A 45-Year Memory: In Memory of Janis

January 19, 1943 - October 4, 1970

On October 1 Janis Joplin did a quick a capella recording of a little ditty she had written a couple months earlier.

It would be the last song she recorded. She died three days later.

This Kris Kristofferson song from the last album that was just being completed when she died. It would be a posthumous #1:

The full measure of her powerful voice and style is probably best captured in this cover as she performed it on the Dick Cavett show:

All Kinds of Things Can Happen on This Day

1859 – The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.

1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.

1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.

1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".

1969 - Wendy's Hamburgers opens

1969 - Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar & indecent language in Tampa, Fla