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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"

<reissue, originally published in 1968>

LP     COLUMBIA RECORDS     STEREO PC 9700

PRINTED IN USA    EARLY/MID-70s REPRESSING

[First pressing on a red 360° Columbia label with white lettering]

GATEFOLD COVER

THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

This version: on front cover "BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY";

on spine, back cover and labels "BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY".

on back cover "FOR MILITARY SALE ONLY" (stamped in gold)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: COLUMBIA - RED/GOLD LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: PC 9700  

Catalog on labels: PC 9700 (XSM 137375 / XSM 137376)

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): XSM-137375-1H

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): XSM137376-1L

On labels: rim text reads '® "Columbia", Marcas Reg. Printed in U.S.A.'

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 inside cover: Manufactured by Columbia Records/CBS, Inc./51 W. 52 Street, New York, N.Y.

®"Columbia", Marcas Reg. Printed in U.S.A.

On back cover: © Thomas Weir 1967

tracklisting

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

  grading

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 

on its gatefold jacket 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)