I sincerely hope, that somewhere out there in internet land, some teen watches Janis' performance here and sees his or her grandparents up on stage at the end dancing. 😊

@DianeJennings

Жыл бұрын

Omg that would be AMAZING 🤩

@richardpare3538

Жыл бұрын

@@DianeJennings I would love to see the looks on their faces! Janis was a totally unique talent who simply blew us all away when she came on the scene, but was also a tormented soul because of the people where she grew up - they were total assholes to her all the time.

@pat2562

Жыл бұрын

Saw a documentary where she went back home and everyone fawned over her but they hated her and bullied her over looks and general non conformity which made her have a miserable time in high school. It might have been called something like "little girl lost"...sorry, don't remember. Now pour a hard one and sit down with the fam to watch Ball and chain at the monterey pop festival. Then watch a bunch of react videos because music is a universal language and the greatest music moves EVERYONE across time and place.

@wmason1961

Жыл бұрын

It would most likely be great grandparents. I would love to see my Mom on that stage. I am a 62 year old grandparent.

@rickwelch8464

Жыл бұрын

In the video for Free Bird a lady came on and said she was there, the one w the white shorts and bleach blonde hair on her boyfriends shoulders. (she was topless facing the stage) She said she showed her grandkids and they were... not impressed. loll

Take it from someone who's old enough to have seen her, perform. Janis wasn't just a singer, she was an EXPERIENCE!

@pmcclaren1

Жыл бұрын

Enough said!

@msimon6808

Жыл бұрын

Down on me.

@grumpy1616

Жыл бұрын

"a wall of sound"

@thedealer777

Жыл бұрын

@@grumpy1616 Sadly, that "wall" fell over 50 years ago, but the "sound" remains as strong as ever, ...and continues to be her immortality.

@Sleuth_Squad

Жыл бұрын

I can only imagine and so sorry I missed it. Mad respect from this millennial

Joplin singing Summertime on the album Cheap Thrills still gives me goosebumps. It’s otherworldly. 🤘😳🤘

@Dr.Grafenberg

9 ай бұрын

❤

@franchk8372

7 ай бұрын

Brilliant, just brilliant interpretation. Sooo much talent. 💙

@peterbaruxis2511

6 ай бұрын

It's one of many.

The history of Rock & Roll cannot be written without including her. Absolute legend!... 🎶🙏

Janis wasn't just in the 27 Club, she was one of the original artists who gave it its name. This really wasn't one of her better performances. Probably her most popular song was Bobby McGee, but she did great renditions of Summertime, Ball & Chain, Try, Cry Baby and Down on Me. Black performers used to say she was the only white musician who really sang soul.

@daseguin

Жыл бұрын

This is my favorite video ever of Janis.

@OraJarrels

Жыл бұрын

This was good. Want great... Ball and chain live. Please don't stop with just this one performance. Janis has an incredible catalog.

@ptournas

Жыл бұрын

I agree, I've seen more powerful live renditions of this by her. Maybe she was nearing the end of a long tour in this one.

@daseguin

Жыл бұрын

@@ptournas This video is EXCELLENT! She's totally just being herself here, and showing the compassion she had for hurting people, trying to make that shy girl especially to feel loved.

@ptournas

Жыл бұрын

@@daseguin Oh I enjoyed her interactions with the people, but I've seen enough live videos of her doing this to know her voice wasn't in top form. She was still great and I still would have loved to have been there.

Janis was one of a kind, and a pure talent..She had her problems, but she was a people lover, with a heart of gold..It was a tremendous loss when she passed.

@steffenjonda8283

9 ай бұрын

She would latest died in the early 80ties by AIDS. Her lifestyle made sure she wouldn´t get old.

My father first saw her at a concert in San Francisco. He said when she came out every one bo,od and called her a sweat hog throwing trash at her. She was not know yet. He said the music had started and she just danced around while the crowd bo,od her. Then she let it out . My father and the crowd were silent as if hypnotized. The emotional outpouring of her performance touched everyone present, my father said. Hell I tear up while listening to her sing Bobby magee .❤

Her best song, really showing her vocal strength, is Ball and Chain. Her best performance of that song is on the Monterey Pop Festival documentary. It still gives me chills!

