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France
France (English
i/ˈfræns/ FRANSS or /ˈfrɑːns/ FRAHNSS; French: [fʁɑ̃s] (
listen)), officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is often referred to as l’Hexagone ("The Hexagon") because of the geometric shape of its territory. It is the largest western European country and it possesses the second-largest exclusive economic zone in the world, covering 11,035,000 km2 (4,260,000 sq mi), just behind that of the United States (11,351,000 km2 / 4,383,000 sq mi).
Over the past 500 years, France has been a major power with strong cultural, economic, military and political influence in Europe and around the world. During the 17th and 18th centuries, France colonised great parts of North America and Southeast Asia; during the 19th and early 20th centuries, France built the second largest colonial empire of the time, including large portions of North, West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and many Caribbean and Pacific Islands.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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Margaret Mitchell
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, Gone with the Wind. For it she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form. These additional works have enabled scholars and the public to more fully comprehend the richness and depth of Margaret Mitchell's writing.
Margaret Mitchell was a Southerner and a lifelong resident and native of Atlanta, Georgia, who was born in 1900 into a wealthy and politically prominent family. Her father, Eugene Muse Mitchell, was an attorney, and her mother, Mary Isabel "May Belle" (or "Maybelle") Stephens, was a suffragist. She had two brothers, Russell Stephens Mitchell, who died in infancy in 1894, and Alexander Stephens Mitchell, born in 1896.
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Melania the Elder
Saint Melania the Elder or Maior (325–410) was a Desert Mother who was an influential figure in the Christian ascetic movement (the Desert Fathers and Mothers) that sprang up in the generation after the Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. She was a contemporary of, and well known to, Abba Macarius and other Desert Fathers in Egypt, Saint Jerome, Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Paulinus of Nola (her cousin or cousin-in-law; he gives a colorful description of her visit to Nola in his Letters), and Evagrius of Pontus, and she founded a religious community on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
Of women in the early history of the church, few records are found. However, there are some facts known about one such leader, "Melania the Elder" (325-410), one of the wealthiest citizens of the empire, who was born in Spain, married at fourteen, and lived with her husband Valerius Maximus Basilius in the suburbs of Rome. She lost her husband and two out of three sons to disease when she was twenty-two. She moved with her remaining son Valerius Publicola or Poplicola to Rome.[citation needed]
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Melania the Younger
Saint Melania the Younger (also Melanie; born in Rome c. 383, died in Jerusalem on December 31, 439) is a Christian saint and Desert Mother who lived during the reign of Emperor Flavius Augustus Honorius, son of Theodosius I. She is the paternal granddaughter of Melania the Elder.
The Feast of Melania the Younger is held on December 31. In Ukraine, Malanka ("Melania's Day") is celebrated on January 13, the eve of the new year of the Julian Calendar.
Born to Valerius Publicola or Poplicola (son of Valerius Maximus Basilius and wife Melania the Elder) and Caeionia Albina, born ca 368 (daughter of Caeionius Rufius Albinus and wife),[citation needed] she was married to a paternal cousin, Valerius Pinianus, at the age of thirteen. After the early deaths of two children, she and her husband converted to Christianity, maintaining a celibate life thereafter. Upon inheriting her parents' wealth, she gave it all away to the poor. Melania and Pinianus left Rome in 408, living a monastic life near Messina (Sicily) for two years. In 410, they traveled to Africa, where they befriended Augustine of Hippo and devoted themselves to a life of piety and charitable works. Together they founded a convent of which Melania became Mother Superior, and cloister of which Pinianus took charge. In 417, they traveled to Palestine by way of Alexandria, living in a hermitage near the Mount of Olives, where Melania founded a second convent. After the death of Pinianus c. 420, Melania built a cloister for men, and a church, where she spent the remainder of her life.
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Melanie Blatt
Melanie Ruth Blatt (born 25 March 1975) is a singer, actress, television personality and was a member of the multi-million selling girl group All Saints. Following their split she launched a solo career.
Blatt was born at University College Hospital in the London Borough of Camden and is named after Melanie Safka. She has a French mother and an English father of Jewish descent[citation needed] whose ancestors were from Poland and Russia and a younger sister named Jasmine. She was brought up in both the UK and France. In 1986, Blatt was diagnosed as having scoliosis. Since her parents were not satisfied with the treatment for the condition in the United Kingdom they decided to move to France, where a specialist inserted three metal rods in her back.
Blatt went to Fitzjohn's Primary School where her musical talent was immediately noticed by the head teacher David Joyne, who encouraged her parents to send her to a stage school. In 1986, she attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School where she met Nicole Appleton. The two girls became best friends. During this period, Blatt also played young Eponine in Les Misérables for six months, and was the understudy for Cosette together with fellow Sylvia Young student Denise van Outen.[unreliable source?]
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Melanie Brown
Melanie Janine Brown (born May 29, 1975) is a British R&B and pop recording artist, songwriter, dancer, actress, author, television presenter and model. Born and raised in Harehills, Leeds, United Kindgom. Brown rose to fame when she became a member of British girl group, the Spice Girls, which she was famously known as "Scary Spice" in the group. Brown has been signed to a number of record labels during her career including Virgin Records, Independent record label, Amber Café and her latest record deal EMI Music, which she signed in 2012.
The Spice Girls signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single, "Wannabe", which hit number-one in more than 30 countries and helped establish the group as a "global phenomenon". Followed by their debut album, Spice, which sold more than 28 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by a female group in music history. They have sold over 75 million records worldwide, making them the biggest selling female group in history. The band's second debut album, Spiceworld went onto sell over 20 million records world wide.Forever selling 5 million records world wide. They have sold over 75 million records worldwide, making them the biggest selling female group in history and also one of the Best selling music artists in the world. Brown is also known for supporting Girl Power and their global grosses estimated at $500–800 million between 1996 and 1998.Return of the Spice Girls was the band's comeback turn and said to have grossed US$100 million and won the Billboard 2008 Touring Award.
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Melanie Chisholm
Melanie Jayne Chisholm (born 12 January 1974, Whiston, Lancashire) is a British singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman professionally known simply as Melanie C. She is best known as one of the five members of The Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed "Sporty Spice".
She toured the world for years with the Spice Girls, gaining worldwide popularity and when the Spice Girls decided to pursue solo careers, Melanie decided to produce her own brand of music, in 1999 she released her first studio album Northern Star which sold 4 million copies worldwide. After the release of Northern Star Melanie battled depression and an eating disorder, and released her second studio album in 2003, Reason. Melanie released her third studio album two years later in 2005, Beautiful Intentions. In 2007, she released her fourth studio album This Time.
In 2007, Melanie and the four other members of the Spice Girls conducted The Return of the Spice Girls World Tour. Melanie then signed on for a six-month deal to play Mrs Johnstone in the London West End play "Blood Brothers". Her fifth studio album The Sea was released in September 2011.
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Melanie Clewlow
Melanie ("Mel") Clewlow (born 7 May 1976 in Dover, Kent) is an English field hockey international, who was a member of the England and Great Britain women's field hockey team during the late 1990s and 2000s.
Plays for Canterbury women
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Melanie Doane
Melanie Doane (born December 19, 1967, Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Juno Award winning Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, actress, and music educator who has had seven Top 40 singles in Canada.
Daughter of Chalmers Doane, an Order of Canada-winning music educator, Doane mastered many instruments at a young age, including the piano, bass, mandolin, guitar, violin, and ukulele. Following high school, Doane studied music at Dalhousie University with the intention of becoming a music teacher. Her career path changed after landing a roll in Neptune Theatre's production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1986. She was cast regularly in productions at Neptune for two years before moving to Toronto in 1988. Over the next few years Doane played roles in various theatre productions, including Fire! and a brief stint on broadway in Mirvish's production of Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story.
By 1993, Melanie began pursuing a career as a singer-songwriter, recording an EP titled Harvest Train which she released independently. The songs made their way to executives at Sony Music Canada, and shortly thereafter she signed with Sony and began working on her debut album, Shakespearean Fish. "Shakespearean Fish" was met with critical praise upon its 1996 release and helped Melanie garner a live following. Although it never reached critical masses through commercial radio, the album caught the attention of producer Rick Neigher in Los Angeles and Melanie began working with Rick on her sophomore release in 1997.
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Melanie Fiona
Melanie Fiona Hallim (born July 4, 1983) is a Canadian R&B recording artist. She was born and raised in Toronto.
Fiona's debut album The Bridge was released in 2009, having collaborated with Future Cut, Vada Nobles, Stereotypes, J. Phoenix and Peter Wade Keusch. The debut single "Give It to Me Right" was sent to radio stations on February 28, 2009, and peaked at number 20 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart and number 41 on the UK Singles Chart. The second single, "It Kills Me", became her breakout song on the Billboard Hot 100 where it entered the Top 50, along with topping the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song earned Fiona a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. The Bridge also earned her a NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding New Artist. In 2012 Fiona won two Grammy Awards for Best Traditional R&B Performance for the song "Fool for You" with Cee Lo Green.
Melanie Fiona Hallim was born on July 4, 1983, in Toronto, Canada. She is the daughter and second child of Guyanese immigrant parents, who immigrated to Canada in the late 1970s. Her parents are of African, Indian, and Portuguese descent. Her father was a janitor before working in finance, and her mother worked in banking. Hallim began writing songs at age 16. Living in a music filled household, Hallim says she always knew music was her passion. Her father was a guitarist in a band and would allow her to sit on the stage when she was younger as he practiced, and remembers her mother playing music at home; from The Ronettes to Whitney Houston.
