day 70: Me and Bobby McGee

Me and Bobby McGee, by Kris Kristofferson / Janis Joplin.

I did a cover of the original but I know the more famous cover better and kinda sang it like that sometimes and like the original sometimes. Got that?

[reads Wikipedia once]

Actualllllllly… Kristofferson wrote it; Roger Miller recorded it first; then everyone else in country music, inclusive of Kenny Rogers, then Janis makes it a #1 hit. (Two years have passed since the original recording at this point.)

Who else records this song later? The Grateful Dead, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lynn, Olivia Newton-John, (Jennifer Love Hewitt, for that matter), Joan Baez, etc.

It’s late, and it’s simple, and it’s yours.