"Summertime" was written in 1935 by George Gershwin for the musical drama "Porgy & Bess." A movie of "Porgy & Bess" was made of it in 1959. Lots of artists have covered "Summertime" but Janis OWNED it. When Janis learned that Bessie Smith was buried in an unmarked grave she made sure a proper monument was put in place. The inscription reads “The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing-Bessie Smith‐1895‐1937.” Remembering the night Janis died, I was 13 at a sleep over with friends when we heard - we cried our eyes out!
I know what you're saying...I get very emotional when I see her sing live. Like you said, she makes you feel it. She poured her heart and soul into her performance. Great reaction.
Has he seen Ball and Chain? The version with Cass. Elliot in th audience. I like his reactions.- very authentic, sweet and on point, I think he is an empath.
Youre trying to say that Janis is raw pain. Shes overwhelming with desperate emotion and i love her too. Please react to Little Girl Blue I think it's live on Ed Sullivan show...it kills me how bad she felt inside and this song explains how she felt. Glad I found your channel and that you feel Janis💞✌️
"Cry Baby" and "Work Me, Lord" are two other amazing songs by her. She really showcases her vocals in those two as well, along with "Little Girl Blue". She has too many great ones to really choose from. I just mention the ones that pop in my head first lol Her voice gives me chills every time. I love her raw and natural voice, and she could control her tones, pitches and could hold a note better than MOST "professional" singers since her who had training. I love that Janis has a beautiful voice WITHOUT training. Pure raw talent and pure organic vocals My personal Top 4 favorites are 1. Summertime 2. Cry Baby 3. Get It While You Can 4. Tell Mama
dude,,,,word, im 60 and everynight before i go to bed i listen to Janis, and a buddy guy song, Every night, cant explain it. just love it. I sleep so well.
I've been listening to her for the better part of 40 years and I still feel like you do when I hear her. It sucked that I was only 1 when she died. I would have followed her on the road😂🙏
When she was a teenager in East Texas she would sneak to Louisiana Black bars clubs to hear Blues. Like Elvis, both Southerners were called N#@$er lover. Her inspiration was Bess Smith, Black Blues singer. When she found out Bessie didn't have a headstone on her grave she bought one. One in a trillion severely missed. No one can top her rasp,grit, hurt, cracks. She was REAL.Summertime is my all time favorite. RIP Miss Janis.
I truly wish she was here to hear all of the positive comments and reactions to her music. She certainly didn't get much of that in her too short life. Janis, darlin', wherever you are, I hope you know we love you!
I first learned about Janis Joplin when I saw the documentary Little Girl Blue. she changed me and I've never heard anything like it, and when she sings it rips into my soul in a way that lets out all my frustration without saying a Word! She was one of the first greats to inspire other artists in a world that was not ready for change! She was and will forever be my favorite❤❤❤
This years Elvis movie shows Elvis’s early years listening to Big Momma Thornton. She sings Hound Dog. It’s worth seeing and listening. Also his relationship to BB Kjng is shown. Good movie, good music. So happy to have been able to see her and hear her when I was young. She was so good , so good.
The one and only Janis. Love, love, love her - so unique. Watch her sing Little Girl Blue on Tom Jones show. You can feel her pain, it will rip your heart out 💔
only 2 times in my life did I cry when someone who was well known died: the first was Janis - Im 68yo & I want to remind U of 1969: all we had were LPs, no cameras, no videos, no choice of studio or live but I appreciate the era of music I grew up listening to - I still remember when head phones came out & I got a pair asap - so I listened to Janis thru my headphones with my eyes closed (I wanted no visual distraction) - fyi: the weekend that Janis died there were eight other ppl in that area who also died from a bad batch of H, which to me just made the whole situation over- the-top gut wrenching * I have said all that to let U know that I know Janis digs deep ! there r times I listen to Summertime (I still close my eyes & play studio version) & emotions run deep ! - it's really encouraging to see young ppl getting a taste of the music I grew up listening to - my parents grew up in the 1930s & all they had were radios - my Dad was a musician & introduced me to music of 40s & 50s (which was big band era) & specifically jazz (J.Coltrane to Ella to T.Monk to DukeE ...... the list is long) - I would suggest to U to listen to Summertime, studio version with ur eyes closed & DO NOT STOP the song
There certainly are some great live performances of songs from Janis Joplin's final album "Pearl". Check out Get It While You Can from Canada 1970, Her live version of Etta James song Tell Mama from Toronto is fire. The Canadian 1970 shows and her live performances on the Dick Cavett show of "Try" and "Move Over" are amazing too. These are from July and August 1970 shortly before she died in October. You mentioned Bessie Smith who was one of Janis Joplin's heroes. Janis helped to purchase a headstone for Bessie Smith's grave shortly before Janis herself passed away. She had heard how Bessie had been buried in an unmarked grave.
