Janis Joplin didn’t just sing. She screamed. AND. WE. LOVED IT! Co-written by the infamous Bert Berns just before his death (he wanted Van Morrison to record this!), it was done first by Aretha Franklin’s sister Erma. Janis took the song to a whole different level. Faith Hill had a #1 country hit with her two-step version in 1994, and claimed to have never heard Janis’s take prior to recording it herself.
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I think Faith Hill is full of shit.
Of course a lot of these latter-day pop stars DO seem to come across as being somewhat amnesic in regards to pop music history, or oblivious to the derivative nature of the type of current-day cheap knockoffs of longstanding pop styles they perform and record.
It’s possible Faith heard the Erma Franklin version before recording it herself. Truth? I don’t know for sure.
I guess I was being too harsh with my judgement calls.
I keep forgetting how, back in the '50s, all those who grew up with the Big Band sounds as well as the Beatniks and Jazz enthusiasts were coming down hard on all the young rock n'rollers for embracing "banal, primitively simplistic three-chord garbage".
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