Big Brother and the Holding Company
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Sep 28, 2026
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At first, it didn't really do all that much, but then as time went on, and especially after a Walter Cronkite interview that happened to use that song in it, that's when it kicked in and suddenly Beatlemania started gaining some steam in America.
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In 1968, prompted by her manager, Albert Grossman, Janis Joplin announced her departure from Big Brother and the Holding Company.
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She wanted a new musical direction, so she left the psychedelic band to launch her own solo career and then formed the Cosmic Blues Band.
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In 1970, NBC television expanded its daytime television lineup with the premiere of Words and Music, which was a music-themed game show that was hosted by Wink Martindale.
Mark MillerHOST
Two musical things today in 68.
Mark MillerHOST
Hey Jude hits number one, and Janice says, I'm done with Big Brother and the Holding Company.
Mark MillerHOST
She's going on her own.
Mark MillerHOST
Ali and Norton.
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Kathy MacDonald was born in 1948.
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She was a famous blues and rock vocalist who sang with the Ike and Tina Turner Revue and also replaced Janis Joplin in the group Big Brother and the Holding Company.
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Zucchero was born in 1955, internationally famous Italian singer-songwriter nicknamed the father of Italian blues.
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Rosalio was born in 1992, Grammy award-winning Spanish singer-songwriter.
JaniceNARRATOR
Continuing, I learned something during the musical.
JaniceNARRATOR
I was predisposed to appreciate Janis Joplin because of my love of the San Francisco sound of the mid to late 60s, the sonic world of Jefferson Airplane, moby grape quicksilver messenger service and the grateful dead all of whom i liked i admit that big brother and the holding company weren't on my radar but as i learned in the musical It was producer Chef Helms who was managing them, who had the genius idea to bring Janice from Texas to San Francisco and to put her in front of the band.
JaniceNARRATOR
It was a clash of cultures, but it worked.
JaniceNARRATOR
the other thing i learned during the musical at the kavinoki was how much black female singers shaped janice's aesthetic and what a treat it was to have those stars of the past brought back to life by the sizable talents of four buffalo's go-to women of musical theater dasha cervi danielle green Annika Pace, and Ember Tate Steele.
Carl ThomasHOST
The Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.
Carl ThomasHOST
I'm standing in the crowd watching a band called Big Brother and the Holding Company, and the singer, this force of nature from Texas named Janis Joplin, is tearing the roof off the place.
Carl ThomasHOST
Two years later, she'll be gone.
Carl ThomasHOST
But that night, nobody in the room knew that.
Penn JilletteHOST
He's fascinating.
Penn JilletteHOST
And, you know, he had trouble producing Big Brother and The Holding Company.
Penn JilletteHOST
Because his ears are so good, he was driven crazy by them being out of tune.
Penn JilletteHOST
It's his point of view, which I believe is my point of view as well, is that Janis Joplin was a good singer, although better at math and physics.
Justin WilsonHOST
is meaningful for a pic
RandyGUEST
gonna cluster the next four songs in these are all songs that i heard constantly over and over and over again in my house and three of these four are opening tracks of their record or the record that i had at home listening to it on so we have uh still crazy after all these years from paul simon We have Big Brother and Holding Company, which is Janis Joplin, Peace of My Heart.
RandyGUEST
We have You May Be Right by Billy Joel, and I went out of order because I wanted to get all the track ones in.
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You May Be Right was, I think, track one for the greatest hits.
AdamHOST
She, at that point, only wanted to do concerts where people were silent and listening to her.
AdamHOST
Now, just for some context, the same exact week, about a 10-minute drive away from this comedy club, Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company are playing, and about a six-minute walk from where Laura was, Jefferson Airplane were playing.
AdamHOST
So we can already see one of these things is not like the other.
AdamHOST
Can we talk about the whole silence while I'm performing
Peter RichardsonGUEST
But it becomes the sort of signature of the San Francisco rock scene, a visual signature.
Marcus GoldmanHOST
That 1965 concert that really took it off for Bill Graham at the Fillmore, Jefferson Airplane, The Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, all for $1.50. We'll be right back with more about the early days of Rolling Stone magazine, San Francisco's rock and roll scene, the counterculture, and more with Peter Richardson on the imbalanced history of rock and roll.
Ray KoobHOST
It's another episode of the Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll.
Ray KoobHOST
I'm Ray Koob.
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Peter RichardsonGUEST
Ralph was a really important part of that.
Peter RichardsonGUEST
But Jan was the guy who was locking down the advertising.
Marcus GoldmanHOST
one of the other aspects of this book that i thought was really cool is you also were able to sort of without going into too much detail but give a good picture of the rise of bill graham alongside rolling stone and that is really important because you had the love pageant rally where the lineup was like top shelf at that time the grateful dead big brother and the holding company wildflower Then you had the tribute to Dr.
Marcus GoldmanHOST
Strange with the airplane, along with Great Society, I think was the band that was where Grace Slick was a member of before she joined airplanes.
Ben VaughnHOST
This is The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn that you're tuned into on your radio or device of choice, and we are now gonna play the original version of Piece of My Heart by Erma Franklin, Aretha Franklin's sister.
Ben VaughnHOST
You may know this by Janis Joplin and Big Brother & The Holding Company, but this came out first.
Ben VaughnHOST
Piece of My Heart by Erma Franklin.
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[singing] Didn't I make you feel like you were the only man? Didn't I give you everything that a woman possibly can? Oh, oh.
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