Piece of My Heart
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| Single by Erma Franklin | ||||
| B-side | "Baby, What You Want Me to Do" | |||
| Released | 1967 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Recorded | 1967 | |||
| Genre | Soul | |||
| Length | 2:35 | |||
| Label | Shout | |||
| Writer(s) | Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Berns | |||
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Cover of the 1968 Dutch single
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| Single by Big Brother and the Holding Company | |
| from the album Cheap Thrills | |
| B-side | "Turtle Blues" |
| Released | August 1968 |
| Format | 7-inch single |
| Recorded | March 2 – May 20, 1968 |
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| Length | 2:43 |
| Label | Columbia |
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| Producer(s) | John Simon |
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| Single by Faith Hill | ||||
| from the album Take Me as I Am | ||||
| B-side | "I Would Be Stronger Than That" | |||
| Released | January 13, 1994 | |||
| Format | CD single | |||
| Recorded | 1993 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 4:01 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. Nashville | |||
| Writer(s) | Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Berns | |||
| Producer(s) | Gary Burr | |||
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| Single by Beverley Knight | ||||
| from the album Voice - The Best of Beverley Knight | ||||
| Released | March 13, 2006 | |||
| Format | CD single, DVD single, 12" single, digital download | |||
| Recorded | 2004 | |||
| Genre | R&B, soul | |||
| Length | 4:17 (album version) 3:36 (radio edit) |
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| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Writer(s) | Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Berns | |||
| Producer(s) | Jimmy Hogarth | |||
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"Piece of My Heart" is a romantic love song written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns and originally recorded by Erma Franklin in 1967. The song came to greater mainstream attention when Big Brother and the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin on lead vocals) covered the song in 1968 and had a much bigger hit with it. The song has since been remade by several singers, including Dusty Springfield on her 1968 album Dusty... Definitely, with hit versions by Faith Hill in 1994 and by Melissa Etheridge in 2005.
In 2004 the Big Brother and the Holding Company version of this song was ranked Number 353 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song is also included among The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
The original version of "Piece of My Heart" was recorded by Aretha Franklin's older sister Erma in 1967 for producer Bert Berns' Shout label. The song reached number 10 on the R&B charts in the U.S., and also peaked at number sixty-two on the U.S. Pop Singles chart. In the UK, the single was re-released in 1992, due to a successful Levi's jeans commercial ("Cinderella" AKA "Night and Day" directed by Tarsem Singh), when it peaked inside the UK Singles Chart at number nine.
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