Bobby Gentry The Girl From Chickasaw Country - Highlights From The Capitol Masters) (2-LP)
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Bobby Gentry: The Girl From Chickasaw Country - Highlights From The Capitol Masters) (2-LP)
Bobbie released a total of eight Capitol albums, most notably the hit debut "Ode to Billie Joe" (which knocked Sgt. Pepper's Lonely-Hearts Club Band off the top of the charts in the U.S.). Delta Sweete, their third album, is another highlight. MOJO magazine listed it in the top 500 best albums of all time, calling her the "JD Salinger of rock 'n' roll."
Bobbie also teamed up with Glen Campbell later that year (1968) for a duets album that earned her another gold record and spawned three hit singles, including a cover of the Everly Brothers' hit "All I Have to Do Is Dream" that reached #3 in the UK and #27 on the Billboard Hot 100. The two also toured together briefly and appeared on a number of American and British television shows and specials.
Bobbie had four hits in the UK, with "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" topping the charts in 1969. In the U.S., she had 11 hits and was nominated for a Grammy for the album Fancy, produced largely by Rick Hall in Muscle Shoals.
Bobbie had her own BBC show for three seasons, in which she hosted the shows, performed her own material and introduced guests such as Elton John, James Taylor and Donovan. She also performed at her Las Vegas nightclub.
She dropped out of the scene more than 40 years ago (1978), and unlike everyone else who returns, she went into hiding. She remains one of the few real mysteries of pop music. Because she was so popular (No. 1 singles / albums, BBC television series, residency in Las Vegas), her skills as a writer, producer and arranger were too often overlooked; she paved the way for Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon. Bobbie's songs continue to influence a new generation of artists including Cheryl Crow, Beth Orton, Lucinda Williams and Roseanne Cash, all of whom have cited her as an influence and covered her songs.
Released in 2018, UMC Capitol years boxset consisted of 8CDs, this is the first ever large-scale retrospective to include the first UK reissues of her albums in their entirety - supplemented by 76 previously unreleased demos, outtakes and alternate takes from all of Bobbie's Capitol albums. Included are beautiful acoustic demos of songs like Refractions, Courtyard and Seasons Come Seasons Go, alternate takes of Sunday Best, Sweet Peony and Benjamin, and previously unheard originals like Morning to Midnight and Joanne. In addition, Bobbie has recorded some great cover versions that never saw the light of day, including Conspiracy of Homer Jones by Dallas Frazier, Spinning Wheel by Blood Sweat and Tears, Salome Smith and her amazing dancing bear by Randy Newman, and blues songs like Seventh Son by Willie Dixon. One of the special features of the set is a previously unreleased album of jazz cover versions that includes intimate, mostly acoustic interpretations of songs such as Irving Berlin's Suppertime, Billie Holiday's God Bless the Child (playing from the beginning) and Since I Fell for You by Buddy Johnson. This change of direction was abandoned in favor of the blue-eyed soul of the LP Touch em With Love, making these recordings a unique document of Bobbie as we've never heard her before. Also included are clips from Bobbie's three BBC television series, including live versions of her well-known tracks Ode to Billie Joe and Mississippi Delta, as well as songs Bobbie never recorded in the studio, such as Mother Nature's Son by the Beatles and Open your Window by Harry Nilsson. All audio has been mastered from the original tapes. In addition, there are many rare and never-before-seen images of Bobbie, pictures from photo shoots, out-takes, performances and tours. These releases are accompanied by an exclusive illustration by fashion illustrator David Downton.
The 2LP are abridged versions of the box set and include a selection of the unreleased bonus material from the 8CD package, including an alternate recording of Sunday Best, the demo of Hurry, Tuesday Child, the alternate version of Mississippi Delta and much more. The LP includes a 12" insert with a selection of images used in the box set and notes about the cover.
Article properties: Bobby Gentry: The Girl From Chickasaw Country - Highlights From The Capitol Masters) (2-LP)
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Interpret: Bobby Gentry
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Album titlle: The Girl From Chickasaw Country - Highlights From The Capitol Masters) (2-LP)
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Genre Country
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Label Universal Music
- Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
- Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
- Record Grading Mint (M)
- Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
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Artikelart LP
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EAN: 0600753956564
- weight in Kg 0.63
| Gentry, Bobbie - The Girl From Chickasaw Country - Highlights From The Capitol Masters) (2-LP) LP 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Ode to Billie Joe | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 02 | Chickasaw County Child | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 03 | Hurry, Tuesday Child [demo] | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 04 | Sunday Best [alternate take] | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 05 | Mississippi Delta [alternate version] | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 06 | Okolona River Bottom Band | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 07 | Refractions | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 08 | Courtyard | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 09 | Mornin' Glory | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 10 | Sweete Peony [alternate Version] | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 11 | Casket Vignette | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 12 | Recollection | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 13 | Sittin’ Pretty | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 14 | Hushabye Mountain | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 15 | Conspiracy of Homer Jones | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 16 | Sunday Mornin' [alternate version] | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 17 | Let It Be Me (duet with Glen Campbell) [without strings] | Bobby Gentry | ||
| Gentry, Bobbie - The Girl From Chickasaw Country - Highlights From The Capitol Masters) (2-LP) LP 2 | ||||
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| 01 | God Bless The Child | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 02 | This Girl’s In Love With You | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 03 | Touch 'Em with Love [stereo version] | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 04 | Seasons Come, Seasons Go [demo] | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 05 | Glory Hallelujah, How They'll Sing [alternate take] | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 06 | Fancy | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 07 | He Made A Woman Out of Me | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 08 | Circle ‘Round the Sun | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 09 | Apartment 21 [Stereo version] | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 10 | Benjamin | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 11 | But I Can't Get Back | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 12 | Lookin' In | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 13 | Smoke | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 14 | Joanne | Bobby Gentry | ||
| 15 | The Girl from Cincinnati | Bobby 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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