* 1967 – The " ultimate high " of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.

* 1943 – Janis Joplin, American singer ( Big Brother and the Holding Company ) ( d. 1970 )

Janis Lyn Joplin ( January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970 ) was an American singer-songwriter.

Janis Joplin charted five singles, and other popular songs from her four-year career include " Down On Me ", " Bye, Bye Baby ", " Coo Coo ", " Summertime ", " Piece of My Heart ", " Turtle Blues ", " Ball ' n ' Chain ", " Try ( Just A Little Bit Harder )", " Maybe ", " To Love Somebody ", " Kozmic Blues ", " Work Me, Lord ", " Move Over ", " Cry Baby ", " A Woman Left Lonely ", " Get It While You Can ", " My Baby ", " Trust Me ", " Mercedes Benz ", " One Night Stand ", " Raise Your Hand " and her only number one hit, " Me and Bobby McGee ".

Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on, to Dorothy ( née East ) Joplin ( 1913 – 1998 ), a registrar at a business college, and her husband, Seth Joplin ( 1910 – 1987 ), an engineer at Texaco.

Her name is Janis Joplin.

On June 13, 2010, producer Wyck Godfrey said Amy Adams starred in director Fernando Meirelles ' biographical drama, titled Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can.

Big Brother and the Holding Company, c. 1966-67: Janis Joplin is seated in the foreground.

It was prefaced by the Human Be-In event in March and reached its peak at the Monterey Pop Festival in June, the latter helping to make major American stars of Janis Joplin, lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jimi Hendrix and The Who.

These trends climaxed in the 1969 Woodstock festival, which saw performances by most of the major psychedelic acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Santana.

Jimi Hendrix died in London in September 1970, shortly after recording Band of Gypsies ( 1970 ), Janis Joplin died of a heroin overdose in October 1970 and they were closely followed by Jim Morrison of the Doors, who died in Paris in July 1971.

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They scored another hit with songwriter, Alan O ' Day's " Rock and Roll Heaven ", a paean to several deceased rock singers: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Otis Redding, Jim Croce and Bobby Darin are among the mentioned ( Croce and Darin died within three months of each other in late 1973, shortly before the song was released ).

After recording Stage Fright, the Band was among the acts participating in the Festival Express, an all-star rock concert tour of Canada by train that also included Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead.

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** Janis Joplin, American rock singer ( d. 1970 )

** In Los Angeles, Rock and blues singer Janis Joplin dies in her hotel room, from an overdose of heroin.

Nicks has said that her vocal style and performance antics evolved from female singers like Grace Slick and Janis Joplin.

Located at 222 West 23rd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea, the 250-unit hotel has been the home of numerous writers, musicians, artists, and actors, including Bob Dylan, Virgil Thomson, Charles Bukowski, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Jobriath, and Larry Rivers.

Some of the most prominent names include The Grateful Dead, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Bobby " Werner " Strete, Mod Fun, Virgil Thomson, Jeff Beck, Chick Corea, Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Thunders, Phil Lynott, Henri Chopin, John Cale, Édith Piaf, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, Alejandro Escovedo, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Walker, Canned Heat, Sid Vicious, Vivian Stanshall, Richard Hell, Jobriath Boone, Little Annie, Rufus Wainwright, Lance Loud, Abdullah Ibrahim / Sathima Bea Benjamin / Jean Grae, Vasant Rai, Jacques Labouchere, and Leonard Cohen.

Jones duetting with Janis Joplin in the television program This is Tom Jones in 1969

Bands like the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company ( with Janis Joplin ), and Jefferson Airplane lived in the Haight.

Janis Joplin recorded a Blues rock version of " Summertime " with Big Brother and the Holding Company.

They recorded tracks for their A & M album, Five Times the Sun, in San Francisco during January and February, produced by Elliot Mazer ( Janis Joplin, Neil Young ), with session contributions from keyboardists Nicky Hopkins and Garth Hudson ; it featured liner notes by author Emmett Grogan.

The album features Lisa's own compositions, plus two songs by Melbourne friends ( one each from Dave Graney and Conway Savage ), and two US classics: Bob Dylan's " You're A Big Girl Now " and Dan Penn's " Woman Left Lonely " ( previously recorded by both Charlie Rich and Janis Joplin ).

The album contained one of the first recorded version of Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster's " Me and Bobby McGee " which had previously been a country hit for Roger Miller would later become a hit for Janis Joplin.

A single specimen was recorded by M. Mendoza, C. M. Janis, and P. Palmqvist for body mass and was estimated to have a weight of.

Psyched up Janis recorded their debut full-length album Swell in Wales with Craig Leon as record producer.

It was originally recorded by Deane Janis with Hal Kemp's Orchestra on October 31, 1933 in Chicago before the release of the film and was issued on the Brunswick label as catalog number 6734.

He made his Broadway debut in the Meredith Willson musical Here's Love opposite Janis Paige and recorded the cast album for Columbia Records.

Much of the music recorded by singer-songwriters such as Carole King, Carly Simon, James Taylor and Janis Ian got as much, if not more, airplay on this format than on Top 40 stations.

Tracks include " Pearl ", a tribute to singer Janis Joplin, the single " Step Out " and the title track which is the last song the group ever recorded.

He worked with Morty Nevins of The Three Suns on four songs for the feature film Two Gals and a Guy ( 1951 ), starring Janis Paige and Robert Alda.

In the 6th Saeima ( 1995-1998 ), the Latvian Green party was represented by four members: Indulis Emsis, Guntis Enins, Janis Kalvins and Janis Razna.

Janis studied with Horowitz for four years.

Started by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith in 1984, Byron Janis shared his experience and wisdom with the four award recipients.

Mr. Janis will serve as personal mentor to the four artists who received the awards.

When Grossman signed Janis Joplin and her four bandmates from Big Brother and the Holding Company in 1967, he told them he would not tolerate any intravenous drug use, and all five agreed to abide by the rule.

The camp was founded near the existing settlement of Laporte ( originally Colona ) that had been founded four years earlier in 1858 by Antoine Janis and other homesteaders from Fort Laramie.

" At Seventeen " is a song by Janis Ian, released in 1975 on Between the Lines ( her seventh studio album ) and as a single.

Gaye and Stewart brought in several musicians and Gaye's friends and family ( mainly his brother Frankie, sister Zeola and girlfriend Janis Hunter ) to Gaye's recording studio complex, Marvin's Room.