![]() ![]() That night the guy gets hammered, gets in a fight, and yells at the heavens how foolish and selfish he had been. ![]() Towards the end of the film the man hears a woman humming the song the girl used to incessantly play on her trombone, with hope he asks her where she heard that song only to find that it was from a girl that was found lost and alone in town one day and then died soon after. He of course no longer has to deal with the extra responsibility of dealing with the girl anymore, but guilt builds within him over the years for leaving her behind. Eventually, he reaches his breaking point with the girl, waits until she falls asleep, and leaves her by the side of the road. The framework for the story was derived from a Fellini film, La Strada, where (for those who have never seen the movie) a portion of the plot pertains to a central male character (Anthony Quinn) traveling on a motorcycle with a below average intelligence female (Giulietta Masina) who relentlessly plays the same tune on a trombone. In addition, he already had a Mickey Newbury song in mind that he had been toying with, “Why You Been Gone So Long?” This helped him to establish the time signature that he wanted to use for the song. Kris had never been asked to write a song based on an idea from somebody else, but he said that he would give it a shot, since he was young and still trying to make it in the music industry. The original Bobby McGee was written as a woman, and if Kristofferson would have heard Foster more clearly Janis Joplin would have been singing the chorus to Me and Bobby McKee, but obviously that never came to fruition. “Me and Bobby McGee” was born after he received a call from Monument Records founder Fred Foster, who called him and said that he had an idea for a song called “Me and Bobby McKee.” Apparently, Bobby McKee was secretary of Boudleaux Bryant who worked in the same office with Fred. Kris Kristofferson is the original troubadour behind “Me and Bobby McGee,” originally recorded in July, 1969 by country singer Roger Miller, though the famous title of the song was not actually Kristoffersons’ idea. Though Janis Joplin has received the most notoriety for the classic she, to the surprise of many, did not actually write or originally record the song. Joplin remains one of the true symbols from the sixties, while her most famous song could be an anthem of the one of the most polarizing generations in American history. The only number one single recorded by Janis Joplin is the timeless, “Me and Bobby McGee” from the album Pearl (1971) released after she died from a drug overdose the year before. ![]()
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