janis joplin changed music with her powerful vocals and signature sound. was and only road manager. he teamed up with her in the 1960's and was with her until the end when she died of a hero when overdose. -- a heroin overdose. any singer is to involve you in the emotional content of the song, and janis did not just do that, she grabbed you. ♪ john byrne cooke, and i am the author of "on the road with janis joplin." this was a singer like no other i wentver seen, and when to work with them, what surprised me most was finding that she was highly articulate, and she was often very funny. ♪ be a roadtrying to manager, and it sometimes really felt like a 25 hour per day job. andting pictures of janis big brother seemed like a very natural thing to do. ♪ but when i ask you to, you just say ♪ toin the winter of 1969 1979, she cleaned -- 1969 to 1970, she visibly clean herself up and was proud. ♪ in there pitfalls addictive personality, so she started using a small amount, but she was not returning to her former habits, certainly not in terms of frequency and dos

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♪ and i want to love you, i want to love you for so long ♪ ♪ oh, yeah >> you realize, this is janis joplinrst single. ♪ looking out at the rain ♪ sun came along, honey >> it's just music at its freshest. it's music that is just being born. and the audience is like -- ♪ and i said, oh, whoa, whoa, well honey ♪ ♪ this can't be, b-b-b-babe, but now, no, no, no, yeah ♪ ♪ why, oh, why, people, tell me why love, honey, why love ♪ ♪ was like, was like a ball and a chain ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> everything was love and peace and music. and the policeman who was in charge brought flowers out to his men, and he said, "don't bust anybody." >> monterey was that hippie dream come true. >> culture was changing. the hippie movement, it was swaying the mainstream. >> this is where the youngsters come to buy their clothes. and not just the youngsters. it's the young adults and the men who are 40, 50 and even 60 years old. >> in the middle class, pot is going middle class and spreading like prohibition liquor. as more and more citizens get zonked out of their minds, the drug cult enters the bloodstream

that was the year of perhaps her biggest grammy star turn, singing janis joplin's "piece of my heart,ld after medical treatment, as she was recovering from breast cancer. etheridge also nabbed an oscar in 2007 for the song "i need to wake up" from the documentary "an inconvenient truth." now, the mother of four says, she is defining life on her own terms. i sat down with her recently before her concert at the historic lincoln theatre in washington, d.c. to talk with her about her life, her work, and the last time she went to the white house. >> ifill: when i think of your music i think of pop, i think of rock, yet i saw you at the white house at the women of soul concert performance and it was a shock to me. >> ♪ i'm the only one >> ifill: i didn't expect to a: see you on that bill. and b: to see you break out the way you did that night. ♪ ♪ >> i tell you, i grew up in the midwest and we had one radio station in the 60's. it was an am radio station and it played everything. i would hear led zeppelin, i could hear tammy wynette, and then i could hear marvin gaye or you know motown, and

you'll play janis joplin. >> yeah. >> tell me about that. >> it's been in the works for years.rd. my hope is you'll get to see it. >> my hope as well. we have a lightning round prepare frd you. it's called artistic amy. port traits or finger painting? >> portraits. >> crayons or markers. >> crayons. >> last picture you drew? >> a frog for my daughter. it wasn't good. >> museums or musicals. >> why make me pick? i'm going with musicals. but it's tight. >> your greatest masterpiece. >> my daughter. >> i set you up. thank you for joining us, amy adams. and "big ♪ ♪ it's a marshmallow world in the winter. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> come on, now. did you see michael's leg extension. >> is there anything he can't do? >> no. tomorrow, "gma," tim tebow with a surprise for a coach and her school. >> you won't have to wait long for michael strahan. have great day, everyone. >> breaking news, police now say five people have been found shot and killed in the lansdale area. two of the victims were found in souderton borough where chopper is live right now. two others in lansdale and the 5th one in lower sal

a little janis joplin field. >> lorde. >> lorde, rob.of the truths, we can dance. we can dance. everyone's taking a chance. come on now. ♪ we can go where we want to ♪ >> there's a reason. thank to a trepding study thank to a group of evolutionary byologists say that the way aman moves on the dance floor will determine how attractive women find them. using motion capture technology, they showed to it women who ranked the moves to determine the least and most attractive. based on this study, women love and i quote, large motion of head, neck, and torso. which i deduce means that the worm is a very sexy look. >> or do nothing at all. >> or, well -- conversely, george. well, first, another winner, take notes, gentlemen, involves leg speed. particularly bending and twisting of the right knee. women found that consistently very attractive. i don't think that is one of the moves that you should do. >> no, i don't. >> i'm not feeling that one. not good. some of the ones -- do we have in prompter? the ones that were a definite no? things that we

you'll play janis joplin. >> yeah. >> tell me about that. >> it's been in the works for years. forward. my hope is you'll get to see it. >> my hope as well. we have a lightning round prepared for you. to tap your creative instincts. it's called artistic amy. portraits or finger painting? >> portraits. >> crayons or markers. >> crayons. >> last picture you drew? >> a frog for my daughter. it wasn't good. >> museums or musicals. >> why make me pick? i'm going with musicals. but it's tight. >> your greatest masterpiece. >> my daughter. >> i -- i set you up for that one. amy adams, thank you so much for joining us. and "big eyes" hits theaters on christmas day. or a helping paw!ater, everyone needs a helping hand, so mattress discounters good deed dogs is raising money to help train assistance dogs for wounded veterans. veteran: i live independently because of what all it provides for me. and it's huge! there's a lot of wounded, ill, and injured out there just like myself, who just maybe need a little bit of help. tag: you can lend a helping paw too. give at mattressdiscountersdogs