Albert King was a good friend of Janis' and he called her "The Queen of the Blues". Check out "Work Me Lord" Stockholm 1969. It's her masterpiece. RIP sweet Pearl.

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Please she was amazing love Janis forever 😂❤

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Please react to Janis doing "Piece of My Heart" audio version thank you!

A fantastic reaction 🧜‍♀! I see 👁👁 you have reacted to Janis Joplin before: Maybe, Cry Baby, Raise Your Hand and Little Girl Blue. Tell Mama was a song that Janis Joplin sang live during the Festival Express Tour on July 4, 1970. It was later included on her posthumous 1982 album: Farewell Song. It was written by Clarence Carter, Marcus Daniel and Wilbur Terrell. It was produced by Elliot Mazer. The song was originally recorded in 1967 by Clarence Carter and titled: "Tell Daddy" (#35 R&B). Later in 1967, Ella Fitzgerald then recorded a cover version of the song titled: "Tell Mama" (#10 R&B, #23 Pop), which is the version that Janis Joplin would cover. Her 1970 performance of the song was included on the 2003 documentary film release: Festival Express. The phrase "tell mama" is used to show compassion and comfort to someone who is upset. In this song, a guy has gone through a rough breakup, and Etta James is there for support, asking him to "tell mama all about it". Seems she's happy to fill the vacancy left in his heart. In a Songfacts interview with David Hood, he explained: "Leonard and Phil Chess knew that Etta was a great talent. They wanted her to record where there was a chance of getting a hit, but also where she would be isolated from a lot of the temptations and distractions that go on in Chicago or New York or somewhere. So they brought her down to Fame with Rick Hall. I believe Rick is the producer listed on those sessions. I think Phil and Leonard Chess both came at different times, because there were several sessions. We didn't know it at the time, but Etta was pregnant. I just thought she was fat. Very light skinned with a pretty face. And a wonderful singer, really great singer. Even her hair was kind of a blonde color, obviously it was an unnatural color. She was not that much older than any of us, but she seemed older because she had been around. She had been a professional since she was about 14 or 15 years old, working with Johnny Otis and different people in Chicago and California. So she seemed much more worldly than her age". David Hood told Mojo magazine February 2013 how he initially copied Clarence Carter's "Tell Daddy" record. "We all knew the song anyway and I started to replicate Tommy Cogbill's original bass line", he recalled. "I thought it was wonderful but Rick (Hall) said, 'Don't do that, play this.' He showed me what to do with my bass and I thought it was horrible. I argued with him but it was what he wanted. We went with his version". Janis Joplin recorded the song in 1969. It was a concert favorite whenever she performed it live on stage. The song was also covered 📻by Diana Ross in 1987. The song is featured in the films 📽: Monster-In-Law (2005) and Carpool (1996). The song was used in a 2020 Super Bowl TV 📺commercial for T-Mobile where Anthony Anderson gets his mother on the service and she won't stop calling him. Lyrics 📝: You thought you'd found a good girl One to love you and give you the world Now you find that you've been misused Talk to me, I'll do what you choose, I want you to Tell Mama, all about it Tell Mama, what you need Tell Mama, what you want And I'll make everything alright That girl you had didn't have no sense She wasn't worth all the time that you spent She had another man throw you outdoors Now the same man is wearing your clothes, I want you to Tell Mama, all about it Tell Mama, what you need Tell Mama, what you want And I'll make everything alright Tell me, tell me now She would embarrass you anywhere She'd let everybody know she didn't care Give me a chance I've been beggin' you And I just want to take care of you, I want you to Tell Mama, all about it Tell Mama, what you need Tell Mama, what you want Tell Mama, what you want right now Tell me, tell your mom I'm your Mama Tell me what you want Janis Joplin Info: 📰 Janis Lyn Joplin was born on January 19, 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas. She passed away on October 4, 1970 in Los Angeles, California. She was a singer and songwriter. One of the most successful and widely known rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals and "electric" stage presence. She remains one of the top-selling musicians in the United States, with Recording Industry Association of America certifications of 18.5 million albums sold. As a teenager, Janis Joplin befriended a group of outcasts, one of whom had albums by blues artists Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Lead Belly, which Janis Joplin later credited with influencing her decision to become a singer. She began singing Blues and Folk music with friends at Thomas Jefferson High