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POLO- I was there! ❤ As a blown away 16 year old! ❤ Janis idolized Bessie Smith. She even bought her a truly befitting headstone for her grave. She also studied Tina Turner, Aretha and Otis Redding. I also saw Otis at the same festival- a major highlight of my musical life! ❤ To see happy dancing funky Janis, check her out with Tom Jones performing “ Raise Your Hand”.
Yes Tom Jones and Janis as a guess at his show is amazing. You see her other side, laughing and dancing whit Tom ❤ To watch Janis soo happy.....and she passed soon after 😢
The year 1967 Janis Joplin is a local star in San Francisco. After this preformence she was a National star heading to become international. Other people who preformed that day where The Who and Jimi Hendrix. This concept was the prelude to Woodstock.
I was a young teens in her day. I also was a big Janis Joplin fan. I remember when this song came out. It kind of skyrocketed her. All if her songs were amazing but this one is something special. And I love Mama Cass's face in the audience! She is in awe. Everyone was in awe of Janis Joplin. I'm still upset to this day that she died so young. Such a shame. Love ya Janis!
It’s like a slow blues, but… Janice is off the chain. ❤ i’ve watched dozens of people react to this song, and it’s always the same. Just pure amazement.❤ I always like to point out, that that woman reacting in the audience is mama Cass from the mamas and the Papas.
The story behind the film of this performance from the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 is as incredible as the performance itself. One of my favorites. I recommend Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) This is one of Janis Joplin's best studio tracks. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) proves that she was as much of a powerhouse and force of nature while being constrained by her producer in a studio, as she was on the stage where she could just let loose. It is one of my favorite tracks of hers, and I hope you give it a listen.
when it comes to Janis all I can say is I've never heard a bad song come out of her heart and soul, she was a exceptional person. God rest her soul, she'll always be rememberd as well as her music.
We are not used to someone expressing such raw emotion without self consciousness. But when we do it sends chills. I don’t love blues usually either. But she is powerful and honest and that cuts through genre!
Being short myself, I noticed the hem of her pants as well. Don't know if she used safety pins or a quick simple tacking to shorten her pants. Funny the things you notice during Janis singing her heart and soul out.
The Monterey Pop Festival. The woman in the front row with the open mouthed expression was Cass Elliot of the Mamas and Papas. Even she was blown away.
Absolutely must also see Janis live 1969, in Stockholm, Summertime and Work Me Lord. Also 1969, live on Tom Jones show, Little Girl Blue. You will be amazed.
I can dig where you're going with the drunk crazy lady thing. It's like, when somebody's rational and logical layer is stripped and all that's left is irrational emotion.
Check out Janis singing Little Girl Blue on the Tom Jones show. A great live performance that showcases her more subdued but a great vocal performance.
I think this was originally one of Big Mama Thornton's. Janis did several of hers. They used to play some of the same Austin clubs before Janis took off for Frisco.
Glad you did the live and not the album version. It's tricky sometimes for reactors,making the choice, going in blind. This was the correct choice in this instance.
Another blues artist you might enjoy is Robin Trower. Start with Bridge of Sighs and Too Rolling Stoned. One of my favorite 70s bands. Hope you check them out.
I'd like you to react to her song "Mercedes Benz." Mostly because it's one of the few songs she did where she actually seemed happy. One of the reasons she was so good at the Blues was because her life was not the best, to say the least.
Janis Joplin would drink a fifth of whiskey sometimes before going on stage. So, yes, she does look drunk, like that hotel parking lot prophet screaming her pain to an empty heaven. But she made it a thing of beauty that reaches deep and touches us in the greatest pleasure center of them all, our souls. She was and is a worldwide treasure.
As far as the visual part of this video, the best thing by far is Mama Cass! I saw Janis in December of 1969 right before she died at the Madison square Garden in New York. And that concert is etched into my memory.
@@Jude_196another person in the crowd that felt the same as Momma Cass. Clive Davis, President of Columbia Records, was there and he signed her & band almost immediately. Look for him at the end of the video in a white tennis sweater. You take care 🙂
@GeorgeTopicana , you could have just passed on my my comment if you don't care for her. I, for 1, very much enjoyed her talents with The Mama's & The Papa's. I think her voice is wonderful.
If you were'nt alive and listening to music then you can't begin to imagine the earthshaking effect of hearing Janis and Jimi Hendrix for the first on the same weekend . Incredible times my friends !
