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Cheaper Thrills is a live album by Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin as their lead singer. Recorded live at one of their earliest concerts in San Francisco at California Hall on July 28, 1966, it includes the band's rendition of the song " Let the Good Times Roll ," which was ten years old at the time.
- David Getz
- 1984
- July 28, 1966
- Rock, psychedelic rock
Cheap Thrills is the second studio album by American rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, issued by Columbia Records in 1968. Cheap Thrills was the band's final album with lead singer Janis Joplin before she left to begin a solo career. For Cheap Thrills, the band and producer John Simon incorporated recordings of crowd noises to give ...
- 37:11
- August 12, 1968
- March 2 – May 20, 1968
- Joplin offered to sleep with Clive Davis to seal the deal on their CBS recording contract. Clive Davis had just begun his tenure as the head of CBS Records when he fell hard and fast for Big Brother and the Holding Company following their performance at Monterey.
- Cheap Thrills was originally intended to be a live album. Big Brother and the Holding Company’s self-titled studio debut, issued in August 1967 on Mainstream, was decidedly lackluster.
- Some of the faux-audience background noises were recorded at Barney’s Beanery, where Joplin would have her last meal. See Also. ‘San Francisco Sounds’ Reveals the Discovery of Janis Joplin.
- Erma Franklin didn’t recognize Joplin’s version of her song “Piece of My Heart.” Three of the seven tracks on Cheap Thrills were covers that had been, in Peter Albin’s words, “Big Brotherized.”
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Aug 12, 2015 · Big Brother & the Holding Company hurtled Janis Joplin to success with the Aug. 12, 1968 release of 'Cheap Thrills.'
Joplin was driven to push her voice to extremes, and “I Need a Man to Love” and “Oh, Sweet Mary” stagger with her bourbon-soaked voice, which understood the blues as a sad, doomed road to self-destruction. The expanded edition of this album adds two studio outtakes (“Roadblock,” “Flower in the Sun”) and two previously unreleased ...
