Bobbie Gentry Best Of The Capitol Years (2-CD)
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Bobbie Gentry: Best Of The Capitol Years (2-CD)
Article properties: Bobbie Gentry: Best Of The Capitol Years (2-CD)
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Interpret: Bobbie Gentry
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Album titlle: Best Of The Capitol Years (2-CD)
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Label EMI
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Artikelart CD
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EAN: 0094637733820
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| Gentry, Bobbie - Best Of The Capitol Years (2-CD) CD 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Ode To Billie Joe | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 02 | Chickasaw Country Child | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 03 | Mississippi Delta | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 04 | I Saw An Angel Die | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 05 | Sunday Best | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 06 | Hurry Tuesday Child | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 07 | Penduli Pendulum | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 08 | Jessye' Lisabeth | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 09 | Okolona River Bottom Band | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 10 | Mornin' Glor | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 11 | Courtyard | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 12 | Casket Vignette | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 13 | Sweet Peony | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 14 | Seasons Come, Seasons Go | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 15 | Fancy | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 16 | But I Can't Get Back | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 17 | Marigolds And Tangerines | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 18 | Apartment | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 19 | Somebody Like Me | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 20 | Lookin' In | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| Gentry, Bobbie - Best Of The Capitol Years (2-CD) CD 2 | ||||
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| 01 | I'll Never Fall In Love Again | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 02 | Peasceful | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 03 | Louisiana Man | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 04 | Touch 'Em With Love | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 05 | Greyhound Goin' Somewhere | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 06 | Natural To Be Gone | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 07 | Papa's Medicine Show | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 08 | Show Off | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 09 | Rainmaker | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 10 | He Made A Woman Out Of Me | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 11 | All I Have To Do Is Dream (with G. Campbell) | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 12 | Hushabye Mountain | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 13 | Skip A-Long Sam | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 14 | Delta Man | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 15 | I Wouldn't Be Surprised | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 16 | You've Made Me So Very Happy | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 17 | The Windows Of The World (previously unrel.) | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 18 | Smoke (previously unrel.) | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 19 | La Siepe | Bobbie Gentry | ||
| 20 | La Citta E Grande | Bobbie Gentry | ||
Bobbie Gentry
Ode To Billie Joe
(Bobbie Gentry)
purchase date: March 13, 1967
overdub session May 24, 1967; Producer: Jimmie Haskell; probable musicians on the overdub session: Jimmie Haskell, leader; Jesse Ehrlich, Joseph Saxon: cello; Bill Kurasch, Lenny Malarsky, Ralph Schaeffer, Sid Sharp: violins
Cap 5950
master 57529
Roberta Streeter grew up on her grandparents' farm in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, but moved to California to be with her mother when she was thirteen, so her Mississippi was one of memory and imagination. She first recorded in 1963 with rockabilly singer Jody Reynolds. Several years later, her nightclub act was heard by TV host Jim McKrell, who took her demo tape to music publisher Larry Shayne. In February,
1967, Shayne found a taker: newly-hired Kelly Gordon at Capitol Records. It seems likely that Gordon purchased the vocal-guitar demo of Billie Joe from Shayne and scheduled a session in April to record Mississippi Delta. By this point, Streeter had renamed herself Bobbie Gentry after the movie Ruby Gentry. Originally seven minutes long, Billie Joe was edited down and overdubbed by arranger Jimmie Haskell on May 24 for release on July 10 (Shayne's sheet music used the masculine spelling Billy Joe, while the record used the feminine Billie with the masculine Joe). With Mississippi Delta, as the planned A-side, Gordon asked Haskell to do a quick overdub on Billie Joe. "Put some strings on it so we won't be embarrassed," he said. "No one will ever hear it." Haskell's arrangement for two cellos and four violins perfectly complemented the song's smouldering intensity. "I made the bass line do the minimum amount of notes I could write for a cello bass and still have it sound interesting," he told Holly George Warren. "Five notes every four bars, played pizzicato. The other cello was played with a bow. I was experimenting because I'd been told no one would ever hear it." Like Creedence Clearwater Revival's Proud Mary, Ode To Billie Joe was delightfully at odds with the hippie era jangle. Gentry skillfully juxtaposed tragedy against the banality of everyday life, and left the enigma intact, accomplishing with a song what Flannery O’Connor accomplished with short stories. "The story of Billie Joe has two underlying themes," she said. "First, the illustration of a group of people's reactions to the life and death of Billie Joe, and its subsequent effect on their lives.
Second, the obvious gap between the girl and her mother is shown when both women experience a common loss (first, Billie Joe and, later, Papa), and yet Mama and the girl are unable to recognize their mutual loss or share their grief." Equally, the song could have been a comment on country people's indifference to accidents and disasters because tragedy is more a part of everyday life. When a movie was made of the song, scriptwriter Herman Raucher went to see Gentry who told him that she had no idea why Billie Joe jumped off the bridge. Raucher decided that Billie Joe killed himself after a drunken gay episode; that's Hollywood for you. The Tallahatchie Bridge later fell down; that's Mississippi for you. Gentry's record was an all-market sweep, reaching #1 on the pop chart, #17 on the country chart (eclipsing Margie Singleton's cover version), and #8 on the R&B chart (almost eclipsing King Curtis's R&B instrumental version). It won three Grammies. In 1973, Gentry donated the original draft of her song to the University of Mississippi. Eight years later, she dropped out of sight. There have been sightings in Georgia and Los Angeles, but no comeback.
- Colin Escott -
Various Country & Western Hit Parade 1967
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