THIS lady gave ALL SHE HAD, when she was performing!! POURED it OUT!!! GREAT PERFORMANCE, HERE!!! :) ENJOY, POLO!! Hope you like this one!! Have loved Janis for YEARS....and, the first time I saw the video of this performance: MOVED to TEARS!! LOVE IT!
the entire album called "cheap thrills" is perfect. i think it is better than anything else janis did just cuz the guitar sound is insane. big brother and the holding company deserves as much credit as janis for how powerful that album sounds. the guitar tone is unmatched, even since grunge and heavy metal and whatever else. the guitar on cheap thrills feels like your head is exploding. and that is especially the intro to ball and chain. it gives the guitar the first word. janis just sits back and waits for the insanity to die down before she says anything.
I wholeheartedly agree and something else that's very worth seeing is Janis singing "Get It While You Can" on the Dick Cavett Show. If you like a performer giving her all, this is it! th-cam.com/video/_5VsZE8E7s8/w-d-xo.html
@@TheDivayenta it was so good. i love that album. it feels like it is even better than it actually even is. it is better than itself. it is hard to describe.
The woman who wrote this song was Big Mama Thornton. Janis saw her perform it in a San Francisco club. She actually asked her permission to cover it. And unlike many rock stars of the time, she made sure that Big Mama was paid royalties when it shot into the top 10. This was the performance that exploded her into stardom. She was signed to a contract right after she left the stage. That woman in the audience who was reacting was Mama Cass of the Mamas and the Poppas.
Big Mama got done dirty by Elvis & that phony Tom Parker, the publishing/ copyrights laws were in their infancy & for quite a while true creative originals got exploited
So much passion and spirit in her 5’5” body that could hardly be contained … she’s coming out of her shoes ! ❤ Her timing amazes me in how she can fill and not lose her pace. And that run at the end (at first listen) begins as if she’s off key … but she is not. She’s just intimately and instinctively in touch with her scales. Flawlessly messy and glorious.
Janis has been gone almost twice the time she lived, and she is still being heard, and admired for her pure and raw talent. It makes you wonder how much was missed with such an early passing. I remember the news of Janice's , Jimi, and Morrison's passing. The losses still feel staggering... Thanks for giving her more views to generations that really have no idea of her talent .
Something else that's very worth seeing is Janis singing "Get It While You Can" on the Dick Cavett Show. If you like a performer giving her all, this is it! th-cam.com/video/_5VsZE8E7s8/w-d-xo.html. The best this 77 year old has ever seen of her.
This is the largest audience Janis Joplin had perfomed in front of and it was also weeks before the release of her first album so this is the first time that a lot of these people had actually seen Janis or heard her in person! This is also the first annual Monterey Pop Festival and The Mamas and Papas were instrumental in getting it started
Wow what memories. I had the album Cheap Thrills. Big Brother and Janis incredible together. She's an idol of mine, her talent beyond compare, her bravery to do it.
I too hope that this is from The Monterey Pop Festival. Janis was sublime at that show. The band was full bore killin’ it. And you can’t beat watching the crowd react to Janis in-the-moment. RIP Pearl. You left us too soon and very sad. 🎶💙🎶
I was a young repressed teen in Canada when Janis exploded into my awareness, and my entire life changed in an instant. There is such raw emotional giving in her performances . . . I literally became a different person with a different perspective.
I'm happy you are noticing Ms Joplin. I was in college during her height of fame and she was respected within the music field. I'm an old man now but I can remember playing her records in the dorm night after night. She was such a great talent.
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 both, for such a thoughtful reaction ❤ 💚 💙 Would love you to check out her live performance of Cry Baby, when she was in concert in Canada, it is so awesome, and shows her rare ability to use her Overtone singing, also known as overtone chanting, harmonic singing, polyphonic overtone singing, or diphonic singing! th-cam.com/video/xRhHdFRFBAs/w-d-xo.html
This was done at the The Monterey Pop Festival. This made Janis and Jimi Hendrix instant stars. This is where Jimi puts his guitar on fire. She had fire in her voice
That was at Monterey. No one even knew her name. The woman watching in the audience with the dropped jaw was Mama Cass Elliot. Certainly no slouch! All she could say was Wow! Clive Davis was also in the audience, He signed her right then! I believe Hendrix performed & was signed, too. So sad we lost them way to young due to overdoses. They will never be replaced!
