Janis would have been 67 years old today. Post your favorite

[livetohike]

Janis Joplin songs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caiBo_wTxrY&feature=related

Maybe

Maybe
Oh if I could pray and I try, dear,
You might come back home, home to me.

Maybe
Whoa, if I could ever hold your little hand
Oh you might understand.
Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah.

Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe dear
I guess I might have done something wrong,
Honey I'd be glad to admit it.
Oh, come on home to me!
Honey maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe yeah.

Well I know that it just doesn't ever seem to matter, baby,
Oh honey, when I go out or what I'm trying to do,
Can't you see I'm still left here
And I'm holding on in needing you.

Please, please, please, please,
Oh don't you reconsider babe.
Now come on, I said come back,
Won't you come back to me!

Maybe dear, oh maybe, maybe, maybe,
Let me help you show me how.
Honey, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe,
Maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah,
Maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah.
Ooh!

[hobbit709]

1. Ball and Chain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui4c0PKvVMU

[livetohike]

3. No matter how many times I hear this song (and it has to be

in the thousands), her voice still gives me chills and brings me to tears.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

45. I agree

I think it was her best............. :)

[peekaloo]

2. Mercedes Benz

"Mercedes Benz"

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV ?
Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me.
I wait for delivery each day until three,
So oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV ?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town ?
I'm counting on you, Lord, please don't let me down.
Prove that you love me and buy the next round,
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town ?

Everybody!
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends,
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?

That's it!


I was a kid when I first heard it and loved it for its humor. :-)

[livetohike]

4. Me too. We had "Bowling for Dollars" on our local channels, but

just the lyrics of this song made (still make) me smile.

[Rhiannon12866]

38. +1

My friend used to do a great rendition of this, back in the day... :woohoo:

[Deep13]

5. A candle that shines twice as bright burns half as long. nt

[Captain Hilts]

6. Sanity is over-rated for singers. Happy Birthday, Old Girl!

[Captain Hilts]

7. Tony Kornheiser said that JJ went to high school in Port Arthur with Jimmy Johnson. nt

[livetohike]

8. Ewwww! Are they the same age? He was probably one of

the guys that taunted her :-(.

[Captain Hilts]

9. Yeah. Ever see the clip of her on the Cavett show talking about going to her reunion?

It's a riot.

[livetohike]

10. Yes. She looked really happy in that interview and

I remember seeing clips of her at the reunion. Looked like Port Arthur people were stuck in the 50's and she walks in as colorful as can be ;-).

[jobycom]

19. There's something in the water in Port Arthur.

Jimmy Johnson, Janis Joplin, Babe Zaharius, The Big Bopper, Jonathon and Edgar Winters, a whole bunch of country singers and nfl players.

It also has a higher murder rate than New Orleans, so you either die young or become famous, or both.

[livetohike]

27. I've only driven through Port Arthur when we lived in Houston

a long time ago....(1980-1982), but it reminded me a lot of Pgh - industrial and hard working/hard drinking. Lots to sing the blues about.

[jobycom]

28. Yeah, it's one of those places people work hard to escape.

Not everyone wants to escape, obviously, but you know what I mean.

[abq e streeter]

11. Kozmic Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ktokwkF-4Y

but I don't think any Janis Joplin song just about breaks my heart to hear more than this one: Little Girl Blue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Fzql-3_zM

[livetohike]

13. "I know just how you feeeeeeeeeeel"

Okay, :cry: ing now too.

[redqueen]

12. Too hard to pick a favorite...

but this has always been one of my very favorites... her rendition of Summertime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txByfXgxxMw

Other favorites are Down on Me, Move Over, Try, Get It While You Can, and of course Ball and Chain and Piece of My Heart.

She was my idol when I was growing up. Love love love love love her... :loveya:

[livetohike]

14. So many songs......Maybe was the first one that came to my

mind this morning, but yeah, me too she made it okay to be yourself. I was 15 in 1967.....she was definitely my idol.

I can remember singing Summertime in high school choir(part of a Porgy and Bess medley), but we didn't sing it like that :-).

[Doc_Technical]

15. Mention Janis and for some reason, this song comes up:

Turtle Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B41dXQp6Bw

[livetohike]

16. "I guess I'm just like a turtle hiding underneath it's hardened

shell..." What a great song :-) Just love the glass breaking on the floor mid song.

Edit: can't spell

[cemaphonic]

17. Cry Baby is probably my favorite

& of course, her cover of "Me and Bobbie McGee" is definitive.