Janice was one of my favorite singers my God. Girl could sing honey I remember the day that she died and they announced it my heart just sank I've still got her albums that I bought back then she was awesome rest in peace Janet we love you and miss you you're in Rock and Roll Heaven
The original version of Summertime was sung by Ella Fitzgerald. In the 1950's,she owned this song Until Janis recorded it. You got to react to Ella Fitzgerald Summertime live with Louis Armstrong on trumpet. both Legends!
Janis' music speaks to the soul. When she sang, you felt it deep down into your inner being. Chris Stapleton has the same affect on me. He sings soul and it just reaches into your inner soul.
Okay I'm a 68-year-old Canadian and I have been rocking with Janis Joplin for 50 years since I got my first album when I was 18 in college😊😊😊 she will always be my number one female singer😊😊😊 I have been rocking with the legendary Al Green for the same amount of time and he is my number one male😊
Years ago, I used to watch American Idol. Though so many were talented, I listened for at least one almost Janis Joplin. There were none. Lots that sounded like lesser versions of whoever else they sang like, but not a hint of a JJ among them. There was only one Janis, and I'm grateful we have recordings and videos of whatever song she chose to do. Thank you for your reaction.
And you can’t look away when she sings because she draws you in with her performance and you will appreciate her even more but watch “work me lord” live in Stockholm
I'm 45 years old. Just finding Janice, and I'm just blown away by her talent, but not just that. It means a lot to me that she was just herself, like she was famous an loved, but was just so down to earth. Like ya know, she was just REAL. I think people resonated to her because she wasn't fake. What you seen of her is who you got. She didn't pretend to be something she wasn't. She was just who she was. I highly respect that
The look of JJ singing is so heart wrenching it is hard to watch. I was at her concert at Madison Square Garden, and it was a exhausting experience. Thus, half the audience was stoned and I enjoyed people watching while listening to JJ & her surprise guest. Another scary sight.
Thank you for speaking what is also exactly MY truth about Janis. If someone doesn't feel her utter Soul, they might just be dead. . . Rest in peace, Janis; I know you didn't get to live that way. One PS: If the version of Ball and Chain you watched was from Monterey Pop, forget about it. Try the Live In Frankfort, Germany version, for the vocalist she grew to be!
FYI janis would not have wanted anyone arrested for her death, she chose to take drugs and alcohol. She was a once in a lifetime artist. I've never really gotten over her death,
Yeah, we know! You did get it right near the end... one can hear, one can see, but it is feeling Janis that tips one over the edge. Loved her then- love her now. Peace, love and bellbottoms from Canada.
You have a genuine appreciation and love for the raw authentic emotion Janice embodied in her performances. That's the only reason I'll overlook bringing up Ariana Grande who I guarantee doesn't know anything about laying herself open and exposing every nerve ending in a musical performance.
Thank you for loving Janis. Check out the video of Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues 1929. Her influence on Janis' vocals are very evident in that old movie clip.
That last downward sliding note shows her ability to split her vocal cords so well, gives me goosebumps. This song is from the American opera "Porgy and Bess". Etta James, yes. Did she pass recently? I have to look it up. Oh, she passed in 2012...I had never heard of her before she passed... You must, must, must hear Bessie Smith, "Ain't Nobody's Business". And Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit". And you must see "Lady Sings the Blues", the Billie Holliday story. Diana Ross gives a brilliant, brilliant performance. And Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor...you have to see this movie.
