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  • 1947:  Melanie Safka is born




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Melanie Anne Safka Schekeryk (February 3, 1947 – January 23, 2024), professionally known as Melanie or Melanie Safka, was an American singer-songwriter.

She is widely known for the 1971–72 global hit "Brand New Key"; her 1970 version of the Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday"; her composition "What Have They Done to My Song Ma"; and her 1970 international breakthrough hit "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)", which was inspired by her experience of performing at the 1969 Woodstock music festival.

Early career

Melanie was born and raised in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Her father, Fred, was of a Ukrainian ethnic background and her jazz singer mother, Polly, was of Italian heritage. Melanie made her first public singing appearance at age four on the radio show Live Like A Millionaire, performing the song "Gimme a Little Kiss". She attended Red Bank High School in Red Bank, New Jersey, graduating in 1964. In the 1960s, when she was starting out, Melanie performed at The Inkwell, a little coffee house in West End, New Jersey. After school, her parents insisted that she go to college, so she studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, where she began singing in the folk clubs of Greenwich Village and signed her first recording contract.

Initially signed to Columbia Records in the United States, Melanie released two singles on the label. Subsequently she signed with Buddah Records and first found chart success in Europe in 1969 with "Bobo's Party" which reached Number 1 in France. Her debut album received rave reviews from Billboard which heralded her voice as "wise beyond her years. Her non-conformist approach to the selections on this LP make her a new talent to be reckoned with."

Later in 1969, Melanie had a hit in the Netherlands with "Beautiful People". She also performed at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the inspiration for her signature song, "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)", apparently arose from the Woodstock audience lighting candles during her set (although most of the "candles" were actually matches or lighters). The recording became a hit in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States in 1970. The B-side of the single featured Melanie's spoken-word track "Candles in the Rain". "Lay Down" became Melanie's first Top Ten hit in America, peaking at Number 6 on the Billboard singles chart and achieving worldwide success. Later hits included "Peace Will Come (According To Plan)" and a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday".

In 1970, Melanie was the only artist to ignore the court injunction banning the Powder Ridge Rock Festival, playing for the crowd on a homemade stage powered by Mister Softee trucks. Shortly following this performance, she played at the Strawberry Fields Festival, held from August 7 to 9, 1970, at Mosport Park, Ontario. She also performed at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 where she was introduced by Keith Moon and received four standing ovations (she also appeared 40 years later at the 2010 Isle of Wight festival). She was also the artist who sang to herald in the summer solstice at Glastonbury Fayre (later the Glastonbury Festival) in England in June 1971. She performed again at Glastonbury in 2011, the fortieth anniversary of the original festival.

Melanie married Peter Schekeryk around 1970 and they had three children. Melanie left Buddah Records when they insisted that she produce albums on demand. In 1971 she formed her own label, Neighborhood Records, with Schekeryk, who was also her producer.

Melanie had her biggest American hit on the Neighborhood label: the novelty-sounding 1972 number one "Brand New Key" (often referred to as "The Roller Skate Song"). "Brand New Key" sold over three million copies worldwide[citation needed] and was featured in the 1997 movie Boogie Nights.

When first released, "Brand New Key" was banned by some radio stations because some saw sexual innuendo in the lyrics. Melanie has acknowledged the possibility of reading an unintended sexual innuendo in the song, stating, "I wrote [Brand New Key] in about fifteen minutes one night. I thought it was cute; a kind of old thirties' tune. I guess a key and a lock have always been Freudian symbols, and pretty obvious ones at that. There was no deep serious expression behind the song, but people read things into it. They made up incredible stories as to what the lyrics said and what the song meant. In some places, it was even banned from the radio [...] My idea about songs is that once you write them, you have very little say in their life afterward [...] People will take it any way they want to take it."

The follow-up single to "Brand New Key" was "Ring the Living Bell". To compete with this release, Melanie's former record company released "The Nickel Song", which she had recorded while still signed to Buddah Records. Both songs were simultaneous Top 40 hits while "Brand New Key" was still on the charts – setting a record for the first female performer to have three Top 40 hits concurrently. Melanie was awarded Billboard's #1 Top Female Vocalist award for 1972.

