Janis Joplin was a one of a kind singer with a unique voice. Sadly we lost her too soon. She was only 27 when she died. She had a lot of great songs such as "Me & Bobby McGee", "Cry Baby", "Ball & Chain", "Summertime", "Down On Me", "Maybe", "Little Girl Blue", "Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)", "Get It While You Can", "Bye, Bye Baby", "Move Over", "Mercedes Benz" etc.
Also try to find one of those of her singing live she had lots of style, sass and energy. She was sadly a member of what they call the 27 club, which is singers that died at the age of 27. Also she had thousands of fans but she said that she always felt so alone.
Disagree. Saw a pitch analysis of one of her live recordings in Europe, where she was very loose and somewhat impaired. Her pitch was on the money. Always. Her tone was developed over about a year of rehearsal when she first joined Big Brother. Before that, she worked as a folk and blues singer in Austin and San Francisco coffeehouses for about five years. She was a very serious student of women blues singers. She worked her butt off, and every one of yowls, scats, and shouts were carefully planned and rehearsed many times. Musically, she knew what she wanted, and what she was doing.
Janis wore her soul like a blanket trying to protect her from pain, hurt, anger, & even love! This woman was one of a kind, & sadly missed by everyone who loved & understood her music ❤ 💚 💙 She truly was a gift that was only with us for a short time, but what a glorious time it was!!! Thank you for such a thoughtful reaction ❤ 💚 💙 P.S. Probably 80% of the population smoked back then, & nobody sounded like Janis 😊
She's the OG of a Flower Child, gone way to soon,you'll never get to see a true artist perform live till you see her,that's the only way to way to listen to her,she's a badass 😎 loved your reaction thank you hope you have a blessed evening 🙏🏻sending you love from Lafayette Georgia 🍑
Janis paved the way for women in rock, total legend. You must watch her live, otherwise you have missed one of the greatest of all time. Awesome reaction ❤️
She was a force to be reckoned with!! But she was one that we lost too soon. Love your reaction to her voice!!! You need to listen to Me and Bobby McGee next. A whole different range of her voice.
RIP loved JANIS..🌷 🌹 ⚘️ 🌻 🙏 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ DROGUES 💉🩸💊KILLED MOST PART OF OUR STARS..TOO SOON..MISSING THEM...TERRIBLY.😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 EVEN IN 2024. /__No one, still, compare to them /__ THEY WERE REALLY SIMPLY ...THE BEST..
Janis was a night club singer always singing blues, her life was always filled with heart ache and suffering this is probably why you can feel her pain when she sung. It does transcend to anyone hearing the emotions in her unique voice. Thank you for giving her the honor of presenting this beautiful soul to your channel.
Yes that was her Porsche, a 1964 356 C Cabriolet. Janis had a friend of hers paint it for her. It was sold on Dec. 11th, 2015 for 1.76 million dollars.
Yes, that's Janis' Porsche or rather a duplicate of it. If you're ever in Port Arthur, TX, her hometown, check out the museum there. Many famous musicians came from there but that museum is like half Janis and the car is there. I heard a fan bought the original car for his private collection so that's why they made a duplicate. I was 15 in in 1970 and my stepsister and I ran away from Ohio to California with plans to see Janis at the 1970 Monterey Pop Festival, where she became famous in 1967. We got there, but she died on 10/4/1970, 2 weeks before the festival. Jim Morrison of The Doors and Jimi Hendrix were other members of the 27 club. (Musicians who died at the age of 27) Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse were later added to the club too.
BRO, I remember reading an interview with Janis Joplin she did with Rolling Stone magazine,(while it still was a recognized authority for music and it's creators) and she openly talked about the times while in School she was bullied. She expressed her feelings about how kids made fun of how she looked and dressed. It was at this time Janis left home, left school saying she'd never look back. I believe Janis was able to deal with all the trauma dished upon her by releasing it in her music. Perhaps her music with her emotional cries in her own way, helped release temporarily the pent-up drain to her psyche that otherwise would keep festering. RIP, Janis, we loved your music.
I am not saying this as any disparaging of her musical talent. But I disagree that she used music to handle the traumas in her life. She used music to express the emotions from her life. Unfortunately, she used drugs to try and handle the emotional trauma. Had she just used her music for that, she might still be with us.
In college she was voted the ugliest man on campus. That cut her so deep! A lot of emotional scars. She went back to visit her home town and her parents left town that weekend because they were ashamed of her! I hope she has all the love now that she didn’t get while she was here 💜👵🏼☮️
@@sharonpate5481 There's no wonder she tried to escape when her own parents and people would look disparagely on her. What did she have left? What a sad addendum to a sad story.
Just about every song she recorded is absolutely amazing. From her breakout at the Monterey Pops: Ball and Chain to Cry Baby, Summertime, Turtle Blues, Me and Bobby Magee. Can’t go wrong. Come on now, jump down the rabbit hole.
This makes me think of my mom… she was absolutely obsessed with Janis Joplin and actually looked a lot like her when she was younger. RIP mommy. 5/15/1969-7/17/2021
Read her bio,and you will appreciate her greatness even more.She was a member of the 27 Club.Whats that,you ask ? Look it up and see who all the members were.There werent many,but they were all icons of RnR.
