BIG BROTHER & HOLDING COMPANY Cheap Thrills LP CBS 1969 ITA orig JANIS JOPLIN
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BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY
PETER S. ALBIN, DAVE GETZ, SAM HOUSTON ANDREW III, JAMES GURLEY, JANIS JOPLIN Raw, heavy, hallucinogenic 1960s rock band featuring Janis Joplin, hit big with 1968's "Piece of My Heart."CHEAP THRILLS"
<originally published in the U.S.A. in 1968, but released in Italy in early 1970>
1969 LP CBS RECORDS 63392 STEREO
MADE IN ITALY ORIGINAL PRESSING
Released in a single laminated cover (on front) with flipback on rear. With company inner sleeve.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
LABEL: CBS - ORANGE LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (front) 63392 (spine & rear) S 63392
Catalog on labels: S 63392 (CI S 63392 A1) / S 63392 (CI S 63392 B2)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): SBPG 63392 A1 (Etched): zzz.?
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): SBPG 63392 B2 (Etched): zzz.?
On labels: top rim text reads "Riservati Tutti......Questo Disco"
STEREOMONO
?1969 DP (boxed)
bottom rim text reads "Made in Italy"
Rights Society / Publishing: S.I.A.E. (stamped on side one), DP
On front cover: Live material recorded at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium
Approved by Hell's Angels Frisco
Turtle Blues "Vibes" courtesy of Barney's Beanery
On Back Sleeve: Tecnici: Fred Catero, Jerry Hochman, Roy Segal, Janis Joplin e James Gurley
CBS is a Trademark of the Columbia Broadcasting System Inc. - CBS Italiana S.p.A. - Milano
- Distribuzione Messaggerie Musicali - Milano - Roma
? 1972 CBS, Inc. - Made in Italy
Stampa Reparto Grafico C.G.D.
tracklisting (from back cover)
Side A: COMBINATION OF THE TWO - I NEED A MAN TO LOVE
SUMMERTIME - PIECE OF MY HEART
Side B: TURTLE BLUES - OH, SWEET MARY
BALL AND CHAIN
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RECORD NEAR EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Cheap Thrills, the major-label debut of Janis Joplin, was one of the most eagerly anticipated,
and one of the most successful, albums of 1968. Joplin and her band Big Brother & the Holding Company had
earned extensive press notice ever since they played the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967,
but for a year after that their only recorded work was a poorly produced, self-titled album that
they'd done early in their history for Mainstream Records; and it took the band and the best legal minds
at Columbia Records seven months to extricate them from their Mainstream contract,
so that they could sign with Columbia. All the while, demand continued to build, and they still faced the problem
of actually delivering something worthy of the press they'd been getting -- Columbia even tried to record
them live on-stage on the tour they were in the midst of when the new contract was signed,
but somehow the concert tapes from early March of 1968 didn't capture the full depth of their work.
So they spent March, April, and May in the studio with producer John Simon and, miraculously,
emerged with something that was as exciting as anything they'd done on-stage.
When Cheap Thrills appeared in August 1968, sporting a Robert Crumb cover
that constituted the most elaborate album design ever lavished
on a rock album from Columbia Records, as well as a pop-art classic rivaling
the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's jacket, it shot into the charts, reaching number one
and going gold within a couple of months, and "Piece of My Heart" became
a Top 40 hit and helped to propel the LP to over a million sales...(AllMusic)
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