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11 unusual facts about Janis Joplin


Barry Feinstein

He accompanied Bob Dylan on his 1966 tour of England and shot the cover photos of numerous albums, including from Janis Joplin, George Harrison, and the Rolling Stones.

Britney Spears Live from Las Vegas

Plus, you'll love seeing Britney posing as a Janis Joplin wannabe in a comedy take-off of a "Making the Band" documentary.

Down on Me

A live, more aggressive version is featured on the 1973 Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits.

GoodThunder

If you don't listen to it, the only thing that stands out on this album is the fact that famous producer Paul A. Rothchild (who produced albums by The Doors, Janis Joplin, and Rush just to name a few) produced this album.

Irwin Held

His Santa Monica Blvd restaurant was also famous for attracting rock musicians such as Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin.

Lompico, California

Janis Joplin often jammed with her band "Big Brother and the Holding Company" in Lompico.

Pink: Live in Europe

A number of covers are featured on DVD including an entire segment dedicated to Janis Joplin, wherein Pink sang select pieces of 3 songs.

Teeth 'n' Smiles

Helen Mirren's interpretation of Maggie was based on Janis Joplin.

Tiffany Shade

Shads' Mainstream label was home to many other psychedelic bands in the late 1960s including Janis Joplin's first band Big Brother and the Holding Company(Mainstream S/6099 released in 1967), The Tangerine Zoo (Mainstream S/6107), Ellie Pop (Mainstream S/6115), The Superfine Dandelion (Mainstream S/6102), The Growing Concern (Mainstream S/6108) and The Amboy Dukes.

WRXZ

"The Fox" later played "Classic Rock That Really Rocks", with artists such as The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Janis Joplin.

Wunder gibt es immer wieder

The song is a positive one, with a slow yet happy melody reminiscent of Janis Joplin.


Arlo and Janis

According to Johnson's ex-wife, the newspaper columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson, the lead characters are named after 1960s music icons Arlo Guthrie and Janis Joplin, and their son after Eugene McCarthy.

Baron Wolman

Because of Wolman's virtually unlimited access to his subjects, his photographs of Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Iggy Pop, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Phil Spector, Jim Morrison, Ike & Tina Turner, and other musicians were the graphic centerpieces of Rolling Stones layout.

Clarke Mackey

Clarke Mackey was one of four cinematographers on the 1970 Canadian concert film Festival Express featuring Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead and The Band, that was not released until 2003, 33 years after the original event.

Come from the Shadows

In addition to her own compositions "Prison Trilogy", "Myths", and "Love Song to a Stranger", Baez included John Lennon's "Imagine", Anna Marly's "Song of the Partisan", and Mimi Fariña's "In the Quiet Morning (for Janis Joplin)".

Danny Robas

The popular songs of this album are Baderekh el HaOsher (On the Road to Happiness) and Eikh Hu Shar (How He Sings) - which many assumed to be written on Zohar Argov, but as Robas told, was written about successful singers falling into drug abuse in general, such as Janis Joplin on Jim Morrison.

David LaFlamme

During the 1960s he performed with a wide variety of notable San Francisco acts, such as Jerry Garcia and Janis Joplin.

Herb Greene

Greene made portraits of other prominent musicians including Jeff Beck, Joe Cocker, The Pointer Sisters, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, Carlos Santana, Sly Stone, and Rod Stewart.

Jackie Jormp-Jomp

Meanwhile, Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) informs Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) that her unlicensed Janis Joplin biopic is hard to sell due to test audiences not liking it.

Meanwhile, Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) is worried that Jenna Maroney's (Jane Krakowski) Janis Joplin biographical film will not get released and tries to promote the movie at the Kids' Choice Awards.

Jimmy Clanton

Clanton was inducted into The Museum of the Gulf Coast Hall of Fame, which also has inducted such performers as Tex Ritter, Janis Joplin, ZZ Top and B. J. Thomas.

