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Digitally remastered by Robert Fripp.
Includes liner notes by David Okamoto.
Beautiful People: The Greatest Hits of Melanie gets the nod over the 1990 Rhino compilation The Best of Melanie as the best compilation of the singer's work. Containing 19 tracks where the earlier album contained 18, it could hardly be longer and fit on one CD. The songs have been mastered from their original master tapes for the first time by Robert Fripp (!) and David Singleton, so the sound quality is the best yet. The set contains the original LP version of Melanie's Top Ten hit "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)," running just over seven minutes, as opposed to the nearly four-minute single edit. Also featured are two recent songs, "Summer of Love II" and "I Will Get Over." That's all on the credit side. On the debit side, it is not in chronological order and the selection leaves off several of Melanie's singles chart entries, notably "Bitter Bad," which made the Top 40 (and is included in the Rhino compilation). Nevertheless, this must be counted as the best Melanie compilation yet, featuring her number-one hit "Brand New Key," as well as standards like "Beautiful People" and "What Have They Done to My Song, Ma?." ~ William Ruhlmann
Compilation producers: Peter Schekeryk, Mike Ragogna.
Spin (12/99, p.229) - 6 out of 10 - "...[Her] jejune ways surface in songs like the strange saloon classic 'What Have They Done To My Song, Ma?' and up-tempo coffeehouse-crowd-pleasers like 'Animal Crackers.' But one of the many odd things about Melanie was how grandly musical she could become..."d Beautiful People: The Greatest Hits Of Melanie Music Beautiful People: The Greatest Hits Of Melanie Songs Beautiful People: The Greatest Hits Of Melanie Music Review Average Rating: (3.7 out of 5 stars)   Welcome Back Melanie!
Melanie's work has always been scattered across a few different labels since her appearance at the original Woodstock festival which thrust her in the world spotlight. The best of the best are ALL here, finally, and they are wonderful. My personal favorite the (at the time) risky "Psychotherapy," brings back a few giggles and wonderful memories. Enjoy enjoy enjoy...and THIS is the single best, "best of" that you can purchase of this captivating folk hero.
Submitted by Richard (Northeast, Pennsylvania) 
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The song Candles in the Rain was billed as the original. However the original as on the Buddha label #5040 started with a poem which I have been trying to locate
Submitted by lares1 (Jacksonville, Fl. USA)
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Melanie created some wonderful music, I mostly remember her for the 'Candles in the rain' album which I would love to own on CD. The songs just flow and are timeless. It's like the song list on Abbey road by the beatles, each track follows it's predecessor and is out of place elsewhere. For this reason, I shun 'Greatest hits' albums, OK the songs themselves are great, but, for me, they need to be in the correct order.. This album sold millions, surley the record companies should re-release it..
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