Kris Kristofferson - Me and Bobby McGee - Highwaymen live at Nassau Coliseum, 1990 video free download


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playlist of Kris' Songs there

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDF640367ABC82D72

Well, a few more of Kris' songs from the Highwaymen concert "live from Nassau", that made me fell in love so badly with Kris' music.

It's available on DVD.

http://www.amazon.com/Live-Region-2-Highwaymen/dp/B000CIXDDG

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Highwaymen-Live/dp/B000CIXDDG

Please, read the interesting story to this song in my other upload

https://youtu.be/ahpIirW0svY

Some scenes even made me smile. Watch closely...

You see they all love this song so much... Waylon wants to sing on with the second verse, but Johnny steals him the following line (2:15) ... then Kris is waiting on someone else to sing on with whom it was good enough for, but no-one seems to dare (3:00), so he does himself... :-)

I love this concert ....and this DVD.

"Me and Bobby McGee" is a song that was covered multiple times with various levels of commercial success. Roger Miller was the first artist to have a hit with the song, peaking with it at No. 12 on the US country chart in 1969. Gordon Lightfoot's version hit No. 13 on the pop chart and No. 1 country in his native Canada in 1970. Lightfoot sang the song after a detailed tribute to Kris Kristofferson in a CBC broadcast from the summer 1969 Charlottetown Festival. In his introduction, Lightfoot referred to the Miller version and said he intended to record it himself "the way it should be done." In a 2008 autobiography, Don Reid and Harold Reid of the Statler Brothers say Kristofferson promised it to them, but when they later inquired about recording it, they learned Miller had already cut the song. The Reids say there were no hard feelings, and were happy about Miller's success with the song. The song was later included on a Statler Brothers album, and was not released as a single.

Janis Joplin covered the song for inclusion on her Pearl album only a few days before her death in October 1970. Kris had sung the song for Joplin, and singer Bob Neuwirth taught it to her. Kris, however, did not know she had covered it until after her death (the first time he heard it was the day after she died). Joplin's version topped the charts to become her only number one single and only the second posthumous number one single in rock & roll history (the first was "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding). In 2004, the Janis Joplin version of this song was ranked No. 148 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Comments

8 years ago

peter Lim

My name is peter. Im korean...Your song is best.I am listening to from long time ago. I like you so much.It is the sadest that you grow older.

8 years ago

Nikola štefić

THIS song was writing for janis joplin

8 years ago

Michael Clay

what a line... "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"

8 years ago

tobberman08

There is also a 2008 Performance by Gordon on YouTube.

8 years ago

tobberman08

Lightfoot published it in 1970

8 years ago

tobberman08

Lightfoot's version is quite nice,too but completely different from Joplin's or Kristofferson's.

9 years ago

Seguismundo Valle

me gustaria aver visto este directo... gracias kris .

9 years ago

Wil Morris

Poor Johnny just cant hide the sweats

9 years ago

Odette Gijbels

I LOVE COUNTRY

9 years ago

Robert Scarborough

Gordon Lightfoot wrote so many songs that he could do a 3 hour concert doing only his own material and seldom covered anyone else's work. Yet he almost always included this song in his repertoire. He first met Kris at a festival in 1969 long before Kris was famous and was blown away by his talent. The story is that later on hearing a cover of this song by someone else (I can't remember who) he contacted Kris and said they didn't do the song justice and begged Kris to let him cover it. Kris agreed and LIghtfoot had a big Hit with it. 

9 years ago

mtchair4me

Me and Bobby Mc Gee forever part of the poetic verse of the music of that time.

9 years ago

iva pavlovic

Perfect!! Such a voices, beauty, and happiness at one place. I just repeating this......uff!

9 years ago

tracey shouse

LOVE this version!! I wish I could have seen this live :-)

9 years ago

Aaron Rodriguez

Grateful dead version is a slight bit better

9 years ago

Steve Carlyle

these classics i play...we love these...kris already told he was really happy...

9 years ago

triathlonSDhsp

maybe Cash IS the father of our country! love it.... thanks for posting biggestkkfan

9 years ago

Dolly Price

Thanks for posting so much of Kris's music. I love seeing all of these. 

9 years ago

horsthelp

- FOR ALL THE COUNTRY - FANS FROM THE WORLD -

9 years ago

Mathew Te Puni

four of the bests.love it

9 years ago

Peter Devos

One of the best country singer!...... my favorite Kris Kristofferson.

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