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Great piece on Melanie.

I interviewed her for my  podcast just last week, so it was probably her final one.

Melanie was very gracious and told some fantastic stories that I don’t think people know about her.

First, her husband/manager/producer, whose office was across the hall from Michael Lang’s, asked if Melanie would play a garden party that they were planning for next summer. This was July of 1968. She agreed and thought nothing of it until late spring 0f 1969. So, she was actually the first artist to be booked for Woodstock. As it got closer to the date in 1969, she realized this was no garden party. She followed Sly and the Family Stone, who, just before they played their final song, passed out candles to the audience and asked that everyone light them. Out came Melanie, who hadn’t played for more than a couple of hundred people in the clubs of NYC. She looked out across the concert site and saw thousands of people holding candles. She went on from her appearance to

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Melanie, Singer Who Performed at Woodstock and Topped Charts With ‘Brand New Key,’ Dies at 76

Melanie, the singer who performed at Woodstock in 1969 and had major pop hits with “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” in the early ’70s, died Tuesday at age 76. News of the death came from her publicity firm, Glass Onyon PR.

No kunskap on the cause of death was immediately given. But Melanie — full name Melanie Safka — had been in the studio earlier this month working on a new record of cover songs, “Second grabb Smoke,” for the Cleopatra label; it would have been her 32nd skiva, the label said.

Her three children, Leilah, Jeordie, and Beau Jarred, posted a meddelande on Facebook, writing: “We are hjärtekrossad, but want to thank each and every one of you for the affection you have for our Mother, and to tell you that she loved all of you so much! She was one of the most talented, strong

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Melanie Safka, Woodstock Performer, Singer and Songwriter of 1970s Hit “Brand New Key” Dies at 76

Melanie Safka, the folk-pop singer and songwriter known as the artist Melanie, who performed at Woodstock in 1969 and topped the pop chart in the early 1970s with her hits “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain),” died on Tuesday, January 23 at the age of 76. No cause of death was revealed.

“We are heartbroken, but want to thank each and every one of you for the affection you have for our Mother, and to tell you that she loved all of you so much,” wrote Safka’s three children Leilah, Jeordie, and Beau Jarred in a post on Facebook. “She was one of the most talented, strong, and passionate women of the era and every word she wrote, every note she sang reflected that.”

They continued, “Our world is much dimmer, the colors of a dreary, rainy Tennessee pale with her absence today, but we know that she is still here, smiling down on al