Melanie - Photograph (Double Exposure) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2009 digitally remastered reissue of this collection from the singer/songwriter and Folk legend. Originally a double LP released on the Buddha Records tag in 1972, this album features many of her hits and best known songs such as 'Ruby Tuesday', 'Lay Down' and 'What Have They Done to My Song, Ma'. 23 tracks. BGO.

Melanie Safka busted onto the pop charts in the late 1960's with her rousing collaboration of InchLay Down (Candles in the Rain)Inch with the Edwin Hawkins Singers. Her string of hits continued into the early 1970's with InchBrand New HitInch, InchThe Nickel SongInch, InchBeautiful PeopleInch, InchRuby TuesdayInch and InchLook What They Done to My Song, MaInch.

Woodstock and Glastonbury Fayre icon Melanie had been working with Easy Action on the deluxe vinyl and CD re of one of the most legendary albums in her long catalogue prior to her very sad passing. In 1972, Melanie and her producer and husband Peter Schekeryk began work on what she intended to be her most ambitious album yet. Stoneground Words was to be a double album - the first such statement from any female rock artist. It would also be the first worldwide on Neighborhood Records, the tag she and Schekeryk established in 1971 - another first, as she entered territory into which only the Beatles, the Stones and the Moody Blues had previously stepped. Even more crucially, however, it was her personal response to the enormous success, earlier in the year, of the hit InchBrand New KeyInch - Inchthe bicycle song,Inch as so many people recall it. Stoneground Words returned to the drawing board. Ten songs were selected; the remainder were placed to one side; and the album was released to generally positive reviews which included Melody Maker's assertion that it was Inchthe most sophisticated she's made. The naiveté of [the past has] been replaced by deeper, more comprehensive methods of expression.Inch She is the first to admit that the new edition of Stoneground Words is not a true facsimile of the original. The paperwork for all three projects, after all, disappeared long ago, as did the tapes (Inchwho knows where?Inch) Stoneground Words will be released in March 2024 by Easy Action / Neighbourhood Records.