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Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane. After some initial personnel changes, the band became well known with the lineup of vocalist Janis Joplin, guitarists Sam Andrew and James Gurley, bassist Peter Albin, and drummer Dave Getz. Their second album Cheap Thrills, released in 1968, is considered one of the masterpieces of the psychedelic sound of San Francisco; it reached number one on the Billboard charts, and was ranked number 338 in Rolling Stone's the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album is also listed in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Joplin left the band in 1968, following the recording of Cheap Thrills, for a successful solo career. The band recruited new members Nick Gravenites, Kathi McDonald, and Dave Schallock to replace her, and released two more albums before breaking up in 1972. The classic lineup (minus Joplin, who had died in 1970) reunited in 1987. The band has continued to perform ever since, with a variety of different lead singers. James Gurley left for a solo career in 1997 and died in 2009. Sam Andrew died in 2015.
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The 1969 Transmissions [2019]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Piece of My Heart | 3:51 |
| Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) | 6:23 |
| Maybe | 3:45 |
Sex, Dope & Cheap Thrills [2018]
Bang: The Bert Berns Story [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] [2017]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Piece of My Heart | 4:13 |
Iconic Performances from the Monterey International Pop Festival [2017]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Ball and Chain | 8:10 |
The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick [Original TV Soundtrack] [2017]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Piece of My Heart | 4:15 |
Janis: Little Girl Blue [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] [2016]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Piece of My Heart | 4:19 |
| Maybe | 3:40 |
| Little Girl Blue [Album Version] [Version] | 3:45 |
Original Album Classics [2015]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Bye, Bye Baby | |
| Easy Rider | |
| Light Is Faster Than Sound | |
| Call on Me | |
| Caterpillar | |
| All Is Loneliness | |
| Piece of My Heart | |
| Ball and Chain |
Retrospective: The Music of Mad Men [Original Series Soundtrack] [2015]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Piece of My Heart | 4:14 |
Be My Baby, Vol. 2: More Music from the Girls of the Sixties [2012]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Piece of My Heart | 4:14 |
Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 [2012]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Combination of the Two | 4:35 |
| I Need a Man to Love | 6:39 |
| Flower in the Sun | 3:11 |
| Light Is Faster Than Sound | 6:02 |
| Summertime | 4:35 |
| Catch Me Daddy | 5:06 |
| It's a Deal | 2:28 |
| Call on Me | 4:04 |
| Piece of My Heart | 4:49 |
| Coo Coo | 6:22 |
| Ball & Chain | 9:22 |
| Down on Me | 2:50 |
| Call on Me [Saturday Show - June 22, 1968] [*] | 3:57 |
Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 [Bonus Track] [2012]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Light Is Faster Than Sound | 6:02 |
| It's a Deal | 2:28 |
| Call On Me | 4:04 |
| Piece of My Heart | 4:49 |
| Coo Coo | 6:22 |
| Ball & Chain | 9:22 |
| Down on Me | 2:44 |
Plug It In! Turn It Up! Electric Blues - The Definitive Collection, Pt. 3: 1960-1969 [2012]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Ball and Chain | 9:11 |
Ball and Chain [2009]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Down On Me | 2:16 |
| Bye, Bye, Baby | |
| Ball & Chain | 6:56 |
| Light is Faster Than Sound | 5:02 |
| Caterpillar | |
| It's a Deal | |
| All is Loneliness | |
| Coo Coo | |
| Harry |
The Woodstock Experience [2009]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| One Good Man | 4:12 |
| As Good as You've Been to This World | 5:27 |
| Kozmic Blues | 4:24 |
| Summertime [Live] | 5:05 |
| Piece of My Heart [Live] | 4:57 |
| Ball and Chain [Live] | 7:42 |
Billboard 1960's: Top 40 Karaoke Box Set [2008]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Piece of My Heart [Karaoke Mix] | 4:02 |
| Piece of My Heart [Vocal Mix] | 4:02 |
Greatest Hits [Steel Box Collection] [2008]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Piece of My Heart | 4:15 |
| Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) | 3:57 |
Janis Joplin [Madacy] [2008]
The Lost Tapes [2008]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Bye, Bye Baby [#] | 4:10 |
| Women Is Losers [#] | 5:09 |
| Caterpillar [#] | 4:11 |
| It's a Deal [#] | 2:13 |
| Turtle Blues [#] | 6:46 |
| All Is Loneliness [#] | 9:04 |
| Light Is Faster Than Sound [#] | 6:26 |
| Down on Me | 2:45 |
| Women Is Losers | 3:48 |
| Ball & Chain | 6:43 |
| Ball and Chain | 6:43 |
| Coo-Coo | 2:30 |
| Harry | 0:37 |
Hold Me: Live in Germany [2006]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Down on Me | 3:25 |
| Combination of the Two | 5:51 |
| Call on Me | 3:54 |
| Blind Man | 5:15 |
| Summertime | 4:46 |
| Turtle Blues | 4:18 |
| Women Is Losers | 4:53 |
| Piece of My Heart | 4:45 |
| Ball and Chain | 7:33 |
The Essential Janis Joplin [Japan Bonus Track] [2003]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Ball and Chain [Live] | 8:04 |
| Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) | 3:57 |
| Work Me, Lord | 6:37 |
Live in San Francisco, 1966 [2002]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Down on Me | 2:45 |
| Women Is Losers | 3:48 |
| Ball and Chain | 6:43 |
| Coo Coo | 2:30 |
