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MELANIE 7” Single A. LA BAMBA (Valens) B. SWEET MISERY (Melanie Safka) Produced and Directed by Peter
Schekeryk Italian single released 1975 by
Neighborhood Records NBH 3534 Quotes from Melanie on La Bamba. “I even had a
hit record in Italy that I didn't know I had (released). I had done 'La
Bamba', and it was beautiful, I loved it. We had recorded it in Nashville,
and I was on Arista at the time and there were problems with the albums and
stuff, and it just didn't get out. Well, it came out in Italy and it was way
up in the charts, I mean a hit! Somebody sent me a copy with a picture of
myself on the cover, and I never got a penny for it. I don't know how they
got the tape. It was never released. It was never even mixed (laughs)” –
Interview 1994 “There's a
lot of bootleg stuff on me, I had a record out, that I never put out, it was
‘La Bamba’, I recorded it when I was on Arista with Clive Davis, I don't know
how this tape came out, but I recorded a version of "La Bamba", in
a studio, that we never mixed, never finished, we never released, it came out
in Italy, and it was a Number One record, somebody sent it to me, I wouldn't
have believed it, because I went to Italy, and having knowing I had a hit
record, I would do "La Bamba", but I didn't know, so I'm singing
all these songs that nobody ever heard of, but I didn't know, I found out
later” – Interview 1996 |
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