Lay Down -- Melanie Safka (by Doovid)

[MeriKZ1]

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[BorisssC]

She is soo peacefull cute!! :)

[tuckbrah]

man, 4 people have absolutely terrible aim with a mouse

[nostradamross]

talk about belting it out. what a great jam.

[labriseventvert]

intemporel comme tous ce qui vient du coeur merci +++++

[amusingmyslf]

This is my fav.. got chills listening.Raise your candle high Melanie!

[bkichuck]

There are many great songs in the world, but there are none better than this one. She delivers it with such power. I have always loved this song.

[wreese1947]

My older brother flew into woodstock on a helicopter & said outta all the musicians there, Melanie was the most prolific, I really love to listen to her melodic voice & her meaning hold true today as it did WBW( way back when )...

[bullikins]

It is interesting and pretty cool to see the aged audience groovin to this...

[mrshadowpig]

Absolutely brilliant! Thanks for the memories!!!!

[utubesux691]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[luitenant22]

I was born in 1971, and I love her all my life

[60srocker46]

anything from melanie is absolutly brilliant

[unremoved]

Real music, real music, REAL MUSIC!!! I feel young again when hearing songs like this.

[trythinkingmighthelp]

Great voice, great face.

[bucky468]

Eat your heart out Katy Perry!

[testiclemould]

wish she would come to Australia.......

[daddyoj]

Gave me goose bumps then as a kid in Nyack when would see her around in Genie clothes, and now still as a kid in mother India with all the Genie girls here now. High frickin ART !

[60srocker46]

this song is timeless and melanie, beautiful woman , beautiful soul

[mikekadas]

Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) - Melanie - No.06 on 5/16/1970. 14 weeks Top 40. - "The Edwin Hawkins Singers (who had scored a 1969 hit with "Oh Happy Day") provide the anthemic, gospel-infused chorus, but Melanie's career-best lead vocals prove a surprisingly capable match for their soulful fervor." - Beautiful People: The Greatest Hits of Melanie (Buddha Records)-1999. NOTE: This is the only compilation that came off the original master tapes making it the BEST to get.

[cymraeg55]

An awesome musician and ever one of my very favorites.

[Easychord2]

I like this long version.

[LilliePuttin]

Three things I would like to buy of Melania Safka's are a legal copy of this Lay Down version. 2. There was a copy of Melanie foating aroung of her telling about this song, why she thought of it as she left Woodstock. and 3. The old album that I had with Ring the Living Bell. This came at a time of my life, leaving for a mission with my husband and his Divine Call to a not so great place in Texas. and that album was played hundreds of times, keeping me in the right frame of mind

[jack102248]

you all had to be there

[tiggerbulldog]

What an orgasmic voice. Honestly her voice is the most beutiful voice ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[footballer55]

big voice---big talent---best of the best from a strong generation of outstanding music makers.

[sfinksborealis]

I started to listen this song 40 years ago (under teenage). I've got to admit the version was that of Black Kids. It wasn't bad at all. Though an original is always an original. C'est superbe!

[xyzpilgram]

Peace and Love ♥♥♥ Forever Melanie

[brianjoreski]

she IS GORGEOUS, talented, convicting and much more....

[barstoolguru]

I am amazed how many young people are rediscovering the music the shaped our world when we where growing up

[mattukenobaka]

@barstoolguru thank the internet and sites like YouTube. kids now get a chance to see all the stuff we loved, and judge it for themselves. there are a great many 'kids'--teens to thirties--who've learned to love the music of previous generations. i just hope it stays that way. they can get a glimpse of how it was for us growing up. . .

[thegonz9]

Who's playing the drums?

[GreatBonFire]

Just gotta love her!



[hanalei169]

One of the great songs defining an era.

[lilackine]

thank you doovid I am such a fan I cant stop listening i had all these songs on vinyl and 8 track. My 8 track finally broke I used to long to see her live or on TV Its such a blessing to see this stuff on youtube

[geewhizzkids]

I thought that she and Carol King were hot. My hero from the seventies was Stevie Wonder, and I always wanted to meet him. I prayed that I would, and when he came to Melbourne, Australia, I got to meet him after a concert. He was just the nicest person, but I was so star struck I mumbled. I remember shaking his hand, and he clasped mine in both his: his skin was so silky and smooth. I still think Stevie's the greatest act from the seventies. I also liked Creedence,

[victoriousliving09]

that was the Edwin Hawkins singers backing her up. phenominal piano player!