Janis Joplin is my all-time favorite female singer past and present just the way she sings there’s so much passion and soul in her voice and then you can see how the song resonates through her as she’s singing she’s feeling that song feeling every word I don’t think there’s ever been anyone that has come close at least no one in my opinion! You should check out her performance of ‘Little girl blue’ I believe she sings that on the Tom Jones show but there may be other live performances of that song and you should also check out her performance of ‘Maybe’!
This is from the musical drama PORGY AND BESS from 1956 with Sidney Poitier and Dorthy Dandridge. Ironically, 1956 is the same year Elvis made his debut.
A bit of background: The opera was first performed in 1935. The novel and then the play were several years earlier. Interestingly, the first Porgy was played by the opera singer, Todd Duncan, who introduced Unchained Melody in the 1955 movie Unchained.
I've seen many reactioners do her studio versions and I always tell them she's one of those artists who needs to be heard live. You got that real fast. That's the mark of a true artist, they have to be heard live. Her voice is just too big for the studio. Good reaction.
Listen to Me and Bobby McGee if you wonder about if she can also sing very soft and "kind". But actually it doesn't matter: I love every single song she ever did.
Wonderful to see people still appreciate Janis. Thanks
Janis Joplin, much like Billie Holliday, didn't just sing the blues, she LIVED the blues.
I am so moved by your reaction to the beauty that is Janis Joplin.
"Summertime" was written in 1935 by George Gershwin for the musical drama "Porgy & Bess." A movie of "Porgy & Bess" was made of it in 1959. Lots of artists have covered "Summertime" but Janis OWNED it. When Janis learned that Bessie Smith was buried in an unmarked grave she made sure a proper monument was put in place. The inscription reads “The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing-Bessie Smith‐1895‐1937.” Remembering the night Janis died, I was 13 at a sleep over with friends when we heard - we cried our eyes out!
Janis Joplin Work Me Lord Live in Stockholm 1969. This one will blow your mind!!!
I wish she could have known the love we all have for her. She was such a beautiful, fragile soul.
I know what you're saying...I get very emotional when I see her sing live. Like you said, she makes you feel it. She poured her heart and soul into her performance. Great reaction.
Greatest Female Singer Who Ever Lived❤️💔
Really? I mean... REALLY?
Really
Absolutely
@@duncanray6600 Well, she butchered this song. This was written as a lullaby for a baby. I got no idea what she sang it as except crap.
@@dellafenton2417 Well, she butchered this song. This was written as a lullaby for a baby. I got no idea what she sang it as except crap.
There will never be another Janice. She was one of a kind and you can see that she feels the music in her soul.
Has he seen Ball and Chain? The version with Cass. Elliot in th audience. I like his reactions.- very authentic, sweet and on point, I think he is an empath.
You have the BEST reaction of anyone "reacting" to Janis Joplin I have seen !! (says the 67 year old guy)
Youre trying to say that Janis is raw pain. Shes overwhelming with desperate emotion and i love her too. Please react to Little Girl Blue I think it's live on Ed Sullivan show...it kills me how bad she felt inside and this song explains how she felt. Glad I found your channel and that you feel Janis💞✌️
starfire612 - I suggested this clip before I saw your comment. Its on Tom Jones Tonight show and is absolutely heart wrenching 💔
@@dellafenton2417 ok thanks for info della!💞✌️
"Cry Baby" and "Work Me, Lord" are two other amazing songs by her. She really showcases her vocals in those two as well, along with "Little Girl Blue".
She has too many great ones to really choose from. I just mention the ones that pop in my head first lol Her voice gives me chills every time. I love her raw and natural voice, and she could control her tones, pitches and could hold a note better than MOST "professional" singers since her who had training. I love that Janis has a beautiful voice WITHOUT training. Pure raw talent and pure organic vocals
My personal Top 4 favorites are
1. Summertime
2. Cry Baby
3. Get It While You Can
4. Tell Mama
I agree with all the above 👆
And Little Girl Blue an Work. Me Lord 🙏👍
Work me lord from the same concert is incredible too !
dude,,,,word, im 60 and everynight before i go to bed i listen to Janis, and a buddy guy song, Every night, cant explain it.
just love it. I sleep so well.
