<Tr> <Td> "Ruby Tuesday" (1970) </Td> <Td> "Brand New Key" (1971) </Td> <Td> "The Nickel Song" (1972) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Brand New Key" is a pop song written and sung by folk music singer Melanie . Initially a track of Melanie's album Gather Me, produced by Melanie's husband, Peter Schekeryk, it was known also as "The Rollerskate Song" due to its chorus . It was her greatest success, scoring No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart during December 1971 and January 1972 . Billboard ranked it as the No. 9 song of 1972 . It also scored No. 1 in Canada and Australia and No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart . The song was featured in the 1997 movie Boogie Nights as well as the 2010 movie Jackass 3D and an episode of Helix . </P> <P> The song is sung from the viewpoint of a girl with roller skates trying to attract the attention of a boy . </P> <P> In an interview with Examiner.com, Melanie described what she claimed was the inspiration for the song: "I was fasting with a 27 - day fast on water . I broke the fast and went back to my life living in New Jersey and we were going to a flea market around six in the morning . On the way back...and I had just broken the fast, from the flea market, we passed a McDonald's and the aroma hit me, and I had been a vegetarian before the fast . So we pulled into the McDonald's and I got the whole works...the burger, the shake, and the fries...and no sooner after I finished that last bite of my burger...that song was in my head . The aroma brought back memories of roller skating and learning to ride a bike and the vision of my dad holding the back fender of the tire . And me saying to my dad ...' You're holding, you're holding, you're holding, right?' Then I'd look back and he wasn't holding and I'd fall . So that whole thing came back to me and came out in this song ." </P>

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