Originally Posted by Wifey Boozer

Janis Joplin. Though I find it ironic that she, not to mention all the people (especialy in the era that Joplin lived) that covered it as well, covered the song at all. Gershwin lived in the time of "establishment" and the Joplin-era (that's what I'm calling it, because I'm tired of calling it the hippy-era, and don't want to be steretypical and call it the doing-mushrooms-era) was almost by definition "anti-establishment". A guy who wrote songs like, "I've got my girl, I've got blue skies, who could ask for anything more..." doesn't seem like the type that all them fun-loving acid-tripping teenagers would like, does it now?