Tonight, I'm gonna share with you a song, that's been stuck in my head for these past few days.
When Melanie Safka, a twenty-two-year-old singer from New York and a prettier version of Carrie Fischer, was walking up the stage at Woodstock at 10:50pm on the first day of the festival, she was pretty much unknown. Half an hour later, she went down as a celebrity. During her set, people started lighting candles and lighters to fight the rain that had been falling. It must've been a powerful view to behold. Melanie later wrote a song about that experience and released it as a single from her third album, Candles in the Rain, in 1970. It became her breakthrough hit, reaching top ten on charts all around the world.
This is one of the best songs ever written about the festival. It's up there with Joni Mitchell's Woodstock and its cover by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The gospel chorus is what really gets me, I just can't get enough of it. Your thoughts?
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