FIRST TIME REACTION To Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billy Joe
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- FIRST TIME REACTION To Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billy Joe
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a great song about unconcious cruelty. none of them realized he and the daughter were in a relationship while they just talked crap about him and his death like he was nothing.
She was also raised by her grandmama, who sold their milk cow to buy a piano for Bobbie, who taught herself to play (and then went on to learn multiple instruments). Bobbie Gentry also wrote and performed the original of "Fancy" (later covered by Reba McIntyre). The song style is called Southern Gothic (how dark the song is). Also Bobbie stated that what they threw off the bridge was never the point of the song... it was how her family just casually tossed out the news that a neighbor boy took his own life and never noticed she was devastated.
Bobbie Gentry lies in an area where country meets the blues.
I think it fits more into the folk category. which is close to blues and country . lines get blurred
it is southern gothic
Bobbie was absolutely fearless. She will throw God in your face and not look back. "Don't be like this, no matter your excuse" was her mantra.
the song is about how numb we have become to death and it seems like it just a matter of fact.. no one realise the Girl in the Song is upset that her secret Boyfriend has died....
Her delivery of this story is phenomenal. Great reaction
I remember when it released in 1967. I was in the back of my fathers 1963 Chevrolet station wagon (3-speed on the column) as he drove us to boys club football practice when the song completely removed me from my surroundings as it played on the car radio. Funny the things you remember. Ode to Billy Joe found air play across multiple genres, Rythym and Blues, Country, and Rock-N-Roll. It only took 5 weeks to chart to the top of The Billboards Pop Single Chart. The song was nominated for 8 Grammys and took 3 between Bobby Gentry and arranger Jimmie Haskell. Ode To Billy Joe made The Rolling Stones list ""500 Greatest Songs Of All Time". I never grow tired of listening to it, 57 years later and counting! Great reaction, TY.
So I felt led to tell you this story, I spent hours preparing a Bible lesson for a Wednesday night service years ago, and I only had three people show up. I had prepared a power point presentation and hauled the projector out and everything. I was so discouraged. I felt like quitting, but I have been in ministry now for 20 years. I still feel discouraged, but God has been faithful to build His kingdom.
I know it's difficult when people don't flock to truth, but will listen to a reaction like this. But keep going, it is after all for His Fame, not yours. God bless
I remember as a young teenager my Dad was in love with her. He thought she was so pretty ❣️❣️❣️
Miss You Dad 🤗
This was a classic when I was growing up....Takes me back.
It's about a suicide(Billy Joe) and about the callous insensitivity of the family gathered around the dinner table talking about it and not noticing how deeply the teenage girl(the narrator/singer) is suffering from the shocking news of Billy Joe's suicide and her family's casual discussion of it.
Lots of folks want to guess it was an newborn baby------- but that doesn't make as much sense as other things.
*HERE ARE MY REASONS: 1)AS THIS CHANNEL SUPPORTS, THE FAMILY'S VERY SOUTHERN TRADITIONAL RELIGOUS & "MOMMA" WOULD HAVE KNOWN IF SHE HAD BEEN PREGNANT!!!!!* 2) I got the impression that they were VERY SECRET as being Boyfriend-Girlfriend, early courtship stages "others" would have known if he was porking her. 3) No all-the-way relationship in a Baptist or Methodist family in Mississippi in the 1960s without Daddy planning to have a shotgun wedding if they did it..
Southern Gothic.
Haunting.
A great one by the beautiful Ms. Bobbie Gentry!
This song was released in 1967. Max Baer Jr. who played Jethro on The Beverley Hillbillies directed and produced a movie about the song that was released in 1976. The song also resurfaced in 1976 and became a hit again around the time the movie came out. I remember having to go with my sister to watch that movie in the Summer of 1976 at the local Drive-In theater that has long been shut down. You neeed to watch the movie. It has the same name as the song.
I remember the movie; and in my humble opinion the problem with the movie, and possibly why it was mostly panned by the critics, is that the movie moved into the arena of conjecture, and wild conjecture at that, suggesting a sexual encounter with his boss when he was drunk pushed him to that extreme. Bobbi Gentry, when asked by people why he committed suicide, and what they threw off the bridge never answered the question. I can appreciate the curiosity people have, but the point of the song is the unconscious cruelty of the family is their casual conversation of a young man that meant a great deal to the girl (narrator); and really, how overlooked she was by the entire family, except perhaps by the mother whose only seeming aspiration for her daughter is that she get married, and with no higher aspiration of a match than "that nice young preacher, Brother Taylor," who she invited over for dinner. I would love to see this movie remade, with no hint of a conjecture as to Billy Joe's suicide, or what they threw off the bridge (which was a doll in the movie). They should explore the thematics of unconscious cruelty, and the low, yet unreasonable expectations placed on young girls at that time (an even now). This is not a tight knit family, as is made obvious by the fact that the father dies, and the brother, rather than taking over the farm and look after his mother and younger sister, indeed felt no obligation to do so (there had to be over 40 acres of land, given the line mentioning 5 acres in the lower 40 that still had to be plowed). One could speculate that the relationship between father and son was filled with angst; that the son may, like Paul Newman's character in "Hud", have been ambitious, and self-centered; but whose ambitions go him no further than two counties removed from the farm where he was raised, and being the proprietor of a little country store, and perhaps after being forced to marry a girl he got pregnant; and all the while his sister, the best of all of them, is ignored and subjected to their ignorance, and thoughtlessness. All that silliness of Bobbi Lee leaving town because of a rumor that she was impregnated by Billy Joe, because she wanted to protect his reputation, to keep the truth of his sexual encounter with a man from coming out, could simply be because: her father is dead; her self-centered brother abandoned the farm, and his mother and sister, and her mother has lost the will to live, and she leaves town to seek her own fortune. We do not need to know why Billy Joe killed himself, or what they threw of the Tallahatchie Bridge, and we do not need to see her become famed singer-song writer, Bobbi Gentry. Now, that would be an amazing story, and much more reflective of the genre of Southern Gothic. Well, that's how I see it in my, as it turns out . . . not so humble opinion.
That’s Southern Gothic
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Great song Great singer Great reaction
The song was made into a movie about Billy joe jumping off the bridge
it's country pop that crossover into the pop charts no. 1 i think this song is about billy joe committing suicide jumping off the bridge there's a movie about this song !
My grandma always yelled out, "I ain't feedin' the flies!"
There's a movie with the same title as the song. Glynnis O'Connor, and Robbie Benson are the main actors.
Bobby Gentry was definitely a country singer and that was definitely a country song. Captions on the video even mentioned that she was one of the first country singers to write and produce her own material. And Bobby, in countless interviews, said the point of the song was that the girl's family was being unintentionally cruel, eating dinner and making thoughtless comments about Billy Joe without realizing that she was his girlfriend and was crushed by his death. The song became so popular that the story was told in a movie three years later.
To me it's about how people separate themselves from others pain.. and life goes on..
It’s more folk, than country
Why would he commit suicide? either she could have been pregnant, or he may have been a different race, and they loved each other. I would think it would be a lot worse than race. most likely she would have been pregnant. When I was 16 I got preg by a native American man who I loved. my parents drove me to another state to have the baby, and they set up adoption papers, I was so shocked, so devastated I almost didn't survive. They didn't want their reputation tarnished. My baby found me after he grew up. I was so happy.
YOU'RE DOING GOOD brother and sister. But, dive deep very deep into this time..........
You should react to Van Morrison "Tupelo Honey"
i would comment but i don't know what to say. You tube bans my comments all the time. Thank for this video. Brought back a lot of memories.
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Oh that is country.
Gentry quit performing in the early 80's and just disappeared from public life. If you Google her it seems no one even knows where she lives.
Haper Vally PTA.. another great..From Bobby Gentry
The one who made Harper Valley PTA famous was Jeannie C. Riley
Ode To Billy Joe is a true story that happened to a black 13 year old. Billy Joe is based on that teenage boy. Billy Joe is based on Emmett Til
No, it's not; where'd you get that??
It’s based on a black boy who was visiting relatives and he got himself into trouble with a joke back when everyone was segregated
Y'all 'bout to have y'all's hair blown ALL THE WAY BACK. HOLD THE EFF ON.
I think they were throwing they're baby off the bridge
That’s a popular guess, but it doesn’t make sense. The woman works all day every day, chopping cotton and baling hay. No way could she do that while pregnant, have a baby, and recover without her family knowing.
I think they were hiding a pregnancy. She had an early stillbirth & they both threw it in the river. Billy Joe couldn't live with it & later jumped.
There was no cruelty here. The times that this song is set in didn't afford them the opportunity to have a nervous breakdown about it and sit and grieve for months.
Their daily survival depended on their chores.
Papa thought he was a silly kid who probably did something ignorant, mama was sad,who knows what the daughters relationship with him was and brother recounted genuine fond memories of him.
It always seemed to me like she answered the question of what was thrown off the bridge at the end of the song.
But Bobbie Gentry brought up the unconscious cruelty thing herself and it stuck.
It was a different time. People like that didn't have the luxury of falling apart about it.
It is most certainly about unconscious cruelty. Bobby Gentry described the song this way.
@@marionotto4902 Yeah, I mentioned that in my comment.
@Shabenn she wrote the song, so I think she knew what she meant. When you say "it stuck," it suggests that the song's meaning is derived from popular opinion. Your comment is mansplaining the meaning of the song to the songwriter.
@@marionotto4902 Mansplaining? You are truly funny! I'm not one of your trans friends.
It did stick, it's all you know about it. I pay attention to how they lived and what kind of people they were. None of them said anything particularly cruel, even the father who, like I said before, probably thought the kid did some kid like dumb thing and got himself k*lied.
In reality, it isn't that big a deal. I just see it from a different perspective.
@Shabenn who are you talking about? You pay attention to what exactly? It's a song written by Ms. Gentry. You couldn't know the people she was singing about. I know you're not my trans friend, you're my incel friend.