The bold folk song went on to become one of the most talked about hits of 1967, even as radio stations refused to air it.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Janis Ian shares how she feels about a "Mean Girls" character being named after her. Janis Ian has mixed feelings about Tina Fey ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GAB Archive/Redferns; R. Diamond/Getty Janis Ian circa 1970s (left) and in 2023. Singer-songwriter Janis Ian had a Top 20 hit at ...

"At Seventeen" became Janis Ian's most popular hit track that took three months to write after reading a newspaper article.

Janis Ian wrote “Some People’s Lives” with songwriter Kye Fleming, inspired by a restaurant owner they were friends with named Mary, who felt that she had not contributed anything to the world. They ...

What greets you upon entering the lobby of Berea College’s Hutchins Library is something of a living scrapbook. To your left: album covers tracing roughly five decades of music summoned by Janis Ian.

Singer/songwriter Janis Ian will always have a special place in my heart. Janis was the first artist I ever interviewed at the beginning of my journalism career. It was 1994, after the release of what ...

Janis Ian scores her first-ever appearance on the Rock Digital Song Sales chart as "At Seventeen" reemerges at No. 12 due to renewed listener interest. Portrait of musician Janis Ian at the Old Town ...

Janis Ian wrote “Some People’s Lives” as a tribute to her friend Janis Ian wrote “Some People’s Lives” with songwriter Kye Fleming. Janis Ian was inspired to write “Society’s Child” after observing an ...

About four years ago, singer-songwriter Janis Ian approached the folks at Sony Records about putting together a retrospective of her work. They weren’t interested, so Ian released the compilation, ...