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Welcome to my 159th show. I am Jesse Delgado. And on this episode, we are going to observe the 55th anniversary of the passing of the most dynamic singer in all of rock history. Janis Joplin was the quiescentral rock and blues vocalist. She had power and raw emotion. Every time she sang live or in the studio, she engrossed her audience with her powerful voice. Whether she sang a rocking, high energy number or a gentle ballad, she moved people and she brought them up to a higher plateau of passion and left them in exhilarating ecstasy. And it was the saddest day on October 4, back in 1970, when her golden voice was silenced forever. I will be playing select tracks from Janice and will hear her legacy of music that comforted her audience as she exercised their blues away. She lived a sweet, short life, but she made an impact for all time. This is Janis Joplin Uninterrupted, and you're listening to Psychedelic Soul.

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But it gives me a great deal of pride to present today the finished product of three or four years of work, Big Brother and the Holding Company. What's down on me? Let down on me now one of these mornings all down on me nah, nah, nah it looks checking my body down on me Come on, come on I'm seeing it down on me now down on me nah, nah, nah it looks like in my body and it's all I want knock down on me now now just believe in your brother and have faith in man and help each other, honey, if you can because it looks like I'm a body and I looked around say yeah it dumb on oh, I'm saying that down on me Love down on me. Wow. Hey. It looks to give her body all that wild look down on me. Thank you very much. Thank you. Song is called combination of the two. It's sa more Everybody's dancing, singing and romancing at the feel more to feel more, feel more all right no you never been that doesn't mean you never feel more, you feel more, you feel more. See the people coming in and know that they feeling good. You feel more, you feel more, you feel more right, yeah. Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, whoa, whoa. Everybody over at the Avalon feel more, they feel more. Everybody's dancing around a heaven line to put every feel more, they feel more, they feel more. Even though you never been that doesn't mean you never should? You feel more, you feel more, you feel more. We scream around and dance around and sing us down and jump around. You feel more, you feel more, you feel more. All right. Wow. Dance around here. You feel more, you feel more, you feel more. Come to San Francisco. Here I. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. All right, Sam. I need a man to love me. Don't you understand, baby? Why I need a man to love? I gotta find him, I gotta have him like one loving man to understand can't be too much to need, you know it can't be enough can't be now, can't be now, can't be now, can't be my can't be just alone Bye bye. Surrounding me no, no, no, it just can't be, no, it just can't be there's got to be some kind of answer no, it just can't be and everywhere I look, there's none no, it just can't be it can't be, no, it just can't be. Won't you let me hold you, honey? Just close your eyes. Wow. Won't you let me hold it here? I wanna just put my arms around you like the circles are going around the sun. Let me hold you down at least until the morning comes. Because it can't be now can't be now, can't be now can't be now can't be now can't be just an O, no, no, no, it just can't be, no, it just can't be. Oh, baby, baby, baby Just can't be, no, no, no. And why didn't anyone ever tell me now it can't be, no, it just can't be. Sam. But I believe in something seeing somehow it's bound to come along. Because with all my dreams and all my plans Just cannot turn out wrong. You know it can't be now can't be now, can't be now, can't be now, can't be now can't be Just alone like this, right Surrounding me no, no, no, it just can't be, no, it just can't be oh, baby, baby, baby, baby Just can't be, no and who could be fooling me? No, it just can't be I got all this can't be Come, come, come on, come on, come on, help me now. No, it just can't be. Please, can't you hear me cry? No, it just can't be. My first guest is one of the most exciting singers there is. Some think the most exciting. We have extra stage hands to hold the roof down when she sings. If you have never seen Janis Joplin, here is your chance. Here is Janis Joplin. Hey, this song's about rock and roll. Needs a little help from the crowd. Goes like this. I can't hear you. Hey, you say that it's over, dear. You say that it's over de but still you hang around to come on, won't you move over? You know that I need a man hey, you know that I need a man but when I ask it to you just say that you think you can't please don't you do it to me please don't you do it to me B don't take the love I offer oh, let me I ain't got no time for walking up ain't got no time for walking what's the going to do with your love just angle hey, make up your mind honey you're playing with me make up your mind you're playing with me me but