Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Aug. 15, 1998, file photo, Melanie Safka, who performed at the original Woodstock decades ago, opens the second day ...

For Melanie, who was just 22 years old, the Woodstock experience would prove to be far more profound than she ever could have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Melanie, the singer who performed at Woodstock in 1969 and had major pop hits with "Brand New Key" and "Lay Down (Candles in the ...

It’s a long way from the Jersey Shore to Woodstock. Just ask music legend Melanie. The Shore native played the first day of Woodstock in 1969, on Aug. 15, and she was a hit. Her mom, Polly Safka, ...

American folk singer Melanie has died at 76. Best known for her song "Brand New Key," she said the first big break of her career was playing at Woodstock in 1969. MELANIE: (Singing) Beautiful people, ...

Melanie Safka, the folk-pop singer and songwriter known as the artist Melanie, who performed at Woodstock in 1969 and topped the pop chart in the early 1970s with her hits “Brand New Key” and “Lay ...

Singer Melanie Safka, known as “The First Lady of Woodstock” for playing the 1969 festival at just 22 years old, who also had hits in the 1970s including “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the ...

A hit single inspired by her set at Woodstock inspired audiences at later concerts to light candles as she sang—much to the dismay of local fire departments, she joked. Breaking News Reporter Melanie, ...

I had never performed in front of so many people in my life. I was just thrown into it, and I had my first out-of-body experience. I was terrified, I had to leave. I started walking across that bridge ...

Now that the 50th anniversary of Woodstock is upon us, we thought we should measure whose careers got a big boost from appearing at Max Yasgur’s farm, who didn’t, and who emerged to be virtually ...

Melanie Safka, the singer who went by the mononym Melanie famous for songs including “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” and “Brand New Key,” has died. She was 76. The news was shared with CNN by Billy ...

Melanie, the influential singer-songwriter who was one of three solo female performers at the original 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair, died on Tuesday (January 23) at the age of 76. The news was ...