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Melanie Griffith
Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress. She is an Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner for her performance in the 1988 film Working Girl. She is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren, and is married to actor Antonio Banderas.
Griffith was born in New York City to actress Tippi Hedren and producer, former actor, and advertising executive Peter Griffith. Her parents divorced when she was four years old, after which her father married model/actress Nanita Greene and had two more children: actress Tracy Griffith and set designer Clay A. Griffith. Her mother married agent and producer Noel Marshall, and Griffith grew up with three stepbrothers. During her childhood and adolescent years, she divided her time between living in New York with her father and in Antelope Valley, California, where her mother formed the animal preserve Shambala. She also skipped a grade and graduated from Hollywood Professional School when she was 16 years old.
Griffith began work at just nine months old in a commercial[citation needed] and later became an extra on Smith! (1969) and The Harrad Experiment (1973). In 1975, she played her first major roles in Smile, The Drowning Pool, and Night Moves, in which she did racy nude scenes at age 17.
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Melanie Hahnemann
Marie Melanie d'Hervilly Gohier Hahnemann (2 February 1800 – May 1878), was a French homeopathic physician, married in 1835 to Samuel Hahnemann. She was the first female homeopathic physician.
Melanie was a member of a noble family, but because of domestic violence she lived in the family of her art teacher Guillaume Guillon-Lethiere in Paris from 1815. During the cholera epidemic of Paris in 1832, she became interested in hompeopathy. In 1834, she visited Samuel Hahnemann, and the year after they married and moved to Paris, where they opened a clinic. She was his student and assistant and soon an independent homeopathist. She was given a diploma from The Allentown Academy of The Homeopathic Healing Art in USA.
At the death of Samuel Hahnemann, she was entrusted with his clinic and the manuscript of his latest work, Organon. She continued with the practice, but in 1847, she was put on trial and found guilty of illegal practice. She continued to practice and was granted a medical license in 1872. She was a controversial person, being a both woman physician and a woman homeopath.
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Melanie Hamilton
Melanie Hamilton Wilkes is a fictional character first appearing in the novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. In the 1939 film she was portrayed by Olivia de Havilland. Melanie is Scarlett O'Hara's sister-in-law and eventually her best friend.
Born Melanie Hamilton around 1844, she and her brother Charles Hamilton are among the last members left of the relatively affluent Hamilton family. The family has always valued education and sought to provide its members with the finest available. As a result, they have gained a reputation for producing a fair number of intellectuals and several noted lawyers. For several generations they have intermarried with the like-minded Wilkes family. Unfortunately, this practice of apparent inbreeding has eventually resulted in the birth of progressively sicklier children.
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Melanie Jans
Melanie Jans (born July 3, 1973 in Montreal, Quebec) is a professional female squash player who represented Canada during her career. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 25 in March 1999 after having joined the Women's International Squash Players Association in 1991.
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Melanie Johnson
Melanie Jane Johnson (born 5 February 1955, in Ipswich) is a Labour politician in the United Kingdom.
Johnson attended the Independent Clifton High School in Clifton, Bristol. Leaving Bristol for London, Johnson studied at University College London, gaining a BA in Philosophy and Ancient Greek (1976). Following this she moved to Cambridge, continuing to study Philosophy at postgraduate level King's College, Cambridge. From the age of 19 onwards she was an active member of the Labour Party and for over a decade was a County Councillor. From 1981-88, she was Member Relations Officer for Cambridge Co-op, then Retail Administration Manager from 1988-90. She was Assistant General Manager in Quality Assurance for Cambridge Family Health Service Authority from 1990-92. Johnson was a schools inspector for Ofsted from 1993-97.
In 1994 Johnson unsuccessfully stood for Labour in the Cambridgeshire seat at the European Parliamentary election. Two years later she was selected to stand for Labour in the United Kingdom Parliament through an all-women shortlist.
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Melanie Klaffner
Melanie Klaffner (born 11 May 1990) is an Austrian tennis player. As of 1 March 2010, she is ranked World No. 234 in singles and No. 197 in doubles. She is currently coached by Geovani Cardona. Klaffner has enjoyed success on the ITF Circuit, winning two singles and eight doubles titles, and has also been a member of Austria Fed Cup team since 2006. She has also played on the WTA Tour on a few occasions — at Generali Ladies Linz, Gastein Ladies and Nordea Nordic Light Open — with the best result being the doubles quarterfinals of 2007 Gastein Ladies, partnering Yvonne Meusburger.
Klaffner was born on 11 May 1990 in Waidhofen an der Ybbs to Gerhard and Luise. She currently resides in Weyer, the same town in which she finished comprehensive school. Klaffner began playing tennis aged six, when her mother introduced her to the game.
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Melanie Klein
Melanie Reizes Klein (30 March 1882 – 22 September 1960) was an Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children that had an impact on child psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis. She was a leading innovator in theorizing object relations theory.
Born in Vienna of Jewish parentage, Klein first sought psychoanalysis for herself from Sándor Ferenczi when she was living in Budapest during World War I. There she became a psychoanalyst and began analysing children in 1919. Allegedly two of the first children she analyzed were her son and daughter. In 1921 she moved to Berlin, where she studied with and was analysed by Karl Abraham. Although Abraham supported her pioneering work with children, neither Klein nor her ideas received much support in Berlin. However, impressed by her innovative work, British psychoanalyst Ernest Jones invited Klein to come to London in 1926, where she worked until her death in 1960.
Klein had a major influence on the theory and technique of psychoanalysis, particularly in Great Britain. As a divorced woman whose academic qualifications did not even include a bachelor's degree, Klein was a visible iconoclast within a profession dominated by male physicians.
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Melanie Lofton
Melanie Lofton (c. 1980) is an American television reporter and news anchor. She has worked for WHSV-TV in Harrisonburg, Virginia since July 2006. Shortly after being hired as the station's Weekend anchor, she was promoted to produce and co-anchor WHSV news at five.
Lofton began her career as a reporter for WOAY-TV in Oak Hill, West Virginia. She also worked as news director and reporter and anchor for WDNN Television, a small independent station in Dalton, Georgia.
Before her professional career began, Lofton won the award for Best Hard News Reporting her senior year at West Virginia University for their broadcast program. She was named a Young American Broadcaster by the National Association of Radio Talk Show Hosts and featured on a Radio America program. She was chosen among several rising journalists in 2002 by the American Jewish Committee to participate in Project Interchange, an expenses-paid trip to Israel to learn firsthand about the ongoing conflict. She also interned at WBFF/WNUV in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Melanie Lynskey
Melanie Jayne Lynskey (born 16 May 1977) is a New Zealand actress best known for playing Charlie Harper's neighbor Rose on Two and a Half Men, and a range of characters in films such as Win Win, Up in the Air, The Informant!, Away We Go, Flags of Our Fathers, Shattered Glass, Sweet Home Alabama, Rose Red, Coyote Ugly, Ever After and Heavenly Creatures.
Lynskey was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand. She attended New Plymouth Girls' High School.[citation needed]
In 1993, at the age of 16, Lynskey won her first professional acting role as Pauline Parker in the Peter Jackson film Heavenly Creatures, based on the 1954 Parker-Hulme murder, opposite Kate Winslet. Over 500 young actors auditioned for the role before Lynskey was cast with Jackson recalling "we knew if we cast an intelligent person, then they were going to hit it. Melanie's also very enigmatic. So what we were looking for was an actress who has that kind of aspect to her...where you can film somebody sitting in a room, doing nothing, and they're still fascinating to watch. We found that in Mel."
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Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez (born 1972) is a television and stage actress. She is most famous for playing Melanie, host of the Good Night Show, on PBS KIDS Sprout from 2005 to 2006.
In 1994, she graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts.
Past theater work includes roles in Caesar and Cleopatra at Cocteau Repertory and in a verse play, The Death of Don Flagrante Delicto, written by Kirk Wood Bromley.
In the summer of 2000, Martinez was cast to play the role of a student in two 30-second videos, I Have a Future (filmed in July 2000) and Boys Can Wait (filmed in February 2001). Both short films spoofed abstinence-only public service announcements. The former espoused the virtues of anal sex, while the latter promoted vibrators. The political spoofs were directed by David Mack and produced by John Ordover, and were hosted on the website TechnicalVirgin.com. In July 2006, PBS KIDS Sprout terminated Martinez as host of the Good Night Show when it learned of these videos, which it deemed "inappropriate for her role as a preschool host."
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Melanie Mayron
Melanie Joy Mayron (born October 20, 1952) is an American actress and director of film and television. Mayron is best known for portraying the role of photographer Melissa Steadman on the ABC drama Thirtysomething.
Mayron was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Jewish parents Norma (née Goodman), a real estate agent and Russian American Jew, and David Mayron, a pharmaceutical chemist. She trained as an actress at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Mayron is the mother of Olivia and Miles, born in 1998. Most recently, she and her chemist father have developed a line of skin care products for babies and adults called "Mayron's Good Baby".
Mayron appeared in the 1974 movie Harry and Tonto, in the 1976 movie Car Wash and starred in 1978's Girlfriends. In the late 1970s, she played Brenda Morgenstern's best friend, Sandy Franks, on three episodes of the sitcom Rhoda. In 1988, she wrote, produced, and directed the comedy film Sticky Fingers. In 1995, Mayron directed The Baby-Sitters Club, a film based upon the book series of the same name. She also directed the television movie Toothless (1997) starring Kirstie Alley and the movie Slap Her... She's French (2002), starring Piper Perabo (which appeared on television as She Gets What She Wants). In 2006, she appeared as a judge in the reality show Looking for Stars on the Starz! channel. In addition, she has served as director for a number of television shows such as In Treatment, Providence, Dawson's Creek, Ed, State of Grace, Nash Bridges, Wasteland, Tell Me You Love Me and The Naked Brothers Band.
