However its first performance, poorly staged with Joplin accompanying on the piano, was " disastrous " and it was never to be fully performed again in Joplin's lifetime.

The first page of " The Easy Winners " by Scott Joplin, showing ragtime rhythms and syncopated melodies.

* July 14 – In Joplin, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument to honor an African American.

She admitted inspiration when she saw Joplin perform live ( and opened for with her first band " Fritz ") shortly before Joplin's death.

Although often believed to have been named for the ragtime composer Scott Joplin, who lived in Sedalia, Missouri, Joplin is named for Reverend Harris Joplin, an early settler and the founder of the area's first Methodist congregation.

Cox named his village Joplin City after the spring and creek nearby, which had been named for the Reverend Harris G. Joplin, an early settler who founded the first Methodist congregation in the area in mid-century.

While Joplin was first settled for lead mining, zinc, often referred to as " jack ", was the mineral resource on which the town built its economy.

The first high school was founded in 1885 and was located where the current Memorial Hall now stands on 8th and Joplin Ave.

* Mickey Mantle, New York Yankees outfielder and first baseman ; played with the Class C " Joplin Miners " minor league baseball team in 1950

Married first wife Nora Trushel in Joplin.

* Brian Williams, broadcaster ; lived in Joplin for his first TV job at KOAM-TV

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.

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.

* " All Is Loneliness " by Big Brother and the Holding Company, featuring Janis Joplin, on their self-titled first album ( 1967 )

Born in Joplin, Missouri, Porter was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the first round of the 1970 Major League Baseball Draft.

The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large scale public performance of Janis Joplin, and the introduction of Otis Redding to a large, predominantly white audience.

He played as a solo act in coffee houses and can be heard accompanying a young Janis Joplin on acoustic guitar on an historic 1964 recording ( known as " The Typewriter Tapes " because of the obtrusive sound of Kaukonen's first wife Margareta typing in the background ).

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.

When Scott Joplin first arrived in Sedalia, he took up residence with the Marshall family, and before long both Marshall and Scott Hayden ( a schoolmate of Marshall's ) became Joplin's protégés.

The first rag to sell a million copies was Scott Joplin ’ s " Maple Leaf Rag "; the second was " Dill Pickles ".

With Joplin as the lead singer, Helms became the group's manager and introduced them on stage when they made their crucial appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, a performance that marked Joplin's elevation to national prominence.

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 ).

During the late 1960s, singer Janis Joplin had a psychedelically-painted Porsche 356 and John Lennon, a paisley Rolls Royce.

His films were no longer profitable, for by the late 1960s the Hippie movement had developed and musical acts like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, Sly and the Family Stone, Grateful Dead, The Doors and Janis Joplin were dominating the airwaves.

When US 71 was moved east of Joplin in the late 1990s, Alternate US 71 was deleted, and Route 59 was extended north to replace that highway.

Kantner, a native San Franciscan, had started out performing on the Bay Area folk circuit in the early 1960s, alongside fellow folkies Jerry Garcia, David Crosby and Janis Joplin.

An important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she was influential to many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin.

By the 1960s the neighboring Sunset Strip had become an important music center and Jim Morrison ( who was reportedly thrown out of Barney's for urinating on the bar ) and Janis Joplin ( who had drinks at Barney's the evening of her death ) became regulars.

During the early 1960s Rivers lived in the Hotel Chelsea, notable for its artistic residents such as Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Arthur C. Clarke, Dylan Thomas, Sid Vicious and multiple people associated with Andy Warhol's Factory.

The 2006 ' Joplin ' tour had a 1960s theme reflected in the costumes and music.

In 1997, in " Laid Bare ", his first book of memoirs, Gilmore recounts his associations beginning in the 1950s and through the 1960s with Hank Williams, Janis Joplin, Jack Nicholson, Jane Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Brigitte Bardot, Jean Seberg, Steve McQueen, Irish McCalla, Jayne Mansfield, and other personalities.

According to Johnson's ex-wife, the newspaper columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson, the lead characters are named after 1960s music icons Arlo Guthrie and Janis Joplin, and their son after Eugene McCarthy.

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.

Trolley and rail lines made Joplin the hub of southwest Missouri and, as the center of the " Tri-state district ", it soon became the lead and zinc mining capital of the world.

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

Jordan starred in the lead role of Janis Joplin in the off-Broadway hit, " Love Janis.

They are best known as the band that featured Janis Joplin as their lead singer.

Joplin brought the group its trademark combination of introspective lyrics, catchy melodies, and lead vocals that, to many, sound identical to those of R. E. M.

Helms was the founder and manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company and recruited Janis Joplin as its lead singer.

She is now living in Europe as a popular singer and songwriter, working as a back-up singer for several European artists including Paul Young, and since 2005 having the lead role in the European musical hit Kosmic Blues, a tribute to Janis Joplin.

The " Joplin District ", a lead and zinc mining region of Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, produced mineral specimens known as " Tri-State " minerals, typically consisting mainly of sphalerite.

Deb Davis was also added on lead guitar and the band made a slight name change: Josh Joplin Group.

He notes that Lottie Joplin ( the composer's third wife ) saw a connection between the character Treemonisha's wish to lead her people out of ignorance, and a similar desire in the composer.