SO UNIQUE!.. | FIRST TIME HEARING Bobby Gentry - Ode To Billy Joe REACTION

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SO UNIQUE!.. | FIRST TIME HEARIG Bobby Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe REACTION
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@angellacanfora Год назад

Said Bobbie Gentry in an interview: “Everybody has a different guess about what was thrown off the bridge-flowers, a ring, even a baby. Anyone who hears the song can think what they want, but the real message of the song, if there must be a message, revolves around the nonchalant way the family talks about the suicide. They sit there eating their peas and apple pie and talking, without even realizing that Billie Joe’s girlfriend is sitting at the table, a member of the family.”

@williambianchi2006 Год назад

That's how I always interpreted it. No right or wrong, I guess, but glad I wasn't the only one who took it this way. Always made me wonder why she was so secretive around her family, or if her family simply didn't care much about her.

@neilfranklin5644 Год назад

Yeah that must have been pure hell for the girl to have to sit through that and not react .

@terrybangley5416 Год назад

The story of this song is the fact that her boyfriend killed himself and her family is at the table talking nonchalantly about it right in front of her

@angelabluebird609 Год назад

Actually, in the movie her mom expresses sadness and knows her daughter is struggling, but not necessarily about what, as teens go through moods/phases/etc.

@angellacanfora Год назад

@@angelabluebird609 But the film isn't factual. I read that Gentry was so unhappy with it, that it factored into her decision to quit show business altogether around 1980.

@2869may 3 года назад

Dusty Springfield ~ "Son of a preacher man" is a must...!!!

@joedirt3449 3 года назад

oh yes!

@2869may 3 года назад

@@joedirt3449 "That's why daddy named you Joe Dirt...!"

@shawngwin3302 3 года назад

Was going to recommend the same song…perfect

@dylandenney3980 3 года назад

Ms. Gentry did a great cover of that one too

@debbiedebbie761 3 года назад

And "Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" and "I Only Want to Be With You" and my favorite, "Since I Fell For You".

@michaeltaylor8835 Год назад

She was one of the first female artists in America to compose and produce her own material. Shes now 80

@stanfortner7679 2 года назад

She knocked the Beatles off of the number 1 spot on the music billboards

@sergeeternal3778 22 дня назад

I didn't know that, well that's great!

@ThatColeGuy 3 года назад

Fun fact: My dad "dated" Bobbie, the songwriter, when they were teens. They even got kicked out of a theater here in Chickasaw County Mississippi as kids.

@susannewitt6112 2 года назад

lol

@vivianphillips8519 2 года назад

Lucky daddy!

@Cissy777 2 года назад

I'm from Chickasaw Mississippi too!

@ThatColeGuy 2 года назад

@@Cissy777 nice!

@bpm81 2 года назад

Did they throw anything off the Tallahatchie Bridge? 👀

@shannonnieto172 3 года назад

You really need to try Harper Valley PTA by Jeannie C Riley

@roolenoir3183 3 года назад

Indeed!

@StatisticsJason 3 года назад

You beat me to it!

@eclipsegurl2002 3 года назад

Lol I was gonna put that too.

@cyndisanimaladventures6370 3 года назад

Yes please 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@rhondamcbath6279 2 года назад

Great song choice by Jeannie Riley!!!! 💓💓💓

@miamidolphinsfan Месяц назад

A classic country blues masterpiece. People still discuss this song over 50 years later. It hit #1 in 1967, and sold 1 million copies in just 6 weeks

@marneebragg9839 2 года назад

I just love how everyone has proven Ms Gentry's words are still correct. You all are arguing about what was thrown, rather than talking about suicide.

@susanpolice8465 2 года назад

EXACTLY!!!!

@sandihackett3849 2 года назад

It could have been connected or had caused the suicide, we don't know, but it could answer some unanswered questions as to why he felt he had to jump. Just a thought.

@jimburow706 2 года назад

That really hits you between the eyes at the start of the song with the nonchalant way the news about Billy Joe is mentioned. Then the conversation just moves on. It’s chilling. Personally, I always thought he threw an engagement ring off the bridge, then he jumped. She told him no and he didn’t want to go on without her. Pain is very difficult to deal with, wether it’s physical or emotional.

@kimhesketh2016 3 года назад

What they threw off the bridge was not important. People get caught up with that but the important point was that she was seen with him. She was the girlfriend and her family was casually talking about his suicide at the dinner table like it was the weather.

@timm934 3 года назад

Also, the mother goes through a similar experience with the father dying of a virus, yet they can't still can't find common ground in their grief.

@keensoundguy6637 3 года назад

But what it was certainly related to the reason the guy committed suicide the next day. Bobbie Gentry never gave a definitive answer when asked about it, but once quipped, "Suppose it was a wedding ring." While you're correct about the main point of the song. You see the same thing with TV news: one minute they may report some tragedy, and the next minute you're seeing someone having a birthday party for their pet cat.

@lindanicholson950 2 года назад

When I heard this song and it was new, I assumed they were throwing flowers into the river as they talked and that now she throws flowers into the river by herself. Bobby Gentry never said what was thrown into the river. The point was how ordinary people react to such an event. I watched that movie when it was new and absolutely hated it. They invented a horrible story.

@jd-no7rw 2 года назад

@@PhysicalGraffiti97 The movie was based off the song, but it wasn't Bobby who wrote the movie, it's not what the song is about. Bobby Gentry never said what they threw off the bridge, that came from the minds of the movie writers and producers.