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Melanie Merkosky
Melanie Merkosky (born April 7, 1986) is a Canadian actress, perhaps best known for her work portraying the main character Jennie in the Internet series lonelygirl15.
Merkosky has had parts on Runaway, Slings and Arrows, and American Pie Presents The Naked Mile. In 2009, she starred as Robin Matthews on the web series Harper's Globe, which was an online companion to TV series Harper's Island.
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Melanie Oudin
Melanie Oudin (born September 23, 1991 in Marietta, Georgia, United States) is an American tennis player and former world junior no. 2. Her current career ranking is world no. 269, as of May 28, 2012. She won the mixed doubles title at the US Open in 2011 with fellow American Jack Sock.
Oudin is of French descent and has a twin sister, Katherine, and a younger sister, Christina. She was home schooled from seventh grade on so that she could have more time for tennis practice, but admits envying her twin sister's experiences at a regular school. She says her idol is Justine Henin because "she proved you don't have to be tall to win things." Her grandmother inspired her and her sister to play tennis when she gave them racquets and lessons when they were young.
Oudin is a defensive counterpuncher. She uses her speed and footwork to get balls back from the other side of the court. Her best shot is her forehand which she can really hit with power. Her slice backhand is basically defensive but accurate. Good dropshots and clean volleys are useful assets in her game, as well.
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Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips (born 4 June 1951) is a British journalist and author. She started on the left of the political spectrum, writing for The Guardian and New Statesman. In the 1990s she moved to the right, and she currently writes for the Daily Mail, covering political and social issues from a conservative perspective. She defines herself as a liberal who has "been mugged by reality".
Phillips has often appeared as a panelist on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Moral Maze and BBC One's Question Time. She has written a number of books, including most recently World Turned Upside Down. She was awarded the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 1996, while working at The Observer.
Phillips' family was Jewish. Her father was a dress salesman and her mother ran a children's clothes shop. Both parents were committed Labour voters. She was educated at Putney High School, a girls' independent school in Putney, London, and later read English at St Anne's College, Oxford.
Phillips trained as a journalist on the Evening Echo, a local newspaper in Hemel Hempstead, as her probationary period in the provinces, then compulsory for the profession. After winning the Young Journalist of the Year award in 1976, she spent a short period at the New Society magazine, before joining The Guardian newspaper in 1977 and becoming its social services correspondent and social policy leader writer.
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Melanie Safka
Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk (born February 3, 1947) is an American singer-songwriter. Known professionally as simply Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Ruby Tuesday", "What Have They Done To My Song Ma" and "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)".
Melanie was born and grew up in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York City, New York. Melanie made her first public singing appearance at age four on the radio show Live Like A Millionaire, performing the song "Gimme a Little Kiss". She attended Red Bank High School in Red Bank, New Jersey, graduating in 1966. After school, her parents insisted she go to college, so she studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, where she began singing in the folk clubs of Greenwich Village and signed her first recording contract.
Initially signed to Columbia Records in the United States, Melanie released two singles on the label. Subsequently she signed with Buddah Records and first found chart success in Europe in 1969 with "Bobo's Party" which reached Number 1 in France. Her debut album received rave reviews from Billboard which heralded her voice as "... wise beyond her years. Her non-conformist approach to the selections on this LP make her a new talent to be reckoned with."[citation needed]
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Melanie South
Melanie Jayne South (born 3 May 1986 in Kingston upon Thames, London) is an English tennis player. She is currently the British number 7 and ranked 310 in the world (as of 21 November 2011). So far in her career she has won a total of 6 ITF singles titles, 20 ITF doubles titles and reached a career-high singles ranking of world number 99 (achieved 2 February 2009).
Her greatest success in a Grand Slam so far came in the first round of the 2006 Wimbledon Championships when she came back from one set down to beat the world no. 14, Francesca Schiavone, 3–6 6–3 6–4, in a match witnessed by tennis player, Martina Navratilova. At the time, South was ranked at 305 in the world and had reached the main draw courtesy of a wild card. Not since the third round of the 1998 tournament, when Samantha Smith beat the world No.7 Conchita Martínez, had a British woman beaten an opponent of a similar ranking at Wimbledon. She lost in the second round to Shenay Perry, the world No. 62, 6–7(5) 2–6. Outside of Wimbledon, South reached the first round of the 2009 Australian Open without needing to qualify and without a wild card. This was the first time in her career that her ranking was high enough to grant her access to a Grand Slam main draw without a wild card. She lost to world No. 17, Marion Bartoli in round one.
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Melanie Thornton
Melanie Janene Thornton (May 13, 1967 – November 24, 2001) was an American pop singer who found fame in Germany and fronted the Eurodance group La Bouche, who found success with the singles "Be My Lover" and "Sweet Dreams" in the mid-1990s. She forged a moderately successful solo career in Germany before her death. Her hits include "Love How You Love Me", "Wonderful Dream", "Memories", and "Heartbeat". Thornton died in a plane crash near Bassersdorf, Switzerland. Receiving significant airplay during the annual Christmas season, "Wonderful Dream" has consistently featured in the December singles charts in Germany ever since.
Thornton was born in Charleston, South Carolina and began studying voice from the age of six, as well as learning to play the piano and the clarinet. She grew up listening to Aretha Franklin and Roberta Flack. Thornton would mimic the female vocalists she saw on television or heard on radio. Later on, she financed her college studies with appearances in talent shows and smaller band concerts. She frequented a club called The Peacock Lounge, getting up and doing jam sessions when the live band invited people up to sing. She had long dreamed of a career in music and in February 1992, Thornton went to Germany. Her sister lived there with her U.S. Army husband and Thornton had dual citizenship in Germany and the United States. His uncle, Bob Chisolm, a singer and piano player, encouraged her to give the German nightclub circuit a try. She had been singing in a Macon, Ga., band, Danger Zone, pulling down $50 on a good night. However, Bob Chisolm told her that on a bad night in Germany she would make $150.
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Tia Mowry
Tia Dashon Mowry-Hardrict (born July 6, 1978) is an American actress. She first gained fame for her teen role as Tia Landry on the ABC/WB sitcom Sister, Sister (opposite her identical twin sister Tamera Mowry). From 2006-2012, she portrayed medical student Melanie Barnett Davis on the former CW now BET comedy-drama series The Game. She is also notable for starring in the television movie Twitches and its sequel Twitches Too.
Tia Mowry was born in Gelnhausen, West Germany to Darlene Mowry (née Flowers), who managed her children's careers even when they were in the group Voices and also worked as a security guard, and Timothy Mowry, who was in the U.S. Army at the time of her birth and later became a custody officer/jailer with the City of Glendale Police Department when the family moved to California.
Darlene, who is Bahamian American, and Timothy, who is British American, met in high school in Miami, Florida. Both joined the U.S. Army, and both would eventually reach the rank of Sergeant. During a live taping of The Wendy Williams Show in 2010, Mowry announced that for years, she and her twin sister believed they were of Italian descent on their father's side; however, after researching their family tree on Ancestry.com, they quickly discovered that he was instead of British descent. Her family is "close-knit" and "deeply religious", as the sisters became born again Christians when they were eight.
