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.

The cast of Nashville Sings Woody, a benefit for the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives, also included Arlo Guthrie, Marty Stuart, Nanci Griffith, Guy Clark, Ramblin ' Jack Elliott, Janis Ian, and others.

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.

He had also been deeply affected by the death of his friend Janis Joplin and had begun to pursue a healthier lifestyle ; Balin's study of yoga and abstention from drugs and alcohol further distanced him from the other members of the group, whose drug intake continued unabated.

Janis Lull also takes special notice of the mourning women.

Dion has also stated she grew up listening to artists such as Janis Joplin, the Doobie Brothers, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, but never got the chance to sing their genre of music.

This area was also home to many legendary musicians: George Jones, Clarence " Gatemouth " Brown, Janis Joplin, Barbara Lynn, Edgar and Johnny Winter, J. P. Richardson aka " The Big Bopper ", country stars Mark Chesnutt, Tracy Byrd, and Clay Walker, and Jimmy and David Lee Kaiser, and rappers Pimp C and Bun B of UGK. Also the Sword

Stax also sponsored a Christmas concert in Memphis for several years, the most notorious of which was held in 1968, when special guest Janis Joplin performed drunk and was booed off of the stage.

Romantic storylines, which would have bored his younger readers and embarrassed the older ones were also omitted, with only the very occasional exception, such as in Biggles Looks Back, where he and Von Stalhein rescue Marie Janis ( with whom Biggles was briefly in love in an earlier story ) from her prison in Bohemia.

Monterey Pop was also one of the earliest major public performances for Janis Joplin, who appeared as a member of Big Brother and The Holding Company.

Daugherty ( also one of the writers ) and Janis Diamond received a Writers Guild of America nomination for the script.

The early seventies also marked the deaths of rock legends Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix as well as the plane crash in 1977 in which three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed.

* Janis Mackey Frayer, also known as PJ " Jazzy " Jan

These works were shown at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1953 and caused a sensation, partially because they were figurative when most of his fellow Abstract Expressionists were painting abstractly, but also because of their blatant imagery.

Janis Joplin also covered the song for inclusion on her Pearl album only a few days before her death in October 1970.

Janis also made important contributions to the study of group dynamics.

Womack also worked with rock musicians Sly and the Family Stone and Janis Joplin, contributing vocals and guitar work on The Family Stone's accomplished album, There's a Riot Goin ' On, and penning the ballad " Trust Me ", for Joplin on her album, Pearl.

He also states he was a close friend of singer Janis Joplin.

" Both men open up about how it has effected them and their relationships, McKenna's wife Janis is also interviewed during the documentary and goes through the diagnosing process on camera with Patrick.

Janis also enjoyed a career as a Hollywood screenwriter, actor, and composer.

Janis ' song " Oh, Give Me Time for Tenderness " was featured in the Bette Davis movie Dark Victory ( 1939 ), also directed by Goulding.

Pearl features the number one hit " Me and Bobby McGee ", on which she played acoustic guitar, written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster, also " Trust Me " by Bobby Womack which was written especially for Janis, Howard Tate's " Get It While You Can " which showcases her incredible vocal range, and two originals " Move Over ", and " Mercedes Benz " written by Joplin.

Mr. Janis also serves as the International Ambassador for the Arthritis Foundation and the Presidential Advisor to the Yamaha Music and Wellness Institute.

A DVD, entitled The Byron Janis Story, directed by Peter Rosen, includes interviews with conductor Lorin Maazel and pianist Emanuel Ax, also chronicles his life and is currently airing across the United States on PBS.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Fritz became popular as a live act from 1968 until 1972, opening for popular musicians Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin-both of whom Nicks credits as inspiring her stage intensity in later years-among others, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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

Examples of this include Janis Ian, Tracy Chapman, Rick Springfield, Golden Earring, Lenny Kravitz, Sugar Ray, Kylie Minogue ( although she did have a couple other minor hits at the beginning of her career in addition to her hugely successful cover of " The Loco-Motion "), Lifehouse, Jason Mraz, Train, Joe Jackson, Tyrese, INXS, Finger Eleven, Billy Ocean, Sara Bareilles and Enya.

James ventured into rock and funk with the release of her self-titled album in 1973 with production from famed rock producer Gabriel Mekler, who had worked with Steppenwolf and Janis Joplin, who had admired James and had covered " Tell Mama " in concert.

It was then that Janis Joplin arrived as both the first female performer to achieve both accolades from her peers as a blues performer and a " crossover " commercial success who reached diverse audiences with a powerful and emotive vocal delivery.

After the band's lead singer Janis Joplin started her own band with solo billing, John Cooke remained her road manager.

Her ice skating ability was on display in the 1946 film, Margie, in which she and Conrad Janis danced around the ice rink as her boyfriend, Alan Young, slipped and stumbled his way along the ice.

In 1979, Midler made her first motion picture, starring in the 1960s-era rock and roll tragedy The Rose, as a drug-addicted rock star modeled after Janis Joplin.

It is from Von Stalhein that Biggles learns that Janis ( see " Female characters " below ) survived World War II and was imprisoned in Czechoslovakia, from where Biggles rescues her and goes on to support her in England.

Nyro's life and music were celebrated in a 2005 BBC Radio 2 documentary, Shooting Star – Laura Nyro Remembered, which was narrated by her friend Bette Midler and included contributions from her one-time manager David Geffen, co-producers Arif Mardin and Gary Katz, and performers Suzanne Vega and Janis Ian.

Janis Ian, who attended the High School of Music and Art in New York at the same time as Nyro, discussed her friendship with Nyro during the late 1960s in her autobiography, Society's Child.

One of the most popular jazz recordings of 1980, " Birdland " brought the group their first Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance ), and Janis Siegel was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices for her arrangement of " Birdland ".