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Summertime:
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…and this is my favorite version. Janis Joplin, 1968, belting it out and making it her own…
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Interesting “facts” from Wikipedia: "Summertime" was composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera “Porgy and Bess.” The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. It is sung multiple times throughout Porgy and Bess, first by Clara in Act I as a lullaby and soon after as counterpoint to the craps game scene, in Act II in a reprise by Clara, and in Ac... MORE
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Sound on this March 1968 outtake is slightly hotter with more clarity I think, than the mix I purchased on Box of Pearls before finding this.
Enjoy!
Support your local Big Brother.
And btw there's 10 more discs of these Pearls, from 1961-1970!... MORE
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MoreMoose of Avalon Rising, Axis of Blues, & Silo
Here's another track from the album One Night With Janis. This is not your mother's amazing grace! This song goes through some incredible changes in its 11 and a half minutes. Big Brother is playing like there's no tomorrow -- this was back when you got some value for your live entertainment dollar!... MORE
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MoreMoose of Avalon Rising, Axis of Blues, & Silo
Here's a track from One Night With Janis, an album I downloaded recently from eMusic, but which for some reason has disappeared off their site. It's a live album, seemingly recorded sometime before Cheap Thrills. Good God, this band is on fire! Listen to Janis' backing vocals - she sounds like an alleycat on fire! They sure weren't shy about talking to their audience and whipping up a frenzy.... MORE
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Janis sings "nononono, don't you cry"
but I do
because I'm not ready
for summertime to be over.
I sang "nononono, don't you cry"
to my babies
but they did.
They were too young to know about seasons
so they probably cried
because
I'm not
such a great singer.... MORE