You’ve got to watch. Don’t turn your back, enjoy the whole ambiance. It’s emotional and raw but it makes it so good.
I've been listening to her for the better part of 40 years and I still feel like you do when I hear her. It sucked that I was only 1 when she died. I would have followed her on the road😂🙏
I LOVE YOU JANIS !
IF YOU CAN'T FEEL IT, YOU HAVE NO SOUL!👍✊✌🇬🇧🍻🇺🇸
This brings tears to my eyes. She is amazing. Her story is as sad as her songs.
I feel the same way as you do, every time I watch and listen to her I cry. Been listening since I was 16 in 69
DEFINITELY UNDERSTAND💯HEARING JANIS ALWAYS JUST DOES SOMETHING TO MY SOUL , & MOVES MY SPIRIT 🙌🏼💯🙌🏼
EVERYTIME‼️‼️
Unbelievable!!! Iconic!!!
You’re a good man. ✌️
So are you Robert! Thank you!!!
Thank you so much for LIVING her talent in your heart, spirit an soul....
To Love Somebody live on the Dick Cavett show. written by The Bee Gees
Bee Gees were great till they sold out to Disco
She did any song justice.Sje was awesome
Your way of expressing how it feels to listen to her is so very accurate so exactly precise so right, for me. Thank you.
She is my Number one Lady my Favorite most all her tunes are Bangers thank you .💯🤩💜❣️💗‼️🎉😋🌹❕❕🥂
She's amazing
React to Janis Joplin-Maybe. Its unbelievable and you're gonna love the instrumentation as well.
When she was a teenager in East Texas she would sneak to Louisiana Black bars clubs to hear Blues. Like Elvis, both Southerners were called N#@$er lover. Her inspiration was Bess Smith, Black Blues singer. When she found out Bessie didn't have a headstone on her grave she bought one. One in a trillion severely missed. No one can top her rasp,grit, hurt, cracks. She was REAL.Summertime is my all time favorite. RIP Miss Janis.
Janis singing that song is a spiritual banquet. ☮️to all.
I truly wish she was here to hear all of the positive comments and reactions to her music. She certainly didn't get much of that in her too short life. Janis, darlin', wherever you are, I hope you know we love you!
Yay! This made my day thank you!
I'm so glad! And thank YOU Catherine!
The movie 'The Rose's with Bette Midler was based Loosely on Janis. 'Me and Bobby McGee was one of her big hits.
One of my favorite live performances EVER. Everything about is is pure perfection.
Gives me chills hearing that cry and rasp - every time!
I first learned about Janis Joplin when I saw the documentary
Little Girl Blue. she changed me and I've never heard anything like it, and when she sings it rips into my soul in a way that lets out all my frustration without saying a Word! She was one of the first greats to inspire other artists in a world that was not ready for change! She was and will forever be my favorite❤❤❤
Simply the Best.
Listen to Work Me Lord live in Stockhom you will feel it in your soul and you will be playing it another 20 times
Your reaction to her performance in this video brings tears to my eyes 😢 I love you for that. Thank you ❤
Thanks for loving Janis like her fans from the 60’s love Janis! Yes LIVE is best 💜☮️💜☮️💜☮️
I think she had several live performances on the Dick Cavett show. Big Momma Thornton is who originally did Ball and Chain so she loved her too.
This years Elvis movie shows Elvis’s early years listening to Big Momma Thornton. She sings Hound Dog. It’s worth seeing and listening.
Also his relationship to BB Kjng is shown.
Good movie, good music.
So happy to have been able to see her and hear her when I was young. She was so good , so good.
Maybe -will blow your mind bro...thanx for this...She was and still is iconic
I love the way you love Janis Joplin. The first time I heard her in 1968 on the Cheap Thrills album. I loved her since that first listening.
