Melanie - Born to Be

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Release Date:: 11/01/1968
Label:: C-five
UPC:: 5014661558232

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Great !
, March 14, 2001
Reviewer: jeanmichelhubert - See all jeanmichelhubert's reviews

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More than 30 years ago, this album became rapidly unavailable on its original "Budda Records" release if I remember well (I was a little boy at that time). The few people who had the chance (and the money) to buy it at the beginning recorded a lot of tapes for the other people. The quality of the records decreased though, and everybody forgot this record. Anyway, it is full of feelings, full of love, a real hippies monument. I grew up in it and could never forget those songs.
Jean Michel - 34 (Belgium) ...

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Born to Be, Melanie Safka's 1968 debut, is an intriguing curate's egg. Neither Melanie, nor her producer-husband Peter Schekeryk, seem sure exactly where her strengths lie, so she is cast in a number of roles: Piaf-imitating chanteuse ("In the Hour"), soul-searching, angst-heavy troubadour ("Momma Momma"), giggling novelty figure ("Animal Crackers") and children's entertainer ("Christopher Robin Is Saying His Prayers"). Stranger still, half the time the experiment works; the small ensemble, led by her own enthusiastic (if thoroughly inexpert) guitar playing creates an arty, coffee-house ambience in which Melanie's idiot-savant act flourishes. But the less said about her attack at "Merry Christmas" the better.

- Charles Donovan, All Music Guide

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No talent who came out of Woodstock and who continued actively performing more than a quarter century later remained as closely associated with the 1960s and "flower power" than Melanie. Born Melanie Safka in Astoria, Queens, in 1947, she made her fi...Full Melanie Biography