I had a late sixties flashback last week prompted by two of the era’s female icons. It began glumly on Tuesday with the death of Melanie (Safka), whose music stardom launched at Woodstock. I was a kid ...

Melanie, the chart-topping folk singer of “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” who performed at the Woodstock festival in 1969, died on Tuesday. She was 76. Billy James, the singer’s ...