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unusual facts about Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits


Down on Me

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


Aretha's Greatest Hits

Aretha's Greatest Hits is a successful 1971 album by Aretha Franklin.

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.

Back to Bach

All tracks from this album are also included on the CD re-issue / compilation, Jazz Sebastian Bach (combined with all tracks from 1963's Bach's Greatest Hits aka Jazz Sébastien Bach (Vol. 1)) and also on the 11 disk Philips boxed set Swingle Singers.

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.

C. W. McCall's Greatest Hits

W. McCall's Greatest Hits, as the title suggests, is a greatest hits compilation of country musician C. W. McCall's work, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music) on Polydor Records, rereleased on September 21, 1993 and containing songs from the first five out of his six albums of original music, including the ever-popular "Convoy" and its sequel, "'Round the World with the Rubber Duck".

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.

David LaFlamme

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

Donovan's Greatest Hits

Lastly, Donovan's Greatest Hits contains re-recordings of "Catch the Wind" and "Colours" with Big Jim Sullivan playing guitar.

Electric Café

Earlier, MTV Europe had already included elements from the original song and the video in the title graphics for MTV'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.

Hank Williams, Jr.'s Greatest Hits

The album features ten tracks, nine of which are singles originally released from the studio albums Family Tradition, Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound, Habits Old and New, Rowdy and The Pressure Is On.

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.

Irwin Held

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

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.

Let's Give Adam and Eve Another Chance

"Let's Give Adam and Eve Another Chance" is a song written by Red West and Richard Mainegra and was recorded by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap for their 1970 album, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap's Greatest Hits.

Little Richard's Greatest Hits: Recorded Live!

Meanwhile, Little Richard saw out 1967 with an appearance in the film Catalina Caper.

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).

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".

Poison – Rock Champions

The compilation was a follow up/alternate version from the original Poison hits album Poison's Greatest Hits: 1986–1996 which was released in 1996, however still features the bands #1 hit single Every Rose Has Its Thorn and the top ten singles Unskinny Bop and Your Mama Don't Dance.

Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits

#"Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" (Single Edit) (C. Ridenhour, H. Shocklee, E. Sadler, W. Drayton) (from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back) – 3:43

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).

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.

Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits

Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits is the first compilation album from Simon & Garfunkel, released on June 14, 1972, two years after the duo had disbanded.

In a 1975 BBC Radio 1 interview, Roy Halee identified this version of "The 59th Street Bridge Song" as being from Simon & Garfunkel's 1970 performance at Carnegie Hall, "the last concert they did together" (prior to their disbanding later in 1970).

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.

Suzy Covey

The A-side features "Bedrock Rap/Meet the Flintstones," (3:01) a parody of Springsteen singing the Flintstones theme; the B-side is a Springsteenesque arrangement of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" (2:41) which is included on the CD collection Baseball's Greatest Hits.

Teeth 'n' Smiles

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

The Best of Carly Simon

A live album, Greatest Hits Live (1988), went some way to rectifying this issue, but the original recorded versions were eventually collected on the three-disc boxed-set Clouds in My Coffee (1995), the two-disc set Anthology (2003) and the single-disc compilation Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits (2004).

The Best of John Denver

John Denver's Greatest Hits (also released as "The Best of John Denver"), a 1973 compilation

The Legendary C. W. McCall

It does not contain any songs that cannot be found on the most well-known "best of" releases from McCall, The Best of C. W. McCall and C. W. McCall's Greatest Hits.

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.

The Rill Thing

Between the release of The Rill Thing and Little Richard's last album Little Richard's Greatest Hits: Recorded Live! (1967) there had been several album releases, but all were repackaged collections of songs that had already been released previously, including some of his Specialty work.

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.

Waylon's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2

"Looking for Suzanne", "America" and "Waltz Me to Heaven" are all previously unreleased Jennings recordings; the first of these made a reappearance on Jennings' Sweet Mother Texas (1986).

Whitesnake's Greatest Hits

#"The Deeper the Love" (David Coverdale/Adrian Vandenberg) (from Slip of the Tongue, 1989) - 4:22

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.


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