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Country singer Deana Carter covered the song on her 1999 top-10 album Everything's Gonna Be Alright. The cellist band Rasputina had a version on the album Thanks for the Ether. Todd Rundgren played a cover on his 2018 tour. On August 1, 2018, at Daryl's House Club in Pawling, New York, Melanie joined Rundgren onstage to sing "Brand New Key".
When first released, "Brand New Key" was banned by some radio stations because some inferred sexual innuendo in the lyrics. Melanie acknowledged the possibility of reading an unintended sexual innuendo in the song, stating: I wrote ['Brand New Key'] in about fifteen minutes one night. I thought it was cute; a kind of old thirties tune.
Born in Astoria, New York, on 3 February 1947, Melanie was the daughter of a jazz singer, Polly, and her father, who was of Ukrainian heritage. ... “Brand New Key”, a bouncing folk number that ...
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.
American singer Melanie Safka has died, her family have announced. The folk musician, known for her song Brand New Key and her rendition of the Rolling Stones song, Ruby Tuesday, died ...
This is the discography of American singer ... Released in the US as a slightly different version as Freedom Knows My Name ... "Brand New Key" 1 5 ...
Melanie, the singer who performed at Woodstock in 1969 and had major pop hits with “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” in the early ’70s, died Tuesday at age 76.
Gather Me is a 1971 album released by Melanie and featuring the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart #1 song "Brand New Key" (a novelty hit which also reached the #1 chart position in Canada, New Zealand and Australia between November 1971 and March 1972 [2]). The album also features the singles "Some Day I'll Be a Farmer" and the Top 40 hit ...