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canetoad

(17,200 posts) Fri Jan 17, 2020, 08:51 AM Jan 2020

Janis Joplin - 1968

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Janis Joplin - 1968 (Original Post) canetoad Jan 2020 OP

She was an original! Ohiogal Jan 2020 #1

I wanted to be handmade34 Jan 2020 #2

OMG, me too! I had the long curly hair and loved to sing, but could never sing like that. lark Jan 2020 #3

Thank you so much for posting this so raw, so emotional, essential Janis Joplin clip. lark Jan 2020 #4

Ohiogal

(32,122 posts)

1. She was an original!

Reply to canetoad (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2020, 09:18 AM

Jan 2020

handmade34

(22,758 posts)

2. I wanted to be

Reply to canetoad (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2020, 10:12 AM

Jan 2020

Janis Joplin... too bad I couldn't sing still can't but love to listen

lark

(23,179 posts)

3. OMG, me too! I had the long curly hair and loved to sing, but could never sing like that.

Reply to handmade34 (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 17, 2020, 10:35 AM

Jan 2020

Saw her at West Palm Beach pop festival in 1970 and she was such a live wire, so on, so damn good it almost made me cry. She was the high point of the festival for me, although Jefferson Airship and the Stones played after her, they weren't as brilliant as "ON" as she was.

lark

(23,179 posts)

4. Thank you so much for posting this so raw, so emotional, essential Janis Joplin clip.

Reply to handmade34 (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 17, 2020, 10:43 AM

Jan 2020

I just love, love, love her singing this song - from the first time I heard it in the 60's until now, it never fails to moves me. Even after hearing it thousands of times, but not recently, it brings me to tears from the pain and the beauty.

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