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 heavy metal. The Jimi Hendrix Experience's debut album, "Are You Experienced" (1967), was also highly influential. Hendrix's virtuosic technique would be emulated by many metal guitarists and the album's most successful single, "Purple Haze", is identified by some as the first heavy metal hit. Vanilla Fudge, whose first album also came out in 1967, has been called "one of the few American links between psychedelia and what soon became heavy metal", and the band has been cited as an early American heavy metal group. On their self-titled debut album, Vanilla Fudge created "loud, heavy, slowed-down arrangements" of contemporary hit songs,