

[buckalfa]

Singers like Melanie Safka and Mary Hopkin were part of the soundtrack of my youth. Thank you for rekindling pleasent memories in this troubled times.

[Rebelbase]

Groovy.

[tom paine 2]

bump

[corkoman]

Uh this song kicks it! Her vocal range is alarming. The EH Singers were sensational and however these people came together to record this song was a miracle.

A guy downstairs with massive tubular amp would play at sound level 11 and us 12 yo know nothings would do a troglodyte dance to it. So Much Fun. makes me miss my big sister.

Thanks for posting!

[moovova]

Joni Mitchell..."Court and Spark"...one of my all time favorite albums, cassette tapes, CDs, RAM, MicroSD, now on the Cloud...

[Cinnamontea]

What a voice she had! And how many singers today could sing live like that?

[Captain Compassion]

Love Melanie. One of the three Hippy Goddesses of 1969. Grace Slick and Linda Ronstadt were the other two. My favorite was here cover of Ruby Tuesday. Here she is on national television.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ca0l5KMdX0

[Fiji Hill]

What a voice she had! And how many singers today could sing live like that?

And she didn't use computer technology to enhance her voice.

[Cinnamontea]

And she didn't use computer technology to enhance her voice.

Exactly. Plus, she's playing an instrument while singing, which makes the task more difficult.