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Piece of My Heart is a House act. Their sound grew out of Bert Berns. Those roots explain a lot about how Piece of My Heart arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Big Brother and the Holding Company, Janis Joplin, Dusty Springfield, Faith Hill and Melissa Etheridge, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 15 connections around Piece of My Heart, reaching back through Bert Berns and forward to Big Brother and the Holding Company. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
"Piece of My Heart" is a romantic soul song written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns, originally recorded by American gospel and soul singer Erma Franklin in 1967. Franklin's single peaked in December 1967 at number 10 on the Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles chart in the United States.
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Piece of My Heart grew out of Bert Berns, went on to shape Big Brother and the Holding Company, Janis Joplin, Dusty Springfield and Faith Hill. 15 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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