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Melanie Filmography
- Babelicious (2005)
- Down Your Throat 3 (2004)
- Girl + Girl No. 9 (2004)
- Holes and Whores 2 (2004)
- Killer Grip (2004)
- Legal Skin 15 (2004)
- Planting Seeds (2004)
- Women Seeking Women 11 (2004)
- The Ultimate Hardcore Collection (2003)
- Young Lesbian Lust 2 (2003)
- Holes and Whores (2003)
- Young Lesbian Love (2003)
Melanie Filmography
- Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation (2012)
- Woodstock: Now & Then (2009)
- Woodstock Diary (1994)
- Woodstock: The Lost Performances (1990)
- 20 Years After: A Woodstock Reunion (1989)
Melanie Filmography
- My Girlfriend's Giant Cock (2010)
- Wide Open Trans Asses 4 (2009)
- Transsexual Beauty Queens 35 (2008)
- Melanie - Weird Al Yankovic
- Melanie - Donna Summer
- Melanie - ToTo
- Melanie - Guster
- Peace Will Come - Melanie
- Lay Down - Melanie
- Together Alone - Melanie
- Some Say (I Got Devil) - Melanie
- What Have They Done To My Song Ma - Melanie
- The Good Guys - Melanie
- Ring The Living Bell - Melanie
- Momma Momma - Melanie
- Nickel Song - Melanie
- Lovin Baby Girl - Melanie
- Leftover Wine - Melanie
- Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) - Melanie
- In The Hour - Melanie
- I'm Back In Town - Melanie
- I Really Loved Harold - Melanie
- Foolin' Yourself - Melanie
- Close To It All - Melanie
- Carolina In My Mind - Melanie
- Candles In The Rain - Melanie
- Brand New Key - Melanie
- Animal Crackers - Melanie
- Alexander Beetle - Melanie
- Merry Christmas - Melanie
- Christopher Robin (Is Saying His Prayers) - Melanie
- Bo Bo's Party - Melanie
- Ruby Tuesday - Melanie
- Melanie - Puhdys
- Melanie - Max Him
Me-he-he-helanie
What can the problem be
Sweet Me-he-he-he-helanie
Why won't you go out with me
She lived across the street on the fifteenth floor of the Gilmore building
I saw her in the shower reaching for some soap
I knew she had to be the girl for me
And to think I probably never would have found her
If I hadn't bought that telescope
Oh, Me-he-he-helanie
What can the problem be
Sweet Me-he-he-he-helanie
Why won't you go out with me
I just can't understand it
Why won't you return my phone calls
Are you still mad I gave a Mohawk to your cat
If you'd just say the word
I'm certain that our love would last forever and ever
Or are you too dumb to realize that
Me-he-he-helanie
What can the problem be
Sweet Me-he-he-he-helanie
Why won't you go out with me
How can you ignore me when you know that I can't live without you
I have to go through your garbage just to learn more about you
Melanie, ooh
Oh sweet Me-he-he-helanie
Why won't you go out with me
You weren't impressed when I tattooed your name across my forehead
You wouldn't listen when I promised to be true
I couldn't stand it so I jumped out from the sixteenth story window
Right above you
Now I may be dead but I still love you
Me-he-he-helanie
What can the problem be
Sweet Me-he-he-he-helanie
Why won't you go out with me
Me-he-he-helanie
What can the problem be
Sweet Me-he-he-he-helanie
Why won't you go out with me
I'm singin' Me-he-he-helanie
What can the problem be
Sweet, sweet Me-he-he-he-helanie
Why won't you go out with me
I'm singin' Me-he-he-helanie
What can the problem be
Sweet Me-he-he-he-helanie
Why won't you go out with me
I'm singin' Me-he-he-helanie
What can the problem be
Sweet Me-he-he-he-helanie
Melanie is sweet
A vision on her feet, so young so fair
A bridge of iron standing tall
Between two parted spheres
She's a novelty of reality
Though she tried so hard, my sweet, darling Melanie
She's glad for what she's had
Her mom and several dads so she complained
This modern love affair
With life can really get you down
She's a novelty of reality
But she tried so hard, my sweet, darling Melanie
Ooh, but life goes on
Ooh, the same old song
Ooh, but love's seems such a mystery
So you worked so hard and my sweet, darling Melanie
Over the horizon
Birds of paradise sit in her eyes
You can feel forever
On her sweet and silken sighs
She's novelty of reality
So she tried so hard and my sweet, darling Melanie
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
She's novelty of reality
So she tried so hard and my sweet, darling Melanie
So she tried so hard and my sweet, darling Melanie
(So she tried so hard, my sweet, darling Melanie)
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
(La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la)
So she tried so hard and my sweet, darling Melanie
Watching
Driving through the night
I'm all alone
Empty
Endless road
A thousand miles to go
Midnight
Five million thoughts
Passing in a row
Will you
Still be waiting there?
God only knows
I can still see your face in my mind
With every turn I take
And the wind through my heart feels so cold
As it calls out your name
Melanie
Nothing but the touch of your hand can rescue me
Melanie
Reach inside this emptiness and you will set me free
Morning
Sun's in my eyes
I'm tied to your soul
One chance
One solitary life
How could I let you go?
Got a phonecall or was it a dream
A voice spoke to me
I could swear it was you that I heard
Crying desperately
I can still see your face in my mind
With every turn I take
And the wind through my heart feels so cold
Melanie is smilin' at the sky
If it were up to me
I'd give everythin' for that, oh
So many claims to know divine
Is it stupid to think
Am I jealous missin' that?
Would you be, would you define?
Bein' a crutch like this
Or grief like mine, ohh, ahh
Does it feel like
There's no bright side?
Do you want to
Place your fist in the wall?
I feel that warmth within me
Can't help but think it's all lies
So sadly strip down and thrust to the cold outside
Nothing can left to protect me
I wish I could believe this
Peace Will Come (According To Plan)
Melanie
There's a chance peace will come in your life please buy one
There's a chance peace will come in your life please buy one
For sometimes when I am feeling as big as the land
With the velvet hill in the small of my back
And my hands are playing the sand
And my feet are swimming in all of the waters
All of the rivers are givers to the ocean
According to plan, according to man
Well sometimes when I am feeling so grand
And I become the world
And the world becomes a man
And my song becomes a part of the river
I cry out to keep me just the way I am
According to plan
According to man, according to plan
According to man, according to plan
Oh there's a chance peace will come
In your life, please buy one
Oh there's a chance peace will come
In your life, please buy one
For sometimes when we have reached the end
With the velvet hill in the small of my backs
And our hands are clutching the sand
Will our blood become a part of the river
All of the rivers are givers to the ocean
According to plan, according to man
There's a chance peace will come in your life please buy one.
There's a chance peace will come in your life please buy one
For sometime when we have reached the end
With the velvet hill in the small of my backs
And our hands are clutching the sand.
There's a chance peace will come in your life please buy one
There's a chance peace will come in your life please buy one...
(copied exactly from the album liner notes)
chorus*
lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up at the
ones who stand and frown
lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up at the
ones who stand and frown*
we were so close, there was no room
we bled inside each others wounds
we all had caught the same disease
and we all sang the songs of peace
chorus
so raise the candles high cause if you
don't we could stay black against the night
oh raise them higher again and if you
do we could stay dry against the rain
chrous
we were so close there was no room
we bled inside each others wounds
we all had caught the same disease
and we all sang the songs of peace
some came to sing, some came to pray
some came to keep the dark away
so raise the candles high
cause if you don't we could stay
black against the sky
oh oh raise them higher again
and if you do we could stay dry against the rain
chorus
We'll grow old, we'll take care of each other
I'll be your sister, your mother, your lover
We'll be friends during changes of weather
Let's be together on our own
Let's be together alone
We're believers, we've been hurt by believing
Needing people, we know looking's not seeing
I see needs that might be answered by forever
Together on our own
Let's be together alone
We'll learn living, like the words of a good song
We'll learn timing, balance and rhythm
We'll make it music
I don't want to sing it on my own
Let's be together
Let's be together alone
Let's be together alone
Let's be together alone
We'll grow old, we'll take care of each other
I'll be sister, mother and lover
We'll be friends
I'm tired of singing it alone
Some say I got devil, some say I got angel
But I'm just a girl in trouble
I don't think I'm in danger, don't think I'm in danger
No, I know I'm not in danger
But some have tried to sell me
All kinds of things to save me
From hurting like a woman and crying like a baby
Something like a woman, crying like a baby
And all the things that I have seen
Qualify me for a part in your dream
Qualify me for this dream
And though I'd like to tell it, exactly how I feel it
Well, somehow the music just hides it and conceals it
Hides it and conceals it, oh, it hides
And all the things that I have in
Can be hidden in a part of my dream
Gonna hide it in my dream
Some say I've got devil and some say I got angel
But I'm just this girl in trouble
I don't think I'm in danger, don't think I'm not in danger
look what they done to my song ma
look what they done to my song
well it's the only thing
that i could do half right
and it's turning out all wrong ma
look what they done to my song
look what they done to my brain ma
look what they done to my brain
well they picked it like a chicken bone
and i think i'm half insane ma
look what they done to my song
wish i could find a good book to live in
wish i could find a good book
well if i could find a real good book
i'd never have to come out and look at
what they done to my song
la la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la la
look what they done to my song
but maybe it'll all be alright ma
maybe it'll all be okay
well if the people are buying tears
i'll be rich someday ma
look what they done to my song
ils ont change ma chanson, ma
ils ont change ma chanson
look what they done to my song ma
look what they done to my song ma
well they tied it up in a plastic bag
and turned it upside down ma
look what they done to my song
c'est la seule chose que je peux faire
et ce n'est pas bon, ma.
ils ont change ma chanson.
look what they done to my song ma
look what they done to my song
it's the only thing i could do alright
and they turned it upside down
oh ma
(Melanie Safka)
I'm tired of seeing the picture
You're painting of yourself
You with the borrowed colors
That you picked from someone else
Maybe you're a movie
Or some best selling book
I know your mirrored mornings
In rehearsal of your looks
Oh your cause is oh so beautiful
You're ready to begin
You're going to play the good guys
By singing the good guys hymn
Ah you're building the halls with the outer walls
But you haven't got a thing within
The innocence of children
Is the manner you suppose
And you can describe in full detail
What we already know
Ah your cause is all so pretty
And we're ready to begin
We're going to play the good guys
By singing the good guys hymn
Ah we're building the halls with the outer walls
But we haven't got a thing within
But if we keep on trying
Though our purpose isn't clear
We just may move the universe
We'll learn to really care
Eventually the whole facade
Becomes more than a whim
By starting to build on the outside
We're gonna fill up the walls within
By starting to build on the outside
We'll fill up the wallls within
Eventually the whole facade
Becomes more than a whim
And by starting to build on the outside
We're gonna fill up the walls
I've been celebrating
'way too long and I've been drinking
I'm shamed to tell
still feel thirsty
I want to drink the water from the well
still feel thirsty
I want to drink and ring the living bell
ring the bell
ring the living bell.
still feel thirsty
I want to give and ring the living bell.
I'm not a magic lady
I wanna sing to help the light
descend on the earth today
beacuse it's gonna get warm tonight
sing for light
sing for living light.
Still feel weak but
I want to give and shine the living light.
Still feel weak but
I want to give and shine the living light.
Been walking down the street all night
and I been feeling kind of cold.
Still feel naked
I want to be warm before I get old
and I'm cold
and I'm feeling cold.
Still feel hungry
I want to give and ring the living bell.
Been celebrating 'way too long
and I have eaten much too well.
Still feel hungry
I want to give and ring the living bell
ring the bell
Momma Momma, I fear you reared me wrong,
Momma Momma, I fear you reared me wrong
'cause I pick up my head, can't tell where I belong.
Momma Momma, something's hurting me bad,
Momma Momma, something's hurting me bad,
I have a yearning for something that I never had.
