LP SEALED MELANIE SELF TITLED (2ND ALBUM) 1969 BUDDAH ORIG PRESS FOLK ROCK
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Melanie's second album was a fairly strong pop-flavored singer/songwriter effort, with more serious-minded material and execution than those familiar with only her best-known songs would expect. Although folk-rock is an element here, it's actually just one, combined as well with well-done pop orchestration, a certain sensibility akin to that heard in theatrical musicals, and even a little bit of white soul (particularly on the one non-original, "Soul Sister Annie"). She would have been well advised to concentrate more on her lower, more sensual register throughout her career, as she does on the generally fine and moving vocals on this LP. The New York theater factor comes into play on the darkly semi-comic "Any Guy" and "Take Me Home," and her more utopian sentiments arise in "Beautiful People." But really, this is far more gutsy than sappy, her earnest delivery containing some real grit. Even if her songs occasionally dovetail with childish sentiment, there's just as much earthy realism, as well as some vulnerable loneliness
1969 LP Released on Buddah Records # BDS-5041 (Stereo).
This is a Sealed Gatefold Album and will Provide you with Brilliant Sound Quality from your Player. Some corner wear & rounding. Small amount of peeled shrink on back upper right corner produced slight aging marks. Drilled hole by bottom right corner.