The one and only Janis. Love, love, love her - so unique. Watch her sing Little Girl Blue on Tom Jones show. You can feel her pain, it will rip your heart out 💔
only 2 times in my life did I cry when someone who was well known died: the first was Janis - Im 68yo & I want to remind U of 1969: all we had were LPs, no cameras, no videos, no choice of studio or live but I appreciate the era of music I grew up listening to - I still remember when head phones came out & I got a pair asap - so I listened to Janis thru my headphones with my eyes closed (I wanted no visual distraction) - fyi: the weekend that Janis died there were eight other ppl in that area who also died from a bad batch of H, which to me just made the whole situation over- the-top gut wrenching * I have said all that to let U know that I know Janis digs deep ! there r times I listen to Summertime (I still close my eyes & play studio version) & emotions run deep ! - it's really encouraging to see young ppl getting a taste of the music I grew up listening to - my parents grew up in the 1930s & all they had were radios - my Dad was a musician & introduced me to music of 40s & 50s (which was big band era) & specifically jazz (J.Coltrane to Ella to T.Monk to DukeE ...... the list is long) - I would suggest to U to listen to Summertime, studio version with ur eyes closed & DO NOT STOP the song
Little Girl Blue Live will change your life, real sad song.
You must listen to her live performance at Stockholm 1969, same concert, my favorite , "Work Me Lord." You will not be disappointed.
There certainly are some great live performances of songs from Janis Joplin's final album "Pearl". Check out Get It While You Can from Canada 1970, Her live version of Etta James song Tell Mama from Toronto is fire. The Canadian 1970 shows and her live performances on the Dick Cavett show of "Try" and "Move Over" are amazing too. These are from July and August 1970 shortly before she died in October. You mentioned Bessie Smith who was one of Janis Joplin's heroes. Janis helped to purchase a headstone for Bessie Smith's grave shortly before Janis herself passed away. She had heard how Bessie had been buried in an unmarked grave.
"maybe" is real close to summertime, janis rules !
The instrumental in the middle sounded like early Genesis.
Look up Janis Joplin singing in coffee houses in the San Franciso area.
All of "Cheap Thrills" is pure fire
Janice was one of my favorite singers my God. Girl could sing honey I remember the day that she died and they announced it my heart just sank I've still got her albums that I bought back then she was awesome rest in peace Janet we love you and miss you you're in Rock and Roll Heaven
The original version of Summertime was sung by Ella Fitzgerald. In the 1950's,she owned this song Until Janis recorded it. You got to react to Ella Fitzgerald Summertime live with Louis Armstrong on trumpet. both Legends!
Billy Holiday recorded Summertime in 1936, about 9 months after Porgy & Bess opened & about 20 years before Ella Fitzgerald recorded it.
Janis' music speaks to the soul. When she sang, you felt it deep down into your inner being. Chris Stapleton has the same affect on me. He sings soul and it just reaches into your inner soul.
Okay I'm a 68-year-old Canadian and I have been rocking with Janis Joplin for 50 years since I got my first album when I was 18 in college😊😊😊 she will always be my number one female singer😊😊😊 I have been rocking with the legendary Al Green for the same amount of time and he is my number one male😊
My favorite song of hers!!!
Years ago, I used to watch American Idol. Though so many were talented, I listened for at least one almost Janis Joplin. There were none. Lots that sounded like lesser versions of whoever else they sang like, but not a hint of a JJ among them. There was only one Janis, and I'm grateful we have recordings and videos of whatever song she chose to do. Thank you for your reaction.
Saw her live in 1969 with Big Brother and the Holding Company. I went home totally wrung out!
This is so fucking beautiful!
Yup her live is best
The Righteous Brothers were not the originals for Summertime. They covered it. It was from Porgy & Bess, the play (and movie).
And you can’t look away when she sings because she draws you in with her performance and you will appreciate her even more but watch “work me lord” live in Stockholm
"I Need a Man to Love" is another great one :)
I'm 45 years old. Just finding Janice, and I'm just blown away by her talent, but not just that. It means a lot to me that she was just herself, like she was famous an loved, but was just so down to earth. Like ya know, she was just REAL. I think people resonated to her because she wasn't fake. What you seen of her is who you got. She didn't pretend to be something she wasn't. She was just who she was. I highly respect that
If Janis makes you run, then just do what you feel. I hope you have your running shoes on. 😁
It warms my heart to see young people discovering the artists who defined music, before it all became so commercial
The look of JJ singing is so heart wrenching it is hard to watch. I was at her concert at Madison Square Garden, and it was a exhausting experience. Thus, half the audience was stoned and I enjoyed people watching while listening to JJ & her surprise guest. Another scary sight.