[blackshogun77]

Everyone, play this music for your children when they are babies before they listen to current music. AS well as the other 60's and 70's music 

[ricardblanc]

I tried flirting with her too 25 years ago if I can remember but i can't say I got the same results you did.

[TeddyJackEddie1]

Someone has posted a good quality version of this video with the original audio. Laying down the studio track on this wasn't necessary. The live performance was phenomonal.

[ChicagosMessiah]

check out my page and see how i flipped this one.its called so close.... PURE HIP HOP AT ITS FINEST!!!!!!!!

[hgordonf]

THANKS FOR THE POST !!!!! This brings back childhood memories of listening to my Mom's record collection and LOVING GOOD MUSIC !!!

[thecity42]

The bass player and piano are fantastic

[tlfrio]

Sensacional, espectacular y 25 años despues igual que años que años aquellos

[attra91]

Damn! What a voice and good looking too!! WOW!

[SELLY2112]

Man o war she is bad ass, Her voice gives me what i need.

[dhjustin]

What show was she appearing on for this video?

[lbd1955]

LilliePuttin There are videos on youtube of her being intervued! just search melane on youtube!!

[mrstevehartman]

A female Bob Dylan ! Folk artist extraordinaire. Just wish there was more by her ! PEACE......

[Bombeni]

I remember this song was playing on the car radio when my arm melted into the door once.

[nightwrighterBLSBBMg]

That sounds painful =]

[Bombeni]

@nightwrighterBLSBBMg

I didn't really feel any pain, lol, it was just scary as hell. Actually my friend, who was driving, noticed it before I even did, and managed to finally pull me free.

[Bombeni]

@nightwrighterBLSBBMg Oddly enough, I don't recall feeling any pain, it was just scary as hell. Actually my friend, who was driving, noticed it before I did and was finally able to pull me free.

[larrydh2]

what a great old song. love it.

[LilliePuttin]

If this recording was re-released AS IT IS, I would buy it. There are some things that should just not be changed, enhanced, remixed. This is one of them.(and Ring the Living Bell that entire album). I hope Melanie will put the recording of her talking to an interviewer about this song and her experience of Woodstock. Just watching the facial expression as she spoke about it was something. This song was her experience she thought about as she left Woodstock, if i remember correctly.

[blackshogun77]

@LilliePuttin lillie, when clear channel, a republican owned music company (you can lookthem up on the internet) they banned all 60's and 70's era music.. Clear Channel bought close to 95 percent of allthe radio stations around the country of america. They goal is to cause as much dividion from 60's era music and now, they also want hip hop and thrasher music tobecome the dominant music style becasue they know that the spirit of this music contians the peace and equality movement.

[LilliePuttin]

I don't know what Republican has to do with it.  The 60's and 70's music is still around,as it was back then. I am unfamiliar with the Clear Channel. I graduated in 67 and had absolutely no problem getting the music that I wanted.. I could buy and see whoever was playing close. The Who, Zappa, Nugent, Stones, Melanie.. We moved to Texas,to a small backkward town, and this song and the album kept me from too much culture shock.

The vibrations in her voice still touch deep in my heart.

[joanalex100]

Excelente mensaje la paz vendra.

[LilliePuttin]

Still as relivant as it was to me when I was 19. There is also a tape of her explaining why and when she wrote this. It was so full of her, the way she puts her entire being into her music. Too bad that was removed from YouTube as what she said explains Woodstock so very well. I also don't think that this would have impacted our hearts so hugely, if it had not been for the Edwin Hawkins Singers. Together they made a truely powerful impact on the world.

[rocknrolldaddio]

Powerful message. Peace translates well, doesn't it?

[samopdrift]

Love speaks all languages... and so does peace.

[luvsmovies79]

What in the world was wrong with this auduence? were they on anti depressants?

[motoxbuddy]

@luvsmovies . Its not a song to get all hysterical about and anyway people where just more mellowed out back then

[samopdrift]

@luvsmovies79: maybe. This was Holland in 1969, bored to death and smelling of cooked too long cabbage... i was born and raised in this conservative climate (yes, i did recover from it ha ha), That Melanie got them to move and clap was a revolution in itself!!!

[bradleynail]

its because they cant spell properly!

[luvsmovies79]

I get it (auduence)-Ha Ha!

[hremdldw]

Melanie's a moving powerhouse.Putting her heart and soul into this performance.two of my Church members wheir in The Edwin Hawkins Singers at the time adding too the feeling of brotherhood among human being,I whish this could be put in a time capsucle.I loved this in 1969 and I love it in 2009 40years later. If Melanie ever come to the San Francisco Bay Area I'm going to see her.I would personally love too tell her how much this song moved me.

