Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Track List: 1-4
1. Candles In The Rain (0:00)
2. Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) (1:47)
3. Carolina In My Mind (5:34)
4. Citiest People (9:19)
Part 1. youtu.be/PI57hnz-ZeM
Part 2. youtu.be/C2kv3-0-gdU
Part 3. youtu.be/HFiAeFE2bL4
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkWvh9BoHZBqtO26jBZ9Z_jIEMLCIBjbE
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Candles in the Rain is singer Melanie's third album. Released in 1970, the album produced Melanie's first Top Ten single in North America, "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)", which was inspired by the crowd's reaction to her performance at Woodstock. The cover of the Rolling Stones' 1967 song "Ruby Tuesday" reached the Top Ten in the United Kingdom.
In their review of the album, Billboard Magazine stated that "Melanie's song creations and vocal interpretations are widely popular in Europe, and with this LP her success in the U.S. should be assured. "Lay Down (Candles In the Rain)," with the Edwin Hawkins Singers, is her current single and the most exciting cut; other outstanding originals include "Leftover Wine" and "Citiest People." Her versions of "Ruby Tuesday" and "Carolina in My Mind" are definitive."
Cashbox noted that the album "offers her strongest bid to date for album success with this beautifully poetic LP....Melanie should find herself on the charts with this excellent record."
Allmusic stated that "this was where she seemed to truly hit the mark for the first time...If Candles in the Rain was the album that broke Melanie to a larger audience, it did so not just because it featured her biggest hit single to date, but because it matched material and interpretation with greater skill than she had in the past, and it ranks with her finest work."
Personnel:
Melanie – guitar, vocals
Alan Parker – guitar
Alan Hawkshaw – keyboards, organ
Edwin Hawkins – piano on "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"
Harold McNair – fiddle, flute
Herbie Flowers – bass guitar
Barry Morgan – drums
Rico Reyes – congas, percussion on "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"
John Abbott – arrangement on "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"; conductor on "What Have They Done to My Song Ma"
Lee Holdridge – string arrangements on "Citiest People" and "Ruby Tuesday"
Track List: 1-4
1. Candles In The Rain (0:00)
2. Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) (1:47)
3. Carolina In My Mind (5:34)
4. Citiest People (9:19)
Part 1. youtu.be/PI57hnz-ZeM
Part 2. youtu.be/C2kv3-0-gdU
Part 3. youtu.be/HFiAeFE2bL4
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkWvh9BoHZBqtO26jBZ9Z_jIEMLCIBjbE
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Candles in the Rain is singer Melanie's third album. Released in 1970, the album produced Melanie's first Top Ten single in North America, "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)", which was inspired by the crowd's reaction to her performance at Woodstock. The cover of the Rolling Stones' 1967 song "Ruby Tuesday" reached the Top Ten in the United Kingdom.
In their review of the album, Billboard Magazine stated that "Melanie's song creations and vocal interpretations are widely popular in Europe, and with this LP her success in the U.S. should be assured. "Lay Down (Candles In the Rain)," with the Edwin Hawkins Singers, is her current single and the most exciting cut; other outstanding originals include "Leftover Wine" and "Citiest People." Her versions of "Ruby Tuesday" and "Carolina in My Mind" are definitive."
Cashbox noted that the album "offers her strongest bid to date for album success with this beautifully poetic LP....Melanie should find herself on the charts with this excellent record."
Allmusic stated that "this was where she seemed to truly hit the mark for the first time...If Candles in the Rain was the album that broke Melanie to a larger audience, it did so not just because it featured her biggest hit single to date, but because it matched material and interpretation with greater skill than she had in the past, and it ranks with her finest work."
Personnel:
Melanie – guitar, vocals
Alan Parker – guitar
Alan Hawkshaw – keyboards, organ
Edwin Hawkins – piano on "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"
Harold McNair – fiddle, flute
Herbie Flowers – bass guitar
Barry Morgan – drums
Rico Reyes – congas, percussion on "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"
John Abbott – arrangement on "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"; conductor on "What Have They Done to My Song Ma"
Lee Holdridge – string arrangements on "Citiest People" and "Ruby Tuesday"
