Singer-songwriter Melanie Safka has seen it all during her musical career. One of only three women who performed at Woodstock, Safka — who is known professionally simply as Melanie — has worked with ...

Melanie Safka, the folk-pop singer and songwriter known as the artist Melanie, who performed at Woodstock in 1969 and topped the pop chart in the early 1970s with her hits “Brand New Key” and “Lay ...

(AP) - Melanie, the singer-songwriter who rose through the New York folk scene, performed at Woodstock and had a series of 1970s hits including the enduring cultural phenomenon “Brand New Key,” has ...

Melanie Safka was 22 years old in the summer of 1969 on the day her mother couldn't board the helicopter. "My mother was right about to get in, and they guy said, 'Who's she?' " Safka says. "I said, ...

The first question Melanie Safka asks when she performs overseas is if she has hits where she is playing. ‘Then I ask what the hit songs are,’ Safka said. ‘It might sound strange but it’s true.’ A ...

MELANIE: (Singing) Beautiful people, you live in the same... SUMMERS: Born Melanie Safka in 1947, the singer got her start in music at a young age. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MELANIE: My entire ...

But it was another performance, sitting alone on a stage before nearly 400,000 enraptured audience members at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, which catapulted the young folk singer to stardom.

It’s a long way from the Jersey Shore to Woodstock. Just ask music legend Melanie. The Shore native played the first day of Woodstock in 1969, on Aug. 15, and she was a hit. Her mom, Polly Safka, ...

Melanie, the singer-songwriter who rose through the New York folk scene, performed at Woodstock and had a series of 1970s hits including the enduring cultural phenomenon “Brand New Key,” has died. Her ...