I can remember the first time I heard Janis Joplin sing. It was 1967. I was driving home at around 2am down San Vicente in Los Angeles, listening to AM Radio, and they played "Ball and Chain". It was so phenomenal I had to pull off to the side of the road.
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You're older than me lol
Ball and Chain was 9 and a half minutes long. AM radio hardly played anything over 2 minutes long back in the '60s.
Are you sure you're not thinking of Joplin's Piece of my Heart single? Even that track was edited to fit AM radio
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At 2 in the morning on my radio station in L.A., they would play really long tracks that were not edited... It was a miracle of AM radio in those days... I'm pretty sure it was "Ball and Chain"...but it's possible it was "Piece of my Heart"... It definitely was LONG, though...
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LA must have been hipper than Ft Lauderdale. I was in a record store & saw the LP Cheap Thrills & I loved the cover art so much that I bought it. Turned out to be one of the greatest rock n roll albums in American history, also. lol
Janis Joplin breaks my heart
youtube.com/watch?v=X42MXP
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