Melanie, the chart-topping folk singer of “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” who performed at the Woodstock festival in 1969, died on Tuesday. She was 76.
Billy James, the singer’s rep, confirmed her death to Rolling Stone, but did not provide a cause of death. “We are heartbroken, but want to thank each and every one of you for the affection you have for our Mother, and to tell you that she loved all of you so much!,” the children of the singer born Melania Safka wrote in a statement.
Billy James, the singer’s rep, confirmed her death to Rolling Stone, but did not provide a cause of death. “We are heartbroken, but want to thank each and every one of you for the affection you have for our Mother, and to tell you that she loved all of you so much!,” the children of the singer born Melania Safka wrote in a statement.
- 1/24/2024
- by Daniel Kreps and Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Melanie, the witty, gentle-voiced singer-songwriter who rose to fame with her crowd-pleasing performance at Woodstock in 1969 and had two major hit singles – “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” – in its aftermath, died January 23. She was 76.
Her death was announced by her children Leilah, Jeordie and Beau Jarred. A cause of death was not disclosed.
“Dear Ones,” they wrote on Facebook, using the greeting favored by their mother, “This is the hardest post for us to write, and there are so many things we want to say, first, and there’s no easy way except to say it… Mom passed, peacefully, out of this world and into the next on January 23rd, 2024.”
Born Melanie Safka on Feb. 3, 1947, in Queens, New York, Melanie began performing in Greenwich Village folks clubs such as the Bitter End during the mid-1960s, winning over audiences with a clear, if sometimes tremulous,...
Her death was announced by her children Leilah, Jeordie and Beau Jarred. A cause of death was not disclosed.
“Dear Ones,” they wrote on Facebook, using the greeting favored by their mother, “This is the hardest post for us to write, and there are so many things we want to say, first, and there’s no easy way except to say it… Mom passed, peacefully, out of this world and into the next on January 23rd, 2024.”
Born Melanie Safka on Feb. 3, 1947, in Queens, New York, Melanie began performing in Greenwich Village folks clubs such as the Bitter End during the mid-1960s, winning over audiences with a clear, if sometimes tremulous,...
- 1/24/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” was released on Nov. 23, 1970, as the first single to his groundbreaking and historic solo album. The Beatles were the first band to play stadium concerts, put backwards instrumentation into songs, and the first rock band to put sitar and tamboura drones in pop rock. But Harrison’s first solo release after the band’s break up, All Things Must Pass, was the first triple album coming from a single act in rock. “My Sweet Lord,” was the first number one hit by a solo Beatle and the biggest selling single of 1971. It is most renowned because of the trendsetting plagiarism suit around it, but the song transcends easy labels.
Which is why the new music video, directed by Lance Bangs, deserves a little more than an all-star cast and a de-Phil Spector’d remix. The 51st anniversary video stars Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer,...
Which is why the new music video, directed by Lance Bangs, deserves a little more than an all-star cast and a de-Phil Spector’d remix. The 51st anniversary video stars Fred Armisen, Vanessa Bayer,...
- 12/17/2021
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
The big Summer holiday weekend is finally upon us, so it’s getaway time. Ah, but what if you’re still a bit leery of travel, what with that “variant’ sweeping through several states? Well, there’s always the movies, though that loud, dim-witted auto-atrocity is still taking up a lot of multiplex space. This new release offers another type of getaway, one of location and time. It can be a bit confusing, but this feature is somehow old and new. And we won’t need Doc Brown’s DeLorean to immerse ourselves in the ozone of long ago NYC, 52 years ago to be exact. That sizzling Summer was the time of the Harlem Cultural Festival, spread out over several Sundays. Iconic pop culture entertainers performed before delighted audiences for free. Unfortunately, another music fest, about a hundred miles away in upstate New York, got all the media attention. Luckily it was all recorded,...
- 7/1/2021
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Questlove was skeptical. In early 2019, the Roots’ drummer was approached by two Hollywood producers who claimed to have 45 hours of footage from a long-forgotten music festival in Harlem that had included performances from Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, and more. Questlove, who’s renowned for his encyclopedic knowledge of music history, had never heard of the event. He had, however, become used to fellow crate-digging obsessives trying to one-up him with dubious historical tidbits.
“That’s really what I thought it was,...
“That’s really what I thought it was,...
- 6/1/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
If a television network could say “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!,” that’s what Cmt did Wednesday night in devoting its entire annual “Cmt Artists of the Year” honoree slate — and nearly all of the presenter and performer slots, too — to country’s quantifiably under-served female stars. The genre seemed to be getting its own Lilith Fair in the telecast, albeit a Lilith Fair squeezed down into 95 all-too-fast minutes for a brisk show that was telecast live from Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center.
If a gender-identity-claiming network could talk, it might also say, “(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman” — the song performed by honoree Maren Morris and an outside-the-genre guest, Brandi Carlile, as a tribute to Aretha Franklin and also, implicitly, in honor of the sisterhood. That teaming of great voices seemed like it would easily be the highlight of the night, but then there were several...
If a gender-identity-claiming network could talk, it might also say, “(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman” — the song performed by honoree Maren Morris and an outside-the-genre guest, Brandi Carlile, as a tribute to Aretha Franklin and also, implicitly, in honor of the sisterhood. That teaming of great voices seemed like it would easily be the highlight of the night, but then there were several...