| Harry | 0:37 |
Big Brother & the Holding Company/Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits/Live at Winterland '68 [2001]
Love, Janis [2001]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Light Is Faster Than Sound [Instrumental] | |
| Bye Bye Baby [Instrumental] | |
| Piece of My Heart | 4:14 |
| Ball and Chain | 9:26 |
| Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) | 3:55 |
| Little Girl Blue |
Box of Pearls: The Janis Joplin Collection [1999]
Live at Winterland '68 [1998]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Bye Bye Baby [#] | 4:14 |
| Easy Rider [#] | 5:17 |
| Piece of My Heart [#] | 6:41 |
| Magic of Love [#] | 3:07 |
| Light Is Faster Than Sound [#] | 7:15 |
| Ball and Chain [#] | 9:42 |
The Monterey International Pop Festival, June 16-17-18, 1967 [1997]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Down on Me | 3:26 |
| Harry | 0:37 |
| Road Block | 6:18 |
| Ball and Chain | 8:15 |
The Ultimate Rock Collection Gold and Platinum, Vol. 1: 1964-1970 [1997]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Piece of My Heart | 4:29 |
The Best of Loma Records: Rise and Fall of a 1960s Soul Label [1995]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) | 3:03 |
The Collection [1995]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Piece of My Heart | 4:15 |
| Ball and Chain | 9:37 |
| Magic of Love [Live][#][*] | 3:58 |
| Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) | 3:57 |
| Maybe | 3:41 |
| As Good as You've Been to This World | 5:27 |
| Work Me, Lord | 6:45 |
The Collection [Cube Version] [1995]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Piece of My Heart | 4:15 |
| Ball and Chain | 9:37 |
| Magic of Love [Live][#][*] | 3:58 |
Janis [1993]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Easy Rider | 2:22 |
| Call on Me [Live][#] | 3:36 |
| Light Is Faster Than Sound | 2:30 |
| Little Girl Blue | 3:49 |
Big Brother & the Holding Company Live [1984]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Down on Me | 2:40 |
| Harry | 0:29 |
| Women Is Losers | 3:39 |
| Coo Coo | 2:18 |
| Ball and Chain | 6:37 |
Cheaper Thrills [1984]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| (Come on Baby) Let the Good Times Roll | 2:36 |
| Down on Me | 2:46 |
| Women Is Losers | 3:42 |
| Ball and Chain | 6:43 |
| Coo Coo | 2:28 |
| Harry | 0:37 |
Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits [1973]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Piece of My Heart | 4:14 |
| Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) | 3:57 |
| Bye Bye Baby | 2:37 |
Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits [Bonus Tracks] [1973]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Piece Of My Heart | 4:15 |
| Try (Just A Little Harder) | 3:55 |
| Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) | 3:57 |
| Bye, Bye Baby | 2:39 |
| Ball and Chain | 8:00 |
| Maybe [*] | 3:40 |
In Concert [Japan CD] [1972]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Bye, Bye Baby | 3:53 |
| All Is Loneliness | 6:20 |
| Piece of My Heart | 4:08 |
| Ball and Chain | 8:02 |
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! [1969]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| As Good as You've Been to This World | 5:27 |
| Work Me, Lord | 6:45 |
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! [Bonus Tracks] [1969]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| As Good as You've Been to This World | 5:27 |
| Little Girl Blue | 3:51 |
| Work Me, Lord | 6:45 |
| Dear Landlord [session outtake][*][Outtake] | 2:32 |
| Piece of My Heart [Live at Woodstock][#][*] | 6:31 |
Big Brother & the Holding Company Featuring Janis Joplin [1967]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Bye, Bye Baby | 2:39 |
| Bye Bye Baby | 2:39 |
| Easy Rider | 2:25 |
| Intruder | 2:30 |
| Light Is Faster Than Sound | 2:33 |
| Call on Me | 2:35 |
| Women Is Losers | 2:05 |
| Blindman | 2:25 |
| Down on Me | 2:07 |
| Caterpillar | 2:20 |
| All Is Loneliness | 2:32 |
| Coo Coo | 1:58 |
| Coo Coo [Single][#][*] | 1:58 |
| The Last Time [Single][#][*] | 2:17 |
| Call on Me [Alternate Take][#] | 2:41 |
| Call on Me [Alternate Take][#][*] | 2:41 |
| Bye, Bye Baby [Alternate Take][#] | 2:39 |
| Bye Bye Baby [Alternate Take][#][*] | 2:39 |
Big Brother & the Holding Company Featuring Janis Joplin [LP] [1967]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Bye, Bye Baby | 2:37 |
| Easy Rider | 2:23 |
| Light Is Faster Than Sound | 2:30 |
| Call On Me | 2:33 |
| Coo Coo | 1:56 |
| Down On Me | 2:04 |
| Caterpillar | 2:18 |
| All Is Loneliness | 2:18 |
Big Brother & the Holding Company [Japan] [1967]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Intruder | |
| Blindman | |
| Down on Me | |
| Coo Coo (Single) |
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!/Big Brother & The Holding Company [1967]
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Bye, Bye Baby | 2:39 |
| Easy Rider | 2:23 |
| Light Is Faster Than Sound | 2:30 |
| Call On Me | 2:41 |
| Caterpillar | 2:18 |
| All Is Loneliness | 2:31 |
| Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) | 3:55 |
| Maybe | 3:39 |
| As Good As You've Been To This World | 5:25 |
| To Love Somebody | 5:13 |
| Little Girl Blue | 3:49 |
| Work Me, Lord | 6:36 |
| Dear Landlord | 2:31 |
| Piece Of My Heart | 5:30 |
Monterey International Pop Festival: June 16, 17, 18, 1967
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Down On Me | 3:26 |
| Harry | 0:37 |
| Road Block | 6:18 |
| Ball and Chain | 8:15 |
Super Oldie Hits, Vol. 2: Die Grössten Hits der 50er, 60er und 70er
| Song | Duration |
|---|---|
| Piece of My Heart [Album Version] [Version] | 4:14 |
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