Janis Joplin was born on this date (January 19) in 1943. She would have been 69 years old.
The photo is Janis in her kindergarten class in 1947 at Tyrrell Elementary in Port Arthur, Texas. She is in the 2nd row from the front, the 2nd kid from the left. Port Arthur was her home town, and it is mine also.
My sister once worked at the same Texaco refinery as Seth Joplin, Janis’s father. One rainy day, Mr. Joplin picked up my sister and a few co-workers in his car to transport them from one part of the refinery to another.
The teacher in the photo, Ms. Higginbotham, is still alive today at age 86. According to panews.com, this is what Ms. Higginbotham said about Janis: “I wasn’t interested in all that racket she was making with those groups in the 60s.”
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Happy New Year! Ring out the old, ring in the new with George Harrison’s “Ding Dong, Ding Dong”.
I find that birds like hanging out at Sonic…
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John Lennon “Remember” - from ‘Plastic Ono Band’ (1970)
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”
~ Mother Teresa
George Harrison painted the cover for his Electronic Sound album (released in May 1969)
George Harrison on stage.
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Linda McCartney singing “Cook of the House” from 1976’s ‘Wings at the Speed of Sound’
NOTE: The “noise” at the beginning of the track is part of the song! It’s the sound of boiling hot grease.
Linda McCartney died from breast cancer 13 years ago today, age 56, at the McCartney family ranch in Tucson, AZ
George Harrison with a Gibson SG guitar.
