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27. Jan. 2017 · Grammy-winning "Bridge Over Troubled Water" string arranger Jimmie Haskell examines Bobbie Gentry's career-making 1967 single "Ode to Billie Joe" and why she abandoned the limelight for obscurity.
Bobbie Gentry sang a fictional ode to an archetypal girlfriend who could not endure the social reactivity of southern white Protestants embedded in norms traditional morality. The assumptions of listeners and readers for decades have predictably overlooked the hidden-in-plain-sight affection between two young females, throwing flowers into a river as doomed lovers have done for centuries in ...
4. Nov. 2010 · Bobby Gentry - Ode to Billy Joe
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31. Jan. 2022 · Bobbie Gentry is a retired American singer-songwriter. She found fame in 1967 with her song 'Ode to Billie Joe'. The song spent four weeks at number one in the US, and won several Grammy Awards. It tells the story of Mississippi family's reaction to the news of the death of Billie Joe McAllister, a local boy to whom the daughter (and narrator ...
19. Sept. 2019 · That’s Norbert Putnam, the Forrest Gump of the music business. Hall, 84, was vacationing on the Gulf Coast but said he was happy to talk about Bobbie Gentry. Hall produced her last hit, “Fancy ...
Country and pop singer Bobbie Gentry is an anomaly in both genres. She broke through in 1967 with the self-penned story-song "Ode to Billy Joe," about the events surrounding the suicide of a teenage boy. Gentry then transitioned over to the country charts, after her trippy psychedelic-Americana album The Delta Sweete failed to generate success in the pop or country worlds. She notched hits via ...
Bobbie Gentry, właśc. Roberta Lee Streeter (ur. 27 lipca 1944 w hrabstwie Chickasaw) – amerykańska piosenkarka i autorka tekstów. Gentry była jedną z pierwszych kobiet grających napisane przez siebie utwory country. Swoim pierwszym albumem "Ode to Billie Joe" wygrała nagrodę Grammy w kategoriach: Best New Artist i Best Female Pop ...
