* 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 ".

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.

Janis Joplin recorded four fully conceived studio albums in her career.

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.

* Janis Joplin

** 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.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

The Joplins felt that Janis always needed more attention than their other children, with her mother stating, " She was unhappy and unsatisfied without a lot of attention.

In the late 1990s, the musical play Love, Janis was created with input from Janis's younger sister Laura plus Big Brother 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 and packed houses and was held over several times, the demanding role of the singing Janis attracting rock vocalists from relative unknowns to pop stars Laura Branigan and Beth Hart.

Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy ; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P! nk ; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.

Bell had played with Ronnie Hawkins after the departure of the original Hawks, and was best known from his days as a member of Janis Joplin's Full Tilt Boogie Band.

The tune, " Oh, Give Me Time for Tenderness " sung by Judith was written by Edmund Goulding and Elsie Janis.

The Winterland concert also marked a turning point of another kind for the Airplane — it was a memorial for their old friend Janis Joplin, who had died in Los Angeles from a heroin overdose the previous day.

" Bakshi was able to acquire the rights to an extensive soundtrack — including songs by Janis Joplin, The Doors, George Gershwin, The Mamas & the Papas, Herbie Hancock, Lou Reed, and Louis Prima — for under $ 1 million.

In 1862 the settlement established by Janis became a stagecoach stop along the Overland Stage Route which was established because of threats of attacks from Native Americans on the northern trails in Wyoming.

Norman recalled: " One night I was singing on stage and Janis Joplin was sitting behind the front curtain watching the concert with a bottle of Southern Comfort in one hand and she was sipping whiskey from a paper cup.

Janis Joplin's last known residence was located in Larkspur at 380 West Baltimore Avenue.

The portion east of 142 Av and between Sunset Dr and N Kendall Dr was built by Janis homes c. 1970 ; the portion west of 142 Av.

* Janis Hansen ( former actress and Playboy Bunny, now an agent / manager ), best known for playing " Gloria ", Felix Unger's ex-wife on the TV series The Odd Couple, was born in Celoron.

Elsie Janis, the stage name for Elsie Beerbower, musical theatre star and " Sweetheart of the American Expeditionary Forces " ( AEF ) during World War I was a native of Marion County.

Singer Janis Joplin was a close associate of Clementine Hall and the band.

" Greenwood later left the band and was replaced by Janis Tanaka, formerly of the San Francisco band, Stone Fox.

Lois and Stuart homeschooled Janis and J. R. Sparrow and Ginger purchased the house they had earlier shared with Lois ( and later Stuart ) after rooming together for years ; Ginger later moved out, and the group was able to buy Ginger out of the house by Sparrow taking the Executive Director position at the state NARAL office.

* Janis Ian ( born 1951 ), singer-songwriter.

* Elsie Janis ( born Elsie Beerbower ), comedian, broadway star, " Sweetheart of the AEF ".

Irving Janis was born on May 26, 1918 in Buffalo, New York.

Englund was born in Glendale, California on June 6, 1947, the son of Janis ( née MacDonald ) and John Kent Englund, an aeronautics engineer who helped develop the Lockheed U-2 aircraft .< ref name = autogenerated1 >

Janis Leigh Karpinski ( born May 25, 1953, Rahway, New Jersey ) is a central figure in the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal.

He married his highschool sweetheart Janis in 1983 and they have a grown son Brendon born in 1985.

* Janis Schmitt ( born 1947 ), American model and actress

Janis Rachel Lomax ( born 15 July 1945 ) in Swansea Wales is a British economist and former government official who served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, sitting on the Monetary Policy Committee from 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2008.

Byron Janis ( born March 24, 1928 ) is an American classical pianist.

Janis was born Byron Yanks ( a shortened form of his family's name, Yankilevich ) in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, to Russian-Polish Jewish parents.

Janis Gudrun Johnson ( born April 27, 1946 ) is a Canadian Senator representing Manitoba.

Janis was born in Missouri to a French father and a mulatto mother.

In the forward of Love, Janis, Laura Joplin's biography of her relationship with her famous sister, Till and his Stratford born wife, Dorcas, are thanked for providing some of the material for the book.

* Janis Bojars ( born 1956 ), Soviet shot putter.

* Janis Ian ( born 1951 ), American songwriter and folksinger.

* Janis Kelly ( born 1971 ), Canadian volleyball player.

* Byron Janis ( born 1928 ), American concert pianist.

* Conrad Janis ( born 1928 ), American actor and jazz musician.