still you hang around you come on know won't you move over? Hey, you know that I need a man there you know that I need a man When I ask you to you just say you think you can I ain't quite a ready for walking no ain't quite a ready for walking what I'm going to do with love not all to st wanna feel that it wanna know I don't know it's like a cheering baby now Like a cheering baby now Like a cherry baby like a cheer. Sam Sa me Yeah. I did not give you nearly everything that a woman possibly can, honey, you know I did. And each time I tell myself that I when I think I've had enough woman, I'm going to show you, baby that a woman can be tough. I want you to come on, come on, come on, come on and take it Take another little piece of my heart, baby Take another little bit in my heart Another little piece of my heart now, baby well, you know you got it if it makes you feel good oh yes indeed. Your eyes out on the streets looking good and peeping deep down in your heart I guess you know that it ain't right now but now my namah, namah, namah Now I hear me when I cry, baby but I cry all the time but each time I tell myself that I when I can't stand the pain but when you hold me arms I sing it once again I said come on, come on, come on, come on, come on Take another little bit another little bit in my heart Another little piece in my heart now, baby well, you know you got it Ch if it makes you feel good Sam Come on, come on, come on come on and take it Take another little piece of my heart now baby Bring another little bit in my heart have another little piece in my arm Y baby do you know you got it? Why take take another little piece in my own no, Bab. And your mouth so good looking, Bab. She's looking good now hush baby baby baby, baby, baby no no, no, no don't you cry don't these morning you're going to rise Rise I'm singing you're gonna spread your wing Shout and take Take to the sky Blow the sky Morning honing Nothing's going to harm you now don't I'm ready, man Thought you hadn't found yourself a good girl Wanted to love you and give you the world Then you find honey you but miss you cause of me honey I'll do what you choose I want you to well tell mama all about it yeah tell mama what do you need? Tell your mama, babe what do you want? Tell your mama bab what do you think? What do you want? What do you need? What do you want? Wow. I'll make everything all right to your head she didn't have no sense There was a bunch of the time that you spent now that same Any thoughts you will do I just hugged that middle of your clothes hey well tell mama all about it Tell mama what do you need? Tell your mama, babe what you want Tell your mama, babe what do you need? What do you want? What do you need? What do you want? Wow. I'm like elbow playing all right. Rock and rol Sam Was it worth all the time that you spent? Gotta say many thoughts you will do I just heard that we thought of your co Y Tell mama for all about it Tell your mama what you need Tell your mama bab what you want Tell your mama, babe what do you mean what do you want? What do you mean what you want? Anything I can do Anything I can do for you Sometime I know, I know you're lonely Sometime the middle of the night sometime when I know you get lonely sometime when I know that I said everything. And I figure I tell you when you get lonely. And I figure everybody does, man, because as a matter of fact, everybody does. I figure if you're a woman, then if you're really a woman, you already know what you need, man. You already know what you're looking for, man. I found out at 14 years old and I've been looking ever since too. But if you happen to be a young cat, you know, like about 17 years old and about this tall Right beyond me. A young cat man, and you ain't figured it out yet. I'll tell you what you need, baby. When you get those strange thoughts in your head, you don't know where they came from. Man, you got those strange little weirdnesses happening to you. You don't know what they. I'll tell you what you need. You need a sweet, loving mama, babe. Hunter sweet talking mama Bab. You need a sweet, loving mama, bae Hunter sweet talking mama bear. You need somebody to listen to you. Someone who wants you. Someone to hold you. Someone who need you. Someone to use you. Someone who wants you. Someone to need you. Someone to hold you. Someone who wants you. Someone to hold you. You need my mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Daughter. Mama. Mama, Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama. Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama, Mama Mama. Yeah, Mama, Mama, Mama, mama. Tell mama all about it. Tell mama all about it. What do you need? What do you want? What do you need? What you want? Anything I can do, Anything I can do. Do I be your mama? B W Mama B. Wow. Love is like the ball of chain, Sam. Sitting down by my window just looking out at the rain Sitting down by my window Just looking out at the rain rain Some came along honey, grab the honor and it felt like a ball and shake Here you're gonna d. And I want you to love you I want to love you for so long oh, yeah Love got a hole on my baby and it feels like a ball Ain't change now Love got a hole on the baby Feels like a ball chain Then I don't know why oh, man, I love you there I want to go all right I want to answer, yeah and I say, oh, honey, tell me why Want to tell me why? Well, oh, baby, please when I answer yeah, honey, tell me why no, baby, when I asked y' all watch it all oh, why? Tell me why Here you're gonna see Won't you love you love you love. Today on a Muffin Sam hunt. It ain't fair, hon, it ain't fair. What do you do? I say, honey, what you doing to me? No, no, no. And I say, oh, honey, it ain't fair. Oh, people, it ain't fair. What do you do? I got a nice no, no I said, no, no, no, no Here you going to see I want to love you, love you that's all, all, all I could do But I'm not and I'm going to tell you, babe yeah, sit down, back down my window Just looking out at the rain sitting down by my window just looking at the rain Some came along Honey grabbed a holder and it felt like a ball A hunt on this campy one of this can be insane. Wow. And I want somebody to tell me Come on, tell me, honey why? What's in my why? Oh, baba, tell me what love honey what love is Luck was like a ball and in a chair Sam busted flat in Baton Rouge waiting for a train on us Feeling near as faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed a diesel down just a phone that rode us all the way into New Orleans. I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana. I was playing soft while Bobby sang the blue windshield wipers flapping time I was holding Bobby's hand to mine. We sang every song that Dr. New Freedom is just another word for nothing nothing left to lose. Nothing I mean nothing hun if it ain't free. Feeling good was easy when he sang the blues you know Feeling good was good enough for me. Good enough for me and my barbie again. From the Kentucky coal mine to the California born your son kept up and shared the secrets of my soul. Through all kinds of weather through everything we've done. You bought me a baby kept me from the lower one day I'm ne slow home I let him slip away he's looking for that home and I hope he finds it When I trade all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday. To be holding Bobby's body next to mine. Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Nothing that's all that Bobby left me honey feeling good was easy loud when he sang the blues. Hey feeling good was good enough for me. Good enough for me and my Bobby. Yeah la sam sa cry I know she I don't know if you're torn out you lie much more but I know that you left you and you swear that you just don't know why. But you know when I always I always be right. If you ever want me come on and grab grab me back. Nobody ever going to love you I choose all your pain on your heart and death. And if you need me you know that I'll always be right. If you ever want me come on it and when you're walking around the world baby, you said you're trying to look for the end of the road. You might find out later that the road will end in Detroit. One of the roads don't even end at Kathmandu. You could go all around the world trying to find something to do with your life when you only gotta do one thing well, you only gotta do one thing well to make it in this world, man. You got a woman waiting for your dad. All you ever gotta do is be a good man, man. One time to one woman and that'll be the end of the road. I know you got more tears to share that. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. And if you ever feel a little lonely, I want you to come on. I'm coming on the baby, baby, baby SA 7 songs the Seven Seas just to bring all your sweet love home to me. Hey, I'm feeling like the mountain. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're feeling like a sea not something but still unless your love brings life to me. Your love brings life to me. Hey, bring the cloud your arms are flame brings us out to call your name sun rise up loud and burn the ground. Just to tell about the first good man I found. Yeah, When I feel me like the mountains. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're feeling like a sea Lord, and I'm come still unless your love brings life to me. Your love brings light to me. Sam. Nighttime sky, seven star heaven's eyes. Seven stones from the seven seas. Just to bring all your sweet love home to me. Hey, D. Don't feel me like the mountain. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Feel me like a mountain. Your love brings light to me. Your love brings light to me, you love bring it along, bring it along. Say your love brought alive to me. If you like rhythm and blues as much as I do, my next guest is just what you've been waiting for. Ladies and gentlemen, the legendary Miss Janice Joplin. Sit there, count your fingers. I know what else, what else can you do? I know how you feel, I know you feel and you through. Oh, count, count your little fingers. My unhappy, oh, little girl, little girl blue. Sit there. Go on. Gonna count those arrangers. Don't you feel I'm falling down? Oh, honey, on around you don't you know it's time I feel 10, somebody told you. Cause you got to know, know that. Are you ever going