Melissa Manchester

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 1993

First Recording: 1967

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Melissa Manchester
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Don't Cry Out Loud (1978)
You Should Hear How She Talks About You (1982)

Melissa Manchester @ Wikipedia

Will Melissa Manchester be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
"Musical excellence is the essential qualification for induction."
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Melissa Manchester songs with lyrics by Bernie Taupin

1980 For the Working Girl
1982 Hey Ricky (You're a Low Down Heel)
1983 Johnny and Mary
1983 White Rose

Posted by Roy on Monday, 06/22/2015 @ 06:46am


Essential Melissa Manchester would HAVE to include Midnight Blue...her first big radio hit is still the all around fan favorite. Just Too Many People is mine, but there are so many. Melissa Manchester should be in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for excellence in music over a 50 year career. She should also be up on The Kennedy Center Honors stage for a career that has encompassed excellence, not only in the rock/pop genre but in so much more. Her goal was to be timeless, and this musician is still creating and performing today with a voice that has gotten a little deeper and richer and reflecting life. Respected and loved by her peers, she is a singer/songwriter first, but also a composer of film score music, three stage musicals, and choral pieces. She has performed on TV on pop shows like American Bandstand, Midnight Special and others, PBS and her own Specials, but also on Fame, and Blossom, and in the film For The Boys. She also founded 'the Harlettes", who backed up Bette Midler, And has starred in stage touring productions like, Andrew Lloyd Webber's, "Song and Dance". Also, she has collaborated with many of our music's best performers and songwriters like Bernie Taupin, Stevie Wonder, Kenny Loggins, Barry Manilow James Ingram, Peebo Bryson, Al Jarreau, Dionne Warwick, Bonnie Tyler, Dave Koz and Rupert Holmes. As well, her recording and performing career has shown a love of The Great American Songbook, and today is one of it's most expressive interpreters, being honored this month by The Great American Songbook Foundation for New Standards. A number of those songs , including her glorious rendition of Over The Rainbow, are also essential Melissa Manchester. Like Linda Ronstadt, becoming musically stagnant was never a possibility for her, and songs of hers also reflect a jazz sensibility, and some are a little bit country in feel. If Melissa Manchester is not inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it will not be for a lack of musical excellence, but for the narrowness of the definition.

Posted by Janna Koch on Friday, 09/3/2021 @ 19:00pm


CORRECTION

The Robert Palmer version (1980), and the Tina Turner version (1982) of the song, Johnny and Mary, was written completely by Robert Palmer (lyrics and music).

The 1983 version of Johnny and Mary by Melissa Manchester had additional lyrics by Bernie Taupin.

The Robert Palmer and Tina Turner versions of Johnny and Mary will be taken off of the list of songs with lyrics by Bernie Taupin for artists other than Elton John.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 12/15/2021 @ 12:30pm


Essential Song: "Midnight Blue" (1975)

Posted by Bookhouse on Monday, 02/27/2023 @ 11:27am


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