Melanie Web Sites

• Melanie's Official Site. Here you can read Melanie's journal (her writing is fantastic!), join her official discussion board, buy her CD's, download stuff, and more!
• David Boldinger's Melanie Music Society page (UK). If you listen to Melanie's music, you're already a member of the Society! This site has a mailing list you can sign up for, to get news about Melanie by email. The next 3 sites below are operated by the Society.
• Melanie Central. This site (provided by David Boldinger) serves as a starting point for other Melanie sites, and provides an easy way to contact most of the Melanie site webmasters.
• MMS on patswayne.com. This site contains the complete picture, sheet music, and real audio collection from the old Melanie Multimedia Site.
• Melanie Safka Schekeryk by Rick Ziegler. This site has many recent concert pictures of Melanie, pictures of old magazine ads about Melanie, and a news list you can join.
• Robert Ian Smith's Guide to Melanie on Compact Disc. Information about Melanie on CD -- albums, singles, and compilations. There is also info on record albums not released on CD, and a new lyrics section with lyrics for most Melanie songs.
• Melanie's Home Page (Netherlands) by J. N. Dijkhuis. This site has an excellent text-only discography, a good short biography, and a
• Collectors' Corner, where you can put your want lists, etc.
• Lyrics page, where you can look up lyrics to most of Melanie's songs.
• Chords page, with guitar chords for many of Melanie's songs.
• The Imusic Melanie Safka BBS. Another place where you can post messages about Melanie.
• The Imusic Melanie BBS. Yet another place where you can post messages about Melanie. (Yep, they don't know that Melanie is Melanie Safka.)
• Melanie's US Home Page by Terry Gampper. This site has some recent pictures by Peter Schekeryk (Melanie's husband), and an interesting "Did You Know" section.
• Michael Friede's new Melanie site. Lots of Melanie-related links. (Also try his old English and German sites.)
• Gina Dee's Melanie site. One of the newer fan sites, with show reviews, pictures, etc.
• Jim Nicolalde's Melanie site. Another fan's tribute to Melanie, with pictures and links.
• Dik and Dorie's Melanie site. Dutch fans Dik and Dorie have some albums not seen anywhere else.
• Dia's Dutch Melanie site. This is the home site for a Dutch language Melanie discussion list.
• janisjoplin.net's Melanie page. Just a picture (from "Photograph") and the All-Music biography at this time, but I include this because it was nice of a site dedicated to Janis Joplin to have a Melanie page, and because I think this is the best Janis Joplin site on the web, even better than the official Janis site.

• The All-Music Guide's Melanie page. This page contains a biography, album discography, and other information.
• Wikipedia's Melanie page. Fan-supplied information about Melanie.
• The Ultimate Band List's Melanie pages. This has the same biography as the All-Music Guide, but also has links to CDs for sale, real audo files, and other links.
• The Ultimate Band List's Melanie Safka pages. They apparently don't know that Melanie is Melanie Safka.
• An article about Melanie in Biography Magazine.
• The Super Seventies Rocksite's Brand New Key page. You'll find some interesting biographical info here.
• The Melanie Pieces. A series of writings inspired by Melanie, by Felix Grant.
• The Melanie Landscape Poems by Andrew Donald. Site provided by Bill Angel.
• Articles about Melanie in the St. Petersburg Times newspaper:
• An Article about Melanie's Restuarant, (sigh, it's closed now) with a cool picture.
• Another article about Melanie's Restaurant.

• Woodstock '69. The event that launched Melanie's career.
• Woodstock Reunion site. (Thanks, David for this link.) Part of the Woodstock '69 site. This is about the 1997 Bethel reunion. There are Melanie pictures on this page of the site.
• The Bethel Woodstock Museum. The site of a musuem in Bethel about the original Woodstock music festival and the reunions held since. They have a picture of Melanie here.
• Heartbeats One and Two's Woodstock page. Some interesting info about the event here.
• Friends of Yasgur's Farm. Info about the annual reunions at Yasgur's Farm, and related info.
• Barry Scott's Lost 45's radio program. He plays Melanie, and he has a recorded interview with her that you can find how to purchase on this page.
• Leslie Frederick. A Melanie fan, and an excellent singer-songwriter herself. Listen to some MP3's of her here.
• Marisha MacRae. Another singer-songwriter who is a Melanie fan, who sings and writes beautifully. There are Real Audio clips of some of her songs on her site.
• The Coffee House Gypsies. A group in Florida who are Melanie fans. There are a few pictures of Melanie on their site. Check out their MP3 downloads -- they sound pretty good!
• The Octagon Arts Center. A venue in Clearwater Florida where folk musicians and other musicians play.
• WasWorld. "Where Oldies Live Online."
• Legacy Links. Links to may artists and bands of the 60's and 70's.
• The lyrics to "The First Time I Loved Forever", theme song from the "Beauty and the Beast" TV show, written by Melanie.
• An MP3 file of "The First Time I Loved Forever". Now you can hear this beautiful song. Also, the album version, with Ron Pearlman reading poetry.
  
• The Brady Bunch Hour episode 5. Melanie was a guest star on this show, and sang "Cyclone" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". For more info on the Brady Bunch Hour, click here.
• The Turning Point, where Melanie performs sometimes.
• Tarpon Springs, Florida, where Melanie's restaurant was (310 East Tarpon Rd).
• Dirty Linen Magazine, the magazine of folk and world music. The Oct/Nov '91 issue has a good article about Melanie, and they still have copies for sale.
• UNICEF. Melanie was spokesperson for UNICEF for a number of years.
• UNICEF Atlanta. The UNICEF branch in my area.

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