1. MEMORY LANE - MINNIE RIPERTON (MINNIE album)

TRACK 1. Memory Lane (Minnie Riperton, Richard Rudolph, Keni St. Lewis, Gene Dozier)

Album Released May 9, 1979
Minnie is the fifth and final studio album (not counting a posthumous release the following year) by Minnie Riperton. She died of cancer two months after its release. It was also her first album for Capitol Records.
With a new record deal under her belt and a guarantee from the label of priority marketing/promotion, Minnie went right to work on what would be her final album. With husband Richard Rudolph, Keni St. Lewis, Gene Dozier, Randy Waldman, Marlo Henderson & Bill Thedford contributing songs, the album served as Minnie's final statement to the music world and fans.
Minnie brought son, Marc and daughter Maya Rudolph into the studio to sing background on "Dancin' & Actin' Crazy," while the tender "Lover & Friend" was the perfect ode to her relationship with Richard. Minnie was at her most playful self on her remake of the Doors' "Light My Fire", a duet with José Feliciano (who had a hit with his own version of this rock classic in 1968). It's been said that the reason we don't hear José until the second half of the song, is because he had just happened to be at the studio when it was being recorded and popped in.
If there was a track that would be described as her "goin' home" song, no doubt it was "Memory Lane" -- Minnie's reflection of her past while knowing what indeed was in the future. "Memory Lane" was a hit. Riperton incorporated the sadness of the ending of a relationship while suddenly shifting to cries of "I don't want to go" and "save me." It is thought that the song was her farewell to her family and the world.

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Watch the Original Music Video of Memory Lane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5gnJk0etRM

Watch the Live Performance of Memory Lane
On Rock It! TV Show -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFe84ipwvoY
On- Mike Douglas Show -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Uvy567ZAY
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I stumbled on this photograph, it kinda made me laugh
It took me way back, back down memory lane
I see the happiness, I see the pain
Where am I?
Back down memory lane

I see us standing there, such a happy, happy pair
Love beyond compare, look-a-there, look-a-there
The way you held me, no one could tell me
that love would die, ohh, why?

Did I have to find this photograph, thought I had forgot the past
And now I'm slippin' fast, oh, back down memory lane
I feel the happiness, I feel the pain
Here am I, back down memory lane

I'm in the sunshine, I'm in the rain
Thought it was over, here I go again
The way you held me, no one could tell me
that love would die

I don't wanna go traveling down
Faster than the speed of sound
Back down memory lane
Be still my foolish heart
Don't let this feelin' start
Back down memory lane

I don't wanna go
Back down memory lane
Save me, save me
Back down memory lane
Save me, save me, save me, save me, save me, me
Back down memory lane
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