Janis Ian - Societys Child Baby Ive Been Thinking

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• 518 001
• KF5027
• PDG 107
• KF 5027
• KF-5027
• VF GT 8X
• VK-5027
• VF-5027
• VS 1506

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• Verve Forecast
• Polydor
• Verve Records
• Verve Folkways
• MGM Records

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• Vinyl
• 7"
• 45 RPM
• Single
• Promo
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• White coloured VERVE labels with "Unverkaufliche Musterplatte - sample not for sale" on them.
• Label variation
• Second-issue pressing on Verve Folkways label (and first to show Dialogue Music as publisher), which differs from original 1966 promo and later Verve Forecast issue with these label fonts thus:
• On A side, rights society and running time come before publisher at lower left
• NOTE: Copies on Verve Records were pressed between renaming of Verve Folkways as Verve Forecast in mid-1967 and label sheet blanks with newly renamed label logohead on top first supplied to printers that handled label copy for MGM and its sublabels
• Special Disc Jockey Record - Not For Sale
• This pressing differs from all others in database in that music publisher is listed as Webatuck Music (changed on later pressings to Dialogue Music).
• A Phantom Prod.
• Second issue on UK Verve Folkways

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• Rights Society: GEMA
• Matrix / Runout (Runout - Etched and Stamped - Side A): KF5027 100926 12
• Matrix / Runout (Runout - Etched and Stamped - Side B): KF5027 100927 11
• Matrix / Runout (Matrix - Center Label - Side A): 100,926
• Matrix / Runout (Matrix - Center Label - Side B): 100,927
• Rights Society: BMI
• Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): 100,926
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): 100,927
• Matrix / Runout (Runout area side A): KF 5027 100926 Nashville Matrix
• Matrix / Runout (Runout area side B): KF 5027 100927 Nashville Matrix
• Matrix / Runout (A side deadwax): KF5027 100926(scribed) 1I (stamped)
• Matrix / Runout (B side deadwax): KF5027 100927(scribed) 13(stamped)
• Matrix / Runout (Stamped onto deadwax on both sides): [Blocky sideways S]
• Matrix / Runout (A side deadwax): KF 5027 100926-1(scribed) II(stamped)
• Matrix / Runout (B side deadwax): KF5027 100927-1(scribed) H(stamped)
• Matrix / Runout: VFST 8 S1
• Matrix / Runout: VFST 8 S2
• Label Code (Side A): 100,926
• Label Code (Side B): 100,927
• Matrix / Runout (Side A): KF5027 100926 Nashville Metro 5
• Matrix / Runout (Side B): KF5027 100927 Nashville Metro 5
• Matrix / Runout (Side A label): KF 5027 100 926
• Matrix / Runout (Side B label): KF 5027 100 927
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A (etched)): KF5027 // 100926 // ∆63197
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B (etched)): KF5027 // 100927 // ∆63197-X
• Matrix / Runout (Side A label): (100,926)
• Matrix / Runout (Side B label): (100,927)
• Matrix / Runout (Label side A): 100,926
• Matrix / Runout (Label side B): 100,927
• Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): (100,926)
• Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): (100,927)

Comments

rcadenag

I am always amazed that these biscuits stay with people over time.

hccjon

I saw her when she toured with Richie Havens believe it or not. After they did their sets they performed one song together at the end and it was great.

felipejuan8

Lyrics
Come to my door, baby
Face is clean and shining black as night
My mother went to answer your note
And you looked so fine
Now I could understand the tears and the shame
She called you boy instead of your name
When she wouldn't let you inside
When she turned and said
"But honey, he's not our kind"
She said I can't see you any more, baby
Can't see you any more
Walk me down to school now baby
Everybody's acting deaf and blind
Until they turn and say
"Why don't you stick to your own kind"
My teachers all laugh, they smirked and they stared
Cutting deep down in our affairs
Preachers of equality
Think they believe it
Then why won't they just let us be?
They say I can't see you any more, baby
Can't see you any more
One of these days I'm gonna stop my listening
Gonna raise my head up high
One of these days I'm gonna raise up
My glistening wings and fly
But that day will have to wait for a while
Cause baby, I'm only society's child
When we're older, things may change
But for now this is the way they must remain
I can't see you any more, baby
I can't see you any more
No, I don't want to see you any more
Baby

batteroo

I was sitting with a bunch of girls and a painted school bus in the Berkeley hills and 1966 when we listen to this song. Hit me like a ton of bricks! Now it's like a tattoo on my memory, every time I hear it I go right back to that school bus talking with those Junior high girls. Elaine Weldon. My first love, she didn't even know it, when we left in the station wagon I was in the back seat with no more room, and she sat on my lap and I put my arm around her holding her steady. Whenever I hear that song I fall back in love with Elaine Weldon sitting in the backseat of that station wagon all over again.

daryablo

Artie Butler played the keyboards on this song. Listen to the organ at the very end & you'll realize it's somewhat similar to the later recorded hit "Indian Reservation" by the Raiders, but that's because Butler played organ on both tracks.

djbarber

Janis Ian was 16 when this song came out. She wrote it when she was 13. She sang this song on The Smothers Brothers Show. It was pretty controversial, but that's how the Smothers Brothers rolled.

pavigraphia

Amazing work of art (great music, lyrics, and arrangement) for a 13 year old.

rainabanerjee18eaeea686

I didn't think there were teenage girls writing songs, singing songs, and playing instruments before Debbie Gibson. Then I discovered this.

lavishwhiz60

I used to play and sing this all the time. Guitar or piano - ??

missohmydior

Then in 1973 The Stories ripped off Janis with the same type of song called Brother Louie. Total ripoff of this song. They reversed it with the boy being white and the girl being black. Society's Child was so much better.

notwisconsin

Dios mio esta cancion tan profunda la hizo a los catorce, y yo jugando con mi caquita a esa edad uff

evgenyvolk

Janis, a Jewish Girl and Leonard Bernstein , Jewish as well. Amazing

terrisinden

She has a heart of GOLD.

snparty

I remember when this Song was pulled Off the Radio in the SF Bay Area. I still have the original 45 record.

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