Oh, sometimes I feel my life has come and then it's gone,
Sometimes I feel my life has come and gone.
I live in this world but I'm only looking on.
I can't understand, it's too far over my head,
I can't understand, it's too far over my head.
I'm living the life but I'm really dying instead, yeah.
Momma Momma, I fear you reared me wrong,
Momma Momma, I fear you reared me wrong,
'cause I lift up my head and I can't tell where I belong.
Well you know that I'm not a gambler
But I'm being gambled on
They put in a nickel and I sing a little song
Da-da-da-da
They put in a nickel and I sing a little song
Well, I don't mind that they're lucky
But it seems that they always win
And gamblin' is illegal in the state of mind I'm in
And if I had a nickel for each time that
I've been put on
I would be their nickel man
And I'd sing a little song
They're only putting in a nickel and
They want a dollar song
They're only putting in a little to
Get rid of a lot that's
Wrong.
Well I don't know so many things
But I know what's been goin' on
We're only putting in a little
To get rid of a lot that's wrong
And if we had a nickel for each time that
We've been put on
We'd all be their nickel man
And we'd sing a nickel song
You know they're only putting in a nickel
And they win a dollar song
Oh, yeah, they're only putting in a little
To get rid of a lot that's wrong
Oh, they're only putting in a nickel
(Melanie Safka)
I was a lovin baby girl
Mommy, daddy had I none
Be my mommy, daddy
I will be your lovin one
Before the time I knew your face dear
I was doing very well
If I never knew your kisses
I'd never known that I'd been in hell
If I had some pennies
I could have a world of fun
Give me all your pennies
And I will be your lovin one
Once upon a christmas time
I lost christmas in my mind
I looked through all the windows 'round
To find a star I hadn't found
Then all at once
Before I knew
Christmas froze my soul into
A cryful night I had a dream
And saw a place I'd never seen
If I had some pennies
I could have a world of fun
Give me all your pennies
And I will be your lovin one
I was a lovin baby girl
Mommy, daddy had I none
Be my mommy, daddy
(Melanie Safka)
What do you do when the people go home
And what do you do when the show is all done
I know what I'll do in the alone of my time
But what will I do with the leftover wine
A line from a poem of my childhood has said
That visions of sugarplums were gonna dance in my head
I'll spend my whole life making the time rhyme
But I'll still have a bowl of leftover wine
I'll spend my whole life making the time rhyme
And then I'll sing them a song of mine
You know I'm gonna do anything
Just to take up time
Cause I can't find a taker for the leftover wine
(and) what do you do when the people go home
And what do you do when the show is all done
I know what I'll do in the alone of my time
But what will I do with the leftover wine
I'm gonna spend my whole life making the time rhyme
And then I'm gonna run to the people
And I'll sing them a song of mine
You know I'm gonna do anything
Just to take up time
Cause I can't find a taker for the leftover wine
I'll drink some of yours
If you'll drink all of mine
Because I can't stand the taste of that leftover wine
And I'm gonna drink some of yours
If you'll drink all of mine
Because I can't stand the taste of leftover wine
And I'll drink some of yours
If you'll drink all of mine
(copied exactly from the album liner notes)
chorus*
lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up at the
ones who stand and frown
lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up at the
ones who stand and frown*
we were so close, there was no room
we bled inside each others wounds
we all had caught the same disease
and we all sang the songs of peace
chorus
so raise the candles high cause if you
don't we could stay black against the night
oh raise them higher again and if you
do we could stay dry against the rain
chrous
we were so close there was no room
we bled inside each others wounds
we all had caught the same disease
and we all sang the songs of peace
some came to sing, some came to pray
some came to keep the dark away
so raise the candles high
cause if you don't we could stay
black against the sky
oh oh raise them higher again
and if you do we could stay dry against the rain
In the hour when the sun shines shines bright
On my head in the city where I am alone,
I never think of that once told story
When two flowers almost were one.
But what to do?
I still think in the morning of you.
When darkness hovers and city lights take over
I am blinded to the words "I am alone".
It's useless to cry for a star in the sky,
For the city lights tell me there's none.
But what to do?
I still cry in the morning for you.
When my head touches my pillow I am too weary
To dare dream that I am alone.
Now I lay myself down to sleep,
I pray the Lord his soul to keep is my song.
But what to do?
I still dream in the morning for you.
What to do?
I'm back in town.
You don't look so happy 'cause I'm back in town
You don't look like smiling, don't jump up and down on my toes.
I guess I better go, oh.
I'm very sure.
I should have knocked when I opened the door.
Pardon me, miss, but he's just a friend from before
Who never locked his door.
I opened without knocking like before.
You wrote me that all was the same
So I came,
But I can't find the love in your eyes.
I guess that you're surprised just like me.
I never thought you'd find another she
You liked as well as me,
But I guess I was wrong
So I'll be going home, oh.
I'm back in town.
Didn't they tell you that I'm back in town?
You don't look so happy, don't jump up and down on my toes.
You loved me once, you know.
I guess that you don't love me anymore, hm.
I'm back in town.
Didn't they tell you that I'm back in town?
You don't look so happy, don't jump up and down on my toes.
They told me when I was little
I'd go to heaven, if I was good.
Now I'm a long way from little
'Cause I tried to find heaven, 'cause I thought that I could
I thought that I could.
And I thought I loved Harold and I really loved John,
I really loved Alphy and I almost loved Tom.
I loved them so easy and I loved them so free,
So I don't think that heaven will wanna love me.
Hallo, song of the willow,
The dreams under my pillow turned to tears that I cried.
Beauty and love are our riddle,
Never to answer but always to try,
And boy, did I try?
I tried with Harold and I tried with John,
I tried with Alphy and almost with Tom.
I left myself open for the whole world to see,
Now the world is the heaven that won't accept me.
I said goodbye to Harold and goodbye to John,
Goodbye to Alphy and goodbye to Tom
'Cause I loved them so easy and I loved them so free,
So I don't think that heaven will wanna love me.
Oh say, can you see, by the dawn's early light
Are you foolin'
foolin' yourself? - Are you foolin'
foolin' yourself?
Are you foolin'
foolin' yourself! - Are you foolin'
foolin' yourself?
To think I was a fool and I've been beaten -
A thought like that just kind of cramps my style.
But I'll get you some day for all your cheating
And from my face you're gonna see a smile.
You should have never told me
that you love me
You knew I'd start believing it some day.
And now you say
you're leaving me for lonely -
Someone else is gonna come my way.
you better take some time and think of what you're doing
Before you through away this harmony.
I don't think you know just who's been loosin'
'cause you've been foolin' yourself when you think you're foolin' me.
Now I'm the kind of girl who don't mind cryin'
But I ain't gonna shed a tear for you.
Unless you change your ways and stop your lying
I'm gonna change my mind about lovin' you.
You should have never told me
that you love me
. . .
You better take some time and think of what you're doin'
Before you through away this harmony.
'cause you don't realize just who's been loosing
Are you think you're foolin' me ?
Foolin'
foolin' yourself -
Are you foolin'
foolin' yourself ?
Are you foolin'
foolin' yourself ?
While walking through life I would never fall
If I could be close to it all and all,
If I could be close to it all.
If I had my dream it would not fall down
If I could live high on the ground,
The sound of high is a good one to many around
When they wanna be close to it all,
And I wanna be close to it all and all,
I wanna be close to it all.
The village sugar takers,
Madison Avenue pink dream makers,
They try to escape from it all,
But instead they build walls, that's all
But they wanna be close to it all.
If I had my dream I would fill a hall
And tell all the people tear down the wall
That keeps them from being a part of it all
'Cause they gotta get close to it all.
The village sugar takers,
Madison Avenue pink dream makers,
They try to escape from it all,
But instead they build walls, that's all
But they wanna be close to it all.
There's just one more thing that I wanna say:
Everyone has got their own special way
That keeps them from getting too close to the day,
Accept and be part of it all and all;
Everyone tear down your own little wall
That keeps you from being a part of it all
'Cause you gotta be one with the one and all,
And everyone tear down your own little wall
That keeps you from being a part of it all
'Cause you gotta be one with the one and all,
by James Taylor
In my mind I'm goin' to Carolina
Can't you see the sunshine
Can't you just feel the moonshine
Maybe just like a friend of mine
It hit me from behind
Yes I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind
Karen she's a silver sun
You best walk her way and watch it shinin'
Watch her watch the mornin' come
A silver tear appearing now I'm cryin'
Ain't I goin' to Carolina in my mind
There ain't no doubt it no ones mind
That loves the finest thing around
Whisper something warm and kind
And hey babe the sky's on fire, I'm Dyin'
Ain't I goin' to Carolina in my mind
In my mind I'm goin' to Carolina
Can't you see the sunshine
Can't you just feel the moonshine
Maybe just like a friend of mine
It hit me from behind
Yes I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind
Dark and silent last last night
I think I might have heard the highway calling
Geese in flight and dogs that bite
Signs that might be omens say I going, going
I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind
With a holy host of others standing 'round me
Still I'm on the dark side of the moon
And it seems like it goes on like this forever
You must forgive me
If I'm up and gone to Carolina in my mind
In my mind I'm goin' to Carolina
Can't you see the sunshine
Can't you just feel the moonshine
Maybe just like a friend of mine
It hit me from behind
Lay down, lay down, lay it all down
Let your white birds smile up
At the ones who stand and frown
Lay down, lay down, lay it all down
Let your white birds smile up
At the ones who stand and frown.
We were so close, there was no room
We bled inside each other's wounds
We all had caught the same disease
And we all sang the songs of peace.
