"Me and Bobby McGee" reached the top of the chart in March 1971, months after Joplin's death. The song made her one of the rare artists to score a posthumous No. 1 single and became one of the ...
Janis Joplin began recording a song on Sept. 5, 1970, that would soon become the biggest hit of her career. She just wouldn’t ...
Janis Joplin achieved immortality when she cut the Kris Kristofferson classic "Me and Bobby McGee" in September 1970.