@laurenfelsberg6406 2 года назад

It was important what was thrown off the bridge,,, it was a ragdoll from when she was little. And it was not thrown, it was dropped while they were arguing. It was significant because it was lost childhood

@sylviafarese8837 3 года назад

Another for female Fridays is Jeanne C. Riley singing HARPER VALLEY PTA.

@markbrining9162 3 года назад

Also ‘the girl most likely’

@rexman9002 3 года назад

Yes! They also made a movie about it with Barbara Eden.

@enchantedwooddesigns3462 3 года назад

Always a good one!

@ddiamondr1 2 года назад

YES!!

@kmj217 2 года назад

You beat me to it.

@kellysteele4311 2 года назад

She was the girl throwing flowers off the bridge with Billy Joe..... Thats why she still spending time there often...

@johnbeaney1237 2 года назад

I love this song! Am a 60 year old Brit and this to me is SO wonderfully American. I kind of grown up with this tune filtering in n out of my life. Fantastic, very atmospheric!

@heronpage3883 3 года назад

Guys, people have been trying to figure out what she and Billy Joe threw off that bridge for over 50 years now! But it's a fictional story and Bobbie Gentry said it was more about how people just acted so nonchalant about someone killing himself. Just went about their dinner and their evening like nothing happened even though this poor girl is sitting there with her family and obviously she was in love with him.

@EarthWalker2023 3 года назад

Was her baby

@bradmossman7201 3 года назад

Might have been her baby, but could only be an early miscarry. But why Billie Joe kill himself over that? Not his fault. It would probably be something else.

@GinMae 3 года назад

YES - I just wrote something similar without reading your response, Heron -- I could have saved myself a few keystrokes! lol

@jimilemons3437 3 года назад

They were referencing the fact that Bobbie Gentry was from Chickasaw County, she mentioned that in the opening

@EarthWalker2023 3 года назад

@@bradmossman7201 I believe because they couldn't tell the parents...back in the day and he couldn't live with the guilt. People were dirt poor back then etc

@guyofStorm 3 года назад

I always felt sad that her parents had no idea she was in love with Billy Joe. Everyone was clueless around the table that she was devastated.

@tonyfro23 2 года назад

Parents of teenagers

@lordsatanicus1622 2 года назад

which is what the song is really about....not about what they threw off a bridge...its about man's inhumanity towards man

@louise1887 2 года назад

I agree. When I used to listen to this song in the back of my grandparents' car at the age of eight or nine, I used to feel this so deeply, even if I didn't entirely understand the story. I just understood that she was alone in this shock and grief, and that the ordinary, mundane world around her kept on spinning. It hit hard! Amazing song.

@jmtv1963 2 года назад

@@louise1887 My thoughts also, and so sad she couldn't even share this feeling to anyone that she felt would understand or care.

@windnchgo 2 года назад

@@lordsatanicus1622 Exactly. Read my note about Bobbi Gentry's comment on the song.

@porgy Год назад

I'm so glad I grew up listening to music like this.

@scottjackson1420 Год назад

Bobbie was one of the most talented ladies in music, and was certainly as pretty as any. That's her accompanying herself on acoustic guitar. She was one of THE big stars, and there came a day when she decided to not work in show business any longer, and Bobbie simply disappeared and never again made a public appearance. I love her music to pieces.

@donjenkins3861 3 года назад

Bobby said this song was more about how people are desensitized about suicide. The family sat around eating at the dinner table and not even realizing that she was Billy's girlfriend. It's not a true story. But they did make a movie after this song. Love Female Friday! You have to do Sugar Land "Stay", please! 🤔😎🤗

@midnightblackrose00 3 года назад

They have already reacted to "Stay". It should be listed in their videos unless it got blocked.

@donjenkins3861 3 года назад

@@midnightblackrose00 Okay, thank you for correcting me. 🤗🤔😎 I'll check it out. You must be their management or something. 🤔

@donjenkins3861 3 года назад

My youngest son shot himself last year, Nov 4th. He hung himself a year before but was saved before he died. I never forget our loss. I'm old. An old man shouldn't have to view his youngest baby Dead! 😎

@benjamineferko1657 3 года назад

@@donjenkins3861 God bless you Don. My wife of 36 years ran off with a Sugar Daddy. I'm so sad that it feels like she has died. Depression and suicide is too prevalent these days or maybe we're just more aware of it. IDK... Hang in there man. There are those whom can relate to your situation. Choosing life means to live it. Don't forget to do that. Your loved ones lost, would have wanted you to carry on.

@sweeney60 3 года назад

It’s also kind of implied that she and Billy had a baby that threw in the river. At least that’s what I was always told growing up.

@tbascoebuzz4782 2 года назад

Bobby Gentry sang this with such profound depth. She never really got sufficient due.

@fredjones7705 Год назад

Yes she did. I remember when the song was on the radio every 15 minutes no matter what genre the station played. I saw her interviewed by Dick, Johnny, Allen and Steve while it was charting and it remained on some charts for more than a year. They put an official Placque on the goddamn bridge with the lyrics printed in bas-relief. When they tore the brifge down and replaced they put the placque on the new one If it is possible to have more recognition for a song I don't know how it could be done. If there was ever a masterpiece giving due recognition it was this one.

@fdegeorge2000 Год назад

She knocked the Beatles out of #1 on the music charts and won 3 or 5 music awards for this song alone. Look her up. This is blue eyed sole at its best.