Jimmy Cox

The song has been covered by a wide variety of artists, including Peter, Paul and Mary, The Chad Mitchell Trio, Dave Van Ronk, Otis Redding, Popa Chubby, The Allman Brothers Band, Rod Stewart, Janis Joplin, B.B. King, Nina Simone, Sam Cooke, Bobby Womack, Katie Melua and Steve Winwood with The Spencer Davis Group.

Lagunitas-Forest Knolls, California

Big Brother and the Holding Company, Janis Joplin's first band, lived in Lagunitas from 1966–1967, next door to Country Joe and the Fish and the Quicksilver Messenger Service.

Lisa Law

Whether she was backstage with The Beatles, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio, Otis Redding, The Lovin Spoonful, The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, taking promotional photographs of Janis Joplin and Big Brother, or at home making dinner for house guests like Bob Dylan or Andy Warhol or helping feed hundreds of thousands at Woodstock with the Hog Farm Commune, her passion for photography grew into a profession.

Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968

Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 is a live album by Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin.

Love Psychedelico

Stylistically, Love Psychedelico is highly reminiscent of the British Invasion of the late 60s, both members having cited The Beatles and Led Zeppelin as influences, though the influence of American folk and blues are also present (Kumi having claimed Janis Joplin and Sheryl Crow, and Sato Bob Dylan, as influences).

Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

In the late 1950s – early 1960s, it again became popular with the American folk music revival, with recordings by Eric Von Schmidt, Odetta, Chad Mitchell Trio, and an early demo by Janis Joplin with Jorma Kaukonen.

Notes From San Francisco

Rather than producing it himself he worked with Elliot Mazer a successful producer who had a long track record with artists such as Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and The Band.

Original Fire

It featured the band playing with images of figures that are inspirational to the band, such as Johnny Cash, Martin Luther King Jr., Che Guevara, Chuck D, The Clash, Bob Dylan, Wendy O. Williams, Peter Tosh, Jello Biafra, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Jim Morrison, the Million Man March, Andy Warhol, Ozzy Osbourne, Janis Joplin, Joey Ramone, Randy Rhoads, Malcolm X, Glenn Danzig, Iggy Pop and Nelson Mandela.

Paul A. Rothchild

He also produced albums and singles for John Sebastian, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Tom Paxton, Fred Neil, Tom Rush, The Lovin' Spoonful, Tim Buckley, Love, Clear Light, Rhinoceros and Janis Joplin, including her final LP Pearl and her only no. 1 single (written by her then-lover Kris Kristofferson) "Me and Bobby McGee".

Powell St. John

Eventually he came to work with Kenneth Threadgill of Austin’s Threadgill’s Bar, performing with Janis Joplin and Lannie Wiggins in a small trio called The Waller Creek Boys.

Quiet Girl with a Credit Card

The album features Lisa's own compositions, plus two songs by Melbourne friends (one each from Dave Graney and Conway Savage), and two US classics: Bob Dylan's "You're a Big Girl Now" and Dan Penn's "Woman Left Lonely" (previously recorded by both Charlie Rich and Janis Joplin).

Rock'N'Roll Show 2008

The two-disk box set features a recording of the NHK Hall stop on her Rock'N'Roll Show 2008 concert tour, a recording of a free concert held at Yoyogi Park, as well as Shiho Ochi's trip to San Francisco to become closer to her idol Janis Joplin by meeting with Sam Andrew and other members of Big Brother and the Holding Company.

Rosław Szaybo

Between 1972 and 1988 he was signed as chief artistic director in CBS Records, where he designed over 2000 album covers, mostly for the classical music, but also for the artists like Elton John, Roy Orbison, Santana, Janis Joplin, The Clash and John Williams.

Sit Down Young Stranger

The album contained one of the first recorded versions of Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster's "Me and Bobby McGee" which had previously been a country hit for Roger Miller and would later become a hit for Janis Joplin.

The Paupers

Following a final date at New York’s Electric Circus running from August 29-September 1, Prokop left to form Lighthouse, while Campbell joined Janis Joplin's Kozmic Blues Band.