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Big Brother and the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills Vinyl LP KCS 9700 1968

Cheap Thrills is the second studio album by American rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, issued by Columbia Records in 1968. Cheap Thrills was the band's final album with lead singer Janis Joplin before she left to begin a solo career. For Cheap Thrills, the band and producer John Simon incorporated recordings of crowd noises to give the impression of a live album, for which it was subsequently mistaken by many listeners. Only "Ball and Chain" was actually recorded in concert at the Winterland Ballroom.

Cheap Thrills reached number one on the charts for eight nonconsecutive weeks in 1968.

In 2007, Cheap Thrills was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

The cover was drawn by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb after the band's original cover idea, a photo of the group naked in bed together, was vetoed by Columbia Records. Crumb had originally intended his art for the LP back cover, with a portrait of Janis Joplin to grace the front. But Joplin—an avid fan of underground comics, especially the work of Crumb—so loved the Cheap Thrills illustration that she demanded Columbia place it on the front cover. It is number nine on Rolling Stone's list of 100 greatest album covers.

Combination Of The Two

5:45

I Need A Man To Love

Lead Guitar – Sam*

4:56

Summertime

3:59

Piece Of My Heart

4:12

Turtle Blues

4:21

Oh, Sweet Mary

4:16

Ball And Chain

9:30