Janis Joplin was more of a late sixties phenom, as you will read in many comments to follow. You will get a better idea of the hurricane that roared out of that tiny package by viewing her performance of _Ball and Chain_ at the Monterrey Pop Festival in 1967. She was more of a local secret until the release of the _Big Brother and the Holding Company's_ album _Cheap Thrills._ It was a huge hit and included the track _Ball and Chain._ It also included a terrific cover of the old standard _Summertime._ Not long after the festival, she left _Big Brother and the Holding Company_ when some people convinced her she was too good for the band, then she joined the _Kosmic Blues Band_ for another short run, before finally going solo. Anyone who wants to understand how she became so well-known should check out the Monterrey Pop Festival video of her performance. You don't have to like the music to get an idea of the effect she had on singers to follow. Thanx again for a trip into music history, and enjoy your own trip to VidCon.

@DianeJennings

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I’ll keep you filled in!

@hobbgreen4529

Жыл бұрын

IMO the montery pop performance was the single greatest rock moment .

@RutlandRick

Жыл бұрын

@@hobbgreen4529 Maybe the best perdormance by anybody of all time. Certainly memorable, ground breaking! Better: kzread.info/dash/bejne/imWuqNCydciZnqg.html

@pat2562

Жыл бұрын

@@hobbgreen4529 Love watching young people react to that performance. To see a young man so moved he jumps up because he can't contain himself ...always makes me smile. My favorite was a black guy exclaiming, "and she's white"!

@timoboyle8867

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Monterey Pop - Ball and Chain!!

She had such a raw and powerful voice. Once you heard it you'd always remember it. My favorite song by hers was Mercedes Benz. My dad sang it to my sister and me when we were young, and we laughed thinking he had made it up himself since it sounded so silly. A few years later we learned about Janis Joplin.

@DianeJennings

Жыл бұрын

That’s so funny!

@rickpearlstein6421

Жыл бұрын

LOL I'm one of those Dad's that sang Mercedes-Benz to my kid too. He's in his late 20's now. Thinking I need to go sing it again. Thanks for the memories.

@rickschlosser6793

Жыл бұрын

Mercedes Benz was the last song Janis recorded before drugs took her from us. It really shows the power of her voice as she sings it ‘a cappella’. One of my favorites as well.

@bethanys.arbaugh9572

Жыл бұрын

Mercedes Benz is my favorite song 🎵 of hers too. I 🎤 it all the time.

@gmfutube

Жыл бұрын

My sister hates Janis and the sound of her voice, so when I visit I'm busy teaching her parrot to do Mercedes Benz.😁

Janis was one of the two spectacular musical comets that visited our planet in brief but spectacular fashion in the 60s/70s. The other of course was Jimi Hendrix. Brief lives but recorded performances that will amaze generation after generation.

@linzzyy

10 ай бұрын

Don’t forget Jim Morrison ❤️

@marcyking461

10 ай бұрын

@@linzzyy ...or Buddy Holly, or Jim Croce, or Harry Chapin or, ....the list goes on ... we will never know what we missed. But we can appreciate the gifts these artists gave us during their brief time on Earth.

@jeanday9747

9 ай бұрын

Jim Morrison was great as well.

My favourite female singer ever. Died far too young and only left a little music. Her performance at Monterey was just mind blowing. Yes I am a baby boomer.

Janis was more 1960s than 1970s - she died in 1970 of a heroin overdose (another member of the "27 Club") I remember seeing her on TV when I was around 10 years old. I specifically remember it because her voice was so different than anything else I had heard. The Bette Midler film "The Rose" was largely inspired by Janis Joplin. The singer Pink was going to star in a biopic years ago, but the film never got made. This particular live version of the song is not a great rendition, but you do get a glimpse of her unique voice and style.

@DianeJennings

Жыл бұрын

Most definitely

@maxmaidiac2237

Жыл бұрын

THE SINGER FROM GLIM SPANKY COMES CLOSEST TO PEARL IN NATURAL STYLE.

Janis was not just a singer, she was a force! The movie, The Rose, is loosely based on her career. She was ostracized as a young girl and told she could not sing. Her ability to go from a soft bluesy voice to literally screaming the lyrics set her apart from every other artist. She broke ground for other female artists that followed. I was so blessed to grow up with artists like Janis Joplin and Tina Turner. Thank you for sharing this with us.

@StellaWaldvogel

Жыл бұрын

Port Arthur was NOT good to her. Janis was exceptionally smart, artistic and talented. Narrow minded Texas towns don't like that and they'll try to "hammer down the nail that sticks up." Janis once stood up in class and said she was in favor of integration. I imagine she got a lot of flak for that. And when she moved to Austin for college, some fraternity voted her "ugliest man on campus." A lot of people were just BAD to her and she never developed the thick skin that's needed to survive things like that. No wonder she self medicated. But I never heard that anyone said she couldn't sing. The way I heard it, she didn't KNOW she could sing until one night she tried. Somebody who was there said "She just came out with this BIG voice...

As good as this live recording is, you need to hear her on the album. The real power of her voice comes out on it.

@mikeames1427

8 ай бұрын

Try her incredible Monterey Pop Fest performance!

Her 1st big performance at the Monterey Pop Festival "Ball & Chain" is the song you need to see/listen to. Back then we were crazy, but not insane. Nobody would have considered harming a musician on stage.

A MUST SEE/HEAR performance that shows why she became a legendary music icon,, Janis Joplin "Ball & Chain" Live at Monterey Pop Festival...TRUST ME!!

@jdscottphd

Жыл бұрын

Best part of that vid is Mama Cass Elliot in the crowd with her jaw on the ground watching Janis for the first time. ❤

@hobbgreen4529

Жыл бұрын

the greatest rock performance .

@AstiJay

Жыл бұрын

TRUST HER!!!

@happymethehappyone8300

Жыл бұрын

@@AstiJay THAT TOO!!🤪

Janis was a vocal powerhouse of energy and passion who could shift from soft and sweet to raging tornado and moving between both as needed. She was a special talent. BOOP

@DianeJennings

Жыл бұрын

Unreal vox!

Janis put 120% of her soul into every song she sung. She left nothing when she finished a performance. So much great music in such a short life. Greatest female rock singer ever and there will never be another “Pearl”.

@maxmaidiac2237

Жыл бұрын

SRV WAS BETTER

@TeaParty1776

10 ай бұрын

Actress , Wynona Rider, said that, unlike Joplin, she could not not slit her wrists on stage.

@sharonanderson3851

9 ай бұрын

@@maxmaidiac2237 no comparison. And Stevie Ray Vaughn was a MAN if you never noticed.

It's so much fun to watch the grandkids suddenly hear one of the greats from the 60's and 70's for the first time. What we had back then is so much bigger than most of what the music industry lets us hear thrde days.

Ahhh Janis. Born and raised in Port Arthur, Texas. Her band was Big Brother and the Holding Company, who basically became a better band with her in it, though their original sound was more of progressive rock than blues. She does a killer rendition of Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee". Arguably her most popular song.

@DianeJennings

Жыл бұрын

Interesting!

@richardjordan5036

Жыл бұрын

yep another great Texas singer gone for a long while.great voice

@bigb6046

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I heard she went to high school in Port Arthur with Jimmy Johnson , the football coach and he said in an interview that he used to bully her terribly , along with his friends because she was kind weird and didn't really fit in.

@scottski51

Жыл бұрын

And literally a year after she died, the band was playing college dance gigs, but without Janis.... well... back into obscurity they sank, iirc.

@AhNee

Жыл бұрын

@@DianeJennings She was also voted, cruelly, "ugliest man on campus" in college.

DIANE, you need to hear the Janis Joplin 1968 classic “Turtle Blues”. Like most of her songs, she wrote the lyrics and came up with the melody. The song has a perfect example of the Janis scream that she was famous for. Janis was born on January 19, 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas and died in alone in a Hollywood hotel room of an accidental heroin overdose on October 4, 1970. She had been in Hollywood for a few weeks working on her next album, it was almost done, she only had one song left to record. The name of that song was sadly: “Buried Alive In The Blues”. Her band recorded it as an instrumental and it ended up on the album “Pearl” which was released in January of 1971. The album went right to number one and stayed there for months, and most of the songs on it became big hits.

@steffenjonda8283

9 ай бұрын

There is some event, in 1966, here she started performing in front of more people. But sadly the cameras were shut down, so we only know about that performance by people telling us who had been there. I think Monterrey...

My first date with my wife was Nov 17th 1969 at the Minneapolis Armory. The most fantastic concert I ever attendend. She was on stage for over 2.5 hours. 54 years later I can still visualize the whole show. Saw it from the 10th row. Still have all her albums.

@kitspics526

10 ай бұрын

What a wonderful experience you had. I’m envious. She was a force of nature

@AC-ju5yu

8 ай бұрын

@marz736 And those tickets were $10.00 each!!! Lol

I'm 80 and when i hear Janis Joplin 60 years just drop away to the the times of the hippy culture and i feel alive . Along with the beauty of the music from the Moody Blues - Chicago - plus many other groups from that time

Janis was an exposed wire of anger and sadness. She doesn’t sing as much as play her voice like an instrument. There is of video of her singing Ball and Chain at the Monterey Festival and they show Momma Cass Elliot (of the The Mamas and the Papas) mesmerized by the performance. Janice is one of the queens of rock and roll.

I've never been a big fan of hers, but there's no denying her influence on Rock N Roll. She's a legend. Love your reaction, as always.

@DianeJennings

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Her final album Pearl. She was so proud of her band, a group of really capable musicians in live gigs and in the studio. And they were her band to direct.

@kitspics526

10 ай бұрын

Great LP…she was at her tops.

SAW HER IN S.F AT THE FILLMORE WEST IN THE 60s WOW, WHAT A PERFORMER! LEGEND.

One of the most sad quotes of hers is that she said that she made love to 3000 people every night at her concerts, but went home alone.

@BC-ui9yt

Жыл бұрын

Yikes. that is heartbreaking.

@tyrantworm7392

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, pretty rough, at school she was also described as the ugliest boy in the class.

It was a different time back in our day, a superstar like her couldn't safely let people on stage like that today 😢

@kitspics526

10 ай бұрын

Yep. Witness 100,000 came to Woodstock. No murdering rampages. Just music and joy.

If you haven’t already, I highly recommend reacting to either “Ball and Chain - Live”, “Summertime” or “Move Over”. Those songs give a great taste of how truly talented Janis was, not just with her range, but the power of her voice.

I am sitting in the woods in New Hampshire in front of a campfire in the pitch dark. I happened across your post and am now listening to the goddess. I could not ask for more.

A Woman Left Lonely is one of her most powerful, yet softer, songs. Janis will live forever... Every piece of her work is amazing. You just can't go wrong with her.

@neeliesolmok58

3 ай бұрын

You are so right a women left lonely and Little Boy blue

Saw her live at the Fillmore when she and Big Brother were at their peak. Incredible performance.

It's great that a new generation is rediscovering this icon from the late sixties. Watch her performance in the Monterey Pop Festival movie or just listen to her renditions of Summertime or Me and Bobby McGee for even more spectacular vocals. Hers was never a pure voice, but a powerfully sincere and expressive one. RIP JJ, too soon taken but not forgotten.

Saw her a couple of times at Kenneth Threadgill's place in Austin. I was a UT student. I am 75 years old now and still remember Janice. One of a kind. Good post thank you! Love her version of Me and Bobby and Bobby Magee

A true force of nature. I remember being aware of her when I was a kid but too young to really appreciate her at the time. As good as this was, to me “Me and Bobby McGee” was her signature. A really tragic story. Dying so young, we only got a glimpse of what she might have been. RIP Janis.

@DianeJennings

Жыл бұрын

Right? It’s so sad!

@FuzzyMarineVet

Жыл бұрын

I do miss Pearl! What a voice! She would have owned the music business by now if she could have kept that needle out of her arm.

@kristagemini

Жыл бұрын

She was also bullied TERRIBLY in her life! She had a lot of tragedy, but the most passionate, soulful things come out of tragedy, sadly.

@marcyking461

10 ай бұрын

So True, I often wonder what we have missed with the passing of so many talented singers so young .. Jim Morrison, Jim Croce, Patsy Cline, Richie Valens, Stevie Ray Vaughn and the list goes on and on and on ... so many talented singers, all gone too soon. Janis has plenty of company. May they all RIP

Janis left Port Arthur, Texas to move to San Francisco during the Hippy (Flower Power) Movement (‘66-‘67). She lived 45 minutes from San José, CA. where I live. She would come down and Gig on weekends at our Festivals and “Be Ins” (concerts). One gig at the Fairgrounds she came out on Stage wearing this big Neon Pink feather boa and holding a bottle of Southern Comfort in her hand and singing the best rendition of “Summertime” I’ve ever heard. You must listen to that song along with “Ball & Chain”, “Cry Baby”, Janis is/was a Rock Icon, she was also at Woodstock. Bill Graham (Promotor from S.F.) took her along with Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Country Joe & the Fish, Sly and the Family Stone to the “World’s Largest Concert” (500, 000 people). Welcome to come down the Janis Rabbit Hole, it’s a Trip!…. SanJoséBob

I once watched a tribute to her life and they had a recording of her voice when she was around 15-16 singing in her church. It was incredible. She had this really pure polyphonic voice. It was so beautiful! It was like two voices singing in harmony.

JJ cannot be duplicated or improved upon. She was one of a kind and truly epic

What an amazing voice.I don't even think this was her best peformance by a long shot.

@Code9

Жыл бұрын

By a LONG, LONG, long shot!

@markthompson8656

Жыл бұрын

That want a very good performance. I have heard her sing a lot better. 🎙🎶

@dennisswaim8210

Жыл бұрын

No definitely not her best, she could be perfect at times. But the heart was always there. She felt it and baby so did you when you heard her.

@leapinglaura7343

Жыл бұрын

The reason everyone here is saying it doesn't sound very good is because this clueless content creator played it at *1.75× SPEED* Ow, my ears.

@yppykya

11 ай бұрын

Not her best version of that song.

Nice! I was hoping Janis would eventually make your list. Compared to the studio version and other live performances of this song, this was pretty laid back for her. She could really belt it.

@DianeJennings

Жыл бұрын

I’ll bet!

So nice to see younger generations hearing our favorites. There will never be another like Janis. . This was my favorite song she did with Big Brother and the Holding Company. The record is astonishing.

This band is called "Big Brother And the Holding Company". This is my favourite recording of Piece of My Heart.

Janis was basically an outcast in high school. One of the kids no one wanted to be seen with. When Janis Joplin returned to Port Arthur, Texas for her tenth high-school reunion, she told a local reporter that she was attending “just to jam it up their asses” and to “see all those kids who are still working in gas stations and driving dry-cleaning trucks while I’m making fifty thousand dollars a night”.

@Dularr

Жыл бұрын

Her story is so complex. The San Fransisco crowd raised money to send her back to Texas. Her tours would run out of money, leaving her stranded in various cities. It's a really tragic story. Make $50,000 a night, but then run out of money.

@bryanspindle4455

Жыл бұрын

I love her attitude about that. Taylor Swift said she was bullied and made fun of in High School and now she makes way more than $50k a night.

@LJBSullivan

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes truly original artistic people seem to be outcasts, it's not right but they are so special they just don't fit into the groups those who aren't artistic are in - she is special and in a place and time all her own. Too bad she's not still here, telling us all f*** u.

@johnblood3731

Жыл бұрын

@@bryanspindle4455 Taylor who?

@bryanspindle4455

Жыл бұрын

@@johnblood3731 Swift. One of the biggest stars in pop music history.

The Queen herself. She always brought her soul to Every performance. You can feel the raw energy

Saw Janis live @ Woodstock 69 when i was 13! Started listening when i was 10!❤

60s baby. ✌️❤️🦋🌻 Named my daughter Janis after Janis Joplin. 🙂 Edit: I'd forgotten that one girl who was either too shy to join in ot too stoned. And we danced better in the 70s but LOVED her just as much. She and Jimi Hendrix were really good friends. It is very sad that they both died at age 27.

Her performance of 'Little Girl Blue' on the Tom Jones Show is a masterpiece! She can really sing!!!

The Queen of Port Arthur, Texas, so much soul in her voice! We love and miss Janis, gone far too soon ❤️✌🏼🕊️🎶🎤🌈

Speaking of welcoming the audience, I saw her at an outdoor concert and ran into her walking up to the show. She gave me a big hug and a small kiss. She was drunk and it was before her show. She was a special, though troubled, free spirit for sure.

If you were into rock, rhythm and blues and looking for the ultimate female performer to entertain you then you couldn't do any better than Janis Joplin. For in the 1960's she set a true standard for the independent female singer and to this day every woman seeking to do the same owes their careers to the excellence Joplin created during her short lifetime. If I were to describe Joplin's singing style, it was, in my opinion; an earthy mixture of soul caged in a tempest of want. The need to show everyone what style and substance was really all about coupled with a point-blank delivery that made you pay attention. To this day and far into tomorrow the way she could deliver a tune can be imitated but never really duplicated. Listen to what she laid down...All of it. It is really the only way you can appreciate her!

Diane...the heartbreak and pain of her life is all in her voice. There are dozens of songs that show off her amazing talent. Summertime, Me and Bobby McGee, Ball and Chain, Cry Baby, Mercedes Benz. There are three transcendent female voices in rock/pop: Joni Mitchell, Karen Carpenter, and Janis. I had never seen this video - thank you!!!

Definitely a unique voice, but man, you could feel every word she was singing. Whoo!

@DianeJennings

Жыл бұрын

That’s so true!

Janis Joplin was a rock goddess! So many amazing songs in her relatively short career and her energy and voice were immense. Me and Bobby Magee is probably my most favorite song of all time. It's my karaoke go-to song. LOL

I gotta admit I was spoiled, pop radio in the late fifties into the seventies had a great mix of genera’s. This is Southern California. Beach Boy vs Beatles, Johnny Cash, Elvis,Chubby Checker,The Supremes. You get the picture, lots of great,diverse artists. I gravitated to harder rock, Rolling Stones,The Kinks,The Animals,The Yardbirds,The root of many bands Chuck Berry. I love watching you discover and appreciate the wide range of greatness that is rock history.

Janis was one of the trio of musicians that lost their lives at around the same time in 1970. Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison were founders of the 27 club. "Piece of My Heart" that she is singing in the clip you watched was originally performed by Emma Franklin in 1967. Emma was the sister of Aretha Franklin. Janis Joplin's version came out in 1968.

@pmcclaren1

Жыл бұрын

27 Club--began 1969 when Brian Jones , founder of Rolling Stones, was found dead in his swimming pool.

@place_there9104

Жыл бұрын

@@pmcclaren1 This was only regarded that way in retrospect. The deaths of the three big stars in 1970 became associated by the public with their age of 27. Brian's death was seen as unfortunate and tragic in 1969, but wasn't seen as part of a tragic phenomenon for musicians until later.

Fun Fact. Janis Joplin was high school classmates of former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson. Two Hall of Fame caliber talents in once class. That’s pretty cool of the town of Port Arthur.

Janis would chuckle to know people are still discovering her. Fabulous to see young people checking out the most amazing performers of the golden age.

Love the reaction! So interesting to watch babies discover the music I’ve listened to for 50 years. Mercedes Benz and Me and Bobby McGee are my favorites😊

In 1967, Janis Joplin rose to prominence following an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival, where she was the lead singer of the then little-known San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company.

I saw Janis live in 1970 in Calgary, AB....unique one of a kind deep soul performer, if you heard her live you never forget....Loved all her moves, unique vocals....

@sagitta.ra19h26m

8 ай бұрын

Janice Joplin passed away in December 1969! GD bless her memory ❤

@Shortstring5

8 ай бұрын

@@sagitta.ra19h26m I don't think I saw a ghost in 1970. The fact is JJ passed away October 4, 1970. The performance in Calgary was July 4, 1970, a few months before she passed away! RIP.

That pleasure on your face at her singing is great. She had A SOUND.

I agree, what Janis Joplin was, cannot be taught💐 so soulful 💐💙 Thank you for sharing

My mother used to sing Janis while she was vacuum cleaning the house. At the top of her lungs too, because that was the only way you could hear it over the vacuum cleaner.

To get to the heart of Janis, you have to do Summertime. Her voice on her bluesy stuff is just awesome!!

I ADORE you for taking this new direction and checking out these artists

Proud to born and raised in the same town as her! Many women singers try to sing like her. RIP Janis.

Great Reaction Diane. Janis had an amazing voice, she was really one of a kind. That ending with everybody on stage was crazy! It was like one big Dance Party USA! Boop!

@DianeJennings

Жыл бұрын

It looked so fun!

Faith Hill, a country singer covered this song back in 1994. She turned it into a country song. It was a hit, getting to the top of the country charts. The story behind this was Faith had never heard of Janis' version, she thought the song was a country song. Apparently another, lesser known country singer had recorded the song as a country song, and Faith had heard that, and wanted to record it. Her managers didn't let her hear the Janis Joplin version until after she had recorded her version.

@ptournas

Жыл бұрын

She may have heard Kris Kristofferson's version. He wrote it although it could have been Roger Miller or Kenny Rogers version which were both recorded before Kris' release. Of course that's just me guessing. It was a country song and covered by a lot of people. A reporter asking Kristofferson a question about the song referred to it as "your song" and Kris said that wasn't his song anymore, it's Janis' song now. He was very close to Janis and loved what she did to the song. ---CORRECTION--- I was thinking of the song Me and Bobby McGee, not this one. Thanks to theAAguy for pointing this out to me.

@TheAAGuy

Жыл бұрын

@@ptournas I think you're confusing the songs. 'Me And Bobby McGee' was the song that KK wrote. It was another Joplin hit. According to wiki POMH was written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns, and recorded by Erma Franklin, who was the sister of Aretha Franklin. So what I recall reading about was Faith was driving in her car and this song came on the radio. It was sung by a female country singer (so it wasn't KK) and it was sung as a typical country song. I don't remember who the singer was, just that it was someone I had never heard of. Thus my ' lesser known country singer'. Faith thought it was a country song and wanted to record it. She had never heard of JJ and had no idea who she was. She also never heard JJ's version. I recall reading about this online a number of years ago, but I have no idea where.

@ptournas

Жыл бұрын

@@TheAAGuy Of course you're right. Brain fart after reading comments mentioning Me and Bobby McGee. Thanks for the correction!

@wilburross9709

11 ай бұрын

I remember seeing the video of the Faith Hill version of this song and I almost got sick when I realized what song she was singing! Made a happy little country pop song out of it. Then when I saw an interview with her and she said "I don't think I've ever heard the Janis Joplin version" I thought "Yeah, I believe you."

Sadly, I missed my only opportunity to see Janice Joplin live, in 1970. People who did see her described it as a ""Lifetime Experience". Even on TV, her presence was thrilling. I was playing that signature song of hers from an 8 track player in my Mustang, when she blew out a speaker.

Her voice is truly memorable. I actually remember hearing her on the radio in the back seat of my dad's Impala before I was even old enough for school.

That's interesting what the song is about. I never knew it was about here giving her heart to the same person. In Janis's video its looks like its the crowd getting a piece of her heart. Almost every song I have listened too in your reaction videos I have learned something new. Thanks for reading what the songs are about at the end of your videos.

If you really want to get the feel for Janis Joplin, you need to find a copy of her album "Pearl" The record company had finally managed to pull her away from her band Big Brother and the Holding Company and set out on her own. The album is a masterpiece and really shows Janis' range. The biggest hit off of that album was her song "Me and Bobby McGee" which was written by Kris Kristopherson. Janis was a force back in the late 1960's. It really was a shame that she left us so soon. Her fans knew that she had so much more to give us.

@sandgroper1970

Жыл бұрын

I have a remastered version of this album in cd format, which has a second disc of out takes and extras, recorded during the original sessions.

saw Janice in 1969 at Colby college in Maine. Intimate setting small venue up close and personal, I was in college then now I'm 73 and still remember it all as clear as day. Music lasts forever.

Janice was an amazing shining light. The album Cheep Thrills is my favorite. I was born in 1971 and had some great musical influences from my parents. Janice is one that I wish that I could give back to them. Thank you for the memories and please take the deep dive into her.

My absolute favorite film clip of Janis, getting everyone on stage with her. Janis wanted and loved this reaction from her fans! No, nothing like this could happen today. Little Girl Blue is a great documentary on Janis Joplin, highly recommend watching it.

No one compares to Janis, left us way too soon but she'll live on forever with her music new york

Amazing voice! She had such a babyface, so the grit and growl was incongruous. She really shined when improvising.

when it comes to female singers...there is Janis.. and then there is everyone else

I never really liked her recordings, but when I see her perform live on film, I appreciate her more. She really puts it all out there on stage.

@DianeJennings

Жыл бұрын

Such a performance 🤩

My brother, a photographer, has some brilliant photographs of her when they did a free concert in Forest Park in St Louis years back. Many shots of her looking directly at him. He holds those pictures close to his heart and are part of his private collection.

Only heard her as a kid on my brother's records and on radio but her voice always touched me. She was so talented and her early death was so sad. What a voice ! RIP Janice !

The days of great music, great performers, & a fully dedicated fandom.

Janice Joplin was a unique presence who created her own space in the music world. I first heard of her when she was the lead singer of Big Brother and The Holding Company. She was what I called a scream singer, because she belted out so many songs in an almost yelling manner. I found her music very hit and miss. When she hit is was amazing, but when she missed it was excruciatingly bad. I see Chewie noped out on this video, for which I don't blame him. I could only take Joplin in small doses, myself.

@DianeJennings

Жыл бұрын

He’s a sleepy boy

Definitely check out more. Funny, seeing the audience allowed onstage reminded me of seeing Nick Cave in Portland Oregon June 21st 2017. Such an amazing show.

If you are looking to hear early Janis Joplin you have to search for "Big Brother and the Holding Company". That is the name of the band she was in for around 3 years before she went solo in her career. I never saw her live. However in 1970 I was 19 years old.

Janis Joplin is the singer that Diane has selected And she’s not a flower fairy, like Diane had expected Her style and voice are not easy to describe To be fair, it’s probably more of an ED vibe

@DianeJennings

Жыл бұрын

Probably 😂

She's often remembered as "the girl who sang the blues", from the song "American Pie". She was incredible. Diane, you likely know the old Irish tune "The Cuckoo", or as I learned it "Bunclody cuckoo". It came to America, where it was slightly changed, and just called "Cuckoo". I was reading about the song a few years ago, and saw mention of it being recorded by Big Brother and the Holding Company, which I knew was her band. I found a live version of it they did in about 1967. it's mostly horrible. The male singer had a fairly weak voice IMHO, and the vocals and music were generic-sounding psychedelia. Not at all interesting, except for some wild maraca playing. Eventually, the camera moved, and I realized it was Janis playing the maracas. So that was cool. But the song was still boring. And then..... for one verse, Janis took over the vocals. The change in energy was incredible. For just those 30 odd seconds, the song had power, grit, and impact. She was the best thing to ever happen to that band, albeit for only a short time. We were blessed to have her.

I'm 61 years old, and the youngest of 6 kids. I started listening to Janis with my older siblings when I was 5 or 6 years old. I've seen every interview with her I could find. She was a genuinely good person. She was down to earth, the person who was fun to hang out with. I still listen to her pretty regularly. It's hard not to get a lump in my throat when I think about how she died overdosing all alone.

@kitspics526

10 ай бұрын

I’m with you on that

@wildbill7081

9 ай бұрын

I am 72 and now living in the Philippines and just like you I watch and listen to everything she ever did including interviews.............Janis was the Greatest and my heart still cries for her........

Oh my, think I'm loving your reaction and depth of investigation.

Saw her live at Gregory Gym at UT Austin in 1969. What a show! A mic in one hand and a bottle of Southern Comfort often in her other hand.

Watching you react to music I love is an absolute joy. Keep doing it! 🤘

Such passion and her voice!!!! She was a sixties church and sadly a member of 27 group !!! Try listening to her live version of Ball & Chain live from Haight/Ashbury concert in San Francisco!!!

My first concert was Janis Joplin with Santana opening. Pittsburgh, Civic Arena

This performance was done in Frankfurt, Germany. The dancers may have been American servicemen.servicewomen or Germans, but in either case "totally uptight" and inhibited. However, this is my favourite Janis Joplin recording.

i have NEVER seen this video before - thanks!

Thanks so much, Diane, for featuring Janis! I grew up listening to her. I always envied her raw, rough, strong voice because mine is pretty boring by comparison -- clear, high, and very "church soprano." But my mother and my first cousin both have performed Janis Joplin songs: mother for performances with her band, and my cousin for her school talent show. Love her depth of emotion in this song particularly, because you can truly hear someone who's nearly at the end of the tether, yet just can't see herself outside of what, frankly, sounds like an abusive relationship. A LOT of people heard their own pain when Janis sang, and that's an incredibly cathartic thing to get to experience. I envy those who got to see her perform live; she died just 3 months before I was born. She was 7 years older than my mother at that time. I love your reaction videos. You hold up a lens to things I'm used to, and make me realize just how good, and just how bad, and just how lucky, and weird, and mad, and awful, and amazing my life is and remind me once again that my experiences aren't universal.

She was one of the most talented performers EVER. When she sang her voice would touch the very core of one's soul. Very few performers have that gift. She is AMAZING loved her voice

@maxmaidiac2237

Жыл бұрын

SRV WAS WAY BETTER

THIS is just REAL music! People who don’t need autotune, that’s what music is about. I’am 21 years old and everyone is looking weird to me if they ask about my music taste, but I love REAL music and people who give their hearts when they sing. That is what music is about! And that’s why I love Janis!