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 of Dick Dale, including "Let's Go Trippin'" (1961) and "Misirlou" (1962); and The Kingsmen's version of "Louie Louie" (1963) which made it a garage rock standard. However, the genre's direct lineage begins in the mid-1960s. American blues music was a major influence on the early British rockers of the era. Bands like The Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds developed blues rock by recording covers of classic blues songs, often speeding up the tempos. As they experimented with the music, the UK blues-based bands—and the U.S. acts they influenced in turn—developed what would become the hallmarks of heavy metal, in particular,