![]() Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Washington, DC. Janis Joplin & Tom Jones Bring the House Down in an Unlikely Duet of “Raise Your Hand” (1969) ![]() Janis Joplin’s Last TV Performance & Interview: The Dick Cavett Show (1970) Watch Janis Joplin’s Final Interview Get Reborn as an Animated Cartoon “Joplin might’ve never hitchhiked across the country with anyone named Bobby McGee,” but she “did what great interpreters do.” She made the song “about Janis Joplin, because that’s what Janis Joplin made it.” “Instead, she just lets it rip, her phrasing immediate and instinctive,” howling at the stars like Anthony Quinn. He has also recorded many songs and appeared in several movies. This was written by Kris Kristofferson, who has written hundreds of songs for a wide variety of artists. The somewhere near salinas, lord, I let her slip. ![]() And every night she kept me from the cold. Written as a country song, Joplin doesn’t quite sing it that way, and she “doesn’t really sing it as blues or psychedelic rock either,” writes Breihan. Me And Bobby McGee was Joplins only top 10 hit. Kris Kristofferson wrote the song about a girl called Bobby Mcgee. But Joplin “made it her own,” Kristofferson says, and it’s no empty cliché. Janis sounds amazing and completely nails it in one take. (The Louisiana references come in because Kristofferson was working as a helicopter pilot in the Gulf at the time.)Ī long list of famous singers has covered the song, originally recorded by Roger Miller-just about anyone you might name in folk and country. 2.81K subscribers 1.6M views 14 years ago The first recording of Me & Bobby McGee in the studio. Foster gave Kristofferson the title “Me and Bobby McKee,” Kristofferson misheard the last name, assumed it was a man, and wrote the famous lyrics, inspired not by Barbara but by Federico Fellini’s La Strada, in which Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel together on a motorcycle as a performing duo. ![]() It was written, in 1969, about a woman, Barbara “Bobby” McKee, who worked as a secretary in songwriter Fred Foster’s building. Many people have assumed Kristofferson wrote the song for Joplin, but that’s not the case: he didn’t know she was recording it at all. Just blew me away.” Above, you can hear a rare recording, possibly the first take, and possibly one of the early versions Kristofferson heard in the studio. He met the producer of Joplin’s last album, Pearl, in L.A., who told him to come to the studio “to play me her recording of ‘Bobby McGee.’ And it just blew me away. “You can’t think of that song without thinking of Janis,” says Kris Kristofferson of Janis Joplin’s raw, bittersweet, posthumously released “ Me and Bobby McGee.” Kristofferson, who wrote the song, only heard Joplin’s version after her death, when he returned to California after playing the Isle of Wight in 1970. ![]()
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