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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 😢
@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 !
@@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 🙂
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 .
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
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! ua-cam.com/video/_5VsZE8E7s8/v-deo.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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
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! ua-cam.com/video/xRhHdFRFBAs/v-deo.html
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. 🎶💙🎶
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.
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'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.
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 ☮️
Member of the 27 Club, may she rest in peace. Robert Johnson (1938), Brian Jones (1969), Jimi Hendrix (1970), Jim Morrison (1971), Gary Thain (Uriah Heep 1975), Kurt Cobain (1994), Amy Winehouse (2011) and many more...All passed away at the age of 27.
I bought this album in 1969 when I was 10 years old, and in my 3rd year of university studies....and I loved this LP, but what I couldn't get then, because I was such a happy go lucky kid, but definitely feel it, now, is the pain in Janis's voice, and it moves me to tears, sometimes, because you can feel that she is struggling with a lot, and she is putting it all on display. "Summertime" gets me, too, in this same way, because her intense pain rings through, and it rings true, too, big time, and yet, there is soul, and beauty in that pain, and it is a pain which is transcendent in some kind of magical way: she is releasing her pain through her performances. She is amazing. She was something else, man, oh man! Oh, man, I forgot to mention your keen insight: you are exactly right about Janis being like the drunk lady in the hotel parking lot, about to get arrested, and sometimes, she actually was that lady: she was a wild woman, for sure! You hit that one right on the head, brother!
POLOLOVE. Man, I wish I could have heard her live. She was a phenomenon. I know the musician (here in Berkeley, CA) who sadly found her right after she passed. Nobody expected it, they all know how heavy she was hitting the drugs but they thought of her as indestructable. Janis, we will always love you.
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! ua-cam.com/video/_5VsZE8E7s8/v-deo.html. The best this 77 year old has ever seen of 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.
she was a very special person, and definitely an old soul and my mother was absolutely obsessed with Janis growing up. If I could go back and see a female vocalist from before my time it would be her.
That woman they kept showing in the crowd was Mama Cass. Another absolute legend. ... Also, you NAILED comparing her to James Brown. When a singer has THAT much soul, they don't need to land exactly on key, cuz they'll make you FEEL like the "key" is wrong but they're right haha
I believe this was at the Monterey music festival. I was ten years old when this song came out. I loved the monkeys at the time. Janis rocked!!! Nobody ever replaced her
Another artist that I grew up with my parents playing; I remember being about 12 trying my damndest to try and sing “Summertime” like her in my room; I was quite unsuccessful 😂.
The Queen of Scream and the Godfather of Soul. Ya can't beat that. They leave it all on stage. Piece of my Heart is a classic unless you've already done it.
This is the legendary appearance at Monterey Pop. She and "Big Brother" at first refused to be filmed, but luckily they gave in. They came back out to be filmed, and thats why we have this. Janis blows everybody away, including other musicians. You see Mama Cass Eliot, from the Mamas and the Papas. She's just diggin it. Monterrey Pop also gave us Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar on fire, and letting it sing. Monterrey Pop is a watershed moment. My mother loved Janis and Jimi, and I grew up gearing and seeing them LOUD. We lost them both, in 1970. Gone in a flash.
Her big break .. And Jimi Hendrix came home to America at Monterey Pop Festival. My mostest favorite live song was "Janis Joplin - Cry Baby (Live)" ... The girl was in so much pain .. Some people sing the blues but Janis was the blues. Going home to her high school reunion and crying in interviews about the way she was treated.
Janis absolutely nailed it, so good it's almost painful. This clip is I believe from Montery Pop, you can see Mama Cass from the Mamas and the Papas in the audience. Check out the art work on the CHEAP THRILLS vynal album cover a true classic by the great Underground Comix master Robert Crumb. If memory serves me correctly the illustration for 'Ball and Chain' is the last pictiure on the lower right hand corner and features Janis in a blue striped prison dress, head bowed dragging a 'ball and chain' . Album and artwork absolute classics. When you review a song why not also have a look at the artwork on the album it came, especially from that era as they often compliment each other perfectly and some album covers are works of art in their own right.
