“Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)” #6 7/11/1970

These days concert goers hold up lighted cell phones when the hall darkens before performers take the stage or for an encore. Back in the day it was lighters or candles. (And then...uhh, something else was usually lit.) Melanie Safka, known professionally by her first name, was backstage and wasn’t supposed to play at Woodstock but did so when another act wouldn’t go on due to a thunderstorm. She received two encores and wrote a tune about that experience, backed here by the Edwin Hawkins Singers.