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Janis Joplin with Big Brother and The Holding Company - Summertime & I Need A Man To Love Play Video

Janis Joplin with Big Brother and The Holding Company - Summertime & I Need A Man To Love

One of the last performances Janis Joplin performed with Big Brother and the Holding Company, on the Saturday night variety TV show "The Hollywood Palace" (11/2/68). Performing the songs "Summertime" and "I Need A Man...

Big Brother and the Holding Company - Combination of the Two Play Video

Big Brother and the Holding Company - Combination of the Two

Off of Cheap Thrills. One of the great albums out of the SF area in the 60s.

Janis Joplin- Summertime (Cheap Thrills Recording Session) Play Video

Janis Joplin- Summertime (Cheap Thrills Recording Session)

Janis and Big Brother and the Holding Company recording Summertime for their Columbia album Cheap Thrills. The album was released in late 1968 and sold over one million copies that year. Shortly after the release of...

Big Brother & The Holding Company -Hall of The Mountain King Play Video

Big Brother & The Holding Company -Hall of The Mountain King

April 25, 1967 Come Up The Years, KQED TV, San Francisco, California. Big Brother and The Holding Companys rendition of the classic piece by Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907). youtube.com The piece is a part of the...

Take another little piece of my heart Play Video

Take another little piece of my heart

sang by Janis Joplin + Big Brother & the holding company

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Big Brother & The Holding Company Biography

Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane. They are best known as the band that featured Janis Joplin as their lead singer. Their 1968 album Cheap Thrills is considered one of the masterpieces of the psychedelic sound of San Francisco; it reached number one on the Billboard charts, and was ranked number 338 in Rolling Stone 's the 500 greatest albums of all time.

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Big Brother & The Holding Company Discography

Big Brother & The Holding Company albums.

  • Cheap Thrills - (CBS Records/GB)
  • Big Brother & The Holding Company - 09/1967 (Mainstream Records/US)

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