That night, Quinn goes to a bar and gets in a fight. He asks, ‘Where did you hear that song?’ And she tells him it was this little girl who had showed up in town and nobody knew where she was from, and later she died.
“Later in the film, he sees this woman hanging out the wash and singing the melody that the girl used to play on the trombone. LITTLE GIRL BLUE: Michelle Williams the latest actress attached to a Janis Joplin biopic He got to the point where he couldn’t put up with her anymore and left her by the side of the road while she was sleeping,” he said. “For some reason, I thought of ‘La Strada,’ this Fellini film, and a scene where Anthony Quinn is going around on this motorcycle and Giulietta Masina is the feeble-minded girl with him, playing the trombone. I started singing in that meter,” Kristofferson told Performing Songwriter magazine in 2008.Īs Kristofferson’s body of work has proven, he takes influences from all over the place, not just fellow musicians. “There was a Mickey Newbury song that was going through my mind-‘Why You Been Gone So Long?’ It had a rhythm that I really liked. She was apparently cute enough for Foster to need to make frequent visits to. He pitched Kristofferson “Me and Bobby McKee” with the songwriter mishearing it as “McGee.” The new name stuck.īarbara "Bobby" McKee was a secretary at an office that Foster would visit on Nashville's Music Row. WILLIE AND TRIGGER: Willie Nelson's guitar 'Trigger' subject of Rolling Stone documentaryĪccording to the Brownsville-born Kristofferson, the title came from producer and Monument Records founder Fred Foster who called him up one night with a title but no song. The story behind “Me and Bobby McGee,” which would become a Joplin classic, is actually rather cinematic.
Singer-songwriter Kristofferson is still revered for his talent at a turn of a phrase and the way he could fuse that with hook.
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