◇ image via WikipediaMelissa Manchester
Melissa Manchester is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Paul Simon, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. Those roots explain a lot about how Melissa Manchester arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Captain & Tennille, England Dan & John Ford Coley and Leo Sayer, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Captain & Tennille, Rosemary Clooney, Eydie Gormé, Shirley Horn and Cleo Laine, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 16 connections around Melissa Manchester, reaching back through Paul Simon and forward to Captain & Tennille. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Melissa Manchester connections
Melissa Manchester grew out of Paul Simon, Tony Bennett, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, shares an orbit with Captain & Tennille, England Dan & John Ford Coley and Leo Sayer, went on to shape Captain & Tennille, Rosemary Clooney, Eydie Gormé and Shirley Horn. 16 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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