Janis gave the world everything she had in that tiny beautiful powerhouse of a soul. I can remember exactly where I was & how much it hurt when I heard she died. She was my hero & it felt like she was so her own self that this world crushed her ☮️
I sometimes dwell on a story I made up in my head, and I think that the woman that Janice is portraying, hit a point of breaking, and before the cracks, at a point, she was mixed with a character the singer Annie Lennox developed for a different song. That Lennox woman, the same as with the Joplin woman, was more even keeled earlier in the relationship. Very loving, giving, excusing. And when the breaking point came, she hadn't imagined it all happening, and so she fell off of an emotional cliff. Both artists have the capacity for beautiful vocals, but when Lennox broke, she held on to vocal control, being less free in that way of Joplin. BUT she became the woman in the song "It's a Thin Line Between Love and Hate" That woman eventually was not controlled, not behind a closed door. It's a song about calm love, but it sure turned when she broke. In the original version ('71 ?), the male singers arranged their vocals too close to the years with the BeeBop sound. Annie brought it into the year 1995, and put it with great production too. And I love it when an Annie song brings in some passionate harmonica. Either way, both songs with women who can really sing, and showing a love gone very wrong.
Janis...a force of emotion, power, power, control....authenticity. Your reaction: 50+ years later, still having the same impact. Glad you listened....we knew you'd enjoy.
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She was one of a kind
POLO- I was there! ❤ As a blown away 16 year old! ❤
Janis idolized Bessie Smith. She even bought her a truly befitting headstone for her grave. She also studied Tina Turner, Aretha and Otis Redding. I also saw Otis at the same festival- a major highlight of my musical life! ❤
To see happy dancing funky Janis, check her out with Tom Jones performing “ Raise Your Hand”.
That’s incredible! Saw her in Chicago…loved her passion
I love that clip!
Yes Tom Jones and Janis as a guess at his show is amazing. You see her other side, laughing and dancing whit Tom ❤ To watch Janis soo happy.....and she passed soon after 😢
And was mentored by Big Mommma Thorton
Ma Rainey and Lead Belly too
That's Mumma Cass in the audience in complete awe at this performance.
Mama
Me and Bobby McGee touched my heart back in the day. What a voice. What a great soul.
You Sir are in for a treat/suprise! What a ride!
FACTS!!!
The year 1967 Janis Joplin is a local star in San Francisco. After this preformence she was a National star heading to become international. Other people who preformed that day where The Who and Jimi Hendrix. This concept was the prelude to Woodstock.
Work me lord by her was as honest and true to her soul as you could get. I recommend the live in Stockholm version
I never tire of watching her. Miss her so much!
Fantabulous. Thank you sir
the 60's were all about original, unfiltered, unfettered raw talent. You had to be there.
The 90s too, and I was lucky enough to be there for that decade. Two iconic decades in music that will never happen again.
It’s funny cause she was a drunk and crazy lady but beyond the stratosphere. Phenomenal performance and phenomenal singer
I was a young teens in her day. I also was a big Janis Joplin fan. I remember when this song came out. It kind of skyrocketed her. All if her songs were amazing but this one is something special. And I love Mama Cass's face in the audience! She is in awe. Everyone was in awe of Janis Joplin. I'm still upset to this day that she died so young. Such a shame. Love ya Janis!
Piece of my heart.
It’s like a slow blues, but… Janice is off the chain. ❤ i’ve watched dozens of people react to this song, and it’s always the same. Just pure amazement.❤ I always like to point out, that that woman reacting in the audience is mama Cass from the mamas and the Papas.
Mama Cass agreed: “Wow”. Me too, always.
The story behind the film of this performance from the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 is as incredible as the performance itself. One of my favorites.
I recommend Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) This is one of Janis Joplin's best studio tracks. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) proves that she was as much of a powerhouse and force of nature while being constrained by her producer in a studio, as she was on the stage where she could just let loose. It is one of my favorite tracks of hers, and I hope you give it a listen.
when it comes to Janis all I can say is I've never heard a bad song come out of her heart and soul, she was a exceptional person. God rest her soul, she'll always be rememberd as well as her music.
Stfu and just enjoy it !! We are all lucky to have a soul like that in our world !!! ❤😊
We are not used to someone expressing such raw emotion without self consciousness. But when we do it sends chills. I don’t love blues usually either. But she is powerful and honest and that cuts through genre!
