Melanie Safka
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Happy 2014
One morning in October It was the morning after the night Melanie did a stage it concert at my time 3 AM I didn’t get back to sleep but went to chant for world peace and my goals in the SGI Cultural Centre From 7 till 9 On my way home through the Vondelpark I…
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Into the New Year | written by Melanie Safka
Into the New Year Peter and I were married on New Year’s Eve. We went to ‘Cousin Brucie’s’ New Year’s Eve party at his loft in New York City. Cousin Brucie announced it and everyone cheered and toasted. Now it is coming on to forty five years later, forty five years, a ripe old age…
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Amerika – 2012
De dag is 16 oktober 2012. Met dit vliegtuig vertrek ik zo naar Amerika. H heeft me naar Schiphol gebracht. Ik wilde eerst gewoon met tram en trein maar AVK raadde me aan H te vragen en ik vind het erg fijn dat H het doen wil. Het is regenachtig in Nederland. We regenden nat…
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Brand New Key’ singer’s improbable journey to Rochester
‘Brand New Key’ singer’s improbable journey to Rochester Peter and Melanie Schekeryk. Melanie is holding the Gold Record for ‘Brand New Key.’ / Photos Courtesy copyright Maddy Miller, maddymiller Written by Jeff Spevak Staff writer The clerk at the Best Buy phone counter is helping out a 68-year-old man who, incomprehensibly in the 21st century,…
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A conversation with Melanie
A Conversation with Melanie Mike Ragogna: Who could this be? Why, it’s the very lovely, very iconic, Melanie. Melanie: Hey! MR: Hi Melanie, how are you? M: I’m good. MR: I have to get my clapping over with. Okay, there we go. Melanie, it’s a joy. Your latest album isEver Since You Never Heard Of…
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Dromen in de vroege herfst en late ochtend
AL eerder gepubliceerd op adiah.nl/joomla Ik droom: Mij ex komt bij me langs, ze wil met me praten. Ik ontvang haar in het huis van mijn ouders. Daar ben ik lang niet geweest, mijn ouders zijn er niet, op vakantie geloof ik. Het huis ligt vol met onopgemaakte bedden. Overal hebben mensen gelogeerd en ik…
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I just can’t do it – if I am not in love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sktBNXwowao&feature=player_embedded JUST CAN’T DO IT (IF I’M NOT IN LOVE) Written by Melanie Safka Well I just can’t do it if I’m not in love I just can’t do it if I’m not in love I just can’t do it if I’m not in love And I’m not in love with you There was this…
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Melanie saying thanks and taking it in
Even after almost 50 years Melanie still loves her audience – her dear ones