Great of you to listen when this genre isn't one that you particularly appreciate! And I loved your comments! Also, love your open mind to be able to appreciate her!
Since nobody else has mentioned it, this really is a classic blues song written by Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton. Somewhere here on UA-cam is a live version with Buddy Guy and she introduces the song as “made famous by me and Janis Joplin”. I think I read that all the royalties she ever received for it were from Janis’s cover.
Yes she was unique oh that voice was sooo good her music is in every hippie’s collection please listen to more Polo she was out of this world but what a tragic life x
To add a little context. She grew up in the Beaumont/Port Arthur/Orange triangle. I drove through there in 1980 on city streets due to freeway construction, about 0200 hrs. at night. The light from the gas flaring off at all the refineries was so bright you could read a newspaper by it. She grew up in a hellscape, of course she sang the blues.
I love the way the video reflects in your glasses so that I'm watching it on three screens. Surreal and wonderful. 62-year-old South African woman. Love Janis. And love you, Polo.
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.
Ball and Chain is my fav by JJ song. She is one of the all time greats, I’m not posting to take anything away from her or her talent. My husband was an electrician while in the service and was a stagehand at one of her concerts. Polo comment about her being drunk was probably not wrong. My husband would talk about how she drank a 5th of Jack while waiting to perform. He also said he could not believe that she was able to go on stage, giving her all and a great performance. Peace and love Janis.
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.
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.
This performance is so amazing. It's like she is channeling...maybe wrestling a demon or an angel or god knows what. There is a reason she is a legend.
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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
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.
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 🥰
The one, the only, the magnificent, the irreplaceable Janis. Thank you for the reaction.
Laura, GO GREEN! 💚 🤍
@@kathrynnisse5105 Go White!
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
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.
This performance locked her in as a legend.
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 ❤
She was the drunk crazy lady and we loved her
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.
Heck YES! Janis Joplin sings with her whole body and soul!
Her emotions are driving her; she's possessed with them - 100% genuine!
I agree with the James Brown comparison. Love Janis. She had the courage to show her wounded heart.
That's Mumma Cass in the audience in complete awe at this performance.
Mama
Seeing this performance from Janis always makes me emotional…
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! ua-cam.com/video/_5VsZE8E7s8/v-deo.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.
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.
Take another little piece of my heart.
One of my favorite songs
She absolutely nailed that ending *perfectly* ...
That last drop will break your heart.
I have always thought of her as the female Joe Cocker 😊
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 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.
Janis Joplin, any of her Woodstock preferences... Especially Cry baby. Totally fire❤❤
One of the best performances ever recorded, no doubt.
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.
Me and Bobby McGee touched my heart back in the day. What a voice. What a great soul.
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!
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!
at 430 min that was Cass Elliot in sun glasses vibing on Janis. Totally my fave in that decade
With Mama Cass in the audience! Even SHE was blown away!
The undisputed Queen of Rock. RIP Janis.
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! ua-cam.com/video/xRhHdFRFBAs/v-deo.html
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 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.
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.
My single favorite performance in all of music. I've never heard anyone do so many things in one song. Absolute masterpiece.
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.
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 ☮️
This performance was her bullet to fame.
Somehow she brings joy to the blues. She demands that you listen and love the music and its power to transform.
Member of the 27 Club, may she rest in peace. Robert Johnson (1938), Brian Jones (1969), Jimi Hendrix (1970), Jim Morrison (1971), Gary Thain (Uriah Heep 1975), Kurt Cobain (1994), Amy Winehouse (2011) and many more...All passed away at the age of 27.