@terencejay8845 Год назад

One of my favourite ever songs. I've always thought you can feel the heat and humidity. (and I had a teenage crush on her..)

@richardpare3538 Год назад

To add to what Fred posted, there is STILL a lot of controversy over what was thrown off the bridge and why Billy Joe jumped - 58 years later!

@James-zw4tn Год назад

She didn't care for that crap,she's one of the few who figured out how demonic the music industry is.

@jamesweekley1087 2 года назад

This song is so steeped in southern culture. It really enhances the story, as does the dialog of the family at the dinner table.

@scottlang7271 2 года назад

I think that part of the power in this song is that the softness Billie Joe sings with is in complete contrast to the hardness of the lyrics. And each verse twists the knife in harder....

@davidmillar3993 3 года назад

Try Dusty Springfield "Son of a Preacher Man", Nancy Sinatra "These Boots were made for Walking", Melanie "Look What they Done to my Song" & "Lay Down", Edie Brickell "Good Times" :)

@trjbrew 3 года назад

Yes sir all of those!

@melodymcdonald2140 3 года назад

Love Melanie's song Brand New Key.

@selat2 3 года назад

Second Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a Preacher Man” 100%!!!!! Probably one of the ten best songs of the genre.

@selat2 3 года назад

If you want a lesser derivative of this, Harper Valley PTA is fun and led to a TV show that Starred Barbara Eden for a Season.

@tidentrue 3 года назад

@@selat2 I think that was a TV movie not a series. I may be wrong

@paulbewlay4527 3 года назад

I said it before: Female Friday, Carole King, Tapestry, the song or anything else from that album. Love ya, enjoy!

@territimmerman140 2 года назад

One of the best albums ever. Youre right every song is wonderful.

@mrmoji9970 2 года назад

Love to have you react to Smack Water jack by Carole King

@waynejohanson1083 2 года назад

Tapestry is one of the greatest albums ever.

@ronnielittlerock7208 2 года назад

You make the earth move!

@gal30girl 2 года назад

I grew up listening to her. I've always found her voice so haunting, just chills when she sings.

@lisas7046 2 года назад

OMG!!!! This brought tears to my eyes! I haven’t heard this song since the early 70s! EXCELLENT CHOICE!!!

@conniedean1977 2 года назад

No matter how many times I hear this song, I am mesmerized by her voice.

@matthewmarcinko9157 3 года назад

"The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence is a lot like this: A soothing yet foreboding song with a dark story to tell...

@jillwklausen 3 года назад

I love that song!

@ShannonsPoetryParadise 3 года назад

I still think if they are going to react to that song, it needs to be the Reba McEntire version where she tells the story in the song. That version really brings out the emotions of the song.

@Sportsref13 3 года назад

that song is based on some real life events that occurred.. there was a lawyer around Atlanta who use to claim he was mentioned in the song, and knew much more of the story

@jackwells8107 3 года назад

and made into a movie...

@charlottemichael3826 2 года назад

Reba sings it better

@genevievegelatto8447 2 года назад

Have loved this one since it first came out. Haunting. And she has such great rasp in her voice. Gorgeous voice.

@sofakingphat8087 Год назад

It’s a blues, folk song. It shows how hard times are on the Delta. It also shows how hard people have to work to make it and how one pillar in the family can fall and devastate everyone in the family. It’s also a story about getting out of the Delta and Add hints on the love story and the tragedy of losing someone so young. This version is also live in case you missed that. I’ve been a fan ever since it’s released in the 60s.

@ynottonyd1313 Год назад

That’s what I was feeling! A blues song, muddy waters blues country folk music

@jacobgoodman9227 Год назад

Pure delta blues.

@TheLightSideReactions 2 года назад

You concentrated so much on the musical aspects, I didn't think you were catching the lyrics. She and Billy Joe were forbidden lovers and she had to mourn him in secret.

@sandihackett3849 2 года назад

She may have known his secret of what happened when he went into town, drunk with a bunch of guys. It's all in the movie but has been so many year, I have forgotten much of the movie. Trying to locate the movie.

@bethking7348 Год назад

Yeah, they totally missed the part about something being thrown off the bridge which is kind of the catalysis of the whole song

@manny4552 Год назад

he was raped I think

@RobertDavisAdman Год назад

Yes! …and interrupted it in the wrong places, crashing the story line and continuity.

@RobertDavisAdman Год назад

Choctaw ridge, Talahatchie bridge.

@lavender_granny 3 года назад

she was always an "old soul". she got a degree in Philosophy

@missrachelreads Год назад

Wow! I have never seen Bobby Gentry speak or sing live - this is stunning! She is so striking looking and her guitar playing and singing are just amazing. Those low notes!

@angelabluebird609 Год назад

I love seeing these young people experience this fine talent! Country soul is exactly what it is!

@debm639 2 года назад

No one will ever know what they threw off the bridge! My theory was always a sad one but … I always thought it was a stillborn baby. You two are lovely! 💕

@alisongifford6150 2 года назад

I’m sure it was her childhood soft toy that she told everything to.I can’t remember his name il have to read the book again!

@heidibookout3596 2 года назад

According to the movie, it was her childhood toy

@debm639 2 года назад

Really, wow I never caught that in the movie- are you talking about the old movie with Robbie Benson?

@matthewhumphry756 2 года назад

My grandma always told me it was their baby too. She’d hid her pregnancy.