[thesixtiesguy]

I mean.... this is one of the most beautiful, meaningful songs in the human language. My 14 year old daughter cries when she hears this song. I must have done something right.

[LilliePuttin]

I still get a chill and tear up every time I hear this, and by the chorus I am singing my heart out. I remember standing in Seward, Nebraska and a couple of my husband's friends asked us if we wanted to go to Woodstock. I said where? Too far, no money. My husband had school and I had to work,. Perhaps one of the times I'd wished that I'd made the time to go. I wonder what our lives would have been like if we had made that choice rather than stay and do what we were scheduled to do.

[goodbyeforthelastime]

i live near seward!! =]

[Bombeni]

@LilliePuttin  Same here, I was just fourteen years old but ran with an older group and had the chance to go. My parents probably would have let me, they were very cool about things. I think the reason we ended up not going was several reasons (too far, we live in oklahoma, not enough money, afraid car would break down, etc.). But I did go to many 3-4 day rock festivals after that. The 70's were the coolest time on earth. Even the cops were cool then.

[eragonn14]

@thesixtiesguy

this song is inspired by people holding candles in the rain at woodstock festival in Poland :)

[TextFreeley]

You have to let the whole thing run; it's a prayer.

[samopdrift]

@TextFreeley: Amen to that!!! That's indeed what it is...

[goldpet66]

@TextFreeley AMEN!!

[TextFreeley]

There are many versions of this video, but this is the best one. There's a cleaner one, but it's a different take, same day, but this is the best performance.

[wwebtime]

I can't tell you how many times I watch this! I keep it in my Google toolbar!

[kansasgrandmadonna]

I love love love this video posting. I'm guessing this probably 1969, and when I watch the Audience, I'm imagining my Grandma and Grandpa Krob showing up for Church in Cuba, Kansas.......and who is on the stage but a hippie and some edwin Hawkins choir. Who? What? But look at the common response.......it speaks volumes. They felt the message, they felt this song, and the temperary peace in their heart that this song resonnates.

[60srocker46]

melani safka and joni mitchel, where the two most influential female singers of our time , love this song and i love this lady

[ellemaychata]

i love melanie always have,this is a beautiful song

[chrislongski]

This type of music is totally lost today in the flashy hip-hop junk I detest.

[sailrbill]

she not only was the spirit of the sixties she captured it it her music so future generations can feel and believe in a better tomorrow!!

I'll always love your heart, soul and you- Melanie

[chefkurts]

I met Melanie about 10 years ago. She was doing a show at the Turning Point in Piermont NY that night. Earlier in the day she was in Nyack, NY sitting outside a pizzeria by herself just watching everyone. I approached her, we started to chat about everything around us. A little later i told her i knew who she was and i was a big admirer. I got the biggest, warmest hug and she gave me passes to come see her that night. She was flawless, i am forever smitten! Sweetest person you will ever meet!

[WaWoWieWa]

@chefkurts

you wrote: chefkurts I met Melanie about 10 years ago. etc etc...

dude... same happened to me when i was for business in Austria. could not believe that it was her sitting there in the hotel lobby..

like you said.. normal conversation and told here just before i left that i knew who she was... that moment i will never forget... the sparkles in her eye and the smile... she never changed. she is the living prove of the free mind...

Checkkurts. lets keep these moments in out heart

[fxnhrts]

@chefkurts I met her in 1989, I believe, at a July 4th concert in Miami. It was like a mini Woodstock concert with Richie Havens, Country Joe McDonald, Canned Heat and topped off with Melanie. And as the fireworks went off, Melanie sang Lay Down (Candles in the Rain). She still had it. I talked with her earlier that day in her booth. She gave me a hug when I told her I was her biggest fan. Great memories from college days and twenty years later and now 40 yrs later!

[tupelohoney01]

@chefkurts Wow...that is GREAT. This was an awesome time! I am glad I grew up when I did.

[cb90222]

@chefkurts , so lucky !!! I'd LOVE to meet her !!!

[attra91]

@chefkurts LUCKY BASTARD!

[LilliePuttin]

Melanie, this writing about Woodstock and her experience, is one of the most beautifully written, astoundingly done pieces ever done in my lifetime. She captures everything. Her music is sung from within her soul. I love it. Edwin Hawkins singers are a tremendous part of this phenomena that was given to us in this song. It would be difficult to write something better than what came to her as she drove out of woodstock.They used to have the video on youtube of her explaining this..Wonderful.

