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Thursday, May 04, 2006
PIECE OF MY HEART
Erma Franklin
Shout : 1967
Available on: Golden Classics
Collectables : 1994
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PIECE OF MY HEART
Dusty Springfield
Dusty... Definitely
Philips : 1968
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PIECE OF MY HEART
Big Brother & The Holding Company
Cheap Thrills
Columbia : 1968
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PIECE OF MY HEART
Janis Joplin with Big Brother & The Holding Company
Live at Winterland '68
Sony : 1998
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"I never even recognized the song when I first heard Janis' version on the car radio," Aretha Franklin's older sister, Erma, said, when she first heard Janis Joplin's cover of her recording of "Piece of My Heart" on the car radio. "Naturally, it would have been great to have gotten the exposure, airplay and sales that she got but her version is so different from mine that I really don't resent it too much." God only knows what Erma would have made of the Red Rocker's cover - it doesn't get much better than the versions above, or much worse than this:
PIECE OF MY HEART
Sammy Hagar
Standing Hampton
Geffen : 1981
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Written by Bert Berns (who also wrote the anarchic "Twist and Shout") the song itself is sweetly masochistic; not as scary as Goffin-King's "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)," but not quite innocent, either. Soul Sides's O-Dub prizes Erma Franklin's original over all others, but I'm not sure that Franklin's self-posession, or Springfield's sophistication, serve the song as well as Joplin's somewhat overwrought anguish. In this case - and at least a few others we've been privy to - overwrought anguish seems called for.Labels: alex, soul
posted by Alex
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