Growing up around Old Austin, we heard her music often, as well as the occasional tall tale about her. But let me tell you, her concert posters were something else!😃(And pretty much any of those made by Armadillo World HQ)!😂
You can’t go wrong with any of Janis Joplin’s music but imo, to get the full feel of the power of her voice, her song “Cry Baby” is the one. The raspiness of her voice was truly born from pain but also fueled by cigarettes, constant consumption of Southern Comfort, and sadly the heroin which was the thing that killed her. There has never been anyone like her and there never will be. Thank you for honoring her by featuring her music.
Check "Ball and Chain" from the Monterrey Pop Festival. Stunning and iconic live perforance of gut wrenching blues. Walked on the stage all but unknown. Left it as a megastar.
I want you to see her sing, live. Plus, I can't remember if you've done them, yet, but Cass Elliott (The Mamas and the Papas) is in the audience, and it shows her being totally blown away by Janis' performance---SO COOL!! Janis Joplin - "Ball and Chain", live at the Monterey Pop Festival (1969, I think) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X1zFnyEe3nE.html
That performance launched her career and landed her recording contract. The Monterey Pop Festival was organized by the Mama's and Papa's which were at the height of their popularity in 1967 when they put it together. It launched many careers including Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Otis Redding.
When she was in college at UT in the early 60s, the fraternity bros voted her "The Ugliest Man On Campus". She dropped out of college and pursued her music career. She certainly had the last laugh on those guys because every single man outside of Austin Texas, and even around the world wanted her.
Janis Joplin, along with Grace Slick and Cass Elliot were 3 of the 60s coolest hippie chicks! Janis was also, unfortunately, a member of the 27 club - those artists who died at age 27: Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison & Janis. RIP Other songs that you would like are, "Cry Baby," "Ball and Chain," and my fav, "Me and Bobby McGee." Thanks for a great reaction! ❤
Back in the day it was albums and her album Cheap Thrills with her best band in my opinion was big brother and the holding company I don't know who she's singing with with this song I don't remember and anyway Cheap Thrills album Google it it is a collector's item I'm sure the artwork is phenomenal and it's talkin about Mama Thornton on there and it's approved by the Hell's Angel Janis Joplin was on a whole other level and the sad part was she tried to portray this hard-ass woman who like to party but on more levels than one she was just a lonely woman looking for love one of her most famous quotes was I just made love to 25,000 people and went home alone if that isn't sad I don't know what is😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤
It was in an ad for "Miss Dior" perfume many years ago. I don't know where else you might have heard it. It's a classic though. I feel like it's been in movies.
You asked if she played the guitar on this. No, she was a vocalist only. The great guitar on this song was by Sam Andrew of Big Brother and the Holding Company.
I remember Janis saying her own voice surprised her. Someone invited her to sing, she got up on stage, this little woman, and "this big voice just came out."
Omg, Janice, stones, Beatles, zeppelin, guess who, the 60's list is freaking endless, keep looking, but me and Bobby magie (sp) listen to asp. Love watching you. Peace from Northern Michigan.
Janis Joplin little girl blue saying on the Tom Jones Show and work me Lord and it takes me right back to when I was a young teenager questioning what life was about I haven't watched the video yet but I know you'll be blown away there will never be another Janis Joplin ever just like Al Green is a one-of-a-kind so is she they are my go choose that I've been listening to since college and before
“Maybe”, “Ball and Chain”, “Me and Bobby McGee” and many more. She was from Texas but liked to go to the clubs in New Orleans. A big fan of blues singer Bessie Smith, when Janis heard that Bessie didn’t have a tombstone, Janis paid for it.
In 1968 I was living on the streets of San Francisco. I happened to be near the Carousel Ballroom one evening and saw that Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green) was performing along with Big Brother and the Holding Company. I knew about Fleetwood Mac but not Big Brother, so I pan handled enough to get in and got to see and hear some great music. I think it cost less than $5... I was standing next to the stage after Fleetwood was finished when a chick came out and started adjusting the mics, the amps etc and I'm thinking she's a roady and I was going to ask her for a dance when the music started. Well the men came on stage and got themselves ready and the chick was standing there when suddenly she grabbed the mic and started in on "Down on Me" and I realized this was the singer in the band, Janis Joplin. I was close enough that I could see her passion and talent as well as a small drop of sweat trickling down her thigh... for a kid from Arizona this was amazing, changed my life.
I only heard one Amy Winehouse's song. It was a song filled with sadness and anguish. When I heard she died suddenly at a young age I had a Janis Joplin flashback. I was heart broken to hear another brilliant but sad soul had passed away. Both were tremendous talents.
That was Big Brother and The Holding Company. Great Band. Janice was one of a kind. Pt.Arthur, Texas girl...between Houston and Louisiana...where you cannot get a bad meal.
Brilliant singer. Brilliant. I've loved her since I was 19 and I'm 45. I get really sad when i listen to her lately. Just such a tragedy. Listen to her cover of To Love Somebody and the live Cry Baby from Toronto, i think. Live cover of Tell Mama is also fantastic. And yes...that was her Porsche.
Janis was a one and only. You got to see her live. I recommend her appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival singing Ball and Chain, or her appearance on the Tom Jones show singing Raise Your Hand. Do them both. Its all good.
Imagine who her fave singers were and who inspired and influenced her…late 60s and she’s in her twenties…hanging with musicians like Jimi and the Stones, etc. watch the Woodstock documentary… there was also Mahalia Jackson and Aretha doing their thing and doood….EVERYONE SMOKED back then.
