Uncovering the Next Generation's Hall of Fame
Melissa ManchesterNot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame | |||||||||||||||||
Eligible since: 1993First Recording: 1967Previously Considered? No what's this? |
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Essential Songs (?) | Wikipedia | YouTube | |
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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4 comments so far (post your own)Melissa Manchester songs with lyrics by Bernie Taupin 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 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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