[jobycom]

18. Well, I can't post them all, so I'll stick with "Son of a Preacherman."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zOYCaaZ1iw

(It's not Janis, but I'm going to leave the mistake just so the other responses will make sense. Yeah, I just said I'll leave my embarrassing moment up here to keep from making other people look bad. I'm just a nice guy like that. Remember me kindly). :(

[livetohike]

21. It doesn't sound like Janis to me

:shrug: I almost thought there was actually a Janis Joplin song I never heard.

[redqueen]

23. ... cause it's not.

It's Dusty Springfield.

:P

[jobycom]

26. They were the same person....

Okay, yeah, I blew it. Could have sworn I had heard her do it, then I signed on youtube and searched for that and found it, and linked without listening. :( I'm an idiot today. :)

[redqueen]

29. Hah...

I thought you were just being a smartass. :)

[livetohike]

32. No harm no foul

:-)

[jobycom]

24. Hmm. You're right, that's Dusty Springfield. I've heard Janis do it.

I didn't listen to the link first. It was labeled as Janis.

[jobycom]

31. Here's Janis doing "Hold On"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knII3S0MZtY

[AzDar]

20. Here's to Pearl...

:toast:

[livetohike]

22. I actually have a bottle of Southern Comfort in the cabinet

so :toast:. Maybe I can talk my husband into a couple of shots after work :-).

[fizzgig]

25. combination of the two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy_JXPixTRA

my dad bought be cheap thrills for christmas six or seven years ago and it just blew my socks off. cheap thrills is one of my favorite albums ever.

[livetohike]

30. That's great!

I remember when Cheap Thrills was released - my boyfriend bought it for me as a birthday present :-).

Good for your Dad :toast: Glad you like Janis' music.

[SteppingRazor]

33. Fun fact: In Budapest, Hungary, there's a bar called the Janis Pub devoted to her.

Pictures and posters of Joplin covering the walls. I have no idea what the place is doing in Budapest. But I stopped in there when passing through Budapest once, and though I can no longer tolerate the smell, much less the taste, of the stuff -- it was my drink of choice through high school, which led to a whole host of horrifying experiences -- I ordered Southern Comfort, straight. It was her drink, after all. I played "Down on Me" on the jukebox, brooded at the bar over my SoCo as big Hungarians screamed over a soccer match in the next room, and then I left and walked through the seedy, sex-shop-strewn streets of the grungy district of Budapest that surrounds the Janis Pub, through downtown and on to the embassy district, where I was staying at the Andrassy Hotel. And as I walked up Andrassy ut, I thought of what she said: "Onstage I make love to 25,000 people, and then I go home alone."


Anyway, that's the last time I drank Southern Comfort.



"Down on Me":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nwTISqXm64

[livetohike]

34. Since she was known to be a hard drinker, I guess it fits, but

what a story :-).

[Brother Buzz]

35. Robert Crumb Interview: "I did the cover because Janis asked me to and I liked her. ....

She used to hang around and liked comics and she asked me. I didn't like her music but I did it because she asked me to and I needed the money. I got 600 bucks."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm3Cgj61rRs

[livetohike]

36. Interesting! But, "I didn't like her music"! and he didn't like the

Stones, so I wonder what he was listening to back then. Nancy Sinatra?

[SteppingRazor]

37. Crumb's a big fan of really old music...

bluegrass, old country, early jazz, that sort of stuff.

[livetohike]

39. Thanks!

:hi:

[Brother Buzz]

40. His has a very eclectic taste in music and had an extensive collection of 78's

He only listens to 78's, or so he says.



R. Crumb And His Cheap Suit Serenaders still perform about once a year (mostly minus Crumb).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0BUcsRvDIY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grrp6mxrY5Y

[Red State Rebel]

41. Piece O My Heart! Love me some Janis :)

[livetohike]

42. I remember seeing her sing this on Hullabaloo(I think)

I was awestruck :-).

[Lydia Leftcoast]

43. I was in college when she died, and I learned just how many of the

straight-laced, small town girls at my school were huge Janis Joplin fans. It really hit a lot of us hard.

[murielm99]

47. I was in college then, too.

I had just seen her in concert that summer.

I love, love, love her music. I have her three albums on vinyl. I bought them back then. I have the Box of Pearls CD, too.

Of course I love the songs mentioned in this thread, but go back and listen to A Woman Left Lonely. It is so poignant, it leaves me feeling lonely. I will always miss Janis.

[livetohike]

48. Me too. I was a Freshman in college

and I was heartbroken - after losing Jimi just three weeks before that.....it meant my top two favorite rock stars were gone. It seemed unbelievable that it could happen like that.

[zanana1]

44. She sang "Summertime" like nobody else could....

or ever will.

[bluesbassman]

46. Try - Live on the Dick Cavett Show, 1969

Unbelievable soul in that woman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gsqBEPSrd0

[livetohike]

49. One of my favorites too - good clip

:hi: