"Ode to Billie Joe" by Bobbie Gentry (film version full edit)
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- Опубликовано: 6 ноя 2019
- The complete version of "Ode to Billie Joe" from the film. The film was titled "Ode to Billy Joe" for some reason, possibly for publishing. This version is quite longer than the hit version, with a lengthy musical outro. I edited together the beginning and end credits of the movie to sync the music together. Enjoy!
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One of the most underestimated films of all times. An amazing and haunting film which has no equivalent. Pure magic.
I love that version ! Thanks very much for sharing !
Bobby Gentry has often said that the important part of the song is not what was thrown off the bridge nor why Billy Joe jumped, it is the conversations and actions of the people after he did so. No one who did not already care about Billy Joe prior to his death really cared that he had killed himself. The only people who cared about what had happened were those who cared about him prior to his jumping. The mother thinks it is just some interesting gossip she heard, the father just wants to eat and then go finish his plowing. Only the narrator is the one who feels anything about Billy Joe.
No one cared enough while he was alive to notice any signs of what might have led him to commit such an act. His passing did not affect them at all. The only ones hurt by his action were those who had already cared about him. I do not know why Billy Joe did what he did. No one does. Bobby Gentry has never said what caused him to jump. Once she even said she did not know herself. Her point in the song was the reactions of those who heard the news and how we treat others around us.
This song had a strong impact on me and the movie did as well. Just prior to the song's release when I was still in high school, a good friend of mine killed himself. He hooked a hose from his car exhaust into his car one night. Maybe a month prior to his doing so he had confided to me that he was gay. He didn't want to be gay. He wanted to be "normal" like everyone else. Though he had tried dating girls in our school, it just didn't work for him. That was a long time ago and we lived in a small conservative town. I never really understood the pain he was feeling and he never expressed just how deeply he was hurting. Even if he had, I don't know what naive 16-year-old me would have been able to do to help him. I have never forgotten that kid, I just regret I wasn't a better friend. I wish I had had the skills or life experience to pick up on how profoundly he was suffering. I was his friend and I cared about him.
So, if the song has a real message, I would say that it is to show a little care and love to those around you.
Thank you for your comment. I'm so sorry about your friend. That you still care that deeply means you were a good friend. Hating others for being different is still damaging, even today.
That’s so very very sad and the experience of many very special people who felt so desperate. The film was way ahead of its time and the interactions of the players after Bobby’s death are remarkable in every way. This should be regarded as a unique and truly profound film.
So sorry about your friend. May he RIP 🙏❤️
Love this song and of course beautiful Bobbie.
My father and mother my sister and I we used to watch this movie all the time I still like it it's a true story
Yes it is you're welcome
You know a song is great when they can make a really good movie just based on the lyrics of the song, this one and Harper Valley PTA...awesome songs and amazing movies👏
Bought this beautiful music from the movie.
Beautiful arrangements by
Michael Legrand.
Love that instrumental.
Thank you for uploading this. I've been looking for the full version of this song forever.
This is the version I have been looking for thank you!
I started looking for this version two years ago and couldn't find it. Love the string arrangement - so haunting. Thanks for the upload.
I'm glad I was able to provide it. Thanks for enjoying.
@@booblikon Yes,Thank You So Much 🥰🥰 I Love Bobby Gentry, Now I Really Want To See The Movie Many PRAYER'SNLUV 👼👼💝💝
@@wendyladybug355laurie4 You can rent it, I got it from Netflix DVD service.
The ending scene between James Best & Glynnis O'Connor is wonderful. How she calmly explains how he'll just mess things up if he tries to salvage her 'honor' by saying what really happened so people don't think she's pregnant. There is the slightest element of disgust in her voice towards him for what he did to cause Billy Joe to kill himself. But her response to his his worry about she'll be all alone if she leaves town to have her non-existent baby "Oh, I'll be back before long; I'm only 15. What do I know of the world?". A whole lot more then anyone else there....
I think James Best’s performance is perfect. Such a difficult subject and he handles it wonderfully well, the pauses, the frowns, the half smiles, and all before gay rights were fully accepted. His performance is so natural and he manages to play what is a very complex situation with a calm and ease and total authenticity.
The original version of this song is 7 minutes long but it was edited to four minutes before it was released.I wish I could find that version on You Tube
Max Baer Jr played, Jethro Bodine, the Beverly Hillbillie character. He produced and directed this movie.
I NEVER SAW THAT MOVIE I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT WITH BOBBY GENTRY......
It is a good movie but Bobby Gentry not in it, just the song.
Bobbie gentry love this song
How come I can't remember where I put my car keys but I remember every single lyrics to this song and I haven't even heard it since I was 16. LOL so excited to watch this I love all of Robbie's old made-for-tv movies. My favourite was the death of Richie. How disappointed was I I thought I was about to watch the movie.
😢I'm sorry, it's just the song from the movie. The movie was available from Netflix DVD service at one time, maybe you could check there. Also I checked and you can rent it on Amazon Prime.
It 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 house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door, y'all, remember to wipe your feet
And then she said, I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Today, Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And papa said to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed peas
Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense; pass the biscuits, please
There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow
And mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And brother said he recollected when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
I'll have another piece-a apple pie; you know, it don't seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And mama said to me, child, what's happened to your appetite?
I've been cookin' all morning, and you haven't touched a single bite
That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge
A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
And brother married Becky Thompson; they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round; papa caught it, and he died last spring
And now mama doesn't seem to want to do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge
There are actually 11 verses to this song that reveal why he jumped. They have never been published. The original version was 7 minutes long and to get it on the radio, they had to cut it to 4 minutes.
@@ukulelelolo2175 But there's a problem : "Billie" is a girl name, it's not "Billy" ! Nobody knows if it was a baby who was thrown by the bridge, it could be an object (like a ring or anything else) and we can't eliminate the possibility that it was a lesbian love too difficult to assume in the 60' years... (sorry for the text : I'm french !)
@@dionys.c Except in the song brother says he talked to HIM at church,HIM at the sawmill,etc.
@@dionys.c it's well established that Billie Joe McAllister was a dude
I used to drive across that bridge late at night taking my girlfriend home in the seventies. That's not the real Tallahatchie Bridge (although it was identical to the real one). They movie couldn't use the real one because it had fallen into the river one night a couple of years before. Something I thought about a lot as I would drive across the one they used in the movie (that went across the Yazoo River). They were both built at exactly the same time and were only about ten miles apart. One nice thing was that the movie crew actually put guard rails on the bridge (it didn't have any before) and when they were done, they thankfully left them there. I had a lot of friends who were extras in that movie (and, one Cindy Turner, who actually got to say a line in it).
Wow, thank you for that info. There is a cool little short program about the making of the movie with Bobbie in it, I think it's on RUclips.
I saw the movie a long time ago....I think. He a liason with another guy...Im probably wrong..
U are right! I watched the movie that's why he killed him self he was with a nother man!
That's when we jump Eddie valen broken Beatles wings Billy Joe Sgt lynne
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