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Who Wrote the Janis Joplin Song ‘Me and Bobby McGee’?
Far Out Magazine ^
| Mon 30 September 2024
| Guy Howie
Posted on 09/30/2024 3:32:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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RIP.
To: nickcarraway
And we just lost Kris Kristofferson this past Saturday.
RIP.
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posted on
09/30/2024 3:37:09 PM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: nickcarraway
Gordon Lightfoot’s version is better.
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posted on
09/30/2024 3:39:13 PM PDT
by
nesnah
(Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
To: nesnah
Much better. But everything Janis sang made my ears bleed.
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posted on
09/30/2024 3:42:12 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Mr. Mojo
It’s a great song. The only version I had heard before Joplin butchered it was Miller’s. He did it well. The junkie did not.
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posted on
09/30/2024 3:46:24 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
To: nickcarraway
My favorite Kristofferson song was "Sunday Morning Comin' Down" with lyrics like:
"And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad
So I had one more for dessert
Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt...
Legend has it that Kristofferson wanted Johnny Cash to record it so badly that he stole a military helicopter and landed it in Johnny's front yard to personally hand the song over to him. Likely the story is apocryphal but evidently some truth to it.
I mean if he had actually stolen a military helicopter (and he did know how to fly them), he'd have gone to the brig, or something.
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posted on
09/30/2024 3:50:43 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(7,797,618 Truth | 91,192,773 Twitter)
To: nickcarraway
Kris Kristofferson
To: nickcarraway
Scott Joplin. What do I win?
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posted on
09/30/2024 3:54:32 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
To: wardamneagle
Sorry…..got side tracked…….he has one heck of an autobiography.
To: SamAdams76
He was flying helicopters off oil rigs in that period, I believe.
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posted on
09/30/2024 4:02:51 PM PDT
by
mairdie
(Trump (I Will Win) - Pavarotti's Nessun Dorma https://youtu.be/MigUKGKr-nQ)
To: Mr. Mojo
Kiddin’ me? You guys got no soul.
To: Bigg Red
“It’s a great song. The only version I had heard before Joplin butchered it was Miller’s. He did it well. The junkie did not.”
Janis nailed it!
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posted on
09/30/2024 4:05:57 PM PDT
by
TexasGator
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To: nickcarraway; All
It appears Kris Kristofferson is the man Janis Joplin was heartbroken over.
From musicenthusiast.net:
Kristofferson did not know she had recorded it until after her death. The first time he heard her recording of it was the day after she died. Kris met Joplin and they became friendly. In fact, they became VERY friendly if you catch my drift.
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posted on
09/30/2024 4:09:06 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
To: Bigg Red
“The junkie did not.”
Miller: Alcoholism, Amphetamines and cigarettes.
Dead at 56.
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posted on
09/30/2024 4:13:58 PM PDT
by
TexasGator
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To: hinckley buzzard
Kiddin’ me? You guys got no soul.
********************
Aretha is Soul. Janis is white girl screeching, trying to sound black and failing. Poor imitation.
To: Bigg Red
I rather liked Roger Miller’s version.
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posted on
09/30/2024 4:17:05 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
To: Sirius Lee
Scott Joplin. What do I win?Musc from The Sting?
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posted on
09/30/2024 4:20:03 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
To: nesnah
“Gordon Lightfoot’s version is better.”
His is easy listening. Joplin’s has soul and body..
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posted on
09/30/2024 4:22:38 PM PDT
by
TexasGator
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To: nickcarraway
My husband just told me that Kris and his wife had 8 Children!!!
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posted on
09/30/2024 4:23:35 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Bigg Red
The junkie. Really? Geez, it must be nice to live a perfect life with no vices and no sins.
She lived life fast and hard and flamed out like a shooting star but left a hell of mark in the process. Her rendition is still current, Miller’s has long been forgotten.
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