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(Hump Head) 50 Tracks  -  Bobbie Gentry brought a soulful, Southern delta story-telling... more

Bobbie Gentry: Southern Gothic - The Definitive Collection (2-CD)

(Hump Head) 50 Tracks
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Bobbie Gentry brought a soulful, Southern delta story-telling sound to country-pop in the late 1960s, when she exploded on the charts around the world with the self-written Ode To Billie Joe. The song won Bobbie Gentry three Grammy Awards. She only released six solo albums in all, plus a duet record with Glen Campbell

On this Definitive 50 tracks 2 CD set are not only the hits, but also the most interesting tracks from those albums, including several of the duets!

Article properties: Bobbie Gentry: Southern Gothic - The Definitive Collection (2-CD)

  • Interpret: Bobbie Gentry

  • Album titlle: Southern Gothic - The Definitive Collection (2-CD)

  • Genre Country

  • Label Hump Head Records

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 5060001276038

  • weight in Kg 0.13
Gentry, Bobbie - Southern Gothic - The Definitive Collection (2-CD) CD 1
01 Ode To Billy Joe Bobbie Gentry
02 Okolona River Bottom Band Bobbie Gentry
03 Little Green Apples Bobbie Gentry
04 Fancy Bobbie Gentry
05 Here, There And Everywhere Bobbie Gentry
06 Louisiana Man Bobbie Gentry
07 Mississippi Delta Bobbie Gentry
08 Niki Hoeky Bobbie Gentry
09 Papa, Won't You Let Me Go To Town With You? Bobbie Gentry
10 Papa's Medicine Show Bobbie Gentry
11 My Elusive Dreams Bobbie Gentry
12 But I Can't Get Back Bobbie Gentry
13 Tobacco Road Bobbie Gentry
14 I Saw An Angel Die Bobbie Gentry
15 Peaceful Bobbie Gentry
16 Where's The Playground Johnny Bobbie Gentry
17 Greyhound Goin' Somewhere Bobbie Gentry
18 He Made A Woman Out Of Me Bobbie Gentry
19 Son Of A Preacher Man Bobbie Gentry
20 Penduli Pendulum Bobbie Gentry
21 Touch 'em With Love Bobbie Gentry
22 If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody Bobbie Gentry
23 Something In The Way He Moves Bobbie Gentry
24 Scarborough Fair-Canticle Bobbie Gentry
25 Terrible Tangled Web Bobbie Gentry
Gentry, Bobbie - Southern Gothic - The Definitive Collection (2-CD) CD 2
01 Gentle On My Mind Bobbie Gentry
02 I'll Never Fall In Love Again Bobbie Gentry
03 Apartment 21 Bobbie Gentry
04 Mornin' Glory Bobbie Gentry
05 Courtyard Bobbie Gentry
06 Marigolds And Tangerines Bobbie Gentry
07 Less Of Me Bobbie Gentry
08 Sittin' Party Bobbie Gentry
09 Parchman Farm Bobbie Gentry
10 Big Boss Man Bobbie Gentry
11 Chickasaw County Child Bobbie Gentry
12 Hushabye Mountain Bobbie Gentry
13 The Girl From Cincinnati Bobbie Gentry
14 Jessye' Lisabeth Bobbie Gentry
15 Eleanor Rigby Bobbie Gentry
16 Find 'em, Fool 'Em And Forget About 'Em Bobbie Gentry
17 Delta Man Bobbie Gentry
18 Rainmaker Bobbie Gentry
19 Billy The Kid Bobbie Gentry
20 Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head Bobbie Gentry
21 Sermon Bobbie Gentry
22 The Fool On The Hill Bobbie Gentry
23 In The Ghetto Bobbie Gentry
24 All I Have To Do Is Dream Bobbie Gentry
25 Let It Be Me Bobbie Gentry
Bobbie Gentry Ode To Billie Joe (Bobbie Gentry) purchase date: March 13, 1967 overdub... more
"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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Tracklist
Gentry, Bobbie - Southern Gothic - The Definitive Collection (2-CD) CD 1
01 Ode To Billy Joe
02 Okolona River Bottom Band
03 Little Green Apples
04 Fancy
05 Here, There And Everywhere
06 Louisiana Man
07 Mississippi Delta
08 Niki Hoeky
09 Papa, Won't You Let Me Go To Town With You?
10 Papa's Medicine Show
11 My Elusive Dreams
12 But I Can't Get Back
13 Tobacco Road
14 I Saw An Angel Die
15 Peaceful
16 Where's The Playground Johnny
17 Greyhound Goin' Somewhere
18 He Made A Woman Out Of Me
19 Son Of A Preacher Man
20 Penduli Pendulum
21 Touch 'em With Love
22 If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody
23 Something In The Way He Moves
24 Scarborough Fair-Canticle
25 Terrible Tangled Web
Gentry, Bobbie - Southern Gothic - The Definitive Collection (2-CD) CD 2
01 Gentle On My Mind
02 I'll Never Fall In Love Again
03 Apartment 21
04 Mornin' Glory
05 Courtyard
06 Marigolds And Tangerines
07 Less Of Me
08 Sittin' Party
09 Parchman Farm
10 Big Boss Man
11 Chickasaw County Child
12 Hushabye Mountain
13 The Girl From Cincinnati
14 Jessye' Lisabeth
15 Eleanor Rigby
16 Find 'em, Fool 'Em And Forget About 'Em
17 Delta Man
18 Rainmaker
19 Billy The Kid
20 Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
21 Sermon
22 The Fool On The Hill
23 In The Ghetto
24 All I Have To Do Is Dream
25 Let It Be Me