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"At Seventeen" is a song by American singer-songwriter Janis Ian from her seventh studio album Between the Lines. Columbia released it in July 1975 as the album's second single. Ian wrote the lyrics on the basis of a New York Times article and used a samba instrumental, and Brooks Arthur produced the final version.
"Society's Child" (originally titled "Baby I've Been Thinking") is a song about an interracial relationship written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Janis Ian in 1965. According to Janis Ian, Atlantic Records refused to release it although the company had financed the recording; the artist took it to Verve Records who agreed to ...
Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink; April 7, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s.Her signature songs are the 1966/67 hit "Society's Child (Baby I've Been Thinking)" [1] and the 1975 Top Ten single "At Seventeen", from her seventh studio album Between the Lines, which in September 1975 reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart.
That undertaking is The Janis Ian Archives, a massive donation by the folk-reared artist that covers a music career than opened eyes and ears as far back as 1966 with Ian’s song of an ...
The song's topic of interracial romance was highly controversial and many record labels rejected Ian's recording. [6] Ian signed with Verve Records in 1966 and released the single – retitled as "Society's Child" – in September 1966. It slowly caught on and peaked at number 14 in the United States in July 1967. [8]
Dave Grohl's 16-year-old daughter, Violet, is a chip off the old block when it comes to making music. The talented teen and her Foo Fighters-frontman dad teamed up for a cover of Janis Ian's ...
During her period of prominence in the middle 1970s Janis Ian would distance herself from her Verve albums, calling them "a tax write-off for Verve", [7] and apart from one performance of "Insanity Comes Quietly to the Structured Mind" at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 1976 [8] she is not known to have performed anything from For ...
At Seventeen; F. Fly Too High; J. Jesse (Janis Ian song) L. Love Is Blind (Janis Ian song) S. Society's Child; W. What About the Love This ...