Janis Joplin's Song That Reached #1 Was Recorded 72 Hours Before Death

She walked into a Hollywood recording studio on October 1st, 1970. She sang one take. No stops. No corrections. No second chances. Three days later, Janis Joplin was dead at 27. The man who wrote the song she recorded — Kris Kristofferson — was in Peru. He had no idea she had even recorded it. The first time he heard it was months later, alone, on a car radio in Tennessee. He pulled over. He couldn't move. This is the story of Me and Bobby McGee — Janis Joplin's last complete recording, her only number one single, and the three days that separated a masterpiece from silence. ▶ SUBSCRIBE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 — The Studio, October 1st 1970 2:40 — Who Was Janis Joplin, Really 5:20 — The Song and The Man Who Wrote It 8:10 — The Recording: One Take 10:30 — Three Days Later 12:00 — Kris Kristofferson on a Tennessee Highway ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #JanisJoplin #MeAndBobbyMcGee #KrisKristofferson #RockHistory #JanisJoplinPearl #27Club #MusicLegends #UntoldStories #BehindTheMusic #ClassicRock #60sMusic #70sMusic #PearlAlbum #EmotionalMusic