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King Malachi "Mel" Street (October 21, 1933 – October 21, 1978) [1] was an American country music singer who had 13 top-20 hits on the Billboard country charts.
The song was covered by Mel Street on his 1977 self-titled album. The song was later covered by Ricky Van Shelton in 1988. It was released in August 1988 as the lead-off single from his album Loving Proof. It was the fourth consecutive Number One single of Shelton's career, as well as his first multi-week Number One.
Melvyn Stride was born in Ealing, in London, on 30 September 1961. [4] He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School, a private day school in the city of Portsmouth on England's South Coast, and then studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Edmund Hall, at the University of Oxford, [5] where he was elected president of the Oxford Union.
In 1968, after his honorable discharge from the Army, he began commuting from Dayton to Nashville. In 1973 while in Nashville, he met Dick Heard, who produced country music singer Mel Street. This meeting eventually led to the Conley-Heard collaboration on the song "Smokey Mountain Memories", which made the top 10 for Street. [2]
The song was first written in 1980 by rappers Duke Bootee and Melle Mel in response to the 1980 New York City transit strike, which is mentioned in the song's lyrics. [3] "The Message" was an early prominent hip hop song to provide social commentary. The song's lyrics describe the stress of inner-city poverty.
Two coachmen and five passengers of a wagon and stagecoach become separated from their wagon train on the way to California in the 1880s. The group includes wagonmaster Mr. Callahan and his shotgun lookout Dusty, Mr. and Mrs. Brookhaven (a wealthy Eastern banker and his wife), a book smart civil engineer named Andy, dance-hall girl Lulu McQueen, and farm girl Betsy.
He wrote songs for various other artists, including Sue Thompson, The Everly Brothers, The Newbeats, Ernie Ashworth, Brenda Lee, Roy Orbison, Mel Tillis, and Buddy Holly. He also played guitar and sang harmony for sessions with artists such as Mel Tillis, Del Reeves , Mel Street , and Charlie Pride .
Streep was raised as a Presbyterian [12] in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and attended Cedar Hill Elementary School and the Oak Street School, which was a junior high school at that time. In her junior high debut, she starred as Louise Heller in the play The Family Upstairs . [ 13 ]