Janis Joplin & Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills (1968)

 Janis Joplin & Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills

Released Year 1968



Tracklist front / back album covers

Side one

1. "Combination of the Two" Sam Andrew 5:47
2. "I Need a Man to Love" Andrew, Janis Joplin 4:54
3. "Summertime" George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward 4:01
4. "Piece of My Heart" Bert Berns, Jerry Ragovoy 4:15

Side two

1. "Turtle Blues" Joplin 4:22
2. "Oh, Sweet Mary" Peter Albin, Andrew, David Getz, James Gurley, Joplin 4:16
3. "Ball and Chain" Big Mama Thornton 9:02

Re-release bonus tracks

8. "Roadblock" (Studio outtake) 5:31
9. "Flower in the Sun" (Studio outtake) Sam Andrew 3:04
10. "Catch Me Daddy" (Live at The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI, March 2, 1968) 5:32

11. "Magic of Love" (Live at The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, MI, March 2, 1968) Mark Spoelstra 3:58

Cheap Thrills is the second studio album by American rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. It was their last album with Janis Joplin as lead singer before she started a solo career. For Cheap Thrills, the band and producer John Simon incorporated recordings of crowd noise to give the impression of a live album, for which it was subsequently mistaken by listeners. Only the final song was actually recorded live, a cover of "Ball and Chain" (at The Fillmore in San Francisco).

Cheap Thrills reached number one on the charts for eight nonconsecutive weeks in 1968.