I bought this album in 1969 when I was 10 years old, and in my 3rd year of university studies....and I loved this LP, but what I couldn't get then, because I was such a happy go lucky kid, but definitely feel it, now, is the pain in Janis's voice, and it moves me to tears, sometimes, because you can feel that she is struggling with a lot, and she is putting it all on display. "Summertime" gets me, too, in this same way, because her intense pain rings through, and it rings true, too, big time, and yet, there is soul, and beauty in that pain, and it is a pain which is transcendent in some kind of magical way: she is releasing her pain through her performances. She is amazing. She was something else, man, oh man!
Oh, man, I forgot to mention your keen insight: you are exactly right about Janis being like the drunk lady in the hotel parking lot, about to get arrested, and sometimes, she actually was that lady: she was a wild woman, for sure! You hit that one right on the head, brother!
Janice gave her all and didn’t care what anyone thought!! Pure soul!!❤️RIP Janice!!
POLOLOVE. Man, I wish I could have heard her live. She was a phenomenon. I know the musician (here in Berkeley, CA) who sadly found her right after she passed. Nobody expected it, they all know how heavy she was hitting the drugs but they thought of her as indestructable. Janis, we will always love you.
You Sir are in for a treat/suprise! What a ride!
FACTS!!!
Work me lord by her was as honest and true to her soul as you could get. I recommend the live in Stockholm version
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! ua-cam.com/video/_5VsZE8E7s8/v-deo.html. The best this 77 year old has ever seen of her.
Janice always gives me chills when she sings live, we lost an amazing talent when she passed on.
The realist, most authentic singer ever PERIOD, Janis Joplin does not sing she feels it,you cannot teach anyone how to sing like this...she is 1 of 1
Eh. I don't see it. Hundreds of better singers.
Hundreds?!?!?..... really 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@MidwestFarmToysyou're high. Oh, you don't know vocals.
@@RockChick63174 lol.
@@robertmaldonado8729 yes. Hundreds. Not that many considering there's 8billion of us at any given moment in time
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.
she was a very special person, and definitely an old soul and my mother was absolutely obsessed with Janis growing up. If I could go back and see a female vocalist from before my time it would be her.
That woman they kept showing in the crowd was Mama Cass. Another absolute legend. ... Also, you NAILED comparing her to James Brown. When a singer has THAT much soul, they don't need to land exactly on key, cuz they'll make you FEEL like the "key" is wrong but they're right haha
Mama Cass of The Mamas & the papas is who it is showing in the audience in awe....
I had that gold knit outfit she's wearing😊
Janis Joplin followed in the footsteps of Etta James.
I believe this was at the Monterey music festival. I was ten years old when this song came out. I loved the monkeys at the time. Janis rocked!!! Nobody ever replaced her
I LOVE SEEING THE REACTION OF MOMMA CASS ELLIOTT OF THE MOMMA'S AND THE POPPA'S ❣️❣️❣️
I get chills everytime I hear her sing. Rather than "crazy drunk lady", I just think she sings with her whole body...she's all in
People used to say she had too much soul to fit it all in her tiny little body! She sure put everything she had into every performance.
Man, I loved the way your smile got bigger and bigger as the song went on. Precious! You're right, you can't help but love Janis!
Another artist that I grew up with my parents playing; I remember being about 12 trying my damndest to try and sing “Summertime” like her in my room; I was quite unsuccessful 😂.
The Queen of Scream and the Godfather of Soul. Ya can't beat that. They leave it all on stage. Piece of my Heart is a classic unless you've already done it.
This is the legendary appearance at Monterey Pop. She and "Big Brother" at first refused to be filmed, but luckily they gave in. They came back out to be filmed, and thats why we have this. Janis blows everybody away, including other musicians. You see Mama Cass Eliot, from the Mamas and the Papas. She's just diggin it.
Monterrey Pop also gave us Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar on fire, and letting it sing. Monterrey Pop is a watershed moment. My mother loved Janis and Jimi, and I grew up gearing and seeing them LOUD. We lost them both, in 1970. Gone in a flash.