Melanie has been awarded two gold albums (and a gold single for "Brand New Key") and three of her compositions were hits for The New Seekers. She is also well known for her musical adaptations of children's songs, including "Alexander Beetle" and "Christopher Robin".

When she became an official UNICEF ambassador in 1972, she agreed to forgo a world tour in favor of raising money for the organization.

Melanie had another Top 40 hit single in 1973 with "Bitter Bad", a song that marked a slight departure from the hippie sentiments of earlier hits (with lyrics such as "If you do me wrong I'll put your first and last name in my rock n' roll song"). Other chart hits during this period were the self-penned "Together Alone" and a cover of "Will You Love Me Tomorrow".

In 1973, Melanie started to retreat from the spotlight to begin a family. Her daughter Leilah was born that same year.

Personal life


Melanie married record producer Peter Schekeryk in 1968. They had three children: daughter Leilah born on October 3, 1973; daughter Jeordie on March 27, 1975; and son Beau-Jarred on September 11, 1980. Leilah and Jeordie, when aged seven and six, released a cover of "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" that charted in Canada, reaching No. 27. Peter Schekeryk died in 2010. Melanie was a vegetarian in the early 1970s; she also practiced fasting.

Melanie identified herself politically as a libertarian, stating, "I am not a Democrat, a Socialist, or a Republican." She said that she had experienced acceptance from a "universal force of motherhood" after receiving a hug from Mata Amritanandamayi, a.k.a. Amma ("Mother") or as the "hugging saint" from India, as she is also known, which had inspired her to write "Motherhood of Love".

Melanie resided in the Nashville metropolitan area. She died on January 23, 2024, at the age of 76.


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  • 1966:  Ken Kesey jumps bail




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Warrant Out For Kesey

Fails to Keep Court Date

Novelist Ken Kesey failed to show up in court today [February 3, 1966] for a hearing on revocation of probation.

  "Maybe he didn't want to come because he was afraid he was gong  to jail." Superior Judge W. Howard Hartley commented..

  Judge Hartley issued a branch warrant for Kesey's arrest and ordered that when he is found he be taken to County Jail and kept in custody until the hearing can be held. There will be no bail, the judge said, until after the hearing.

  The 30-year-old Kesey, a successful author, was convicted in December of having marijuana in his La Honda home and was sentenced on January 17 to three years' probation on condition he serve six months in county jail and pay a $1,500 fine. Superior judge Louis B. Dematteis allowed Kesey to remain free on $5,500 bail however pending appeal.

S.F. Arrest

 
Two days later, Kesey and a 19-year-old friend he calls "Mountain Girl" were arrested on a San Francisco rooftop and were subsequently indicted on charges of possession of marijuana. Proceedings were promptly started in San Mateo County to revoke bail and probation. A hearing was scheduled for 9 am. today before t Judge Hartley.

  Probation Officer Raymond H. Faber said that although a warrant was issued summoning Kesey to the hearing, it was not served on the promise of the writer's lawyer, Brian Rohan, le that Kesey would surrender to Faber a half-hour before the hearing.

No Defendant

  When the matter was called at 9 o'clock and Kesey was not present, Rohan told the court that he had reminded Kesey last Friday and again Tuesday night about the time and place of the hearing.

  "I don't know where he is." the attorney said. "I see no reason why he should not be here."