The lady , whith glasses who is lokking janis sing, whith her mouth open is The singer of the MAMAS AND THE PAPAS, Cassy
Quirky thing I love about this performance, is the safety(?) pins in the hem of her pants. This was the performance that turned her into a star
Being short myself, I noticed the hem of her pants as well. Don't know if she used safety pins or a quick simple tacking to shorten her pants. Funny the things you notice during Janis singing her heart and soul out.
Another mind blowing Janis performance is her song Work Me Lord live in Stockholm 1969. A masterpiece.
This was at Monterey Pop. It was incredible. Mama Cass Elliot was blown away.
Janus Joplin owns every woman singer ! EVER………
That's Cass Elliot with her mouth hanging open. She was a singer with the Mammas and Poppas.
The Monterey Pop Festival. The woman in the front row with the open mouthed expression was Cass Elliot of the Mamas and Papas. Even she was blown away.
The brothers and the holding badass guitar player family
Absolutely must also see Janis live 1969, in Stockholm, Summertime and Work Me Lord. Also 1969, live on Tom Jones show, Little Girl Blue. You will be amazed.
I can dig where you're going with the drunk crazy lady thing. It's like, when somebody's rational and logical layer is stripped and all that's left is irrational emotion.
Check out Janis singing Little Girl Blue on the Tom Jones show. A great live performance that showcases her more subdued but a great vocal performance.
I think this was originally one of Big Mama Thornton's. Janis did several of hers. They used to play some of the same Austin clubs before Janis took off for Frisco.
Optreden woodstock.
Dank je wel voor deze muziek.
Glad you did the live and not the album version. It's tricky sometimes for reactors,making the choice, going in blind. This was the correct choice in this instance.
Another blues artist you might enjoy is Robin Trower. Start with Bridge of Sighs and Too Rolling Stoned. One of my favorite 70s bands. Hope you check them out.
Big Mama Thornton wrote that song. Most of the white blues singers like Joplin were the vehicles to introduce Black music to white audiences.
Mama Cass Elliott was blown away!!
I'd like you to react to her song "Mercedes Benz." Mostly because it's one of the few songs she did where she actually seemed happy. One of the reasons she was so good at the Blues was because her life was not the best, to say the least.
Definitely recommend her song
Piece of my health.
If you want to have some fun check out Joplins performance with Tom Jones.
You know, I think a genius performer like Janis could sing a rubber ducky song and it would be fabulous.
Hendrix and Joplin both achieved their fame at this same concert, four years later they were both dead.
Janis Joplin would drink a fifth of whiskey sometimes before going on stage. So, yes, she does look drunk, like that hotel parking lot prophet screaming her pain to an empty heaven. But she made it a thing of beauty that reaches deep and touches us in the greatest pleasure center of them all, our souls. She was and is a worldwide treasure.
That was mama cats from The Mamas and Papas that said wow when she was all done
Two requests from Janis Summetime and Little Girl Blue. I love your reactions😊
that is mama cass watching her, check out mama cass from the momma and the papas\
As far as the visual part of this video, the best thing by far is Mama Cass!
I saw Janis in December of 1969 right before she died at the Madison square Garden in New York. And that concert is etched into my memory.
I was there too...but I was 3yo😂
I wanna watch this one but sadly I'll be in bed.
Great reaction. Another gone too soon, as well as Mama Cass Elliot (Mama's and the Papa's shown in the audience at 4:27).
You should review Bobby Magee Janis did a great version of this Kris’s Kristopherson song.
Please be the live version at The Monterey Pop Festival.If it is you will see Mama Cass watching in awe of the performance
YES - SO GOOD, as Mama Cass sits: MESMERIZED and IN SHOCK!!! You can SEE the appreciation on her FACE!!!
@@Jude_196another person in the crowd that felt the same as Momma Cass. Clive Davis, President of Columbia Records, was there and he signed her & band almost immediately. Look for him at the end of the video in a white tennis sweater. You take care 🙂
@@melissaford717 Yeah...had heard that, but didn't know that was him!! WOW...COOL!! Thanks for that!! You take care, too, Hon!! 😁
This is the live version.
Loving Cass Elliot in the audience and in awe 😮 of Janis. ❤
Spotted that tooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know Right! It’s fabulous and more!
Couldn't care one bit about that tub of lard
@@GeorgeTropicana Thanks Mr Trump
@GeorgeTopicana , you could have just passed on my my comment if you don't care for her. I, for 1, very much enjoyed her talents with The Mama's & The Papa's. I think her voice is wonderful.
