This week, Jim is looking for a song from an artiste (or artistes) who is no longer with us. Sadly, there are far too many to choose from, but here is a performance by one who, along with Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, succumbed to the 1970 curse of being 28 years old. There’ll never…
A ‘seasons’ theme from Jim for Song Lyric Sunday this week so, as the weather seems to be warming up (and the grass is certainly growing), I’ve gone for summer. From George Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess’, but performed by Janis Joplin: accept no substitute. Summertime, And the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ And the…
The first time I heard (or even heard of) Janis Joplin was on the BBC’s classical music station, Radio 3. Back in 1968, it also brodcast ball-by-ball cricket commentary on England test matches. It being the school holidays and I being a bit of a nerd, I was planning to score the upcoming test match…
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