I still have an original Big Brother and the Holding Company album living in my closet.
Thank you for speaking what is also exactly MY truth about Janis. If someone doesn't feel her utter Soul, they might just be dead. . . Rest in peace, Janis; I know you didn't get to live that way. One PS: If the version of Ball and Chain you watched was from Monterey Pop, forget about it. Try the Live In Frankfort, Germany version, for the vocalist she grew to be!
FYI janis would not have wanted anyone arrested for her death, she chose to take drugs and alcohol. She was a once in a lifetime artist. I've never really gotten over her death,
Yeah, we know! You did get it right near the end... one can hear, one can see, but it is feeling Janis that tips one over the edge. Loved her then- love her now. Peace, love and bellbottoms from Canada.
She's the best ❤
She is a conduit for soul. I always feel it Janis....🔥🌟🔥🌟☮️💜
You have a genuine appreciation and love for the raw authentic emotion Janice embodied in her performances. That's the only reason I'll overlook bringing up Ariana Grande who I guarantee doesn't know anything about laying herself open and exposing every nerve ending in a musical performance.
Fantasia “Summertime”
American Idol performance!
The Rose with Bette Middler was a movie parody of Janice Joplin. It was great music in it...😊
Thank you for loving Janis. Check out the video of Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues 1929. Her influence on Janis' vocals are very evident in that old movie clip.
Gotta check out her singing Me and Bobby McGee. It’s awesome. I like her singing MERCEDES BENZ It’s a simple fun song, but it’s all her.
Can you imagine if they created a song with Janis Joplin and Chris Stapleton it would blow my freaking mind😊😊
My favourite number by Janis. 🇨🇦🔥🔥🔥🥇💖
Totaly agree
That last downward sliding note shows her ability to split her vocal cords so well, gives me goosebumps. This song is from the American opera "Porgy and Bess". Etta James, yes. Did she pass recently? I have to look it up. Oh, she passed in 2012...I had never heard of her before she passed... You must, must, must hear Bessie Smith, "Ain't Nobody's Business". And Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit". And you must see "Lady Sings the Blues", the Billie Holliday story. Diana Ross gives a brilliant, brilliant performance. And Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor...you have to see this movie.
She deceased but plenty of versions out there she performed live
Great show
Janis Joplin is my all-time favorite female singer past and present just the way she sings there’s so much passion and soul in her voice and then you can see how the song resonates through her as she’s singing she’s feeling that song feeling every word I don’t think there’s ever been anyone that has come close at least no one in my opinion! You should check out her performance of ‘Little girl blue’ I believe she sings that on the Tom Jones show but there may be other live performances of that song and you should also check out her performance of ‘Maybe’!
You should check out her and Tom Kones do a duet on his television show
It's on UA-cam
Big mama Thornton was on of her biggest inspirations.
Don't forget Big Mama Thornton and Leadbelly. She cited these two as her greatest influences.
This world couldn’t keep her soul man. It had to fly. ✌️
She is the Queen He is the King ...
This is from the musical drama PORGY AND BESS from 1956 with Sidney Poitier and Dorthy Dandridge. Ironically, 1956 is the same year Elvis made his debut.
A bit of background: The opera was first performed in 1935. The novel and then the play were several years earlier. Interestingly, the first Porgy was played by the opera singer, Todd Duncan, who introduced Unchained Melody in the 1955 movie Unchained.
Video fantastic, the band .
I've seen many reactioners do her studio versions and I always tell them she's one of those artists who needs to be heard live. You got that real fast. That's the mark of a true artist, they have to be heard live. Her voice is just too big for the studio. Good reaction.
You have to watch Janis Joplin “work me lord “ in Stockholm its live and you will definitely scream
Yes❤
Imo, theres NO other singers EVER to have the soul, love & emotion Janice had. I'm the opposite, I love watching her, I can't stop watching her!
Summertime was a Gershwin song, I believe from "Porgy & Bess"
Listen to Me and Bobby McGee if you wonder about if she can also sing very soft and "kind". But actually it doesn't matter: I love every single song she ever did.