Janie Fricke
Janie Marie Fricke (born December 19, 1947), also known as Janie Frickie, is an American country music singer, best remembered for a series of country music hits in the early-to-mid 1980s.
Fricke was one of the most popular female country singers of the 1980s, producing a string of hits and proving herself a versatile vocalist with a particular flair for ballads. She won the Country Music Association's "Female Vocalist of the Year" awards in 1982 and 1983. Fricke has sold 14 million records worldwide.
Early life
Childhood and teen years
Fricke was born in South Whitley, Indiana, in 1947 and learned piano and guitar as a child; her first vocal influences were folk artists like Joan Baez and Judy Collins. Despite growing up in a musical family and spending much of her childhood singing at home, school, and church, her parents encouraged her to continue her formal education for a "respectable" career. While studying for her bachelor's degree in elementary education at Indiana University, she was a member of the Singing Hoosiers. Responding to an audition call that was posted on the bulletin board at practice, she was thrilled to get a job singing commercial jingles and station breaks (one of her most notable commercial jingles was for the Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain, in which she sang their famous slogan, "Red Lobster for the seafood lover in you."). Still, her parents insisted that she return to school to finish her degree, which she did and then headed to California to pursue a career. Returning to Nashville, she signed with the Lea Jane Singers, which marked the beginning of her commercial success.
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ALBUMS
- Anthology released: 1999
- Now and Then released: 1993
- After Midnight released: 1987
- 17 Greatest Hits released:
Anthology
Released 1999- Down to My Last Broken Heart
- He's a Heartache (Looking for a Place to Happen)
- Tell Me a Lie
- It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy
- Always Have, Always Will
- Let's Stop Talkin' About It
- You Don't Know Love
- If the Fall Don't Get You
- I'll Need Someone to Hold Me (When I Cry)
- What're You Doing Tonight
- Your Heart's Not in It
- Do Me With Love
- Pride
- The First Word in Memory Is Me
- Don't Worry 'Bout Me Baby
- I'll Love Away Your Troubles for Awhile
- She's Single Again
- When a Woman Cries
- Somebody Else's Fire
- Easy to Please
- Please Help Me, I'm Falling (In Love With You)
- Baby It's You
17 Greatest Hits
- Playin' Hard to Get
- I'll Love Away Your Troubles for Awhile
- Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through)
- But Love Me
- Down to My Last Broken Heart
- I'll Need Someone to Hold Me (When I Cry)
- Don't Worry 'Bout Me Baby
- Do Me With Love
- You Don't Know Love
- It Ain't Easy Bein' Easy
- He's a Heartache (Looking for a Place to Happen)
- Let's Stop Talkin' About It
- Tell Me a Lie
- If the Fall Don't Get You
- Your Heart's Not in It
- The First Word in Memory Is Me
- She's Single Again
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Golden Legends: Janie Fricke
by: Janie FrickeI can sleep with the window open
I can sleep with the window closed
I could buy me a Sunday dress
But it's alright if I don't
We could go to the movies tonight
Or we could stay at home
Well, I'm easy to please
Pleasing you pleases me
I don't need the moon or stars
Just you, the way you are
Well, I'm easy to please
Lovin' you is all I need
And love is everything
You are to me
I can sleep with the covers off
I can sleep with the covers on
You could play cards with the boys on Fridays
As long as you come home
We could have the neighbors over
Or we could be alone
Well, I'm easy to please
Pleasing you pleases me
I don't need the moon or stars
Just you, the way you are
Well, I'm easy to please
Lovin' you is all I need
And love is everything
You are to me
Well, I'm easy to please
Pleasing you pleases me
I don't need the moon or stars
Just you, the way you are
Well, I'm easy to please
Lovin' you is all I need
And love is everything
You are to me