Melissa Manchester

Manchester was born in the Bronx area of New York city to a musical family of Jewish descent. Her father was a bassoonist for the New York Metropolitan Opera. Manchester started a singing career at an early age, learning the piano and harpsichord at the Manhattan School of Music and Arts, singing commercial jingles at age 15, and becoming a staff writer for Chappell Music while attending New York City's High School of the Performing Arts. She studied songwriting at New York University with Paul Simon. Read more on Last.fm

Melissa Manchester – Don’t Cry Out Loud

Baby cried the day the circus came to town ’cause she didn’t want parades just passing by her So she painted on a smile and took up with some clown While she danced without a net upon the wire I know a lot about her, ’cause you see Baby is an awful lot like me…

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