[Damrak1]

Prettiest girl ever.

[jamaicanyodamon24]

@Damrak1 that is so cool! her music brings me so many wonerful mem

ories

[onairam0297]

Edwin Hawkins Singers

[heavnnnsent]

Thank you for posting, this music does give you the chills!

[mausolos8]

Melanie-An Angel on Earth. A gift for us all.

[zqlbuicz]

That chick throw a tune, couldn't she? My understanding is that she settled with her husband into Safety Harbor, Florida. That's someone who should've followed her career as opposed to following her husband. She could've been one of the greats imo.

[54rein]

I was quite surprised by the audience. Mainly a much older crowd! This seems to go against who Melanie and many other bands were singing to back in the day.

[bartsnoeren]

I remember this: It was a yearly music-award show in the sixties called: "le grand gala du disque" on Dutch-TV . Melanie would perform and also the edwin Hawking Singers. At that evening it was said (could not be true!) that Melanie made that song when she met the Edwin Hawking singers that day.

A reward gala show: so: no young people!

[budelke]

thanks bart , it was the grand gala du disc.

[mervrun]

SHE WAS SOOOOO HOT!!!!

[Coolum1]

An absolute brilliant classic.I agree about the chills.Peace and Love

[OutcastsOfSRB]

I get chills every time I hear this. It's so...powerful.

[HOUSEOFFOURDOORS]

While both my older brothers spent their time fighting in Viet Nam, the music of the same time was profound, still is today.. The times had a stage, and so many filled that stage with eternal efforts.

Pat Bachmann

[safford07]

Melanie was one of a kind! Great song from back in the day....

[mannystereo]

Thank you for posting this great song!!!!

[MrGapito]

Que gran tema, son muy buenos recuerdos de juventud, Cerrillos Roberto Spicto, JC Ormazabal y su preciosa hermana.............., que bellos recuerdos gracias Melanie por esos momentos

[SKANKxADDiCTiON]

Please NEVER take this video down.

[criticalmass181]

I'm lovin' it!!!!! We need more of this, in this day and age.

[TwinkieCookie]

i luv melanie she ROX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[karenargus]

She was so great....what talent!!!

Mel where are you now? We need you back...sing more songs of peace.

[payless1981]

I LUV this song!

[dlightman1978]

I mean WHAT a voice...... she's really going on !

[dlightman1978]

man no way this girl is white !!!!

no offense intended but it's just that I always thought the girl that sang this woman was black.

does this ever happen to anyone ??

[05chilli]

Wow.. I've wanted to see this for so long. i adore this song.. thanks so much for finding it..

[alexyoyo]

She is incredible! This is one of my favorites songs. The lyrics have more meaning today then when the song came out. Great video!

[franklinrocks1]

What a song - moves me to tears. Her voice soars like a bird- a true gem of the 60s.

[mausolos8]

So beautiful...No words can convey the feeling that this song gives me.

[HOUSEOFFOURDOORS]

This song was part of the anti Viet Nam, counter culture. In 1970 I was 13. One brother just came home from Viet nam and my other was going soon. Despite being surrounded by thoughts and words of distainful of this culture, something about the music reached me. I couldn't hate the message. 40 years later the message is even stronger. Thank you so much.. I've said my peace

[mausolos8]

I too was 13 years old at the time. My older sister's boyfriend was on his 2nd of 3 tours in Viet Nam. I supported the war and the service men and women serving there....But I also enjoyed the music....or maybe it was just Melanie.

[aditaroldan]

Era incondicional de Melanie allá por 1968-69. Muchas gracias por este video

[Lau3143]

Completely, TextFreeley. We all do. Since the first time i heard her just days after recording this i have been inspired with positive energy.

[TextFreeley]

I can't watch this video without crying. I don't know why, but by the time it's done the tears are rolling down my cheeks. I feel like I just had a religious experience.

[xojbabyxo]

awesome.

[hildaatje]

Goosebumbs is the word!

I have never been of the hippie kind,but this is just............groovy maaaannnnnn.........what an anthum to the world as it is!

[ButchPetty]

Very cool. Thanks.  :)

[ikorm2]

I love her hoarse voice

[dhjustin]

was there a name to the group singing with her?

[Vossuh]

edwin hawkins singers  (i think)

[pilesovinyl]

This song was so powerful...I`m getting goosebumps all over again. What happened to popular music. There hasn`t been a song this powerful or signifigant in oh, about 25 years or so. Bring back the popular music culture. Today`s music suuuuuuucks!

