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Gather Me

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You could debate whether Candles In the Rain or Gather Me was Melanie's best album but I think fans would agree that they are together her best albums.

The inside lists musicians and the production crew and that's it except for the track listing on the back. My personal favorite is the melancholy Railroad, an intimate, confessional song with a nice arrangement of strings, guitar and winds.

It's unfortunate that this should become, for many, her definitive album, because it's really not one of her best.

The latter is considered by many as one of her classics - to me it's a qualified success, because of the ambiguous lyric. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I have a very well-worn vinyl copy of this album, and I have a feeling I’ll be spinning the digital version just as much. Brand New Key had even been banned by some radio stations because its lyrics could be read as something less innocent than the song sounded when Melanie recorded it in the little girl voice she sometimes used. Steppin' has a country feeling with its harmonica and piano and is a somewhat regretful break-up song with a determination to move on.

My Favorite album from Melanie's stint with Buddha Records, All great songs, with a lot of complex arrangements. To his credit, label head Neil Bogart promoted her relentlessly and also left her style be her own rather than trying to make her a bubblegum princess. Though she would release six more albums through 1976, this would be her peak on the radio and record charts.

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