Come Away Melinda concerts on May 2 and 3, 1963, which were issued later that year as "Reunion At Carnegie Hall, 1963". Later recordings include those by Judy Collins ("Judy Collins 3"), Theodore Bikel ("A Folksinger's Choice"), Tim Rose ("Tim Rose"), Bobbie Gentry ("Local Gentry"), Uriah Heep ("...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble"), Velvett Fogg ("Velvett Fogg"), UFO ("UFO 1"), Kenny Rankin ("Mind-Dusters"), The Big 3 ("Live at the Recording Studio"), Cat's Eyes, and L.Stadt. In the UK it was a number 47 hit for female singer Barry St. John in 1965. Come Away Melinda "Come Away Melinda" is a song written by Fred Hellerman
Heavy metal music September 1969, the Beatles released the album "Abbey Road" containing the track "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" which has been credited as an early example of or influence on heavy metal or doom metal. In October 1969, British band High Tide debuted with the heavy, proto-metal album "Sea Shanties". Led Zeppelin defined central aspects of the emerging genre, with Page's highly distorted guitar style and singer Robert Plant's dramatic, wailing vocals. Other bands, with a more consistently heavy, "purely" metal sound, would prove equally important in codifying the genre. The 1970 releases by Black Sabbath ("Black Sabbath" and "Paranoid")