to have to count? I going to war. It's going to feel just like those raindrops do when I fall to d Going to kill your finger. I know what else, what else, what have you got to do? And I know how you feel. And I know you ain't got no reason to go. I know you feel that you must be through. Going to sit right back down. I want you to count your fingers. My unhappy, my unlucky. But my little, little girl blue. I know you're unhappy. Oh, babe, I know just how you feel Ram well if I could pray and I tried to yeah you might come back home Home to me maybe Whoa whoa if I could ever hold your little hand oh you might understand maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe I guess I might have done something wrong and I'd be glad to admit it oh come on home to me But I know that this doesn't ever seem to matter baby honey when I go out of what I'm trying to do Cuz you see I'm still left here and I'm all alone O please, please, please please don't want you reconsider baby now come on I said it come back when it come back to me Let me help you show me how maybe, maybe, maybe maybe A woman left alone Will soon grow tired of waiting SHIELD A crazy thing yeah on lonely occasions A simple conversation With a new thing now in the game Makes a touching situation When a good thing's coming to an end and when she gets along she's thinking me she knows he's taking hell for granted she doesn't understand Sam she is when he can't keep up his own way Just get to do the best that you can LA Ever since my dad I've been on the I've been misery and yes I have not Ever since my since my daddy gone gone gone But I believe that it won't maybe it won't be too long if I just could hang Hang on until my till my misery But I'll be gone I said my rooms you know they're so empty Empty empty empty empty Full of sadness sometimes yeah my rooms are so empty Empty empty empty Chock full of sadness Honest sometimes sometimes oh that it just it just moves in like the fog rolls in Can I find out what I can't see you baby for my tears but I tried don't you know I tried Crying cried, cried, cried cry baby now I've been missing you oh I've been missing you Left now and alone Seems to bother me much more than it seems it should be so baby Na na baby na na baby tell me why does it have to be oh so wrong for me? I never thought I could ever want anybody no no no Never did never did why am I feeling and so strange wow Never, never never needed nobody no, no Mima you could help me wild I'm feeling sort of strange and I call me a great and I got a great big bed with two pillars for my head he been lately I've been sleeping sleeping alone But I don't you know I tried cried, cried you know how I cried and baby I've been missing you Y. Don't you know I tried crying cried, you know how I cried and baby I've been missing you don't you know I tried crying, cried, you know how I cried and baby oh the last time that I saw you. You know you didn't say a word. And I knew, hon as I looked into your eyes My feelings alone they never been hurt well I'm talking to you about a Lord did you hear me? I, I said love yeah because it's got to be such a long, long long way from denying, from the nine and I say don't say no no, no not me no more. And I believed in you all the time. But until I found out I know that I was so wrong oh well. To try and build the life of the year Lord I should have known it I guess I should have known it all along. Oh let me hold it just once more when I ask you just want some more because it's God tv So a long, long way from crying and I've been crying and I got tears. But don't you know when you love so valent. So precious Never, never, never be had a very cheap. No no, no, no no no. You're gonna have to pay your dues. And sometimes, honey sometimes you know you're about to lose yeah but that's the way you're gonna learn learn, learn to love. Oh God, I wish I could explain to myself. Cause I know that it's my fault Here it's so easy to hurt your darling it's so hard I guess it's hard not today and I know but you showed me a new life and you'll always and you'll always be my friend fame But I don't think that everything can keep trying and I've been trying and I've been trying to you favor yourself to have well tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me what will I do without your child? I'm afraid I can't say But I hope one of the one will remember her alone. It'll be, it'll be such a sunny day. Nah, nah, nah now goodbye and I'll see you sometime and don't be weary Everything just fine baby I don't think that I can keep from dying. And I've been dying I see no empathy I got a little bit famous, ain't I? Every day I lose me some put in my heart I've been Lonely, lonely look around people seen her I got to find I found I want him Got a need and goes to keep my baby, baby Talk about my baby Keep my baby baby wow yeah my baby I hate to leave you baby I need to leave you darling I never hurt you baby but until you know I got you, got you, got to got you got you wow. Yeah I got her I got leave you baby I can't help myself I can leave you baby I can help myself. You are listening to Psychedelic Soul with Jeff Delgado.