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  • 4:07

  • geweldige vrouw

  • OK...youtube did it again...recommended a song way off the mark. Was listening to the Sounds of Juptier from the NASA transmissions a few months ago...logged back into youtube today and this was recommeneded because I listened to Jupiter???? If anyone is able to see the connection let me know. Actually, Jupiter sounds a bit more peaceful and relaxing but hey that's just my opinion. Who the eff is this person?

  • @doobeedoo58 Melanie Safka. She performed at Woodstock. I'd love to know what algorithm YouTube used to get from Jupiter to Melanie. Talk about a non sequitur....

  • 37 people are ugly ;) - gorgeous song, I wish I could find my own melanie most women are more like Mel C these days :(

  • She doesnt switch the guitar. Filming the image reflected from the mirror.

  • thats f*cking communism shes singing about... i´d like it....love it....

  • she sounds nothing like marilyn manson

  • This song makes me cry I don't know why.

  • The Bright in her eyes ♥w♥

  • @DocBrewster yes it is I was looking for it and found this piece of acoustic shit

  • I liken her to the Great Janis...

  • just beautifull.......

  • MASTERPIECE!!

  • In a world of ignorance and uncertainty, Melanie shines still like a beacon of goodness. She stands by her beliefs. No fads, no trends, just a genuine woman. Whatever god you believe in, bless her.

  • Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People" is actually better

  • Janet Devlin form Xfactor reminded me of her .....

  • Never noticed you before today !

    But what a number !

    Beautiful people, like Melanie, shall band together and change the planet !

  • Beyond a genius and she always will be the greatest singer composer on the planet! The garbage singers of todays generation couldn't wipe her feet.God only knows that 99% of singers today are human trash.That's just mere fact

  • Beyond a genius and she always will be the greatest singer composer on the planet!

  • Ohneeereeeerrrrr

  • she sings like a ritired crow singer

  • @TheJessegangsta yet it is beautifull somehow

  • The perfect lullabye for the perfect dream.

  • Just imagine this song coming true and no one ever having to feel alone or different in bad way. Everyone being accepted for whoever they are.

  • How things have changed. Nowadays they wear skimpy outfits and cant sing and the words of the songs have little meaning.Melanie dresses conservative, voice of an angel and words of her song makes all the sense in the world.

  • sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!!!­!!! i love you girl a voice from heaven.

  • This song made me think so differently about people. It made me realize that we're all Beautiful People. It made me realize that I am a Beautiful People too. <3

  • @cabezaroja28 i know 1thing.... why always share sutch comments... it just make's u look sad

  • The ultimate hippie girl. And a beautiful person !

  • She' so cute at the end of the song, looking embarrassed to say, "I'm a beautiful people too..." I always loved this lady.

  • @showtuneful She is cute. She's was also a highly-trained actress.

  • I WANT TO BE MELANIE'S FRIEND! She's so lovely and so sweet.... :)

  • I wish I didn't lose all of my albums-had all of hers

  • I have always been in love with Melanie...love ya babe!

  • she is amazing

  • This is my favorite version of this song. The recording is mediocre compared to this.

  • THATS A MIRROR BUT YES SHE IS A GREAT SINGER AND A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN STILL TODAY

  • melanie safka was around before marilyn manson was born.sorry marilyn manson couldn't write the first sentence to this song.please don't compare the high priestess melanie safka,tho marilyn manson.marilyn manson needs to get singing lessons from melanie safka.and tips on how to write songs.melanioe safka has written only 397 songs,cheers chris

  • Oops , I thought this was Marilyn Manson's song "the beautiful people" !!

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  • I guess this is who Amy Macdonald takes off

  • Amy MacDonald takes off Melanie??  You idiot!

  • The ultimate beautiful hippie chick.

  • asked my mom if she wanted to have anything on her mp3.

    she remembered this, I showed her.

    she went completely silent and just zoned out.

    told me about it being the last track on her cassette, not understanding English, sitting in her room, having just moved out of her parents house.

    was fun for both of us.

    so thanks

  • A BEAUTIFUL SONG FROM A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING. BRINGS BACK SO MANY MEMORIES. THANKS FOR POSTING.

  • Melanie is a true and talented spirit and her gift of song is a treasure to all mankind

  • This is the song that started me listening to her music.Just love it.

