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"At Seventeen" is a song by American singer-songwriter Janis Ian from her seventh studio album Between the Lines. Columbia released it in July 1975 as the album's second single. Ian wrote the lyrics on the basis of a New York Times article and used a samba instrumental, and Brooks Arthur produced the final version.
Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink; April 7, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s.Her signature songs are the 1966/67 hit "Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)" [1] and the 1975 Top Ten single "At Seventeen", from her seventh studio album Between the Lines, which in September 1975 reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart.
Janis Eddy Fink had begun writing poetry when she was eight and singing when she was twelve. [6] Changing her name to "Janis Ian" after the middle name of her brother, she began to perform in New York folk clubs in her teens and made her first recording, "Baby I've Been Thinking" in September 1965. [7]
That undertaking is The Janis Ian Archives, a massive donation by the folk-reared artist that covers a music career than opened eyes and ears as far back as 1966 with Ian’s song of an ...
The song "At Seventeen" was released as a single and reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Adult Contemporary chart. Ian won the 1975 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the song, and performed it on the first episode of Saturday Night Live on October 11, 1975.
At Seventeen; F. Fly Too High; J. Jesse (Janis Ian song) L. Love Is Blind (Janis Ian song) S. Society's Child; W. What About the Love
Dave Grohl's 16-year-old daughter, Violet, is a chip off the old block when it comes to making music. The talented teen and her Foo Fighters-frontman dad teamed up for a cover of Janis Ian's ...
During her period of prominence in the middle 1970s Janis Ian would distance herself from her Verve albums, calling them "a tax write-off for Verve", [7] and apart from one performance of "Insanity Comes Quietly to the Structured Mind" at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 1976 [8] she is not known to have performed anything from For ...