- 10/18/2018
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
“Oh Happy Day” gospel singer Edwin Hawkins died on Monday after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 74. Gospel Singer Edwin Hawkins Dead At 74 Hawkins was best known for his groundbreaking gospel arrangements and won four Grammys over the course of his career. He is credited with transforming the contemporary gospel music scene into what […]
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- 1/16/2018
- by Hillary Luehring-Jones
- Uinterview
Secretariat
Directed by: Randall Wallace
Cast: Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Margo Martindale, Scott Glenn
Running Time: 1 hr 54 mins
Rating: PG
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Plot: A housewife (Lane) takes over the stables from her ailing father (Glenn) and thinks she has a triple crown winner in a new horse they eventually call Secretariat.
Who’S It For? Want to celebrate a strong woman in the early 70s? Love Diane Lane no matter what? Those are your main motivators. Sure, there are horses, but not as many as you would think.
Expectations: One thought kept creeping into my head, can Secretariat really contend with Seabiscuit. I knew nothing about the Seabiscuit story, where as almost everyone knows Secretariat was the last horse to win the triple crown. I mean, Espn’s SportsCentury had Secretariat at number 35 for best athletes.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Diane Lane as Penny Chenery: She’s the first lady of horse racing.
Directed by: Randall Wallace
Cast: Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Margo Martindale, Scott Glenn
Running Time: 1 hr 54 mins
Rating: PG
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Plot: A housewife (Lane) takes over the stables from her ailing father (Glenn) and thinks she has a triple crown winner in a new horse they eventually call Secretariat.
Who’S It For? Want to celebrate a strong woman in the early 70s? Love Diane Lane no matter what? Those are your main motivators. Sure, there are horses, but not as many as you would think.
Expectations: One thought kept creeping into my head, can Secretariat really contend with Seabiscuit. I knew nothing about the Seabiscuit story, where as almost everyone knows Secretariat was the last horse to win the triple crown. I mean, Espn’s SportsCentury had Secretariat at number 35 for best athletes.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Diane Lane as Penny Chenery: She’s the first lady of horse racing.
- 10/8/2010
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
Walter Hawkins, one of the voices behind the 1967 hit "Oh Happy Day," has passed away. Hawkins succumbed to a long battle with pancreatic cancer on Sunday at his home in California, his brother Edwin -- also a Grammy winner -- tells the Associated Press.
"Today, I lost my brother, my pastor, and my best friend," said Edwin Hawkins. "Bishop Hawkins suffered bravely but now he will suffer no more and he will be greatly missed."
The two performed together as the Edwin Brothers in the 1960s and enjoyed crossover success with "Oh Happy Day," one of the first Gospel songs to cross into the mainstream charts. Not only did the song win a Grammy; it was also named one of the RIAA's Songs of the Century.
Hawkins received his divinity degree at UCLA, studying while releasing solo albums. In 1973 he became a pastor, founding the Love Center Church in Oakland.
"Today, I lost my brother, my pastor, and my best friend," said Edwin Hawkins. "Bishop Hawkins suffered bravely but now he will suffer no more and he will be greatly missed."
The two performed together as the Edwin Brothers in the 1960s and enjoyed crossover success with "Oh Happy Day," one of the first Gospel songs to cross into the mainstream charts. Not only did the song win a Grammy; it was also named one of the RIAA's Songs of the Century.
Hawkins received his divinity degree at UCLA, studying while releasing solo albums. In 1973 he became a pastor, founding the Love Center Church in Oakland.
- 7/12/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Pastor and leader of Love Center Choir topped the charts from the '70s to the '90s.
By James Montgomery
Walter Hawkins
Photo: Ilya Dreyvitser/ Wireimage
Walter Hawkins, a Grammy-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor, died Sunday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 61.
His brother Edwin a Grammy-winning gospel musician in his own right, told The Associated Press that Walter passed away at his home in Ripon, California, adding that he "suffered bravely but now he will suffer no more, and he will be greatly missed."
Hawkins was born in Oakland and began singing in gospel choirs as a teenager, along with his brothers. In 1967, as a member of the Edwin Hawkins Singers, he recorded "Oh Happy Day," which would become one of the first gospel-leaning songs to cross over to the mainstream, winning a Grammy and being named one of the RIAA's Songs of the Century.
By James Montgomery
Walter Hawkins
Photo: Ilya Dreyvitser/ Wireimage
Walter Hawkins, a Grammy-winning gospel singer, composer and pastor, died Sunday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 61.
His brother Edwin a Grammy-winning gospel musician in his own right, told The Associated Press that Walter passed away at his home in Ripon, California, adding that he "suffered bravely but now he will suffer no more, and he will be greatly missed."
Hawkins was born in Oakland and began singing in gospel choirs as a teenager, along with his brothers. In 1967, as a member of the Edwin Hawkins Singers, he recorded "Oh Happy Day," which would become one of the first gospel-leaning songs to cross over to the mainstream, winning a Grammy and being named one of the RIAA's Songs of the Century.
- 7/12/2010
- MTV Music News
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