@debm639 2 года назад

@@matthewhumphry756 that’s what I always thought!!

@ROG958 3 года назад

If i am not mistaken, she wrote fancy that Reba made famous in the 90's.

@francine8806 3 года назад

Yes, she did.

@sassytbc7923 3 года назад

She wrote the song Fancy in 1970.

@lhuntley4577 3 года назад

There is a video of her performing the song on an old TV show, and she....looks...... FIRE in a red catsuit.

@stevebuckskinner5482 3 года назад

You are absolutely correct about that.

@dylandenney3980 3 года назад

Yup. Reba usually has everybody beat but she don't touch the original Fancy

@daleofficer1709 Год назад

Such a great song! I’ve always loved the eerie vibe of this, and the lyrical mystery of what exactly it was that she and Billy Joe threw off the Tallahatchee Bridge has been the topic of speculation ever since the song came out. Bobbie Gentry herself has never answered that question, saying the point of the song was the subconscious cruelty of her family as they just casually talked about his suicide over dinner, not knowing their daughter was in love with him, and knew a lot more about what happened than they realized. The lyrics of this song are just brilliant, not only because she makes you part of the story, but because those who spend their time trying to figure out what was thrown off the bridge are displaying the same subconscious cruelty her family was. Such a well-crafted story and song. Absolute genius on her part. This song was such a huge hit at the time its hard to believe she never even came close to this song’s success ever again.

@user-rn1hn3fg5y 24 дня назад

I'm a sixties kid. Heard this incredibly stuff every single day.... Thrilled that you enjoy it as much as I did/do. Keep sharing!!

@rileyandmike 3 года назад

I remember the movie with Robby Benson! Very dark movie for TV

@jackieknows9129 3 года назад

The movie was super dark and would only hint at what happened with Billy Joe

@robinfinley7317 3 года назад

I remember that, too.

@sylviafarese8837 3 года назад

Yes it was!

@TBoNAtl 3 года назад

@@jackieknows9129 He got drunk and had sex with Rosco P. Coltrane (google that name) then killed himself. Definitely a dark movie for TV in 1976. I was never really sure why they decided to take that angle.

@jackieknows9129 3 года назад

@@TBoNAtl I know who that is without looking it up lol. I saw the movie when I was in Junior High school. A few years later Dukes of Hazzard came on TV and I remembered him from the movie.

@elliottcrews4997 3 года назад

One of the most creative artists of the era. While she didn't get credit for it at the time she was the primary producer of her work, uncommon of any artist at that time, unheard of for a female artist at that time. There are seven studio albums, all excellent and each different. This year an unreleased album loosely categorized as "Jazz" came out for RSD. It is excellent as well. She hosted a BBC variety show in the UK for a couple of seasons around 70-71, then went to Las Vegas and put together a very elaborate stage show, doing all the choreography, costumes, musical arrangements herself. It ran for several years, during which time she married one of the big Vegas casino owners and by the mid to late 1970s she had retired. Today no one sees here, she doesn't make public appearances, and many call her a recluse. But she just doesn't crave the attention or need the money (she is a very smart business person) like so many artists in their later years. She just likes her privacy. An amazing lady.

@danlarson4513 Год назад

The guitar arrangements along with that smooth voice. Its pure magic.

@Voodoomaria Год назад

This song has a hypnotic quality that draws you DEEP into the story, you just can't look away. The song and story were so compelling they made a movie of it in 1976. A very talented woman was Miss Gentry

@bigjay123 3 года назад

'THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN GEORGIA ' Classic song by Vickie Lawrence.

@realdealclark8559 2 года назад

Yes they usually pretty good listening to lyrics especially when story telling and figuring it out most times. People I seen react to it first time just couldn’t figure out the story she was telling.

@jahspromise 2 года назад

That move is REALLY good too!!!!!!

@BlackieNuff 3 года назад

This is one of the darkest, macabre songs I ever heard from the country/folk genre... and that's why I love it. This song actually scared me as a kid, hahaha. That simple pickin of the guitar... the haunting groans of the stringed instruments (violins/cellos)... her mournful vocals, painting quite the visual picture in my mind with those narrative lyrics... it all ties in perfectly... and kept me awake in terror at night, lol, even though it's not particularly scary at all ... just a little spooky with all that bridge jumping/throwing stuff.

@DepDawg Год назад

Same here!!

@willkittwk Год назад

Nailed it bro.

@FrankButterfield Год назад

This song haunted me too. The one that really scared me to the core was "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence.

@BlackieNuff Год назад

@@FrankButterfield Same here! Although I found Reba McEntire's cover to be just as eerie. Both versions are good, I have no real insistence which is the "better" version, but I probably do lean more toward Reba. I actually compiled a little playlist of a bunch of country & country/pop song by female artists/vocalists and I ended the whole thing with these 2 songs, though I think I had two other tunes sandwiched between them (they just seemed to flow better music-wise that way) ; Dolly Parton's rendition of House Of The Rising Sun (very cool - different from The Animals' version, kind of ominous but a more upbeat tempo), and an old 80s country one-hit-wonder, Somebody's Knocking by Terri Gibb.

@steviemccormick3762 8 месяцев назад

One of the sexiest country voices ever !!!!

@marilyntaylor6716 День назад

Yes! I agree with Sylvia! Harper Valley PTA! Great song, in it’s time, a truly revolutionary song.

@Bozers24 3 года назад

Her voice is haunting

@Wintuscotty 3 года назад

I describe her voice as “haunting.”

@eugenia523 Год назад

Her voice, her voice, her voice. ❤️

@charlesdavis7461 Год назад

Her voice, the guitar, the lyrics.........fantastic. I can see everything in my mind that she sings. To me, I always thought they were breaking up and it was at least one ring thrown over. Now she throws flowers to Billy Joe. The violin was haunting.

@bostonvair 2 года назад

This song is epic and chilling. It is fictional, BTW. Bobbie Gentry said that the mysterious thing that the protagonist and Billy Joe were throwing off the bridge was a red herring. It got people talking about what it might be, but she denies that it's something substantial. This song is a great example of the style known as "Southern Gothic." Another great example from a few years after this song was the song "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence (she was an actress best known for her roles on The Carol Burnett Show and "Mama's Family" a sitcom that actually spun off from a frequent skit in the Carol Burnett Show. The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia was her only big musical hit, and she hits this song out of the park (her husband at the time was a songwriter and had intended someone else to sing it, but that fell through so Vicki volunteered to sing it and did a fantastic job. If you react to it, you will want a lyric version (they are out there) because the plot line and characters to the story are more confusing than "Ode to Billy Joe." There is a great plot twist at the end of the song. The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia was later covered by Reba McIntire and, if memory serves, it was a faithful cover, but please do a Vicki Lawrence lyric video if you react to it. I guarantee you'll like it and, like Ode to Billy Joe, it will give you chills. Back to "Ode to Billy Joe" Bobbie Gentry was quoted as saying the song was about the kind of "cruel indifference" that people can exhibit. If you follow the lyrics closely, You will see that the narrator of the song obviously had feelings for Billy Joe but seems as though she was unaware that he had jumped off the bridge until her mother dropped the news at the table. All the rest of the lines follow a pattern like "Billy Joe never had a lick of sense.... pass the biscuits please" and casually dismissive stuff embedded in requests for food items to be passed. Eventually, her mother notices that the narrator has not touched her food. Anyway, brilliant song.

@southernwanderer7912 Год назад

"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" is a great suggestion.

@CFWhitman 11 месяцев назад

Reba McEntire also did a remake of Bobby Gentry's song "Fancy."

@tamarisrael5783 3 года назад

Please check out Allison Krause ! Ghost in This House and When You Say Nothing at All. Alison has one of the most beautiful pure voices.

@TheCarNzen 3 года назад

Definitely check out ‘When You Say Nothing at All.’

@ImmortalBroken 2 года назад

I wonder if Amber will already know Alison Krauss since she grew up listening to bluegrass? They should react to her even if so, since she'll definitely be all new to Jay. LOVE Alison!

@timR177 2 года назад

Absolutely!

@Urugami45 2 года назад

She did an absolutely fantastic cover of 'I Will'; another great song is ' I've Got That Old Feeling'. Great bluegrass artist.

@67Redlines 2 года назад

Bobby Gentry sings with that haunting sound....

@andythrush3341 2 года назад

Haunting song sung with soul, pain and grit. She was very, very talented.

@shirleyjones9460 3 года назад

I always thought she was so pretty! This song and then the movie with Robbie Benson was excellent

@wm8498 3 года назад

Another great artist to check out is Juice Newton....Angel of the Morning, The Sweetest Thing, Queen of Hearts and more. She was pop and country. Great voice!

@beedeegee9374 3 года назад

Yes!

@heritageandpromise9641 2 года назад

Don't forget the instrumental arrangement because It is perfectly compliments her voice

@brianault3932 Год назад

Real Delta Blues is what this actually is. Such a soulful voice

@jwmson7791 3 года назад

A question for the ages! Bobbie Gentry paints such a masterpiece with her lyrics. And the movie takes a huge leap with dramatic license by adding a lot that Bobbie never intended. I think that her leaving the song open to interpretation is one thing that makes it so iconic.

@traog 3 года назад

A sad song about a girl finding out her secret boyfriend has committed suicide as her family casually talks about it between mouths full of food like it means nothing to them. The movie is good, but dark, and has an interpretation what happened, the reason for the suicide and what was thrown off the bridge is unknown.

@hfbarnes 3 года назад

My take is; the story teller and Billie joe had a premature baby then tossed the infant from the bridge and the pain was too great for Billie joe and he committed suicide.

@yunengdahl3675 3 года назад

@@hfbarnes that is what I've always thought, too. Makes the song even sadder

@pauld6967 3 года назад

@Sappho Nymph Well,....it's not the only reasonable interpretation. He may have asked her to elope and marry him. She said no, threw the ring he saved up for into the river and maybe even laughed at him for thinking she'd want him as a husband. Billy, being young, inexperienced, and probably not the sharpest tool in the shed, wouldn't be good at handling the "I like you,...but as a friend" speech, let alone a harsh/mocking rejection. She spends the rest of the year sad & guilty, knowing that her cruelty caused his suicide.

@hfbarnes 3 года назад

@@pauld6967 You are correct, in interviews Bobbie Gentry said she intentionally wrote the song in vague innuendo. That is the brilliance of those lyrics, to tell a story and provoke thought.