Mama Cass is impressed! Go JANIS ❤
Her big break .. And Jimi Hendrix came home to America at Monterey Pop Festival. My mostest favorite live song was "Janis Joplin - Cry Baby (Live)" ... The girl was in so much pain .. Some people sing the blues but Janis was the blues. Going home to her high school reunion and crying in interviews about the way she was treated.
@@HellenKillerProject l was treated the same way in school.....
Watching the greatest on some TV show....this blows everything out of the water ....Greatest Ever?
Janis absolutely nailed it, so good it's almost painful.
This clip is I believe from Montery Pop, you can see Mama Cass from the Mamas and the Papas in the audience. Check out the art work on the CHEAP THRILLS vynal album cover a true classic by the great Underground Comix master Robert Crumb. If memory serves me correctly the illustration for 'Ball and Chain' is the last pictiure on the lower right hand corner and features Janis in a blue striped prison dress, head bowed dragging a 'ball and chain' . Album and artwork absolute classics.
When you review a song why not also have a look at the artwork on the album it came, especially from that era as they often compliment each other perfectly and some album covers are works of art in their own right.
Great of you to listen when this genre isn't one that you particularly appreciate! And I loved your comments! Also, love your open mind to be able to appreciate her!
Listening to her sing gives me the chills! Such a Beautiful singer! ❤
Born in 69 but so money great performances like this..Hendrick, Joe Cocker..Definite time machine moment
It’s funny cause she was a drunk and crazy lady but beyond the stratosphere. Phenomenal performance and phenomenal singer
Southern Comfort was the preferred buzz for Ms Joplin. Listen to Turtle Blues, you'll hear her smash the bottle onstage..very tastefully...
There will never be another legend like her
Bar none, the best performance of this song EVER!
Since nobody else has mentioned it, this really is a classic blues song written by Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton. Somewhere here on UA-cam is a live version with Buddy Guy and she introduces the song as “made famous by me and Janis Joplin”. I think I read that all the royalties she ever received for it were from Janis’s cover.
Another mind blowing Janis performance is her song Work Me Lord live in Stockholm 1969. A masterpiece.
OH THIS WAS SO GREATA. JAMICE WAS FREAK OF NATURE AND A FORCE OF NATURE. UNREAL.
Yes she was unique oh that voice was sooo good her music is in every hippie’s collection please listen to more Polo she was out of this world but what a tragic life x
Epic performance. Thank you
To add a little context. She grew up in the Beaumont/Port Arthur/Orange triangle. I drove through there in 1980 on city streets due to freeway construction, about 0200 hrs. at night. The light from the gas flaring off at all the refineries was so bright you could read a newspaper by it. She grew up in a hellscape, of course she sang the blues.
I love the way the video reflects in your glasses so that I'm watching it on three screens. Surreal and wonderful. 62-year-old South African woman. Love Janis. And love you, Polo.
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.
Fantabulous. Thank you sir
To much soul for this earth! ❤❤❤❤ Janis!!!
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.
Great comparison with James Brown 👏 💜
Ball and Chain is my fav by JJ song. She is one of the all time greats, I’m not posting to take anything away from her or her talent. My husband was an electrician while in the service and was a stagehand at one of her concerts. Polo comment about her being drunk was probably not wrong. My husband would talk about how she drank a 5th of Jack while waiting to perform. He also said he could not believe that she was able to go on stage, giving her all and a great performance. Peace and love Janis.
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.
Janis had one of the best blues voices ever.
Love Mama Cass and her expression.. total respect
If you look closely at the crowd you can see Clive Davis. He signed them that night.
Mama Cass agreed: “Wow”. Me too, always.
HISTORIC PERFORMANCE! Bought the album for the cover...........what a lucky day.
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.
This performance is so amazing. It's like she is channeling...maybe wrestling a demon or an angel or god knows what. There is a reason she is a legend.