If you were'nt alive and listening to music then you can't begin to imagine
the earthshaking effect of hearing Janis and Jimi Hendrix for the first on the same weekend . Incredible times my friends !
Mama Cass of the Mommas and the Pappas fame in the audience watching Janis
Jimi and Janis what more can I say
The one, the only, the magnificent, the irreplaceable Janis. Thank you for the reaction.
Laura, GO GREEN! 💚 🤍
@@kathrynnisse5105 Go White!
Janice in all her glory. This song made her a legend, IMHO.
Not really just an opinion. she was relatively unknown until this performance. It did everything for her career 🥰
I agree with the James Brown comparison. Love Janis. She had the courage to show her wounded heart.
This performance locked her in as a legend.
She was the drunk crazy lady and we loved her
THIS lady gave ALL SHE HAD, when she was performing!! POURED it OUT!!! GREAT PERFORMANCE, HERE!!! :) ENJOY, POLO!! Hope you like this one!! Have loved Janis for YEARS....and, the first time I saw the video of this performance: MOVED to TEARS!! LOVE IT!
Take another little piece of my heart.
One of my favorite songs
Janis Joplin, any of her Woodstock preferences... Especially Cry baby. Totally fire❤❤
Seeing this performance from Janis always makes me emotional…
That last drop will break your heart.
I have always thought of her as the female Joe Cocker 😊
the entire album called "cheap thrills" is perfect. i think it is better than anything else janis did just cuz the guitar sound is insane. big brother and the holding company deserves as much credit as janis for how powerful that album sounds. the guitar tone is unmatched, even since grunge and heavy metal and whatever else. the guitar on cheap thrills feels like your head is exploding. and that is especially the intro to ball and chain. it gives the guitar the first word. janis just sits back and waits for the insanity to die down before she says anything.
I wholeheartedly agree and something else that's very worth seeing is Janis singing "Get It While You Can" on the Dick Cavett Show. If you like a performer giving her all, this is it! th-cam.com/video/_5VsZE8E7s8/w-d-xo.html
Exactly! They were the best band she ever worked with.
@@TheDivayenta it was so good. i love that album. it feels like it is even better than it actually even is. it is better than itself. it is hard to describe.
Covered with R Crumb art. I played it over and over when it came out. I have 3 copies.
Couldn’t agree more with you guys. Best of her bands by far, and have never gotten anywhere near the credit they deserved.
The woman who wrote this song was Big Mama Thornton. Janis saw her perform it in a San Francisco club. She actually asked her permission to cover it. And unlike many rock stars of the time, she made sure that Big Mama was paid royalties when it shot into the top 10. This was the performance that exploded her into stardom. She was signed to a contract right after she left the stage. That woman in the audience who was reacting was Mama Cass of the Mamas and the Poppas.
Big Mama got done dirty by Elvis & that phony Tom Parker, the publishing/ copyrights laws were in their infancy & for quite a while true creative originals got exploited
She almost levitates with emotion
Your right on.
She absolutely nailed that ending *perfectly* ...
My favorite Janice performance. Probably the first song reaction with Mama Cass in the audience. And Janice got signed by Clive Davis.
So much passion and spirit in her 5’5” body that could hardly be contained … she’s coming out of her shoes ! ❤ Her timing amazes me in how she can fill and not lose her pace. And that run at the end (at first listen) begins as if she’s off key … but she is not. She’s just intimately and instinctively in touch with her scales. Flawlessly messy and glorious.
Janis has been gone almost twice the time she lived, and she is still being heard, and admired for her pure and raw talent. It makes you wonder how much was missed with such an early passing. I remember the news of Janice's , Jimi, and Morrison's passing. The losses still feel staggering... Thanks for giving her more views to generations that really have no idea of her talent .
I agree with you ❤
Her emotions are driving her; she's possessed with them - 100% genuine!
I been a Janis fan for 50 years or more. Yes, her performance at the Monteray festivaal was awesome. Mama Cass Elliot was simply blown away!
Something else that's very worth seeing is Janis singing "Get It While You Can" on the Dick Cavett Show. If you like a performer giving her all, this is it! th-cam.com/video/_5VsZE8E7s8/w-d-xo.html. The best this 77 year old has ever seen of her.
This is the largest audience Janis Joplin had perfomed in front of and it was also weeks before the release of her first album so this is the first time that a lot of these people had actually seen Janis or heard her in person! This is also the first annual Monterey Pop Festival and The Mamas and Papas were instrumental in getting it started
It was the only Monterey Pop Festival, as far as I'm concerned. "Annual" implies that it took place each year, which it didn't.
Wow what memories. I had the album Cheap Thrills. Big Brother and Janis incredible together. She's an idol of mine, her talent beyond compare, her bravery to do it.
With Mama Cass in the audience! Even SHE was blown away!
I too hope that this is from The Monterey Pop Festival. Janis was sublime at that show. The band was full bore killin’ it. And you can’t beat watching the crowd react to Janis in-the-moment. RIP Pearl. You left us too soon and very sad. 🎶💙🎶
at 430 min that was Cass Elliot in sun glasses vibing on Janis. Totally my fave in that decade
I was a young repressed teen in Canada when Janis exploded into my awareness, and my entire life changed in an instant. There is such raw emotional giving in her performances . . . I literally became a different person with a different perspective.
I had that gold knit outfit she's wearing😊
One of the best performances ever recorded, no doubt.
I'm happy you are noticing Ms Joplin. I was in college during her height of fame and she was respected within the music field. I'm an old man now but I can remember playing her records in the dorm night after night. She was such a great talent.
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 both, for such a thoughtful reaction ❤ 💚 💙 Would love you to check out her live performance of Cry Baby, when she was in concert in Canada, it is so awesome, and shows her rare ability to use her Overtone singing, also known as overtone chanting, harmonic singing, polyphonic overtone singing, or diphonic singing! th-cam.com/video/xRhHdFRFBAs/w-d-xo.html
Great comparison with James Brown 👏 💜
The undisputed Queen of Rock. RIP Janis.
Somehow she brings joy to the blues. She demands that you listen and love the music and its power to transform.
This was done at the The Monterey Pop Festival. This made Janis and Jimi Hendrix instant stars. This is where Jimi puts his guitar on fire. She had fire in her voice
This performance was her bullet to fame.
That was at Monterey. No one even knew her name. The woman watching in the audience with the dropped jaw was Mama Cass Elliot. Certainly no slouch! All she could say was Wow! Clive Davis was also in the audience, He signed her right then! I believe Hendrix performed & was signed, too. So sad we lost them way to young due to overdoses. They will never be replaced!
My single favorite performance in all of music. I've never heard anyone do so many things in one song. Absolute masterpiece.
I think Robert Plant was inspired by Janice.
Oh shes drunk, lol Southern Comfort was her drink of choice.
Janis gave the world everything she had in that tiny beautiful powerhouse of a soul. I can remember exactly where I was & how much it hurt when I heard she died. She was my hero & it felt like she was so her own self that this world crushed her ☮️
I sometimes dwell on a story I made up in my head, and I think that the woman that Janice is portraying, hit a point of breaking, and before the cracks, at a point, she was mixed with a character the singer Annie Lennox developed for a different song. That Lennox woman, the same as with the Joplin woman, was more even keeled earlier in the relationship. Very loving, giving, excusing. And when the breaking point came, she hadn't imagined it all happening, and so she fell off of an emotional cliff. Both artists have the capacity for beautiful vocals, but when Lennox broke, she held on to vocal control, being less free in that way of Joplin. BUT she became the woman in the song "It's a Thin Line Between Love and Hate" That woman eventually was not controlled, not behind a closed door. It's a song about calm love, but it sure turned when she broke. In the original version ('71 ?), the male singers arranged their vocals too close to the years with the BeeBop sound. Annie brought it into the year 1995, and put it with great production too. And I love it when an Annie song brings in some passionate harmonica. Either way, both songs with women who can really sing, and showing a love gone very wrong.
I love at the end of the video, Mama Cass (who was no slouch herself) saying, “Wow.” 😊
Janis...a force of emotion, power, power, control....authenticity. Your reaction: 50+ years later, still having the same impact. Glad you listened....we knew you'd enjoy.
Heck YES! Janis Joplin sings with her whole body and soul!
I LOVE SEEING THE REACTION OF MOMMA CASS ELLIOTT OF THE MOMMA'S AND THE POPPA'S ❣️❣️❣️
Im sure she was inebriated by something or several somethings and maybe a little crazy too!
Janis Joplin followed in the footsteps of Etta James.
It's all the blues.....
React to Eric Burdon and the Animals singing Monterey a song about this Festival