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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:37 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Sounds familiar. I don't know why.
It sounds very much like an old English folk song.
I could imagine Sandy Denny-era Fairport doing this.
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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:38 pm
She's singing like Sandy Denny too.
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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:39 pm
Last track - Tell Me Why.
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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:39 pm
Sweet song that.
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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:39 pm
Just had the hint of going into Waltzing Matilda.
Last one: Tell Me Why
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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:40 pm
Does this title translate as "d'ya get me!?" as the youngsters might say these days?
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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:40 pm
Her full name is Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk
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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:40 pm
Harmonium.
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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:41 pm
Over.
Did go off a bit towards the end. But it was alright.
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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:41 pm
It is over.
That was a quality album filled with fabulous singing, and deffo deserving of a second listen.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.
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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:42 pm
I shall give it 4 stars.
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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:42 pm
SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:
Her full name is Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk
That sounds like an Anglicisation of something Slavic?
Polish?
Czech?
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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:45 pm
Let's remind ourselves of her duet with Miley.
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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:45 pm
I liked that, although it did flatter to deceive on first listen.
However, as Wendi-Pops states above, it may well deserve further perusalings and listenings, which is a testament as to how much more interesting and soulful and stirring I expected it to be.
Four black-as-pitch Wendi-approved b*mholes from me.
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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:47 pm
Forum Consensus voting!
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Subject: Re: Melanie - Gather Me (1971). Thu Jan 25, 2024 7:48 pm
Oh.
A ★★★★ consensus.
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Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:35 pm
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