  • so simple and profound!

  • so simple and profound!

  • How the hell can Charlie Sheen even be mentioned while hearing this song?

  • at last,Charlie Sheen shows us who the beutiful people really are.

  • @garebear1015 yeah, our uncle charlie is alot nicer today rather than that one uncle charlie they had back in the 60's. it's not manson blood....its tiger blood.lol.

  • Amy Macdonald is the new Melanie

  • amazing how she managed to switch to playing her guitar to left handed (around 0:55) and back without a break in the song.....

  • @Ocielocique Umm... thats cause the shot is of a mirror on the set over her head....

  • @Ocielocique You saw that very well :)

  • @Ocielocique editing and montage mistakes, for sure. Or maybe it was done on purpose :)

  • @Ocielocique

    that's a camera "mirror" effect dude .... it's not left hand switching, its just the video flipped horizontally ....

  • @Ocielocique lol that was a joke, right?

  • @Ocielocique

    People may or may not know this, but other than a great musician, Melanie is also a wizard.

  • @Ocielocique she doesn't play left handed, this part of the video is flipped horizontally. watch the relative position of the 2 microphones and the shadows (of the chair and her nose)...

  • she doesn't play left handed, this part of the video is flipped horizontally. watch the relative position of the 2 microphones and the shadows (of the chair and her nose)...

  • @Ocielocique maybe there is a mirror in the ceiling, that could be the filming of that.

  • @Ocielocique Are you kidding? Its just the cut - for some reason the clip has been inverted. Compare the Microphone stands. The lower one also changes the side???

  • @Ocielocique It is called the willing suspension of disbelief. You are actually watching moving pixels on a flat screen but you assume that it is three dimensional. In a video editor it is easy enough to flop the frame for editing purposes and it only seems like she switches playing her guitar.

  • @exenrontexas

    You've spoiled it!

  • @Idomyreading Sorry to burst your bubble. I'll keep quiet and you can try to reconnect to your illusion.

  • @exenrontexas

    I'm trying but I had her at the top of my list of ambidextrous performers and you sir have completely ruined my list!

  • @Ocielocique :Mirrorview

  • I've just recently discovered Melanie she truly is a gifted song writer and she has such soul truly beautiful

  • excuse me person below melanie career goes way back before janis joplin don't even think about comparing this beautiful human being with that horror janis joplin.in fact when janis joplin died it was mistaken identity humanity thought melanie died that 's when that janis got recognition after death unfortunately .and on top of it there's no comparison in singing melanie blew her away in every shape and form.

  • thank you. thank you .thank you. and warm wishes to all you beautiful people out there. I know a few of you:-)

  • 29 people may not the beuty in theire felow humans!

  • Such a mellifluous

    voice, and a harmonious spirit, worthy of all the gold the world has to offer.

  • Such a mellifluous

    a voice worthy of all the gold in the world.

  • Unfortunately and Helaas, This Melanie (Safka) will not be playing Qbus on April 19, 2011, I wish she would but it is another Melanie

  • Jefferson Airplane? lol

  • i'm reading a book called "The time of woodstock" talks about all the event near the 60 and i 'm falled in love...

  • I concur. This woman is not just a beautiful people too but the most beautiful of them.

  • The anti-Janis Joplin. Singing style similar, but without all the mean alcoholic drug addict stuff. This woman is a sweetheart.

  • Oehhhhhhhhhh that voice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • A beutiful song from a beautiful person

  • ~*~Peace, Love And Blessings Always~*~

  • Linda demais, parece até com a minha mãe...love!!

  • Love!!

  • 4:08 - 4:18

    <333333

  • But,Melanie,you are now one of the 'BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE'

  • I like that knod and her 'mmm' and the end :D

  • melanie the great the high priestess to mankind

  • you never have to be alone!!! we share the same back door (the world!!!!!)

    respect!!!

  • I - Love - This! Thank you for posting! An emotional story teller & a great inspiration

  • ...Where can I find the full concert? And what's the name of the DVD?

