Her non-conformist approach to the selections on this LP make her a new talent to be reckoned with."
Her debut album received positive reviews from Billboard, which heralded her voice as "wise beyond her years. Melanie's popularity in Europe resulted in performances on European television programs, such as Beat-Club in West Germany. Subsequently, she signed with Buddah Records and first found chart success in Europe in 1969 with "Bobo's Party" which reached No. Initially signed to Columbia Records in the United States, Melanie released two singles on the label. After high school, her parents insisted that she go to college, so she studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, where she began singing in the folk clubs of Greenwich Village, such as The Bitter End, and signed her first recording contract. In the 1960s, Melanie started performing at The Inkwell, a coffee house in the West End section of Long Branch, New Jersey. She attended Red Bank High School in Red Bank, New Jersey, after transferring from Long Branch High School, graduating in 1964. Melanie made her first public singing appearance at age four on the radio show Live Like A Millionaire, performing the song "Gimme a Little Kiss". Safka (1924–2009), was of Russian- Ukrainian ethnic background, and her mother, jazz singer Pauline "Polly" Altomare (1926–2003), was of Italian heritage. Melanie was born and raised in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York City.
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