@pauld6967 3 года назад

@@hfbarnes 👍

@steveray7770 Год назад

It sounded as if she put you right in the house with her family talking over diner, kind of made you part of the family. Sad but beautifully tell-tale story song

@mt3311 2 года назад

She also wrote a song called Fancy. About a poor woman at the end of her line with her daughter. And in a last ditch effort to make a better life for the child, the mother turns the daughter out. A line "be nice to the gentleman Fancy, and they will be nice to you. The daughter does what she has to, and ends up with rich and powerful men, and rich and powerful herself. One of the last lines is, I may be plain white trash, but fancy was my name.

@coasterpimp2 2 года назад

As you mentioned, this song came out in the 60's - the era of Rock bands and Motown. Then out of nowhere, this song hit the airwaves and the entire country flipped over it, we'd never heard anything like this before. The guitar, the strings in the background, the interesting story, and of course that amazing voice ! The movie was made mainly because the entire country could not stop talking about this song and what it all meant.

@pretzeltime3900 2 года назад

This song is so beautiful, so soulful. It was the idea behind a 1976 movie called “Ode to Billy Joe” starring Robby Benson and Glynis O’Connor. It’s a good movie.

@davidlipman8093 Год назад

Yes it was!

@ellab8897 Год назад

NO IT ISN’T! If ever there ever was a movie that did A COMPLETE DISSERVICE TO THE SONG it’s based on, the Ode to Billy Joe movie is it.

@pretzeltime3900 Год назад

@@ellab8897 wow, scream much? I’d really like to hear your opinion. Honestly. But I don’t like being shouted at what I am not even given a reason.

@ellab8897 Год назад

@@pretzeltime3900- I deserve that. I’m a champion at making poor, more like stupid, choices. Believe it or not- at this point, probably not- my original reply really did include: I’m sincerely sorry I did so much of the written equivalent of shouting, but obviously(!) the movie version of the song upsets me to this day. Just before I pressed send, I had the thought that I’ve seen plenty of comments partly or fully caps locked, no apology, did I have to apologize? I took it out. Poor choice. Anyhow: I was and I am still incredulous that homosexuality was chosen to be why Billy Joe committed suicide. What?!? How did the screenwriters decide to use that as the cause?? Yes, this response is sarcastic: One instance of sex with a man sends Billy Joe off the bridge. Look how powerfully awful homosexuality is! Way to go, Hollywood, let’s stigmatize homosexuality some more! Non sarcasm: There’s *ugly, ugly* messaging in the movie, an element that needlessly, in a complete disservice to the song, was made a part of the fictional backstory/storyline of Bobbie Gentry’s iconic song, “Ode to Billy Joe.” We do agree it’s a so beautiful, so soulful song!

@pretzeltime3900 Год назад

@@ellab8897 Thank you Ella B for your comment. You made such a wonderful argument for the movie, and I agree fully. I was a young teenager when I watched that movie for the first time, but I’d heard the song before and imagined that Billy Jo’s reason was pregnancy - with Bobbi Lee or some girl he was just passing time with. It upset me that there was a dark side to the story in the movie, but it was a subject that wasn’t spoken about in public then and it was the first movie I’d ever watched that even hinted about homosexuality. It was a terrible decision that they wrote the storyline about a creepy old man raping a drunk young boy. Thank you so much for discussing this with me.

@pjmurphy920 3 месяца назад

Love, love, love Bobby Gentry and this song. It was SO big in 1968! It was played a lot then. Some say it was a ring because she wouldn't marry him for some reason.

@Bobbyliscious 2 года назад

Her song is not her story. She is bringing to light what generally happens in closed societies. Sure, she probably knew all the details and people, but she had respect for their privacy. I respect her choice to even pursue this song!

@Krisna_K 3 года назад

She is the one who wrote “Fancy” and also recorded it! Reba covered it and did it very well but I still love Bobby’s version!

@elainemarsh5170 3 года назад

In all these years, Ms. Gentry has never revealed the story behind this song or why Billy Joe jumped off the bridge. The song was an enormous hit, but within decade of its release Ms. Gentry retired from public life. She does not do appearances or interviews.

@AFHardt-en7ek 2 года назад

Bobby Gentry said many times that the song was about how insensitive the family was in discussing the boy's death and never noticing the girl is devastated.

@cocohodge2962 11 месяцев назад

Fellow okies can really relate to this tune and artist. Comp and literature profs LOVE this, it’s profound and compelling as the family discusses their other mundane concerns. Bobbie Gentry explained: "The message of the song revolves around the nonchalant way the family talks about the suicide. The song is a study in unconscious cruelty."

@jeffmorse645 3 года назад

This is "Southern Gothic". Very much story driven. This song really speaks to me. My Mom's family is originally from Mississippi and although I was born and raised in California I can just see that farm house and kitchen and her accent just reminds me so much of family. It makes me want to go to Mississippi so much. I've got to one day just to see where my people came from. Thanks for reacting to this.

@stupidhat1779 3 года назад

Similar story here, my father's people are from that part of Mississippi.Mom's people are Okies, I was also born in California and grew up in a very southern household lol.

@KittykatOz 3 года назад

Oh, you have to go, so rewarding to go to where your roots are based, I live in Australia and I have been, so what is holding you back? My family settled in Ontario Canada in the 1600's and I flew over to see where it all began and met family - it's an unreal feeling and a sense of belonging.

@stupidhat1779 3 года назад

@@KittykatOz It gives us something, a strength when we know where we come from :-)

@marielaveau5321 2 года назад

Hope you make it back here, you'd be welcome. ☺️✌️ My oldest son moved to CA from MS and lives in the Bay Area.

