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Janis Joplin - Greatest Hits | 
 enlarge | Artist: Janis Joplin
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 1536
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 65869
UPC: 074646586921
EAN: 0074646586921
ASIN: B00000K2W1
Release Date: August 31, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Piece of My Heart - Janis Joplin, Berns, B. | | • | Summertime - Janis Joplin, Heyward, D. | | • | Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) - Janis Joplin, Ragovoy, J. | | • | Cry Baby - Janis Joplin, Berns, B. | | • | Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin, Foster, Fred | | • | Down on Me - Janis Joplin, Joplin, J. | | • | Get It While You Can - Janis Joplin, Shuman, M. | | • | Bye, Bye Baby - Janis Joplin, St.John, P. | | • | Move Over - Janis Joplin, Joplin, J. | | • | Ball and Chain - Janis Joplin, Thornton, W.M. | | • | Maybe - Janis Joplin, Barrett, R. | | • | Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin, Joplin, J. |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
More than Cheap Thrills or even Pearl, Greatest Hits has helped keep Janis Joplin's short-lived recording career alive for listeners who came along after her 1970 death. "Me and Bobby McGee" is the biggest draw, of course--it was a posthumous No. 1 single--but the rest is equally exciting. Despite the familiarity of the titles here, this goes far beyond the merely serviceable. Finally, the cover photo of Janis smiling in a sunny park is as poignant a shot of her as exists. --Rickey Wright
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 all great songs! September 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is a collection of Janis Joplin's greatest hits. all the songs are beautiful and she sings so nice, i love this cd. she was a great artest
Lovely, soulful, gritty, and amazing. July 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was too young to have appreicated her music when the album originally came out--how wonderful to be able to go back 40 years and catch-up. I now fully comprehend what older friends and have been raving about for so long.
Her demise our loss January 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Joplin's version of Gershwin's " Summertime " is arguably one of the best song's ever recorded. The rest of the album is very good. She was one of a kind.
Super CD January 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
How can you not love Janis Joplin? This is a great CD. You won't regret buying it.
NOT COMPLETE BUT ENCAPSULATES THE RADIO AIRPLAY TUNES December 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An excellent collection, Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits features the radio tunes immortalized by the "white woman who could sing the blues", Janis Joplin. Included are the tracks Piece of My Heart, Mercedes Benz, Summertime, and the excellent Me and Bobby McGee, which would be Janis' only #1 hit and was, sadly enough, posthumously recorded as such.
In this disc, Joplin's unique vocals are enough to convince one that Janis was and is a one-of-a-kind performer who cannot be equaled or imitated. To this day, no one has filmed an adequate biopic of Janis Joplin as played by someone else. In fact, that "played by someone else" will probably never occur since no one possessing similarities to what were Janis' physical traits has the matching dynamic voice.
If you like this disc and want more of Janis, I suggest that you purchase Cheap Thrills (the album with the Robert Crumb-like comic book art on the cover) and Pearl, her very last release. Altogether, they will make a more complete collection than The Essential Janis Joplin, which, itself, consists of a very nice Janis repertoire.
In one sense, Janis is no longer with us, and yet, considering the magnitude of her accomplishments in those brief 27 years, Janis will always be with us with a spirit that will live on!
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