Janis Joplin- Me & Bobby McGee REACTION 

Brutal and beautiful. Chris wrote it but she puts all her soul into it.

Absolutely Rick.

@@peterjonas4971 Kris Kristofferson

@@johnthomson83 My bad. I forget he spells it with K. Thanks.

@@johnthomson83 Kristofferson and Janis were lovers for a while and later best of friends. He said he didn't get to hear her version of his song until soon after she'd passed, it took him dozens of listens before he could get through the song without breaking down.

Not old, Classic.I used to blast Janis as loud as my car radio would play on my way to work to get me ready for my day

Yep, old here, too -- but we did have some good music back in the day, right? Regards....

RIGHT! lol, same right here. Music of yesteryear so much better, just sayin'. Much respect Janis!

Thanks for identifying all of the musicians on this track. It's an amazing, well-thought-out arrangement. Love the blowout section!

Yes, saw a documentary on her, she lived to the fullest. She rocked for sure!

That song is so much fun LOL. I've been a bartender for at least 15 years now. I can get the whole bar singing that. I love her chuckle at the end

songwriter, rebel truck driver , Blades mentor and vampire hunter

Yes it was they were dating at the time she repaid him by banging jimmy Hendricks and writing piece of my heart about him. Lol

@@bluebird3281 The great Kris Kristofferson (Rhodes Scholar, etc)

@@bsw2157 Rhodes Scholar,Gold Glove Boxer,U.S.Army Captain,Ranger qualified.Gave it all up to be a bartender and Janitor to follow his dream of being a songwriter,hell of a man.

he sang it at the whitehouse

Kristoferrson should have landed more helicopters.

She sent Kris a copy of her recording. He received it the day she died. So he never got to tell her how great her version was. Two great talents.

@@thrakkorzog75002 what does that even mean?

@@russellgtyler8288 Kristofferson had a rep for dramatic helicopter landings.

@@russellgtyler8288 ...In the mid '60s , Kristoferrson was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam.

Amen! 👍

Kris Kristofferson was never her boyfriend. It was co-written by Kris and Fred Foster and was originally performed by Roger Miller. The song is the story of two drifters, the narrator and Bobby McGee. The couple hitch a ride from a truck driver and sing as they drive through the American South. They visit California and then part ways, with the song's narrator expressing sadness afterwards. Due to the singer's name never being mentioned and the name "Bobby" being gender neutral, the song has been recorded by both male and female singers with only minor differences in the lyrical content.

@@thegorn68 You might want to go listen to Kris Kristophersons interview about this song. He lived with Janis for about a MONTH (he said so) and in the mid-60s maybe 66 or 67, they would be freaky deakying, he as much as said so. This song was about an adventure, of course, real or made up who knows, but he asked a friend/partner what his Secretary's name was, and it was Bobbie McKee (a girl), so Kris got it wrong and wrote Bobby Mcgee, she said it was OK to use her name after she got a Divorce her husband used to tell everyone that song was about him and his wife, (LOL). Janis recorded this son and was going to surprise him in early 1970, she of course died before the song was ever released. Seems Fred was the guy who had the Secretary.............SEE BELOW: The suggestion for the title was a cordial challenge from producer and Monument Records founder Fred Foster to Kris. The titular character was named for a studio secretary, Barbara "Bobbie" McKee, but Kristofferson had misheard her surname. Kris explained that he was trying to convey the despair of the last scene of Frederico Fellini’s ‘’La Strada’’ where a broken, war-torn, inebriated Anthony Quinn stares up from the beach, at the night's stars

Where'd you get that juvenile groupie bullcrap from?

Why don't you get some sense; she's young; black people, don't usually grow up with this; plus; there is hardly any radio play of this now, for anyone. You make it sound as if she were dumb or morally deficient, for never having heard of this.!!

@@brainsareus so since she is young and black and the song is old Matt has no sense to say what he did? That was a straight ignorant post. I am young, white and didn't grow up with rap but I know the classics sung by people like Tupac, Dre, Ice T, etc... Ben E King sings my favorite song from the 60's.... You are rude!

Ok boomer