Lay down, lay down, lay it all down
Let your white birds smile up
At the ones who stand and frown
Lay down, lay down, lay it all down
Let your white birds smile up
At the ones who stand and frown.
So raise the candles high
'Cause if you don't we could stay black against the night
Oh raise them higher again
And if you do we could stay dry against the rain.
Lay down, lay down, lay it all down
Let your white birds smile up
At the ones who stand and frown
Lay down, lay down, lay it all down
Let your white birds smile up
At the ones who stand and frown.
We were so close, there was no room
We bled inside each other's wounds
We all had caught the same disease
And we all sang the songs of peace
Some came to sing, some came to pray
Some came to keep, the dark away
So raise the candles high
'Cause if you don't we could stay black against the sky, oh
Oh, raise them higher again
And if you do we could stay dry against the rain.
Lay down, lay down, lay it all down
Let your white birds smile up
At the ones who stand and frown, you gotta
Lay down, lay down, lay it all down
Let your white birds smile up
At the ones who stand and frown, you gotta
Lay down, lay down, lay it all down
Let your white birds smile up
At the ones who stand and frown
Oh Lay down, lay down, lay it all down,
Let your white birds smile up
At the ones who stand and frown
Lay down, lay down, lay it all down
Let your white birds smile up
At the ones who stand and frown.
I rode my bicycle past your window last night
I roller-skated to your door at daylight
It almost seems like you're avoiding me
I'm okay alone but you got something I need
Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together
And try them out you see
I been looking around awhile
You got something for me
Oh, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I ride my bike, I roller skate don't drive no care
Don't go too fast but I go pretty far
For somebody who don't drive
I been all around the world
Some people say, I done all right for a girl
Oh, yea, yea, oh, yea, yea, yea
Oh, yea, yea, yea, yea, yea, yea
I asked your mother if you were at home
She said yes but you weren't alone
Oh, sometimes I think that you're avoiding me
I'm okay alone but you got something I need
Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out to see
La la la la la la la la, la la la la la la
Oh, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
Oh, eat your animal crackers
'Cause my mother told me so long ago,
"If you eat your animal crackers,
The children in Europe won't starve anymore".
Ha ha hahaha hahaha.
Oh, once I went on a diet,
A carbohydrate diet ain't nice
'Cause you can't eat animal crackers.
So, I'm gonna stay a fatty for all of my life,
Ha ha hahaha hahahaha.
But some people think that fatties are nice, yeah.
I love eating icecream,
Chocolate, vanilla and butter pecan,
But I best love animal crackers
'Cause I love helping my fellow man.
Yeah, I really do.
Did you ever hear of Alice's restaurant?
I eat at Alice's restaurant year after year.
She makes an animal cracker pizza, ha
And she gives animal crackers out free with the beer.
Oh, let's give Alice a great big cheer.
She knows the age of the animal cracker is here.
Ah, animal crackers are in this year!
Ha ha hahaha.
(A A Milne/Melanie Safka)
I had a little beetle
So that beetle was his name
And I called him Alexander
And he answered just the same
And I put him in a matchbox
And I kept him all the day
But nanny let my beetle out
Yes nanny let my beetle out
She went and let my beetle out
And beetle ran away
She said she didn't mean it
And I never said she did
She said she wanted matches
And she just took off the lid
She said I mustn't worry
And I really mustn't mind
That there's lots and lots of beetles
The she's certain we could find
She said I mustn't worry
But it's difficult to catch
An excited sort of beetle
You've mistaken for a match
If we looked in all the places
That a beetle might be near
And we made the kind of noises
That a beetle likes to hear
And I heard a kind of something
And I gave a sort of shout
It was a beetle house
And Alexander beetle coming out
It was Alexander beetle
I'm as certain as can be
And he had that kind of look as though
He thought it might be me
And he had that kind of look as though
He thought he ought to say
"I'm really very sorry that I tried to run away"
And nanny's very sorry too
Cause you know what she did
And she's writing Alexander
Very blackly on the lid
So nan and me are friends because
It's difficult to catch
An excited Alexander
I wish you a merry Christmas, I wish you a merry Christmas
I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New-Year.
I want some figgy pudding, I want some figgy pudding
I want some figgy pudding and a cup of good cheer.
I won't go until I get some, I won't go until I get some,
I won't go until I get some, so bring it right here.
Once in a year it's not thought amiss
To visit our neighbours and sing out like this:
Our friendship and love, good neighbours, abound
And peace and good will the whole year around.
Pace, salude, friedmere, shalome,
The words mean the same whatever your home.
Why can't we have Christmas the whole year around?
Little boy kneels at the foot of the bed,
Droops on his little hands, little gold head.
Sssttt, whisper. Who dares?
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers:
"God bless Mommy, I know that's right,
And wasn't it fun in the bath tonight,
The cold's so cold and the hot's so hot.
God bless Daddy, I quite forgot.
If I open my eyes just a little bit more
I can see Nanny's dressing-gown on the door;
It's a beautiful blue but it hasn't got a hood,
God bless Nanny and make her good.
Mine has a hood and I lie in bed
And I pull the hood right over my head,
And I shut my eyes and I curl up small
And nobody knows that I'm there at all.
Thank you God, for a lovely day,
And what was the other I wanted to say?
I said, `Bless Daddy', so what could it be?
Now I remember: God bless me".
Little boy kneels at the foot of the bed,
Droops on his little hands, little gold head.
Sssttt, whisper. Who dares?
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers:
Once I bought a curious bottle,
Once I bought a bottle for fun.
Tell me what you gonna do with the bottle
When the curiousity's done.
Well I brought it out to the Bo Bo's party
Then I got it in to the company,
Then I brought it up to the boys in the backroom,
They got the knack to tune in on me,
Then I brought it up to the boys in the backyard.
I find it hard to hold on me,
I find it hard to hold, I find it hard to hold,
I find it hard to hold on me, I find it hard to hold on me,
I find it hard to hold, hard to hold, hard to hold.
You know, I've been bad, but
I would be good instead.
Ah, if my man did half of the things that he said,
I wouldn't have to go to the Bo Bo's party
I wouldn't have to go to the company,
I wouldn't have to go to the boys in the backroom,
With their knack to tune in on me,
I wouldn't have to go to the boys in the backyard.
I find it hard to hold on me,
I find it hard to hold, I find it hard to hold,
I find it hard to hold on me, I find it hard to hold on me,
I find it hard to hold, hard to hold, hard to hold.
You know, I've been bad, but
I would be good instead.
Ah, if my man did half of the things that he said,
I wouldn't have to go to the Bo Bo's party
I wouldn't have to go to the company,
I wouldn't have to go to the boys in the backroom,
With their knack to tune in on me,
I wouldn't have to go to the boys in the backyard.
I find it hard to hold on me,
I find it hard to hold on me,
I find it hard to hold.
She would never say where she came from
Yesterday don't matter cause it's gone
While the sun is bright
Or in the darkest night
No one knows
She comes and then she goes
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Who is gonna hang a name on you
And when you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you
Don't ask her why she leaves to be so free
She's gonna tell you it's the only way to be
She just can't be chained
To a life where nothing's gained
And nothing's lost
But such a cost
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Who is gonna hang a name on you
And when you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you
Oh there's no time to lose I heard her say
You gotta catch your dreams before they run away
Dying all the time
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind
Is life unkind
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Who is gonna hang a name on you
And when you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Who is gonna hang a name on you
And when you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Goodbye Ruby Tuesday
Sie war wie alle andren war'n
Voll Lebensdurst, doch unerfahr'n.
In ihren Augen brannte heiss die Glut, die Glut, die Glut.
Wo was los war, war auch sie.
Man nannte sie nur Melanie.
Sie ging die Wege zwischen schlecht
Und gut und gut und gut und gut und gut.
Zu Hause war sie fortgerannt,
Weil man nicht gleiche Worte fand.
Und Liebe spuerte sie nie - Melanie ! Melanie !
Ihr Vater hatte niemals Zeit und
Wenn er da war, gab es Streit.
So ein Leben wollte sie nie mehr,
nie mehr, nie mehr, nie mehr.
Zu Hause war sie fortgerannt,
Weil man nicht gleiche Worte fand.
Und Liebe spuerte sie nie - Melanie ! Melanie !
Mal blieb sie von der Arbeit weg und
Suchte Halt in manchem Bett.
Doch was sie fand erlosch bei Tageslicht.
Ein Kind - sie wusste nicht von wem.
Sie wollte es trotz alledem.
Die Traenen, die sie weinte, sah man nicht.
Traenen sah man bei ihr nie.
Man misst das Leben nicht nach Jahren.
Doch sie, als ich sie wiedersah.
Das Kind an ihrer Seite lachte und
Can't you win
when I think
about know has won
into spin around to disappear
I'll be here
just for one
I'll get it across to you
and you, you wrote the book
and have to look
down people like they were fuss
now you, end up the hook
for what you do
it's for what should I be?
To talk in twice
pay you price
sacrifice just to what you suposse to do
take my advice,
play it right
best two dice,
just to sold like a nice cold view
and you, you're in the clouds,
well send it right
do you know where you going to?
but you, you still insist,
but you're miss,
never wanted to wait for you
More that a million times,
you're saying million lies
I can not memories,
Melanie
Why don't you take a slice
of someone elses life
and try an effort size,
Melanie
Nothing more to see
there's no other way
that I see as my love for you
what would never be true
but no give away
what you're feeling
down deep inside...
Melanie!
