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"Me and Bobby McGee" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson and originally performed by Roger Miller. Fred Foster shares the writing credit, as Kristofferson wrote the song based on a suggestion from Foster. [1]
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Sep 25, 2015 · Inspired by a Fellini film, Kris Kristofferson wrote a classic road story that became a chart-topper for Janis Joplin, who recorded it days before her death.
Oct 15, 2021 · Paul Rothschild, the producer of the album [Pearl], told me to come by [Sunset Sound], the studio they were working at to play me her recording of “Bobby McGee.” And it just blew me away.
Jan 29, 2021 · McKee’s last name is now Eden. At the time of the song being penned, she was a 29-year-old working as Bryant’s secretary and nicknamed Bobbie. “Fred came in and said, ‘I want you to meet the real Bobby McKee and here’s Kris Kristofferson to sing your song for you,'” Eden recalled to the Star Tribune in 2015. “It was great!
Sep 30, 2024 · Kris Kristofferson had written the song to order for the head of his record company, Fred Foster, adapting the name of studio employee Barbara ‘Bobbie’ McKee for its title.
Oct 14, 2016 · In 1969, Foster called up Kristofferson with the song title idea with the hook that Bobby was a woman. Kristofferson apparently took his own liberties, changing McKee to McGee, and invented a...
Sep 3, 2024 · Kris Kristofferson might have written “Me and Bobby McGee” and even performed it himself, but Janis Joplin’s rendition is arguably the most well-known. Her tragic death in the fall of 1970...