School. Janis Joplin stated that she was ostracized and bullied in high school. As a teen, she became overweight and suffered from acne, leaving her with deep scars that required dermabrasion. Other kids at high school would routinely taunt her and call her names like "pig", "freak", "n!gger lover", or "creep". She stated: "I was a misfit. I read, I painted, I thought. I didn't hate n!ggers". Janis Joplin graduated from high school in 1960 and attended Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont, Texas, during the summer and later the University of Texas at Austin (UT), though she did not complete her college studies. While at UT she performed with a Folk trio called The Waller Creek Boys. Her first song: "What Good Can Drinkin' Do", was recorded on tape in December 1962 at the home of a fellow University of Texas student. She left Texas in January 1963 ("Just to get away", she said, "because my head was in a much different place"), hitchhiking with her friend Chet Helms to North Beach, San Francisco. Still in San Francisco in 1964, Janis Joplin and future Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen recorded a number of Blues standards, which incidentally featured Jorma Kaukonen's wife Margareta Kaukonen using a typewriter in the background. This session included seven tracks: "Typewriter Talk", "Trouble In Mind", "Kansas City Blues", "Hesitation Blues", "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out", "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy", and "Long Black Train Blues", and was released long after Janis Joplin's death as the bootleg album: The Typewriter Tape. In 1966, Janis Joplin's Bluesy vocal style attracted the attention of the San Francisco-based Psychedelic Rock band Big Brother & The Holding Company, which had gained some renown among the nascent San Francisco hippie community in Haight-Ashbury. In 1967, Janis Joplin rose to prominence following an appearance at Monterey Pop Festival with the band. After releasing two albums with the band, she left Big Brother & The Holding Company to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band and then The Full Tilt Boogie Band. She appeared at the 1969 Woodstock festival and on the Festival Express train tour. Five singles by Joplin reached the US Billboard Hot 100, including a cover of the Kris Kristofferson song: "Me And Bobby McGee", which posthumously reached number one in March 1971. Her most popular songs include her cover versions of the songs: "Piece Of My Heart", "Cry Baby", "Down On Me", "Ball And Chain", "Summertime", and her original song: "Mercedes Benz", her final recording. Janis Joplin passed away due to a reported heroin overdose in 1970, at the age of 27, after releasing three albums, two with Big Brother & The Holding Company, and one solo album. A second solo album: Pearl, was released in January 1971, just over three months after her passing. It reached number one on the Billboard charts. Among the memorabilia Janis Joplin left behind is a Gibson Hummingbird guitar. The film: The Rose (1979), is loosely based on Janos Joplin's life. Originally planned to be titled: Pearl, Janis Joplin's nickname and the title of her last album, the film was fictionalized after her family declined to allow the producers the rights to her story. Bette Midler earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film. In 1988, on what would have been Janis Joplin's 45th birthday, the Janis Joplin Memorial, with an original gold, multi-image sculpture of Joplin by Douglas Clark, was dedicated during a ceremony in Port Arthur, Texas. In 1995, Janis Joplin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In the late 1990s, the musical play: "Love, Janis", was created and directed by Randal Myler, with input from Janis Joplin's younger sister Laura and Big Brother & The Company guitarist Sam Andrew, with an aim to take it to Off-Broadway. Opening in the summer of 2001 and scheduled for only a few weeks of performances, the show won acclaim, played to packed houses and was held over several times. Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 46 on its 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. NPR dubbed Janis Joplin as "The Queen Of Rock" and named her one of the 50 Great Voices. In 2005, Janis Joplin received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In November 2009, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum honored her as part of its annual American Music Masters Series; among the artifacts at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum exhibition are Janis Joplin's scarf and necklaces, her psychedelically painted 1965 Porsche 356 Cabriolet and a sheet of LSD blotting paper designed by Robert Crumb, designer of the Cheap Thrills album cover. Also in 2009, Janis Joplin was the honoree at the Rock Hall's American Music Master concert and lecture series. ****CONTINUE BELOW****

I had a brief conversation with Janis Joplin. She was fun loving, humorous, and engaging.

People don't sing like this anymore