I’m 73 years old and grew up with Janice. It still gives me chills when I hear her sing. She has more talent in her little finger than anyone singing today.

Blues artists didn't care about looking or sounding perfect they just want you to feel the music

People say an artist owns a song. Well, Janis lived the song, she inhabited the song, she was the song. Never been another like her in my 78 years and I am quite sure there never will be while I am alive.

I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news but she just smiled and turned away. Janie what a voice, what a spirit. Such a loss

She was a force of nature in our 60's generation and we still think there will never be another like her! Glad you're enjoying what we had in person!

Janis had one of the most unique & powerful voices with a lot of grit. Sadly we lost her too soon. She was only 27 when she died. She had a lot of great songs in her short life such as "Me & Bobby McGee", "Piece Of My Heart", "Down On Me", "Little Girl Blue", "Summertime", "Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)", "Get It While You Can", "Bye, Bye Baby", "Move Over", "Mercedes Benz" etc.

Janis left nothing behind ... one of a kind

Janis always was, still is and always will be on my heart as one of the best ever. I was heartbroken at the news of her death. She will always be missed by those of us that were fortunate enough to have seen her in her prime!!!!!!!!! Thank you Sarah for your stunning reaction!!!!!

She was a fabulous, powerhouse entertainer. We lost her way too soon. 🙏

It wasn't her voice, it was her passion that made her special. She gave everything she had to the performance.

No voice training , just ginger ale and Southern Comfort , with a heavy dash of deep emotion . Sometimes no ginger ale . We miss you Janis , I hope they gave you wings where you are

Janis had a lot of inner pain and it really came out when she sang

I love the look on your face when Janis cranked it up! After all these years she can still bring tears

Janis was our girl!! Worldwide she bust us outta our bobbysocks world and set fire to it!! 74yrs young.

Janis Joplin! What can you say,she was one of a kind,a little pocket power house,love her so much 😊

Ball and chain is the ultimate Janis Joplin song.

"She became the song." That's beautiful.

I saw Janis perform at Woodstock in 1969. She was even more impressive live. I still don't understand how such a tiny woman could produce that incredible voice. She put her "heart and soul" into every note. She left us way too young.

and believe it or not, this wasn't the best take of her singing this song! 72 here, and i'm soooo happy that younger folks are discovering her and LOVING her like we all do. my generation had the best music! enjoy and share janis!

Janis is myfavorite blues singer of all time. Etta, Nina, Aretha, are great. Give me theTexan every time. Her laugh at the finish of mercedes benz still sends chills all over me.

I get 69 years old and I grow up listened to Janis... I love her until my death... !! Greetings from Santiago, Chile dear Sarha!!

Watch the 1967 Monterey Pop festival footage , which was put on by The Mamas and the Poppas . When Janis came on stage and opened her mouth the camera was on Mama Cass . Not only was she totally blown away by what she was hearing , it didn't take a lip reader to know what she said about Janis .

Janis Joplin was a force to be reckoned with . I am almost 76 , and remember her singing when I was 15 yrs old, I loved her passion . She died of a drug over dose .. and I cried like a baby myself .. I played her singing in my bedroom , and my mother would bang on my door yelling turn that racket down .. ha ha ha … Janis sang from her soul .. she was a star ..

My first album purchase as a kid was Pearl. Played it continually for years. She redefined blues, and brought an energy to her performances that remains unmatched.

Well now you know about Janis. So many belted-out tunes! No one has a voice like hers. She was one of the key voices of the revolutionary Sixties.

So glad I saw Janis live in Calgary 1970..just months before she passed RIP........One of the best soul blues singer you'd ever hear and will remain so....evermore!

Loved your reaction. Check out her "Ball and Chain live at Monterrey Pop " and "Summertime ". "Work Me Lord" is another favorite. She suffered from severe stage fright; but, once she started singing, she became im.ersed in her music. She was the real deal. No autotune. No tricks. Just Janis. She never did a song the same way twice. She was the queen of blues rock. Gone way too soon.

I was in high school when Janis passed. She was my late gf’s favorite singer. We had a group of musicians that would get together and play quite often. She would love to sing her songs. We would always be amazed at her passion. Those are times we will never forget. Miss you so much baby.

We lost Janice way too early. She let her pain come out when she sang. She OD'd on heroin at the age of 27 in 1970. She was a wild child of the 70s. And we are still rockin' with her in 2024. She can make me cry every time. You do a great job and I'm going to start watching you. I love the way you react.❤

Nobody and I mean nobody can compare or ever will to my Janis Joplin! My top 4 forever. Elvis, Buddy Holly, Sam Cooke, and no less my Janis Joplin.

