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Ode to Billie Joe Lyrics: Was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day / I was out choppin' cotton, and my brother was balin' hay / And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the...
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The Windows Of The World. This Girl's In Love With You. Thunder In The Afternoon. Walk Right Back. You And Me Together. Bobbie Gentry lyrics - 117 song lyrics sorted by album, including "Seasons Come, Seasons Go", "I Saw An Angel Die", "Ode To Billie Joe".
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Singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry was born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi. After her parents had divorced, she continued to live there with her paternal grandparents. At age 13, Gentry moved to California to live with her mother. She graduated from high school and entered UCLA as a philosophy major, before transferring to the Los Angeles Conservato...
"Ode to Billie Joe" takes the form of a first-person narrative by the young daughter of a Mississippi Deltafamily. It offers fragments of dinnertime conversation on the day that a local boy, an acquaintance of the narrator, jumped to his death from a nearby bridge. The account is interspersed with everyday, polite, mealtime conversation. The song's...
The single "Mississippi Delta"-"Ode to Billie Joe" was released in July 1967. Paris was given a co-producer credit on the single with Gordon. Five weeks after its release, it reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. By the sixth week, the single had sold one million copies. It also appeared at number 7 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart, at ...
Following the success of the single, Capitol Records received 500,000 pre-orders for Ode to Billie Joe, surpassing the label's record held by the Beatles's Meet the Beatles!. Gentry began receiving offers to make a motion picture based on the film in 1967, but she rejected them, preferring to wait for an offer from a movie maker who would "portray ...
Bobbie Gentry (* 27. Juli 1942 als Roberta Lee Streeter im Chickasaw County, Mississippi) ist eine US-amerikanische Country-Sängerin, die 1967 durch den Hit Ode to Billie Joe bekannt wurde. Werdegang. Die portugiesischstämmige Roberta S ...
Ode to Billie Joe LyricsSongwriters: BOBBIE GENTRYIt was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta dayI was out choppin' cotton, and my brother was bali...
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Ode to Billie Joe ist ein Song der Sängerin Bobbie Gentry, der sich 1967 zu einem Millionenseller entwickelte. Das Stück handelt von der heimlichen Zuneigung eines jungen Paares im Mississippi-Delta und dem Sprung Billie Joe McAllisters von der Tallahatchie-Brücke .
