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  "Down On Me," Big Brother's second single, wasn't a big hit, but it did help spread the word of an exciting young band coming out of San Francisco-a band fronted by an incredible new talent, Janis Joplin. It was at 1967's legendary Monterey Pop Festival that Joplin's jaw-dropping set earned the group a recording contract with Columbia Records. New label president Clive Davis personally signed them upon witnessing the audience being blown away by her staggering rendition of Big Mama Thornton's "Ball And Chain"--a performance at once more than human and all too human, and captured for posterity in the film, Monterey Pop.
(Arranged by J. Joplin); Produced by Bob Shad; Janis Joplin, lead vocal; Sam Andrew, lead guitar, vocal; James Gurley, guitar; Peter Albin, bass; Dave Getz, drums; Rec. 1966. From Big Brother And The Holding Company, Columbia C 30631 (Formerly Mainstream 6099); Originally Released 1967
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