I was tearing up watching you get shivers watching Janis! Yes...she became the song. She felt it from the very depth of her being. ❤❤❤

Now, that's a very sincere and proper reaction to a live version of the greatest ever: JJ!

I saw Janis perform when I was just 15. Changed my life!

I’ve nursed a deep crush on Janos Joplin since 1968 when I first heard her. I was 13 at the time. Brings tears to my eyes.

Janis' voice was so rich. My mom gave me the Pearl album for Christmas when I was 13. She is still my favorite female vocalist, after 50 years. Wonderful reaction video.

OMG Sarah, this was delightful!! Thank you so much for sharing your delight in the music I cut my teeth on so very long ago. This was better medicine for me than the garbage my doctor prescribes 😂❤😇❣️🌹

She was a power house.

That's Janis! She doesn't have to sing cry baby to make me cry. She was like a shooting star in the night sky , beautiful and brief. She had a rough life , never fitting anywhere but she has my love 4ever !!!

I love this woman . Just like a typical Capricorn we wear our hearts on our sleeves. To know this beautiful creature was taken away from us at only 27 is such a tragedy . Her music is timeless. I know she’s looking down and just smiling ear to ear because of these young people are loving her music . We love you Janis , then , now and forever ❤️🙏🏻

Have you heard Janis Joplins summertime? My favorite song ever.

I am 82 yrs old and loved my era of singers. Thanks for all you do that brings me back to my favorite time.

Her soul opened up...and that emotion came out of her mouth. Fantastic...

You just watched one of the greatest… maybe the greatest blues singer ever! She was powerful. RIP Janis!

This may be the most actually GENUINE reaction channels. So often they can be good but few show their feelings and experience of the song s well as this lovely lady.

Whenever Janis performed, she walked off the stage empty. She would always give everything she was to her audience. When she left the stage, it was to recharge for the next time. ❤

Grew up with this song and when I was privileged to babysit for my new granddaughter and she would get a little screamy, we would put on this song and dance around. RIP Janis

Nobody in the world like Janis! RIP ❤I love to see how you appreciate her!

The first and the greatest rock female ever,thank you Janice ❤️

She was one of the greats

Janis sings her heart out, literally. To Janis with love. ❤

Janis was one of a kind! I was 15 in 1970 and ran away from Ohio to California with plans to go to the Monterey Pop Festival where she was discovered in 1967. On Oct. 4th, 2 weeks before the fest, she was found dead of an overdose in LA. We still went to the festival but it lost a lot of its allure with the loss of Janis. My favorite song of hers is Summertime, a live performance she did in 1969. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mNRlh7Giz9usmYk.html&pp=ygUPc3VtbWVydGltZSBsaXZl

One of the most extraordinary artists of all time!❤

She always wore her heart and soul on her sleeve..thank god I grew up in those days…witnessing her,and others,in video is much better than never..glad to feel your vibes

Janis była niezwykła.. kocham ją miłością fanki i wrażliwca ❤

I was 7 yrs old when Janis Joplin died... Thank You for giving Janis a try cause she's Awesome! Sad some generations today don't even know who she is....

I was walking by Filmore East and Janis Joplin was in concert there. I was 16 from PA so I had no money for a ticket but even being near the venue she was playing was memorable. That and a black dude trying to sell me a $2 bag of heroin. I said no and rolled back to my buddies and we smoked weed all the way back to PA in a Volkswagon bus. Great times.

So many young people have no idea just what music was like and how much has been lost to corporate manipulation. These days music is a product, a mere commodity to be marketed. Back in the days of Joplin it was art, and if the music industry was lucky enough it could ride along for the profits. Nowadays the corporations control it from start to finish. It's so sad what has been lost, but I'm glad you found it all the same.

what an amazing singer she was. what a great gift to the world she was. What a great loss to the world her sad sad death was. I was born in '65, and her music was part of my life, still is today.

Okay - now for her 'Ball & Chain' at the Monterey Pop Festival. Then 'Piece of My Heart' - first the studio recording, then the live recording in Germany. You can thank me later!

That tune always rips right through me

"Take a little piece of my heart".

Yes, that was about all of our reactions when we saw/heard Janice Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company. What is so fantastic is this was the voice and the musicians. No electronics what you see is what you get. This is the truest if true talents. We lost her and too many of the great ones too soon. Goddess of Blue’s Rock. Delighted I was born at a time when this music ruled our young world! Your reactions are just the best… thank you so very much!

