Hey Rick Fielding..you stirred up some old memories when you mentioned Melanie. I had a huge crush on her when I was teenager..poster on the bedroom wall, all her records..my father convinced I was going to turn into a hippy and start smoking pot!! He said the words to her songs were banal. Looking back now I realise he was right..but she had a great voice..and probably still does.
She had a concert in the UK a few years back at the Albert Hall which was cancelled due to low turn out..so she came out and busked for the 10 or so people that actually turned up!! Well that's what I read somewhere. Guess me old Da is looking down on me now thinking..'Yer still going on about that fecking Melanie!' *grin*