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We got a new song we would like to share with the visitors to the board and to also let you
know it is available for licensing if any of you are in the licensing business then do get
in touch.
I'm all for this Doctor WHO-like adoption of old names from the pop world. There should be a young Leapy Lee, and maybe a twenty-something Esther & Abi Ofarim. (I would say what I think of Mel's song but as the accompanying blurb already declares that it's 'brilliant' there doesn't seem much point.)
"Your Kiss" is nice, but doesn't strike me as memorable. It's going to be a hard sell outside the English-speaking world as the verse is very word-heavy. The "Your Kiss" element seems to have been sampled and added on as an afterthought as, crikey, it's not in the chorus! Even if it comes in as the last two words, you really have to build towards that as a pay-off. "Wonderwall" does this absoutely brilliantly, despite the fact that "wonderwall" is a stupid meaningless word and I've never understood it. But it's a great example of good structure in a song.
(Me being nice to Oasis, is spring coming or what?)
I have to agree with Michael about the wordiness but it scans fine and all in all the melody is catchy, the production is solid and the vocal clean and palatable.
Like some others I expected it to be a new song by Melanie Safka. Quite disappointed really. It no doubt has more up to date production techniques but, to me, it has nothing to make it stand out and the melody, such as it is, hasn't stayed in my mind long enough for me to finish this post.
For those who don't recall the original Melanie. Here's a Youtube video.
I don't know if I've misremembered this - quite possible, knowing me! - but didn't Melanie's manager once decide that it would be 'prudent' for her to turn up uninvited with her guitar and sit cross-legged on the end of an ailing John Peel's sick bed and play to him song after song after song to 'cheer him up'? She never did have much of a repertoire, so that must have been a rather strained occasion!
I've no idea about whether the Jon Peel story is true, or when it was supposed to have happened, but Melanie does seem to have had quite a number of songs, just not many hits.
JC wrote: Melanie does seem to have had quite a number of songs, just not many hits.
Thanks for making what I said so much more understandable, JC.
I checked and the Peel anecdote is on p.269 of Simon Garfield's history of Radio 1. Peel said:
Have you ever heard Melanie? What was that song she did? She did a song about bicycles... The point is, she came and sat on my bed when I had jaundice, because her manager thought it would be a good idea, and played songs. Just her and me and this New York manager in a nasty dark-blue shot-silk suit which I shall never forget - I still wake up screaming in the night. She'd got these two voices, one very quiet, and she'd suddenly go terrifically loud and you'd jump back. But of course what do you do when somebody's sitting on the end of your bed and singing songs. At the end of a number do you go, 'More, more!'?
Anyway, I only really mentioned any of this because I thought dear DJKZ might find it of interest, seeing as there's this other person, who also sings songs, called Melanie...
This weird 'two people having the same name' thing really does make the world a confusing place. Take this young man:
His full name is Kenneth George Guttenplan King, but answers to 'Jonathan King,' but he is not THE illustrious Jonathan King! Apart from winning an obscure Toblerone essay-writing competition in the spring of 2007, he has so far done very little with his life, which currently makes him much less of a problem to us than the new Melanie is to fans of the old Melanie, but watch this space and please be on your guard.
Not hijacked KZ, just developed! That's what you can expect from boards that do take all tips but can be read and posted by hundreds. This thread has so far had 784 views in a few days - most appear to be intrigued by the original Melanie; hopefully, that's of value to you and of interest to us.
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