1969 was another amazing year of songs that I loved and, while I could easily pick any one of probably around 50 or so that impacted me, I decided that Melanie’s “Beautiful People” should be my choice. Enjoy.
Flower Power
1967 – Flower Power!
1967 made San Francisco the “centre of the universe” for me. All the societal restraints had been discarded and a perceived idyllic lifestyle created. “Flower Power” was perhaps the diversion necessary from the ongoing daily threat of a nuclear holocaust. I loved this song!
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
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