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  • 1968:  The Country Joe And The Fish album I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die hits the charts




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The band came to perform an early example of psychedelic rock. The LP Electric Music for the Mind and Body was very influential on early FM Radio in 1967. Long sets of psychedelic tunes like "Section 43", "Bass Strings", "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine", "Janis" (for and about Janis Joplin) and "Grace" (for singer Grace Slick) (all released on Vanguard Records) were often played back to back on KSAN and KMPX in San Francisco and progressive rock stations around the country. Their first album charted at #39 on September 23, 1967, their 2nd album at #67 on February 3, 1968


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I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die is the second album by the influential San Francisco psychedelic rock group Country Joe and the Fish, released in 1967. The title track remains one of the most popular Vietnam protest songs from the 1960s and originally appeared in a 1965 7" EP titled Rag Baby: Songs of Opposition. On the album version however, "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" appears alongside "The Fish Cheer," which at concerts, became a Country Joe standard. At Woodstock, however, Joe had the crowd yell F-U-C-K instead of F-I-S-H. The title song faced a legal challenge from the estate of New Orleans jazz trombone pioneer Edward "Kid" Ory, whose daughter Babette claimed that McDonald appropriated the melody for his song from Ory's classic "Muskrat Ramble," as recorded by Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five in 1926. A 2005 judgment upheld McDonald's copyright on the song, claiming that Ory waited too long to make the claim.

Track listing

    "The "Fish" Cheer / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" (McDonald) – 3:44
    "Who Am I" (McDonald) - 4:05
    "Pat's Song" (McDonald) - 5:26
    "Rock Coast Blues" (McDonald) - 3:57
    "Magoo" (McDonald) - 4:44
    "Janis" (McDonald) - 2:36
    "Thought Dream" (McDonald) - 6:39
    "Thursday" (Cohen, Hirsh) - 3:20
    "Eastern Jam" (Bartol, Cohen, Hirsh, Melton) - 4:27
    "Colors For Susan" (McDonald) - 5:58

Musicians

    Country Joe McDonald: vocals, guitar, bells, tambourine
    Barry Melton: vocals, guitar
    David Cohen: guitar, organ
    Bruce Barthol: bass, harmonica
    Gary "Chicken" Hirsh: drums


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Re: Today in counterculture history (02/03) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #17737226 - 02/03/13 08:22 AM (11 years, 3 months ago)

Gimme an F!


















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    #19514853 - 02/03/14 07:56 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Gimme an I!



















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    #19514993 - 02/03/14 08:52 AM (10 years, 3 months ago)

Nothing says "counterculture" more than using the deaths of thousands of teenagers to make money.


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Re: Today in counterculture history (02/03) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #21219614 - 02/03/15 05:43 AM (9 years, 3 months ago)

Gimme an S!

















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    #21219688 - 02/03/15 06:37 AM (9 years, 3 months ago)

I can't wait another year for this....
Gimme an H!


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    #22858425 - 02/03/16 06:36 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

FISH!

















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    #24061965 - 02/03/17 05:38 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

What's that spell!?













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    #24062161 - 02/03/17 08:10 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!


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    #24963673 - 02/03/18 08:47 AM (6 years, 3 months ago)

What's that spell!!!












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    #25787975 - 02/03/19 10:51 AM (5 years, 3 months ago)

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    #26466289 - 02/03/20 05:30 AM (4 years, 3 months ago)

WHAT'S THAT SPELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!











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    #27184088 - 02/03/21 07:42 AM (3 years, 3 months ago)

55th anniversary of Ken Kesey jumping bail today.








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    #27184154 - 02/03/21 08:43 AM (3 years, 3 months ago)

I really liked Country Joe's version of I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-Die Rag from Woodstock. He sounded like he meant it. I thought the studio version was a bit comical.

Melanie's Lay Down was good. Here's a Mott the Hoople cover of it.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=mott+the+hoople+cover+lay+down&view=detail&mid=7C33A14AB201F397CBB97C33A14AB201F397CBB9


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    #27643363 - 02/03/22 04:28 AM (2 years, 3 months ago)

Heck yeah. :cool: And today is Melanie Safka's 75th Birthday!











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    #28170248 - 02/03/23 04:03 AM (1 year, 3 months ago)

55th anniversary of the Country Joe And The Fish album I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die hitting the charts.








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    #28644961 - 02/03/24 08:37 AM (3 months, 12 days ago)

Well I had to change Melanie's entry in this post. She died less than 2 weeks ago.

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