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"King Malachi Street was a big, irony-free galoot with a unique gift -- the vocal ability to rip your heart out of your chest and serve it to you on a platter" ------------Chris Dickinson - Editor, The Journal Of Country Music

Mel Street was born King Malachi Street on October 21, 1935(1) near Grundy, Virginia. The coal miner's son would emerge as one of the finest and most promising country singers of the 1970s. Mel began his career in the 1950s on Cecil Suratt's radio show on stations WELC and WBRW in Welch, West Virginia. He then married and spent the next decade raising a family and living in various towns in Ohio working as an electrician on radio transmitter towers. By 1960, the Streets had moved to Niagara Falls, where Mel worked in the auto body business and sang in nightclubs. Later, he moved to Bluefield, West Virginia and opened his own paint and body shop. While living in Bluefield, he performed as a member of the band called the "Swing Kings" on WHIS-TV's Country Jamboree. He then had his very own Saturday evening half-hour show,

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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," &quo

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Mel Street

The musician King Malachi Street (October 21, 1935 - October 21, 1978) had a solid career as a country honky-tonk singer in the early and mid-1970s prior to his death by suicide on his 43rd birthday. He was known professionally as Mel Street. Born near Grundy, Virginia, Street gained much of his early experience on radio and television at WHIS in Bluefield, where he lived and performed for several years before making his first hit recording, "Borrowed Angel," in 1972. Moving to Nashville, he followed with 22 more hit songs, the most significant being "Lovin' On Back Streets," "Smokey Mountain Memories," and "If I Had a Cheating Heart." However, career pressures evidently took a heavy toll on Street.

— Authored by Ivan M. Tribe

Sources

Tribe, Ivan M. Mountaineer Jamboree: Country Music in West Virginia. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984.