  • wow a real genuine singer you mean they still exist? i don't think so, of course they do melanie safka now today still beautiful and of course cyndi lauper,joan baez and that's about it and thank god they are still around today.because there is no music today.so let it be written.that's only fact based

  • ah...the days when women didnt have to strip down to their underwear and grind on stage to be heard

    devolution is real

  • @brabon1: You mean the days when music was actually music and entertainers didn't act like Miley Cyrus or Britney Spears lol.

  • @FolkMusicFanatic or rhiana, the spice girls, etc....

    talent was king

  • @brabon1 : Yeah basically 60's and 70's was the best. I'm not even from the 60's though. I was born in 1989 and discovered Melanie by accident. But she's my favorite. I got to meet her at a concert too. She was so friendly and I also have things signed from her including a program from her 1971 "Gather Me" album. I met her husband too for the first (and sadly last time He passed away a few days after the show). I'm kinda lucky. I know Melanie, her PA, and the moderators on her website.

  • @FolkMusicFanatic it makes me happy when i hear that a younger person enjoys this music

    i was lucky...my parents allowed me to be exposed to all forms of music....from classical, jazz, big band and rock

    this was a very special time in music...when song writers were allowed to perform their own stuff (mostly cuz the record companies were all looking for the new beatles)

  • loooooove it !!!!!! Melanie is the best !

  • why are hippies so damn good looking.

  • @SteveTwoTheO because they are loved by the earth because they love and take care of the earth and take care of them sleves and each other instead of exploiting the earth and each other. they know that health is the greatist gift and that the body is a temple to be worshiped and taken care of and not to just be exploited by its host. etc etc, bla bla bla; yada yada yadda

  • @SteveTwoTheO I CONCUR

  • She is one of my favorite singers of all time...so soulful and real :) Love this song so much...

    Thank you Iz :)

    Annie

  • Captivating performance- tough to duplicate this

  • Did any notice in this vid she moves the guitar in diff positions??? But great song

  • @yokomotosun90 i feel sorry for the soundman!

  • @yokomotosun90 it's a morror image form the camera shots

  • Very good quality video for its age. She would fit in so well today with Colbie Caillat and Meiko.

  • The only thing wrong with her eye's is she's high. Growing up in the 60s, I'm quite fimiliar with the look. I love her singing and she was so hot in her hay day. I use to have her pictures that I got out of tiger beat mag all over my bedroom walls. Drugs do take their tool and lives. Mary ann faithful was beautiful and a beautiful voice, but drugs took thei tool on her.

  • @Klaaaan1 I grew up in the 60s too and am quite familiar with 'the look' of being stoned. This is not it. Don't get me wrong - I don't care whether she's stoned or not. But in this case, she's not.

  • @davehshs Which ever she is, she's beautiful. I thought I heard her in the 60s till some one said she didn't have a song out till 1971. My memories are a bit scattered, so it must have been another singer with a simuliar voice. I was in Da Nang in 1971. Over there all the music was played over the Armed Forces Radio on these megaphone speaker's. Things sure have changed.

  • great song writing

  • hippies will change this world, i still believe

  • is she blind?

  • @SilentBob5215 No Melanie is not blind. What makes you say that?

  • @FolkMusicFanatic well just but the way she moves. ive seen a few blind people who have done that. It just looked as though she blind

  • @SilentBob5215 Oh okay I see I saw her yesterday in concert and she could see perfectly. I see your point of how she moved though in this video.

  • When she rocks like that, wish I could be there to give her a hug!

  • Melanie is a person, you'll never forget. Her voice and what songs she sang -

    She's in my heart

  • This is how music should be!!!!

  • she' a beautiful people, too !^^

  • Forem precisos quarenta anos para VER Melanie, a voz que me apaixonou desde a adoplescência, obrigado youtube !!!

  • not that it matters however person below or above melanie has written more songs then joni mitchell could shake a stick with and unfortunately to joni mitchell melanie blows her away in any shape or form cheers

  • love you melanie xxxxx

  • Great music !

  • Always loved this song but never heard the live acoustic version before. She comes across as a beautiful person....

  • her only best song written by another ick women singer joni mitchell

  • I always loved Melanie, and am glad to see other fans here too. I never heard anyone quite like her - voice, style, lyrics - were part of that time yet a sound unique to her alone. She always makes me smile and her music makes my heart soar.

