1970’s

Melanie!

Melanie Safka came into my life (musically speaking) around late 1970/early 1971.  She was the ultimate “flower-child” of those times, and made it quite clear on many occasions how she disliked the manipulation aspects of the music industry. Her “Tuning My Guitar” makes it quite clear that she is a free spirit and will fight manipulation …

https://meandray.com/2020/05/30/tuning-my-guitar/

… but this song (below) was, I think, my introduction to Melanie.

As for my daughter having the same first name? That is not entirely coincidental!

“Tuning My Guitar”

Following on from yesterday’s Post, there was a young lady who felt inspired to write about her frustrations with the music industry, and one song in particular (“What have they done to my song, Ma?”) would seem to be a parallel story to Gordon Giltrap’s experience.  i.e. What he wrote and how he visualized it being performed, was rather different from how it was ultimately published. Continue reading →

“Full Moon”

A few weeks ago, I broke from my usual Post pattern and introduced a song which I particularly liked. I have a quite large and varied music library, and every so often my iPod is on random play and delivers to me a wonderful memory of long ago…. which it did at 3:30am this morning when I could not sleep. Continue reading →