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Melanie, the singer-songwriter who rose through the New York folk scene, and had a series of 1970s hits including "Brand New Key," has died.

Her hits included "Lay Down" and "Look What They've Done to My Song Ma." But she was best known for "Brand New Key."

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Melanie, the singer-songwriter who rose through the New York folk scene, performed at Woodstock and had a series of 1970s hits including the enduring cultural phenomenon "Brand New Key," has died. Her publicist Billy James told The Associated Press that Melanie died Tuesday. She was 76 and lived in central Tennessee . The cause was not immediately revealed. "Our world is much dimmer, the colors of a dreary, rainy Tennessee pale with her absence today," her children Leilah, Jeordie and

Melanie Safka was a prolific singer-songwriter and one of only three solo female performers at the original 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair