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"Me and Bobby McGee" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson and originally performed by Roger Miller. Fred Foster shares the writing credit, as Kristofferson wrote the song based on a suggestion from Foster. [ 1 ]
Cheap Thrills is the second studio album by American rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, released on August 12, 1968, by Columbia Records. Cheap Thrills was the band's final album with lead singer Janis Joplin before she left to begin a solo career.
Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter. One of the most iconic and successful rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals, [1] as well as her "electric" stage presence.
In September and October 1970, Janis Joplin recorded it for her album Pearl, posthumously released in 1971. The song was in more of a blues-rock style and produced by Paul A. Rothchild. Her rendition reached #42 on the US Billboard Hot 100, [6] and #20 on Cash Box. The B-side included the track "Mercedes Benz".
It should only contain pages that are Janis Joplin songs or lists of Janis Joplin songs, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Janis Joplin songs in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
18 Essential Songs is a one-disc distillation of the triple-disc Janis box set. Running 70 minutes, it is a more extensive best-of than the ten-track 1973 Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits album. But it is denied "first pick" status because, unlike that album, it does not contain the hit version of Joplin's only number one single, "Me and Bobby McGee."
In 1973, Caserta published her memoir Going Down with Janis, which chronicled her friendship and romance with the "Me and Bobby McGee" musician. In the years since its publication, Caserta claimed ...
Move Over! is an album by Janis Joplin released for Record Store Day 2011. The album contains unreleased, rare and alternate songs from all three of Joplin's backing bands, Big Brother and the Holding Company , Kozmic Blues Band and Full Tilt Boogie Band .