Janis Joplin's screaming soulful voice in many ways is a personification of the Hippie Era (along with Jimi Hendrix, Grace Slick and a few others). She came to symbolize energy of the Psychedelic, Haight Ashbury, love beads, love ins, free love, flower children, black light posters and incense, expansion of consciousness, spiritualism soaked in the unusual drug idealism of the late 1960's. It was a time of bright hope and optimism and the shedding of many social-psychological-sexual traditions that went sour. Janis came on this scene with a singing style not heard before on the playlists of white American radio stations. Her singing was more like that of Aretha Franklin and other blues/gospel singers than the typical white girl songstress.
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Janis Joplin
Bo diddley called a nanny goat
To make his pretty baby a sunday coat
Bo diddley called a bear cat
To make his pretty baby a sunday hat
Hey, bo diddley,
Hey, bo diddley, yeah!
Hey, bo diddley, baby,
Hey, bo diddley.
Two, two, three I was alone
Went to my baby when I get home
Tell my baby the nights away
Come on baby feel like that
Said hey, bo diddley,
Hey, bo diddley, yeah!
Hey, bo diddley, baby,
Hey, bo diddley.
Bo diddley bought a diamond ring
Take it to my baby most anything
Baby, baby, baby, all right
I get home she nearly gone.
Hey, bo diddley
Hey, bo diddley, yeah!
Hey, bo diddley, babe,
Hey, bo diddley.
Bo diddley called a bear cat
To make his pretty baby a sunday hat
Bo diddley called a nanny goat
To make his pretty baby a sunday coat
Hey, bo diddley,
Hey, bo diddley, yeah!
Hey, bo diddley, babe,
Hey, bo diddley!
Baby, baby, baby, come on now!
Want you to know you can feel me darlin!
Baby, baby, baby, please come home now,
Dont know what Im gonna do with mona.
Hey, bo diddley,
Hey, bo diddley, yeah!
Hey, bo diddley, babe,
Hey, bo diddley!
Hey, bo diddley!
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