More that a million times,
you're saying million lies
I can not memories,
Melanie
Why don't you take a slice
of someone elses life
and try an effort size,
- In the Hour
- I'm Back in Town
- Bobo's Party
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Momma Momma
- I Really Loved Harold
- Animal Crackers
- Christopher Robin (Is Saying His Prayers)
- Close to It All
- Merry Christmas
- I'm Back in Town
- Tuning My Guitar
- Soul Sister Annie
- Any Guy
- Uptown and Down
- Again
- Beautiful People
- Johnny Boy
- Baby Guitar
- Deep Down Low
- For My Father
- Take Me Home
- Ain't No Sunshine
- Dust in the Wind
- Peace Train
- Free the People
- I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
- As Tears Go By
- For What It's Worth
- We've Got Tonight
- You Keep Me Hangin' On
- Broken Wings
- When I Need You
- Get Together
- People Got to Be Free
- To Love Somebody
- Those Were the Days
- I'll Never Find Another You
- Come Softly to Me
- Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
- I Will Survive
- Broken Wings
- As Tears Go By
- When I Need You
- Dust in the Wind
- Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
- Ain't No Sunshine
- I Will Survive
- To Love Somebody
- You Keep Me Hangin' On
- Free the People
- We've Got Tonight
- I'll Never Find Another You
- Come Softly to Me
- Those Were the Days
- Be The Sky
- If My Heart Should Lose It's Way
- On The Lam From The Law
- A Song For Robert Johnson
- Rock And Roll Heart
- Pretty Boy, Dear One
- Cerulean Blue
- You Call Yourself A Writer
- I'm Not In Love Anymore
- I'm Saving Everything You Do
- Freedom Knows My Name
- As Long As We Stand
- Elements
- To Be the One
- And We Fall
- Jammin' Alone
- The Ballad of Crazy Love
- Smile
- Nothing Is Real
- Make It Work for Me
- Extraordinary
- I Tried to Die Young
- You Call Yourself a Writer
- Lover of My Friend
- They Can Find You in Your Dreams
- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- Deserts of Blue
- Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
- Ruby Tuesday
- The Nickel Song
- What They Have Done to My Song Ma?
- Beautiful People
- Mr. Tamborine Man
- Any Guy
- Baby Day
- I Don't Eat Animals
- Lay Lady Lay
- Pebbles in the Sand
- Save the Night
- Gardens in the City
- Good Book
- Carolina in My Mind
- Leftover Wine
- Brand New Key
- Peace Will Come (According to My Plan)
- And We Fall
- You Call Yourself a Writer
- Jammin' Alone
- The Punishment Fits the Crime
- Center of Your Circle
- Smile
- Till They All Get Home
- Right About Now
- When Love Is Deep
- Leftover Emotions
- You Can Find Anything Here
- Brand New Key
- Working Legend
- Never Had a Clue
- You Don't Know Me
- Brand New Key
- Nickel Song
- Psychotherapy
- Babe Rainbow
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Ruby Tuesday
- Tuning My Guitar
- Carolina in My Mind
- Chords of Fame
- I'm Back in Town
- Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
- Beautiful People
- You Could Have Had Me for a Nickel
- Any Time at All
- Every Breath You Take
- Life Will Not Go Away
- Racing Heart
- The Sun and the Moon
- The Natural Man
- Perceive It
- Long, Long Time (rehearsal & Song)
- Freedom Knows My Name
- Live Coal
- Ring Around the Moon
- How Can I Help You Say Goodbye
- Long Train Runnin'
- Someday I'll Be an Old Record
- Look What They Done to My Song
- Missing You
- Cyclone
- Close to It All
- Bitterblue
- Friends and Company
- Ballerina
- Brand New Key
- Peace Will Come
- Arrow
- Ruby Tuesday
- The Nickel Song
- Ring the Living Bell
- One Mistake
- Brand New Key
- Long Long Time
- Purple Haze
- Candles in the Rain
- Ruby Tuesday
- Peace Will Come
- Look What They've Done to My Song
- Beautiful People
- Rainbow Race
- Babe Rainbow
- Autumn Lady
- Chords of Fame
- Almost Like Being in Love
- Stoneground Words
- Here I Am
- Any Guy
- Do You Believe
- Leftover Wine
- The Nicket Song
- Beautiful People
- Visit My Dreams
- Uptown and Down
- Baby Guitar
- Tuning My Guitar
- Ruby Tuesday
- Rock 'n' Roll Heart
- Racing Heart
- Apathy
- Ruby Tuesday
- Look What They've Done to My Song
- Brand New Key
- Beautiful People
- Freedom Knows My Name
- Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
- Ballerina
- Peace Will Come (According to Plan)
- Sun and Moon
- Purple Haze
- Long Long Time
- Close to It All
- Arrow
- Ring Around the Moon
- Babe Rainbow
- Life Will Not Go Away
- Unchained Melody
- Too Late to Go
- Bitterblue
- Rainbow Race
- You Don't Know Me
- Every Breath You Take
- Prematurely Grey
- If My Heart Should Lose It's Way
- I Never Had a Clue
- Natural Man
- Record Machine
- Long Long Time
- Missing You
- If I Needed You
- Somebody Loves Me
- Beautiful People
- In the Hour
- I Really Love Harold
- Johnny Boy
- Any Guy
- I'm Back in Town
- What Have They Done to My Song Ma
- Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
- Peace Will Come
- Good Book
- Nickle Song
- Babe Rainbow
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Carolina in My Mind
- Ruby Tuesday
- Lay Lady Lay
- Christopher Robin
- Animal Crackers
- I Don't Eat Animals
- Leftover Wine
- Ships in the Harbor
- Virgin Mary / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- It's Christmas
- Good King Wenceslaus
- I Saw Three Ships
- Tin Star
- Silent Night
- True Believers
- Come All Ye Faithful
- Hallelujah
- Christmas Lullaby
- Tonight's the Kind of Night
- Marvelous Toy
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- What Child Is This
- The First Noel
- O Holy Night
- Coventry Carol
- True Believers
- Good King Wenceslaus
- Rock in the Road
- No Time to Smell the Flowers
- Something Warm
- Old Bitch Warrior
- These Nights
- You Don't Know Me
- I Don't Know What Love Is
- Beautiful People
- Any Time at All
- Freedom Knows My Name
- Summer of Love
- Ballerina
- I Will Survive
- Candles in the Rain
- Ruby Tuesday
- Look What They Done to My Song
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Nickel Song
- Brand New Key
- Ruby Tuesday
- What Have They Done to My Song Ma
- Lay Lady Lay
- Tuning My Guitar
- Leftover Wine
- Good Book
- Animal Crackers
- Christopher Robin
- Beautiful People
- Somebody Loves Me
- Peace Will Come (According to Plan)
- Arrow
- Percieve It
- Purple Haze
- Brand New Key
- Too Late to Go
- Long Long Time
- Life Will Not Go Away
- Beautiful People
- Count the Days You're Gone
- Rainbow Race
- Babe Rainbow
- Cyclone
- The Good Book
- Babe Rainbow
- Sign on the Window
- The Saddest Thing
- Nickel Song
- Isn't It a Pity
- My Father
- Chords of Fame
- You Can Go Fishing
- Birthday of the Sun
- The Prize
- Babe Rainbow (reprise)
- Ruby Tuesday
- Nickel Song
- In the Hour
- What Have They Done to My Song Ma
- Brand New Key
- Lay Lady Lay
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
- Close to It All
- Uptown and Down
- Mama Mama
- Saddest Thing
- Beautiful People
- Animal Crackers
- I Don't Eat Animals
- Tuning My Guitar
- Psycho Therapy
- Leftover Wine
- Estate Sale
- Silence Is King
- I Will Get Over
- In My Rock and Roll Heart
- Hard Rain
- Gone With the Wind
- Fallen Angle
- Wear It Like a Flag
- Detroit or Buffalo
- Arrow
- Freedom Knows My Name
- Purple Haze
- Live Coal
- Life Will Not Go Away
- Tonight's the Kind of Night
- Little Bit of Me
- Some Day I'll Be a Farmer
- Steppin'
- Brand New Key
- Ring Around the Moon
- Ring the Living Bell / Shine the Living Light (Chant & reprise)
- Railroad
- Kansas
- Some Say (I Got Devil)
- Center of the Circle
- What Wonderous Love
- Baby Day
- Tell Me Why
- Somebody Loves Me
- Beautiful People
- I'm Back in Town
- What Have They Done to My Song Ma
- Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
- Peace Will Come (According to Plan)
- Good Book
- Nickel Song
- Babe Rainbow (reprise)
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Carolina in My Mind
- Ruby Tuesday
- Lay Lady Lay
- Christopher Robin
- Animal Crackers
- Leftover Wine
- Ruby Tuesday
- Brand New Key
- Animal Crackers
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Baby Day
- Beautiful People
- Save the Night
- Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
- Close to It All
- What Have They Done to My Song, Ma
- Lay Lady Lay
- Some Day I'll Be a Farmer
- Good Book
- Peace Will Come
- Gardens in the City
- Nickel Song
- Pebbles in the Sand
- Tell Me Why
- Nickel Song
- Lady Down
- Beautiful People
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Ruby Tuesday
- Stop! I Don't Wanna Hear It
- Brand New Key
- Please Love Me
- What Have They Done to My Song, Ma
- Ring the Living Bell
- Garden in the City
- I'm Back in Town
- Carolina in My Mind
- Soul Sister Annie
- Deep Down Low
- Peace Will Come
- Lay Down
- Nickel Song
- Ruby Tuesday
- What Have They Done to My Song, Ma?
