{"id":8680,"date":"2024-04-17T07:08:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=8680"},"modified":"2024-04-16T17:09:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T23:09:02","slug":"farewell-to-melanie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2024\/04\/17\/farewell-to-melanie\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Melanie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to read that Melanie, the singer\/ songwriter whose career took off after a memorable performance at Woodstock, died on January 23, at the age of 76.\u00a0\u00a0 Her real name was Melanie Safka.<\/p>\n<p>I was not at Woodstock, alas (though Parris was), but I started hearing Melanie on the radio soon thereafter.\u00a0\u00a0 Never met her, never attended a concert, but I always loved her music.\u00a0\u00a0 She had a lovely voice, and wrote some wonderful songs with roots in both rock and folk.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Candles in the Rain,&#8221; &#8220;The Nickle Song,&#8221; the lively funny sexy &#8220;Brand New Key&#8221; (her only number one hit, I believe) and many many more.<\/p>\n<p>Including this one:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MELANIE Look What They&#039;ve Done To My Song, Ma (&#039;71)\" width=\"573\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r44Ach4mXE4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RIP, sweet lady.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened to read that Melanie, the singer\/ songwriter whose career took off after a memorable performance at Woodstock, died on January 23, at the age of 76.\u00a0\u00a0 Her real name was Melanie Safka. I was not at Woodstock, alas (though Parris was), but I started hearing Melanie on the radio soon thereafter.\u00a0\u00a0 Never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,19],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8684,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8680\/revisions\/8684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}