Artist
Mel Street

King Malachi Street (October 21, 1935 – October 21, 1978), commonly known as Mel Street, was an American country music singer. Street was born in Grundy, Virginia to a coal mining family. Publications cite his year of birth as 1933, although his family maintains that he was born in 1935. He began performing on western Virginia and West Virginia radio shows at the age of sixteen. Street subsequently worked as a radio tower electrician in Ohio and ... as a nightclub performer in the Niagara Falls area. He moved back to West Virginia in 1963 to open up an auto body shop. From 1968 to 1972, Street hosted his own show on a Bluefield, West Virginia television station. He recorded his first single, "Borrowed Angel," in 1970 for a small regional record label. A larger label, Royal American Records, picked it up in 1972, and it became a top-10 Billboard hit. He recorded the biggest hit of his career, "Lovin' on Back Streets", in 1973. Street continued to flourish throughout the mid-1970s, recording several hits such as "You Make Me Feel More Like a Man," "Forbidden Angel," "I Met a Friend of Yours Today," "If I Had a Cheatin' Heart," and "Smokey Mountain Memories". He signed with Mercury Records in 1978. But, suffering from clinical depression and alcoholism, he committed suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, on October 21, 1978, his 45th birthday. Sadly he had a record debut on the country charts on October 21 as well, a prophetic song called "Just Hangin' On". See more [+]

Smokey Mountain Memories |||||

Smokey Mountain memories, 'Bout my home in Tennessee. Yester...

I Met A Friend Of Yours Today |||||

Yes I know I'm late getting home tonight Can supper wait I g...

If I Had A Cheating Heart |||||

Your ruby lips girl they tempt And your beauty is a work of ...

Loving On Back Streets |||||

We tried to pick the most unlikely places Where no one's apt...

Loving On Borrowed Time |||||

We're taking chances meeting here like this But when your sw...

This Aint Just Another Lust Affair |||||

This motel room may make you feel uneasy Or maybe it's this ...

Ill Leave This World Loving You |||||

Walk away, and leave with my blessing Once in a while, let m...

Forbidden Angel |||||

Girl you kiss me like a woman though you're barely seventeen...

Virginias Song |||||

Tonight I'm thinking about the good life We left so far behi...

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