The Allman Brothers Band - Melissa (Live)

One of my all time favorites, CW5 Jack Cardwell! Here’s how Gregg Altman came up with the song title after having composed the words and music. This is from his memoir “My Cross to Bear”: “It was my turn to get the coffee and juice for everyone, and I went to this twenty-four-hour grocery store, one of the few in town. There were two people at the cash registers, but only one other customer besides myself. She was an older Spanish lady, wearing the colorful shawls, with her hair all stacked up on her head. And she had what seemed to be her granddaughter with her, who was at the age when kids discover they have legs that will run. She was jumping and dancing; she looked like a little puppet. I went around getting my stuff, and at one point she was the next aisle over, and I heard her little feet run all the way down the aisle. And the woman said, ‘No, wait, Melissa. Come back—don’t run away, Melissa!’ I went, ‘Sweet Melissa.’ I could've gone over there and kissed that woman. As a matter of fact, we came down and met each other at the end of the aisle, and I looked at her and said, ‘Thank you so much.’ She probably went straight home and said, ‘I met a crazy man at the fucking grocery.’” COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen F. PO2 Frederick Dunn

Haven't heard this in a long time!

I used to sing along with the Allman Brothers!