  • @Thepast2012

    Sounds like you might benefit from some gunja, or has senility already set in. So you're 60, not a great age in an era which celebrates youth and good health. Try some gunja, or meditation, they might help with your hysteria. Nothing I fear can assist with your loneliness.

  • I must be old..BUT I still love Melanie..Am I the only one left??

  • @danvers0549 Nope---I love her, too, and I'm sure many from our generation do.

    We rocked the world, and she sang to our hearts as we did so, as many others did, too. :)

  • Evidently there are 22 people who do not understand music or for her contribution to society as a whole. Melanie is still touring. A tad older but still a beautiful person. Peace to all the beautiful people.

  • Melanie......definitely a beautiful person. Love all of her music. 10*

  • She really touched a part of my heart back in the day. Saw her in concert 1971 in Duluth , Minnesota. Thank you Melanie.

  • Wow I loved Melanie

    I became a vegetarian as a result of her song about it.

    And became beautiful too.

    Thanks Mel

  • Named after her, and proud of it!

  • @sarasosocool: She's not dead lol. Melanie is still very much alive she'll be doing 3 U.S tours this October.

  • @FolkMusicFanatic when and where???

  • I love her <3

    RIP Melanie <3

  • beautiful song.

  • melanie and her music is wonderful.she is great.also there is something sexy about a woman with a guitar and writes lyrics like she does.

  • Wow...do you know how many years since I have heard this song? One of my favorites...thanks so much for finding this & posting it!

  • We tried to change the world... lost our way. But we tried. Thanks Melanie, yeah, you are!

  • This song remind me that one that I loved...that one that I love and isn't with me...but i love this song, even without her...thank you so much Melanie, for saying exactly what I feel!

  • best manson cover ever

  • @CODENAMEVIDEOS Its not the same song. Melanie wrote this.

  • This is a song that should be played every morning by every radio station and in every school just to remind the people on earth that it is easier and better to live together in peace and love.

    Die ist ein Lied, das jeden Morgen von jedem Radiosender und in jeder Schule um die Leute daran zu erinnern, dass es einfacher und besser ist, in Frieden und Liebe zusammen zu leben.

    C'est une chanson que tout le monde faudrait écouter tous les matins pour rappeler les gens d'une vie pacifique. !Peace!

  • My mom sang this for me when i was little , there are no words for how much i love this song.

  • Melanie is awesome, She's original with her music, has an excellent voice, and her guitar playing is first class.

  • pgh......sighhhh, that generation changed the world for the worse...Now, starting in Nov '10, we start to change it back and in 2012.......a new President, seeing that the current one is overwhelmed........BTW, I think Melanie did a fantastic job on this number....Think I'm gonna play it again....

  • I've always loved this song since I was 12 years old and that's a long time ago. But this is the first time I see the face of the woman who sings this song. Yes finally! I see the person behind the voice after all those years! It's kinda fascinating.

  • Melanie you stole my heart in ev`ry way...do you still have the same beautiful eyes?...

    You make me dream away in your heavenly atmospheres......

  • "If I weren't afraid you'd laugh at me I would run and take all your hands, and I'd gather everyone together for a day. And when we gather'd I'll pass buttons out that say - Beautiful people - Then you'd never have to be alone. Cause there'll always be someone with the same button on as you.

    Include him in everything you do. He may be sitting right next to you!"

    :) Beautiful song and beautiful singer!

    Peace please, for all and everyone!

  • ti pa una

  • I was luck enough to see Melanie in Pontardawe Swansea in 2009 she still has it - brilliant

  • dude...just throw her a dime and leave...god damn

  • My mom use to sing it all the time to me. Now i sing it myself <3

  • eve graham of the new seekers sings this much better.

  • @stingray490 You are right. 

  • Was probably the most important influence on my music, together with Mary Travers. At the age of seven, I listened to them all the time. Still have the album "Affectionately, Melanie" . One of the best albums ever.

  • And I thought this would be a cover of the Manson song...boy was I tricked!

  • ... pghpa611, thanks for the poignant words: I'm still dreaming ...

  • A beautiful song sung by a beautiful lady!

  • A generous heart she has!..I like her candles in the rain song!..I like to dedicate her a song I wrote..

  • new to come.............up to 2012 !

  • the depths of mercy :)

    how lovely...

  • makes me cry...