Scorsese adapted "GoodFellas" from "Wise Guy," Nicholas Pileggi's account of the villainous job of Henry Hill (performed in the movie by Liotta), a guy who required in on the mob daily life from an early age. Was he a real Robin Hood who aided impoverished Sicilians every time he could? Janis Joplin's 1971 model of "Me and Bobby McGee" wasn't even produced right until soon after her demise, which assisted gas the song's level of popularity.