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Glad I did the Freddy Parody
"Cry Baby," the song by Garnett Mimms and the Enchanters, as performed by JJ....no, no, no...not J.J. McLean, the real JJ, Janis Joplin, just a masterful performance that speaks to me on many levels.
Janis Joplin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfGSd-tikH4
Guitarist John Till, a guest on Visual Radio, is subtle on this outing, the keys - both organ and piano - bass and drums - all taking centera (that's 10 times center) stage. Till, one of the great guitarists has remained underrated. Full Tilt Boogie Band cut an album after Janis died, but that album is missing in action, probably up there at Al Grossman's estate on some shelf...
What a tragedy that Joplin passed during the recording of this incredible work of art, most likely murder, not an overdose as was the legend. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and possibly Arlington, Massachusetts legend Al Wilson from Canned Heat, all murdered - allegedly - within a month or so, from Sept 1, 1970 when Wilson was found under the redwood trees of California while his band was on a plane to Europe to perform with the late Jimi Hendrix and the late Alvin Lee (The great, great Alvin promoted by yours truly in 1992.)
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Janis and Garnett....gotta do a mash-up remix have them duet! Stunning.
Garnett Mimms and the Enchanters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh970eFN7Ao
The great Bert Berns co-wrote this with legend Jerry Ragovoy - pure genius. Wow, sublime production, and what a vocal from Mimms. It stirs me in a way that is different from Joplin, but both stellar and so inspirational. Listen to Garnett Mimms tenderly touch the words while Janis just tears them apart, shredding 'em in total reinvention, but both delivering the goods in different ways.
Here's my review on the mighty AMG when I worked for them, during the TV3 Medford days.
See if my perspective has changed in the years, the above written just now, 12:45 pm Dec 13, 2019, this review ten or eighteen years before, how time flies...
Song Review by Joe Viglione [-]
This tremendous cover of the Top 5 1963 hit for Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters has an even more "enchanting" version in the out-take
on the Janis 3 CD boxed set. The very precise Paul Rothchild production was the follow-up single to "Me & Bobby McGee" and is 3 minutes and 56 seconds long, compared to the 4:56 length of the out-take which has Janis asking at the end of the performance "Is it a hit or a myth?" Columbia Records single #45379 "Cry Baby" / "Mercedez Benz"
is a tour-de-force that was a hit in different regions of the country, but didn't make the Top 40. The liner notes to the re-mastered Pearl album state it debuted on the Billboard charts 5/15/71, and stayed there for six weeks, peaking at #42. Almost as explosive as "Piece Of My Heart", and written by the same duo, R & B producer Jerry Ragovoy who recorded the Garnet Mimms original version and Bang Records executive Bert Berns, (the original songwriting credit went to N.Meade/B.Russell, which was most likely a pseudonym for the pair), Janis gives us her passionately loud and tender sides which make this performance an endless thrill. Great insight into the Janis Joplin legacy can be found by studying the popular minor hit version from Pearl as well as the tape from the rehearsals for Pearl released on the 3 CD set, both recorded on September 5, 1970.
A glimpse of Rothchild's glossy finish can
also be gleaned from the rendition aired on radio as Janis doesn't hit all the notes precisely in the alternative take, but boy is she witty, and does she have a stylish soul all her own. It appears it took quite a bit of energy for her to get those vocal chords energized for that psychedelic scream in this song and the extended monologue in the middle is wonderful, just the tone of her voice and attitude during this segment speaks volumes. A truly great 27 year old blues singer with the insight of a spirit that has been around a lot longer, she lets it loose on "Cry Baby", and the result is a magnificent artistic achievement.
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