- Bobo's Party
- Uptown Down
- I'm Back in Town
- Animal Crackers
- Brand New Key
- Peace Will Come (According to Plan)
- Beautiful People
- Stop! I Don't Want to Hear It
- Carolina in My Mind
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Good Book
- Ring the Living Bell
- Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed
- Maybe I'm Lonely
- Private Parts
- Cut the Cord
- Am I Real to You
- Crack Seeks the Edge
- Abuse
- Every Breath of the Way
- Some Body Love
- Detroit or Buffalo
- It Dont Matter Now
- Any Way That You Want Me
- Roadburn
- Fooling Yourself
- Too Late
- Standing on the Other Side
- Love You to Loath Me
- When You're Dead and Gone
- Immaginary Heroes
- Chances
- Running After Love
- Cyclone (Candles in the Rain)
- Beautiful Sadness
- Do You Believe
- Nickel Song
- Look What They've Done to My Song
- I Believe (Secret of Darkness)
- Poet
- Save Me
- Together Alone
- Ruby Tuesday
- Buckle Down
- Miranda
- Brand New Key
- Cyclone
- Groundhog Day
- Secret of the Darkness (I Believe)
- Runnin' After Love
- Yankee Man
- Golden Chains
- Leftover Emotions
- Worship the Dead
- Save Me
- Photograph
- Knock on Wood
- Bon Apetite
- Spunky
- Running After Love
- We Can Work It Out
- I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love
- Let It Be Me
- Yankee Man
- Record People
- California Dreamin'
- Ruby Tuesday
- Animal Crackers
- Leftover Wine
- Stop! I Don't Wanna Hear It Anymore
- Beautiful People
- Peace Will Come
- I Really Loved Harold
- The Good Guys
- Uptown Down
- Close to It All
- Love to Losse Again
- Lover's Cross
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Wild Horses
- I Think It's Going to Rain Today
- Maybe Not for a Lifetime
- Holding Out
- I'm Being Guided
- The Actress
- Pine and Feather
- Yankee Man
- You're Not a Bad Ghost, Just an Old Song
- Record Machine
- Eyes of Man
- Stars Up There
- Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
- Sweet Misery
- Monongahela River
- Yes Sir, That's My Baby
- Autumn Lady
- Chart Song
- As I See It Now
- Introduction
- Baby Guitar
- Lay Your Hands Across the Six Strings
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Someday I'll Be a Farmer
- Babe Rainbow
- It's Me Again
- Any Guy
- Brand New Key
- Some Say (I Got Devil)
- Bitter Bad
- Psychotherapy
- Together Alone
- Between the Road Signs
- Summer Weaving
- My Rainbow Race
- Do You Believe
- I Am Not a Poet (Night Song)
- Stoneground Words
- Song of the South
- Maybe I Was (A Golf Ball)
- Here I Am
- Garden in the City
- Love in My Mind
- We Don't Know Where We're Going
- Lay Lady Lay
- Jigsaw Puzzle
- Don't You Wait by the Water
- Stop, I Don't Want to Hear It Any More
- Somebody Loves Me
- People in the Front Row
- Close to It All
- Uptown and Down
- Momma Momma
- The Saddest Thing
- Beautiful People
- Animal Crackers
- I Don't Eat Animals
- Happy Birthday
- Turning My Guitar
- Psychotherapy
- Leftover Wine
- Peace Will Come
- I'm Back in Town
- Tuning My Guitar
- Soul Sister Annie
- Any Guy
- Uptown Down
- Again
- Beautiful People
- Johnny Boy
- Baby Guitar
- Deep Down Low
- For My Father
- Take Me Home
- In the Hour
- I'm Back in Town
- Bo Bo's Party
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Momma Momma
- I Really Loved Harold
- Animal Crackers
- Christopher Robin (Is Saying His Prayers)
- Close to It All
- Merry Xmas
- Racing Heart
- What Have They Done to the Rain
- Show You
- Ruby Tuesday
- To Be a Star
- On the Lam From the Law
- Another Lie
- Prematurely Grey
- Window Pain
- Chosen Few
- Lovin' the Boy Next Door
- What Have They Done to My Song Ma
- Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
- Brand New Key
- Ruby Tuesday
- Peace Will Come (According to Plan)
- Beautiful People
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Ring the Living Bell
- Nickel Song
- Animal Crackers
- Leftover Wine
- Carolina in My Mind
- Somebody Loves Me
- Any Guy
- Johnny Boy
- I'm Back in Town
- Lay Lady Lay
- Some Day I'll Be a Farmer
- Together Alone
- Will You Love Me Tomorrow
- Cyclone
- If I Needed You
- The Letter
- Groundhog Day
- Nickel Song.. Music! Music! Music!
- Photograph
- I'm So Blue
- Secret of the Darkness (I Believe)
- Save Me
- Raindance
- Friends & Co
- Love to Live Again
- Miranda
- Ruby Tuesday (New version)
- Unfinished Business (West version)
- Poem
- Lay Down
- Nickel Song
- Carolina in My Mind
- The Good Guys
- I Really Loved Harold
- Leftover Wine
- What Have They Done to My Song
- Good Book
- I Don't Eat Animals
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- I'm Back in Town
- Candles in the Rain
- Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
- Carolina in My Mind
- Citiest People
- What Have They Done to My Song, Ma
- Please Love Me
- In the Hour
- Ears to the Ground
- Alexander Beetle
- The Good Guys
- Lovin Baby Girl
- Ruby Tuesday
- Leftover Wine
- Getting Out
- Beautiful People
- Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
- Ruby Tuesday
- Brand New Key
- Ring the Living Bell
- Look What They've Done to My Song Ma
- Peace Will Come (According to Plan)
- The Nickel Song
- Bitter Bad
- Stop! Don't Want to Hear It Anymore
- Any Guy
- People in the Front Row
- Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
- Some Day I'll Be a Farmer
- Baby Day
- Baby Guitar
- Close to It All
- Together Alone
- Tuning My Guitar
- Babe Rainbow
- Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)
- Brand New Key
- What Have They Done to My Song, Ma
- Leftover Wine
- Beautiful People
- Ruby Tuesday
- Carolina in My Mind
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- I'm Back in Town
- I Really Loved Harold
- What Have They Done to My Song Ma
- Good Book
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Momma Momma
- Nickel Song
- Left Over Wine
- Somebody Loves Me
- I Don't Eat Animals
- I'm Back in Town
- We Don't Know Where We're Going
- Carolina in My Mind
- I Really Love Harold
- The Good Guys
- The Saddest Thing
- Ruby Tuesday
- Brand New Key
- The Nickel Song
- What Have They Done to My Song Ma?
- Beautiful People
- Any Guy
- Close to It All
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Lay Lady Lay
- Pebbles in the Sand
- Save the Night
- Gardens in the City
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- Good Book
- Carolina in My Mind
- Somebody Loves Me
- Leftover Wine
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- Peace Will Come (According to My Plan)
| Melanie | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /ˈmɛləni/MEL-ə-nee, German: [ˈmɛlaniː] |
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Word/Name | Greek |
| Meaning | Black, dark |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Mel, Mélanie, Melani, Milani |
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Melanie is a feminine given name derived from the Greek μελανία (melania), "blackness"[1] and that from μέλας (melas), meaning "dark".[2] Borne in its Latin form by two saints: Melania the Elder and her grand-daughter Melania the Younger,[3] the name was introduced to England by the Normans in its French form Melanie. However the name only became common in English usage in the 1930s due to the popularity of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind and its 1939 filmation, as one of the novel's main characters was named Melanie Hamilton. The name's popularity increased until the 1970s since remaining constant. Melanie was the 80th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2007 and - as Mélanie - was the 86th most popular name for girls born in France in 2004.[4] In Australia Melanie is typically pronounced with the second syllable stressed.
Notable namesakes include:
- Melanie Blatt (born 1975), British singer and member of All Saints
- Melanie Brown (born 1975), British singer and member of the Spice Girls
- Melanie Chisholm (born 1974), British singer and member of the Spice Girls
- Melanie Clewlow (born 1976), English field hockey defender
- Melanie Doane (born 1967), Canadian singer
- Melanie Fiona (born 1983), Canadian singer
- Melanie Griffith (born 1957), American actress
- Melanie Hahnemann (1800-1878), homeopath
- Melanie Jans (born 1973), Canadian squash player
- Melanie Johnson (born 1955), British politician
- Melanie Klaffner (born 1990), Austrian tennis player
- Melanie Klein (1882-1960), Austrian-born British psychoanalist
- Melanie Lambert (born 1974), American professional adagio and pair skater.
- Melanie Lofton (born 1980), American journalist
- Melanie Lynskey (born 1977), New Zealand actress
- Melanie Martinez (born 1972), American television and stage actress
- Melanie Mayron (born 1952), American actress
- Melanie Merkosky (born 1986), Canadian actress
- Melanie Oudin (born 1991), American tennis player
- Melanie Phillips (born 1951), British journalist
- Melanie Safka (born 1947), American songwriter usually known simply as Melanie
- Melanie South (born 1986), British tennis player
- Melanie Thornton (1967–2001), American pop singer
Notable fictional namesakes include:
- Melanie Marcus, from Queer as Folk
- Melanie Hamilton, from Gone with the Wind
- Melanie Stryder, a character in the novel The Host
- Melanie Isaacs, from Disgrace
- Melanie Barnett, played by actress Tia Mowry on the CW/BET comedy-drama series, The Game
- Melanie Layton Kiriakis, a minor character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives
See also:
References[link]
- ^ Melania, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon at Perseus project
- ^ Melas, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon at Perseus project
- ^ Behind the Name
- ^ Behind the Name, ibid.
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