[ToiletsRuleAll]

when the sound and picture don't match it;' often because the light is too low or the recorder is poorer quality.

This woman was great!!!

[gotham99d]

And there we go - The tiny minds, the moron low- lifes take an awsome song and turn it into a race discussion. Melanie was in a class by herself , an icon in a unique time that will never exist again.

[zebede67]

That's right, you'll also notice that Melanie is singing out of synch with herself too. !Tut! Those white folk just aint got rythym, huh!?!

Alternatively you could have figured out that you're looking at video compression causing the synching to be off-beat.

But you knew that didn't you SIGNATURESOUNDZ? It's not that you're racist or anything (or even more pathetic: an anti-white white).

[ryang00]

that is my mom

[mbatsskie]

Ryang00; then we are brothers/sisters! My God! I Adore Her!

[harlowe9]

thank her for giving us such a great song!

[holmsatlarge]

awesome!WOW still gives me chills.pres obama should have chosen her for his inaugurtion!an inspirational song.

[turntablesrock]

She sounds a little better than Alretha Franklin, doesn't she?

haha

I totally agree.

[holmsatlarge]

yes she certainly does...also a more powerful song for the for his new beginning.:-)

[CatapultYourMom]

Epic.

[TextFreeley]

Playing this video will chase any evil spirits or bad energy from your computer. If you play it when you defragment your drives your system will be cleansed of impurities.

[ledzeptwo]

WHAT A VOICE...STILL BRINGS CHILLS

[glennribble]

That is the best thing I've ever seen in my life. Amen.

I hear a connection between aborigonal north american music and hip hop. I'm sure they were in Toronto. Very BBC, that audience, yet they are dressed more like yanks than britts.

[edydon]

I think this was filmed in Germany

[stabwound16]

thats gay lol dont like black people

[butkatrello]

I had my first comunion, and my dad bought me a small trasitor radio, and remember this song very well,lots of soul.. thanks

[ferkco]

America used to look like that back then. I got to say America because the suits the men in the audience were wearing were a certain classic American style of a certain width and thin ties. In those days you were either black or white, not to much in between. Hey could be wrong but the Beatles were considered exotics at that time. American making it big in England at the time, can't see it.

[whatntarnation]

That's the Edwin Hawkins Singers doing back-up. Looks like a British audience clapping on the half-beat.

[ThLuckyOne]

What a treasure, mitdejavu! Thank you for sharing this!

[Moxxie202]

Totally soulful and hip at the same time!! I was 14 that summer. They played this song on every radio station. What a great era to be young in.

[57highland]

Your right. I was 12. Top 40 music was just great back then. It almost looks like a fantasy from here. I didn't completely comprehend this song but I knew it was something just a little different. Today, they have different radio stations for different kinds of music. Back then, Top 40 took in at least a little bit of everything. That's what made it so good.

[postvoorjordje]

thank you for this song it makes me happy every time i hear this song ... i child from GOD

[blueprint4blues]

It was acceptance no matter what race and all people wanted the same thing, peace and love and no more dischord, all the musicians of this time warned of some of the shit were are going through now

[wildhunter666]

what is this song about? (english is not my primary leanguage)

[CloverApprentice]

are you kidding??

[neverforeverkate]

This song was written about a particular event that happened during Woodstock or a response to Woodstock.

[ih8tbush]

"we were so close there was no room"

"we bled inside each other's wombs"

yikes! that might be too close even for beautiful people! too bad I was only 9 yrs old.

[jeepr2]

each others wounds-not wombs

[ih8tbush]

wphew! looks like I'm due for another visit to the shrink! Thanks for setting the record straight for me

[radcam69]

.."each other's wounds".

[dangerousdevil86]

looove that song ^^

[xbridgette]

i remember roller skating in the house to this jam when i was 6 years old :]

[felixdeville]

awesome!!

[loneman247]

The Edwin Hawkins Singers were very humble to accept this song for collaboration. It's NOT a Gospel song, and I feel the whole hippie movement of the late 60's, was a poor excuse of a movement. Hypocrite junkies that had NO class endurance, when it came to a true power change. If it ain't done the Lord's way, then it's NO way. The Holy Bible is the sword to use to make divine change for all. Peace!!!

[palehorsepalerider]

WTH?

[TarBabyJim]

Plese help get Melanie into the rock and roll hall of fame. VISIT:

LetHerIn dot org

Thanks!

[1955c]

the greatest living poet singer songwriter on the planet earth as well as other planets

[markdmaurer]

I get goose bumps when i hear this song. The 60 's had the best misic