She was a lightening strike. Here, hit us all, and left. God's blessings upon you and Miss Joplin. 🙏💛😃

Paraphrasing: "Every night I make love to 10,000 people but then I go home alone." Janis Joplin was talking about how the guys in her band went home on the road with someone, but no there was no man waiting for her at the backstage door. But, there was a man who, realizing his honest and deep love for Janis, wrote an impassioned telegram. He was coming home to her (from one of those places men go). But Janis never received his proclamation of that unfaltering love for her. She crossed over that evening while the telegram waited at her hotel lobby desk.

Janis. She was so unique that there is no describing her, just saying that she was Janis.

Janis is absolutely amazing. And was gorgeous inside and out. She gives me chills no matter how many times I listen to her. My all-time favorite music artists. 1. Janis Joplin (My favorite vocalist) 2. 2Pac (my favorite poet) 3. Eminem (my favorite lyricist) Janis was the living embodiment of soul and music.

Janis was one of the most powerful voices EVER. True legend will never be another like her.

You just watched a woman with so much soul that it can't be replicated. It's genuine and raw; and that's what soul is about--the pain that resides deep within--and Joplin just throws it all out there as if saying, "Here. Absorb this." Every phrase was intentional and controlled, which is unbelievable given what appears to be chaos. Anyone who covers her music sounds mechanical in comparison. She makes me cry with goosebumps.

Janis lived a few houses up the street from my high school classmate. My friend would come to school and tell me that she and her band had a jam session at her house and you could hear the music reverberate all through the wooded canyon where they lived. The whole neighborhood would get free concerts all of the time.

One of my all time favorites

I never tire of watching her

Nobody lays it down like Janis Joplin. How special to be able to see your reaction to hearing her for the first time. Run, don't walk, to hear "Me and Bobby McGee."

Greatest female singer of blues rock!

Thank you for not stopping and starting constantly..... You gotta listen all the way through or you miss the best of Janis and her wailing and story-telling. And her humour.

No (&()*&)(&) autotune here!!!! Power and passion from a unique human being. Long live Janis Joplin.

I get teary when I hear her sing. She was such a sweet soul.

When you pour your heart and soul into it, this is what you get. I grew up in that era and the music was fantastic. However, there were absolute stand outs, Janis was one of them. She was to vocals what Hendrix was to guitar in my opinion.

Janis brings that exact joy your feeling every listen. I crank the volume

When Janice sings, you can't help but move! I hope you keep on discovering music in all its glorious forms!

Everything about her was amazing! You can choose any song. This song and Me and Bobby McGee are my favs💖🙏🏻RIP

My friend's mother was a piano teacher in Port Arthur, TX. Janis was at school with him and his sister. Janice asked their mother to teach her to sing. His mother used to say, 'stop screaming Janice'! She had a crush on a guy in school with a lazy eye. His name was Bobby McGee! My friend's sister went to university (best friend of Janis). So, Janis went to Houston, and wound up in a bar one night and met Chris Christopherson. He helped her write a song called, 'Me and Bobby McGee'! And they decided to go to Woodstock so Janis could sing their new Bobby McGee song!

She gave it her ALL!

I LOVE YOU JANIS !

Little woman huge voice❤

I have a few Janis albums, and Big Brother and The Holding Company (the band). Her passion was just intense.

All that was great. I love Janice Joplin.

Ahhhhhh Janis. What more can be said. Love her songs. Maybe "Piece of my Heart" next? Please.

STRONG AND POWERFUL VOICES SO GREAT SO GOOD JANIS JOPLIN.

You should attend a live Blues festival and hear a number of blues musicians . They are each unique but sing with feeling .

Thanks for this reaction! This is one of her concert performance I haven’t seen before, so thanks so much! Janis is one of my all time favorite singers! ❤️

Your smile makes me smile. Janis is raw soul and always the music of our hearts 💕 🕊

Legend plain and simple.

AWESOME SINGER

Me and Bobby Magee is a magical song. Everytime I see her live I want to cry because she was so messed up on drugs we were loosing her one concert at a time.

I knew Janis and your right she was a very special lady 💯💯❤️

She's one of my all time favorites to listen to. I always feel sad about her ending. She had so much more to give.

Joplin had a voice that vocals are off the carts loud. She was taken to soon the 70’s had outstanding music lots of gems and she was .

My absolute favorite female singer! What a voice!!

I'm so glad to get to watch her again..... We all need a little Janice in our lives! 🤙🤙🤙❤️

Why am I crying!? 😆 I have seen this so many times. I just love her spirit. She had to be an old soul. ❤️❤️❤️✌️