@jeffmorse645 2 года назад

@@marielaveau5321 I hoping to around Halloween. Taking a cross country trip to visit family and friends in TN and FL. Can't wait! I know I'm going to get some good food back there!

@lipby 3 года назад

Can you imagine a song of this quality topping the Top 40 in 2021? There are two songs, by the way, that I've reliably seen make reactors cry: "Cat's in the Cradle," by Harry Chapin and "Coat of Many Colors," by Dolly Parton. The first is singer-songwriter (basically pop-folk) and the second is, well, Dolly.

@windnchgo 2 года назад

In talking about the song Bobbi Gentry said it has always amazed her how casually cruel people can be about other people's misfortune - as her family is at the beginning of the song as they talk about Billy Joe's death as a mere conversation piece, and her mother then can't figure out why her daughter has lost her appetite. Really mama, you haven't a clue?!

@velvabruster6653 2 года назад

This was the 1st album I bought with babysitting money. I have always loved Bobby Gentry she did Fancy that Reba did many years later. There are many song Bobby Gentry did I know you would enjoy them.

@christinawoolley6206 3 года назад

One thing I always love about Bobbie Gentry is how she never "shows off" her range yet the song simply flows from her.....like a cool country creek! The storytelling of this piece is classic! Thank you so much for sharing! 😽🎶

@ericmcavoy1108 3 года назад

Joan Baez is another singer songwriter from that era. She does a song called The night they drove Old Dixie down. I'm sure you would enjoy her as well.

@SheynaVVV 2 года назад

Or Diamonds and Rust!!!

@scottfrench4139 2 года назад

Or "Diamonds and Rust."

@pmclaughlin4111 2 года назад

Joan Baez made Bob Dylan...She had 3 top selling albums would invited Dylan up on stage to play with her...Then, he got a Nobel Prize in 2016....

@ssokolow 2 года назад

Her performance is a cover and, despite preferring the sound of it to the original, I have to admit that it's a very sloppy one that misses the point and messes up some lyrics. It's originally by The Band and was the focus of an excellent article named "Unpacking the Absurd Logic of Cultural Appropriation-and What It Will Cost Us" because it's a song by a Canadian expressing the pain of poor southern tenant farmers better than southerners ever did in over a hundred years of opportunity to do so. (eg. It's only the third line and she's already turning "Stoneman's cavalry" into "so much cavalry".)

@wendybutler1681 2 года назад

Son born in 1979 worships Joan Baez. For good reason.

@angelawillis145 Год назад

She was the first country artist to win a Grammy for best new artist for this song.

@stebstebanesier6205 2 года назад

What a great live version. True to the studio version that everyone loved, but just different enough so you know it's live.

@leesher1845 2 года назад

I think this was one of the best stories ever told by song. So graphic; you could picture every image being described. Great musicianship, too.

@glennknudsen9157 Год назад

The song was originally seven minutes long. It had to be edited down to four minutes 15 seconds to fit on a 7" single. Even so the label thought this was very risky as record companies at the time thought that a song should be no more than three minutes long if it was to have hit potential. Here's the original first verse of the song that was edited out: People don't see Sally Jane in town anymore There's a lot of speculatin' She's not actin' like she did before Some say she knows more that she's willin' to tell But she stays quiet and a few think it's just as well No one really knows what went on up on Choctaw Ridge The day that Billy Jo McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge Some consider Bobbie Gentry to be one of America's great unsung short story writers. The original handwritten lyrics to "Ode to Billie Joe" are kept in the archives at the University of Mississippi, along with works by William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams.

@scambammer6102 Год назад

the lyrics are fantastic. She paints a wonderful picture of southern rural life through a few stray pieces of conversation.

@lorinichols1847 11 месяцев назад

It even makes you feel the heat....

@beckyjohnston1792 3 года назад

K.D. Lang ~ “Constant Craving” such a unique voice! Thanks for all the positivity guys 🥰

@tonyennis1787 Год назад

there aren't many songs that evoke such a vibe of melancholy. And you can tell, very little changes in that place. You could leave for 10 years and when you returned, the same people would be doing the same jobs, and you'd catch up on all the news in a few hours.

@roberttompkins6489 2 года назад

When you build a movie around a song you know it was great.

@debilarge 2 года назад

As an Okie myself, there is a reason for the similarities in Native names of towns in Mississippi and Oklahoma. Those tribes (Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, etc.) have their original homelands in Mississippi area and were forced west (Trail of Tears) when the federal government moved them to what is now Oklahoma.

@marielaveau5321 2 года назад

I was born near a Choctaw Reservation in central MS, and now I live in a county that has a Chickasaw name. ✌️

@jerrysneedsr1066 Год назад

Both my parents were okie's and I remember back in the late 60's at my uncle's house in Modesto CA, that at a family get together someone was playing this song and that was the first time hearing it, just loved it back then.

@RFWieder 3 года назад

Eventually you have to react to Janis Ian, her two biggest hits were " Society's Child" about a teen inter-racial couple written in the 60's, and "I Learned the Truth at 17" , about not being one of the "in" crowd in High School.

@kimhesketh2016 3 года назад

Yes to both. I think the second song is just called "At Seventeen"

@catofthecastle1681 2 года назад

@@kimhesketh2016 Still a favorite of mine!

@edprzydatek8398 2 года назад

Absolutely. Janis is great. The sooner the better.

@rogerduffey1428 3 дня назад

You literally hang on to every note!! Wow!!

@willkittwk Год назад

Always thought her voice haunting in a sensual way.

@jedislap8726 3 года назад

The common theory is that the girl in the song was dating Billy Joe and she had a miscarriage or a stillborn and they threw it into the river so no-one would find out and Billy Joe was so consumed by guilt or grief that he committed suicide. She is throwing the flowers in the river at the end for both Billy Joe and the baby.

@myopicseer 3 года назад

That is what I get from the lyrics.

@buddystewart2020 3 года назад

That is a common theory, that she never confirmed. The point of Southern Gothic; to make you wonder. The real thing about the song is, how the family talked about the boys suicide in such an offhand way while they passed the biscuits and had some more pie, not realizing their daughter/sister, sitting at the table with them, was seriously affected by the discussion and what happened.

@terrisue4059 3 года назад

I like that theory better than the one the movie used. I never would have gotten that story from the song.

@samhain1894 3 года назад

@@buddystewart2020 agree. Unconscious cruelty.

@salishseaartsfoundation 3 года назад

Having been there when it was first released I can say that it wasn't the common theory that she had experienced a miscarriage. That's a possibility, but Bobbie Gentry went out of her way to say the lyrics were meant to be ambiguous and not specific. Leaving it open-ended lends the song an even more melancholy and atmospheric air. I can't say the story describes a suicide because of a miscarriage, but my own interpretation is that Billy Joe wouldn't be responsible and that any misdirected guilt would probably felt by the narrator-who didn't commit suicide. It's just another way of looking at a brilliant lyric.

@timrscott 3 года назад

Her voice together with the guitar is amazing. The guitar playing is understated brilliance.

@alanlucio3442 11 месяцев назад

Early childhood memories of Bobby Gentry plain on the record player Saturday morning as my mom cleaned house, she enjoyed listening to her. I also remember going to the theater back then. And watching Ode to Billy Joe.

@Lonebassman Год назад

I had the honor of working with Bobbie during the 70's. Classic Southern Belle.

@dougsusie2319 3 года назад

This song was released in 1967. The talent speaks for itself and all I can say is we don't have talent like that in music in the music world today. I'm glad I was a kid in the sixties and a teen throughout most of the seventies. Talent was everywhere, we were surrounded by it. All you could do was to surrender too it and enjoy the ride. ☮️ 💕

@jimchumley7907 Год назад

Doug Suzie; There is a band that's been out about 25 yrs now you have to check out and putting out some really awesome music. They are one of my favorite bands. It's Rock but really talented musicians. First cd I would love for you to hear and in my personal opinion the best rock cd to ever come out by Kutlass titled; "To Know That You're Alive. Please check it out.

@harlowrioux5790 11 месяцев назад

Sure, we have talent like this. Try Aimee Mann for starters.

@gypsygirl3255 3 года назад

Another of her songs is "Fancy"

@2869may 3 года назад

Reba... Great song..!!!

@2869may 3 года назад

@paul Provenzano No disrespect to Bobbie, But Reba absolutely owned that song....!

@Ronald-ih9fm 4 месяца назад

Country Soul, WOW, I never thought of that but you hit the nail on the head. BRAVO!

@robertparera8046 Год назад

Are both of you starting to realise how blessed we were to grow up in the 60's and 70's and even some of the 80's, we were blessed, Gospel, Motown, Blues, Rock, we had it all and the difference is we listened to all of it.. Our record collections were so rich in difference.. So sorry that from the 2000's till know now people just shut off and listened what was close to them and just locked up.. It all starts with Gospel.. The lords voice..

@lolabroadhead3972 2 года назад

This is defined as being Southern Gothic, she was huge in the UK, i came to London in the 90s and was beloved by all my friends grandparents who were either Irish or From the West Indies and they loved her, Patsy Cline, Crystal Gayle too and the great debate as to what was they were throwing over the bridge! In fact this was played on a national radio station in the UK yesterday.

@brt5273 3 года назад

The movie is alright but they defined a lot of storyline that Bobby has said in interviews that she left intentionally unanswered in the lyrics. That aspect of the song is what makes it a work of genius. Anybody getting into the song will mentally speculate and ponder while she is evoking referrences about food and country life that many of us relate strongly to. The last verse describing circumstances as they stand at the time of relating the story, so poignantly illustrate how quickly life can change in a year's time. Simply fascinating. My other favorite song by her is "Mississippi Delta" which is completely different except that she again draws on simple experiences that are richly relatable.

@littleogeechee223 3 года назад

The movie was ridiculous, and such a waste of good talent.

@paulaleckey1968 3 года назад

That movie still haunts me!

@tcscushing 2 года назад

I got out of the service in the late 60's, got married, my wife and I went to a Bobby Gentry concert. Packed house.

@tammijackson6694 Год назад

I got to see her live in an obscure TV show called The Bobby Goldsboro Show (70s). She's so beautiful and was so friendly. She sang this song that day.

@socket_error1000 3 года назад

This is a perfect example of a great female vocalist letting her song breathe. A skill lost on many great singers these days is the ability not to oversing a song.

@johntaylor-jp3jy 3 года назад

“Fancy”! Her next biggest hit. You will NOT be disappointed

@lisaharrod8386 9 месяцев назад

I love this song...great singing, pretty strings, and a mystery, but most of all it makes me hungry!!!

@meangene98 Год назад

I think you hit the nail on the head when you called it country/soul. It really sounds like something someone would be singing out on the back porch of a farm in the south back in the 30’s or 40’s.