Melanie’s sing-song pop smash “Brand New Key” seems innocuous today, but when it was released in 1971, it was considered fairly risqué. A deep dive.
Beautiful People: The Greatest Hits of Melanie Read More Melanie In the meantime, she did "Bad Reputation" and a cover of Melanie's "Brand New Key". The cover song, as explained by Stace, was possibly more famous for … American singer/songwriter Melanie
In 1971 she scored her greatest smash success with the cute, catchy and funny "Brand New Key"; the song peaked at #1 on the Billboard charts for three weeks, sold over three million copies, was featured on the soundtrack of the film Boogie Nights (1997) and has been covered by such ...
Melanie, the husky-voiced singer-songwriter who was one of the surprise stars of the Woodstock music festival in 1969 and two years later had a No. 1 single with the disarmingly...
Melanie Never Thought Of Herself As a Hippie Noting that she’d been uncomfortable with the success of “Brand New Key” because it had been interpreted as a childish song, when it was actually about loss of innocence, she reflected: “I never even felt like I was a hippie; I didn’t...
Melanie Never Thought Of Herself As a Hippie Noting that she’d been uncomfortable with the success of “Brand New Key” because it had been interpreted as a childish song, when it was actually about loss of innocence, she reflected: “I never even felt like I was a hippie; I didn’t...
Melanie Never Thought Of Herself As a Hippie Noting that she’d been uncomfortable with the success of “Brand New Key” because it had been interpreted as a childish song, when it was actually about loss of innocence, she reflected: “I never even felt like I was a hippie; I didn’t...
Noting that she’d been uncomfortable with the success of “Brand New Key” because it had been interpreted as a childish song, when it was actually about loss of innocence, she reflected: “I never even felt like I was a hippie; I didn’t like the term. If anything, I was the beat...
Noting that she’d been uncomfortable with the success of “Brand New Key” because it had been interpreted as a childish song, when it was actually about loss of innocence, she reflected: “I never even felt like I was a hippie; I didn’t like the term. If anything, I was the beat...
Melanie, the chart-topping folk singer of “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” who performed at theWoodstockfestival in 1969, died on Tuesday. She was 76. Billy James, the singer’s rep, confirmed her death toRolling Stone, but did not provide a cause of death. ...