Melanie Safka RIP

[Dave W]

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

[westen44]

Please God, no.  Not Melanie.  They don't even know the cause of death, either.  Last night I watched a documentary about some obscure aspects of Woodstock.  Then today there is this terrible news.  RIP Melanie Safka.

[Ken]

The most obscure thing to me about Woodstock is that Sha Na Na played there.

[westen44]

The most obscure thing to me about Woodstock is that Sha Na Na played there.

This particular documentary had a number of clips I had never seen.  Overall, though, I think there were a number of misconceptions about Woodstock.  One was that Hendrix's performance was supposed to be great.  It wasn't, IMO.  Like the Isle of Wight concert, it pretty much sucked.  Hendrix thought so, too, from what I can gather.  In general, Woodstock was overrated.  Right now, however, I'm just unhappy that Melanie has died. 

To be fair, the lackluster performance at Woodstock really wasn't Hendrix's fault.  That Gypsy Sun and Rainbows band temporarily put together for Woodstock just didn't make the grade, period. 

[soulman]

Many from our past are dying now making us all realize how much closer we are to our own end than to our beginnings.  Time to update our bucket lists.  RIP Melanie.

[uwe]

The most obscure thing to me about Woodstock is that Sha-Na-Na played there.

Huh, Sha-Na-Na performing a spirited “The Hop” was one of the pivotal parts of the Woodstock movie and what I liked - together with Alvin doing “I’m goin’ home (by helicopter)” - best about it. To this day, when I hear “The Hop”, I see Sha-Na-Na (kind of the Village People of their time) before me.

[Ken]

Huh, Sha-Na-Na performing a spirited “The Hop” was one of the pivotal parts of the Woodstock movie and what I liked - together with Alvin doing “I’m goin’ home (by helicopter)” - best about it. To this day, when I hear “The Hop”, I see Sha-Na-Na (kind of the Village People of their time) before me.

I also like your subtle adding of hyphens to my quote. 

[Basvarken]

My wife Floor went to a Melanie concert a few years ago.
It was one of the worst concerts she has ever seen.
She left before the end of the show.
Melanie didn't sing much. She talked most of the time. And not in a very engaging way.
When she sang it was not very good...

Floor was sad when she came back home from the concert. A childhood memory was destroyed basically.

[Highlander]

"No one here gets out alive..."
rip...

[uwe]

I also like your subtle adding of hyphens to my quote. 

Ouch, though I did live in Manhattan for a while once (I liked moving to your hood more), I swear it was done without educational zest, I’m no spelling Nazi! When I wrote my answer, neither Shanana nor Sha Na Na looked quite right to me so I looked it up and then proceeded to correct my post, accidentally IN MY QUEST FOR WORLD DOMINATION also RUTHLESSLY ERADICATING ALL SPELLING TRANSGRESSIONS in ze quöte …

[uwe]

RIP Melanie

Oh my, how sad. I really loved that song as a kid, the innocent sex innuendo of the lyrics. Melanie wasn’t a great singer, but she had a voice.

[Dave W]

Huh, Sha-Na-Na performing a spirited “The Hop” was one of the pivotal parts of the Woodstock movie and what I liked - together with Alvin doing “I’m goin’ home (by helicopter)” - best about it. To this day, when I hear “The Hop”, I see Sha-Na-Na (kind of the Village People of their time) before me.

Wasn't Sha-Na-Na the first act in the movie? I only saw it once, in a theater when it first came out, so maybe my memory is wrong.

My wife Floor went to a Melanie concert a few years ago.
It was one of the worst concerts she has ever seen.
She left before the end of the show.
Melanie didn't sing much. She talked most of the time. And not in a very engaging way.
When she sang it was not very good...

Floor was sad when she came back home from the concert. A childhood memory was destroyed basically.

That's too bad. I don't think her voice was anywhere near its prime in recent years anyway.

She had been enormously overweight for years, so much so that I saw footage of her being propped up as she walked around. Lord knows I have enough health problems at normal weight, one can only imagine how all that extra weight affected her.

[uwe]

Tsk, tsk, tsk, Dave, were you late to the movie because you were busy removing Che Guevara pics from refrigerators?

“The (live) performers appear in the following order: Richie Havens, Joan Baez, The Who, Sha-Na-Na, Joe Cocker, Country Joe & The Fish, Arlo Guthrie, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, and Jimi Hendrix.”

If memory serves, then Richie Havens performed at dark while Sha-Na-Na seemed to wake people up at noon or so.

[Dave W]

Gimme a break, it was almost 54 years ago. And I saw it with my then-fiance (now ex-wife). The commie girl blind date was a couple of years earlier.

Whatever.  Sha-Na-Na's performance definitely made me take notice,

[Ken]

Ouch, though I did live in Manhattan for a while once (I liked moving to your hood more), I swear it was done without educational zest, I’m no spelling Nazi! When I wrote my answer, neither Shanana nor Sha Na Na looked quite right to me so I looked it up and then proceeded to correct my post, accidentally IN MY QUEST FOR WORLD DOMINATION also RUTHLESSLY ERADICATING ALL SPELLING TRANSGRESSIONS in ze quöte …

THERE WILL BE NO SPELLING IN THE GRAMMAR ROOM!