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(Australia) DAILY MIRROR 4th
March 1976 |
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GO scene
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MELANIE'S A
WELCOME
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Melanie Safka, now touring Australia, need never worry about
people asking, "Who's that singing"? She's one of a kind, both in her writing and singing. On her latest album.
Sunset And Other Beginnings, she does two songs you've heard hundreds of
times before - Almost Like Being In Love and Ol' Man River (yeah, true!) And
she lifts them bodily out of Cliché Corner with treatments so different and
apt it makes you wonder why someone didn't see the possibilities long before
Melanie did. But that's only one side
of her talent. The other side, singing her own songs, is how we know her
best. And she has nine new
songs on this album, on her own Neighborhood label, released here through
Festival. |
ONE OF A KIND
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'GROOVIN' - with
Jack Kelly
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So far only one of them has begun to make an impact -- Even
Better Than I Know Myself - but a Paul Williams album without a couple of
solid long-term hits, would create a precedent. There doesn't seem much danger of that. Third in the line-up of writer-singers and arguably the most successful
of the three is Paul Anka. Times Of Your Life, on United Artists, brings together some of
his best recent hits - including Having My Baby, I Don't Like To Sleep Alone
and There's Nothing Stronger Than Our Love. |
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I like her What Do I Keep? Where's The Band? Dream Seller and
People Are Just Getting Ready Paul Williams, also a very individual songwriter singer, has a
new A & M album called Ordinary Fool. It's all new material mostly ballads, a couple of up-tempo
numbers, some from Williams's film work, others just songs. |
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