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1971 Loretta Lynn - album I Wanna Be Free.1971 Grateful Dead - album Skull & Roses.1971 Dottie West - album Have You Heard.1971 & 1972 Jerry Lee Lewis - B-side of "Would You Take Another Chance on Me" / album The Killer Rocks On.1971 John Mogensen as "Carsten Levin" Danish - single, featured on the album John (1973).1971 Dave Dudley - album Will the Real Dave Dudley Please Sing.1970 Sam The Sham - single "Me And Bobby McGee/Key To The Highway" (Atlantic #2757).1970 Bill Haley & His Comets - album Rock Around the Country.1970 Kris Kristofferson - album Kristofferson, this version also appears in the film Two-Lane Blacktop.1970 Gordon Lightfoot - album Sit Down Young Stranger.1970 The Statler Brothers - album Bed of Rose's.1970 Ramblin' Jack Elliott - album Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks.1970 Charley Pride - album Just Plain Charley.1969 Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - album Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town.1969 The Stonemans - album Dawn of the Stonemans' Age.1969 Roy Clark - album The Everlovin' Soul of Roy Clark.

( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Ĭertifications Janis Joplin's version Region Chart performance Weekly singles charts Roger Miller version Chart (1969) 148 on Rolling Stone 's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Janis Joplin's version topped the charts to become her only number one single and was ranked later No. The first time he heard her recording of it was the day after she died. Kris Kristofferson did not know she had recorded the song until after her death. Kris Kristofferson had sung the song for her, and singer Bob Neuwirth taught it to her.

Janis Joplin recorded the song for inclusion on her Pearl album only a few days before her death in October 1970. Kristofferson also appears briefly singing the song in the 1971 Dennis Hopper film The Last Movie.

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Later that year, his version of the song appeared in Monte Hellman's psychedelic road movie Two-Lane Blacktop. Kris Kristofferson recorded his own version of the song on his debut album Kristofferson in 1970. The song was included on the 1970 Statler Brothers album Bed of Rose's, but was not released as a single. On the Canadian charts, Gordon Lightfoot's version (recorded in November 1969) hit No. Kenny Rogers and The First Edition recorded the song in May/June 1969, and released it on their album Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town in 1969. Roger Miller was the first artist to record the song (in May 1969), and it appeared at No. Due to the singer's name never being mentioned and the name "Bobby" being gender-neutral (especially in America), the song has been recorded by both male and female singers with only minor differences in the lyrical content. They visit California and then part ways, with the song's narrator expressing sadness afterwards.

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The pair hitch a ride from a truck driver and sing as they drive through the American South before making their way westward to California. The song is the story of two drifters, the narrator and Bobby McGee. He explained that he was trying to convey the despair of the last scene of Federico Fellini’s La Strada in which a broken, war-torn, inebriated man (played by Anthony Quinn) stares up from the beach at the night's stars, and breaks down sobbing. The titular character was named for a studio secretary, Barbara "Bobbie" McKee, but Kristofferson had misheard her surname. The suggestion for the title was a cordial challenge from producer and Monument Records founder Fred Foster to Kris Kristofferson. Jerry Lee Lewis released a version that was number 1 on the country charts in December 1971/January 1972 as the "B" side of "Would You Take Another Chance On Me." Billboard ranked Joplin's version as the No. Gordon Lightfoot released a version that reached number 1 on the Canadian country charts in 1970. chart history after "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding. singles chart in 1971, making the song the second posthumously released No. A posthumously released version by Janis Joplin topped the U.S. Fred Foster shares the writing credit, as Kristofferson wrote the song based on a suggestion from Foster. " Me and Bobby McGee" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson and originally performed by Roger Miller.