But this is a very simple melody, as the best melodies should be.
As a stage character, though, he has never embodied the warmth of his best melodies.
Some -- not all, but some -- of Jerome Kern's best melodies need little harmony to support them.
But King's best melodies often have a dark edge, and it's detectable in her autobiography too, especially in stories about her four failed marriages.
For its latest plunge into questions of mortality, faith, love and hope, U2 arrives with guitar riffs, panoramic sound and some of the best melodies of its career.
Mr. Wyatt has separated it into three "acts," and the first is where the best melodies live, in love songs like "Just as You Are" (alternating verses with the Brazilian singer Monica Vasconcelos) and "You You".
Partly that's because bossa nova -- understated, rhythmically pushing and pulling -- seems eternally relevant; Antonio Carlos Jobim's best melodies, for example, are some of the strongest of the century and aren't obvious enough to wear thin easily.
If his best melodies, like "Faithless Love" and "You're Only Lonely," evoke "Red River Valley" channeled through Roy Orbison, to hear them sung by Mr. Souther in a naked, scraggly voice instead of the sweet crooning tenor of the Eagles' Don Henley was to rediscover the bitterness at their core.
In a review for the Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange, Roberta Schwartz said that The Hero in You contains some of the best melodies and most moving lyrics of Paul's career.
It seems kind of silly but many of the best melodies were born from someone just hitting random notes on a piano.
