Keith Sousa's video: What Have They Done to My Song Ma - Melanie Safka - w lyrics

"What Have They Done to My Song Ma" is a song written and performed by Melanie Safka. It was co-written by HM Saffer II, a notable American painter and musician who worked for Warner Brothers Productions. It was released in 1970 as the B-side of Melanie's "Ruby Tuesday" single and included on the album Candles in the Rain. The single reached the number 39 in the United Kingdom and peaked within the top 20 in Norway and the Wallonia region of Belgium. Other artists have recorded it as "Look What They've Done to My Song Ma", after the song's first line, and this title is used on the music page at Melanie's website. On March 28th 1971, Melanie performed "Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'*... Was track five from her third studio album, "Candles in the Rain", and the album peaked at on Billboard’s Hot Top 100 chart... Seven months earlier on August 30th, 1970 the New Seekers entered the Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position with their version of the song; eight weeks later on October 25th, 1970 it would peak at {for 1 week} and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100...