So many judgemental ppl on here. None of us were there. She was honest enough to tell you she was an alcoholic and done drugs and was a mess of a person. I bet most of you that were or are still addicts cant be that honest!!! I beleive her....RIP beautiful. Prayers to her family...😢😢❤
I believe she dreamt that plane crash because her daddy warned her by showing her the crash in the dream . The lord and her daddy had other plans joko had three Devine encounters one with Lynard Skynyrd the next her dreaming the crash and thirdly where she is finally at her true happy . Jojo had a beautiful voice I'm so glad she found herself and was loved. My sincerest condolences to her husband Tim her daughter and son and entire family! Jojo your back in the arms of your daddy , family, friends, & thee heavenly father - 🙏🏻 Amen 🙏🏻♥️🙏🏻
Yeah Jojo thank you for your gentle and generous reminder to me to keep believing every day that I wake up my Higher Power isn't done with me being down here on earth trying on a daily basis to do and learn what he has for me that day so 👍 I say thank you Jojo for your reminder that if I'm lucky 🍀 enough to wake up tomorrow my Higher Power ain't done with me yet and for me to keep on keepin on for the rest of my time down here
so she never had to sing for Ronnie, don’t be fooled because Jo was likely know to be a great singer with music training and choir experience. She has the voice of Skynrd and it was born of God. and the gift of prophecy to boot. oh Sweet Home.
What a Sweet & Joyful Lady with a Beautiful Voice. And a Faithful story of redemption. She didn't go back on the road & OD. She followed redemption until the end & God called her home, young. Rest in Paradise, Deborah Jo Billingsly 🎶 Keep them boys a little in line up there 🤣🎶🙏🕊️✌️
Even when are mad at God, even when we turn our backs on him, God is the only one that will forgive and truly forget. He loves us more than we can ever imagine. So glad she found that out before it was too late !
In addition to being beautiful, she appeared to be a fantastic human being. She's gone too young, just like Billy, Leon, Allen. I don't even speak English, she wanted to understand the stories. :(
In 77 I was 4 and, to this day, in the KISS ARMY. I first heard Freebird because of the wrestling tag team the Freebirds and they came to the ring with that tune. I then saw a live clip and omg, who is that girl?? This young kid SWOOONED over Miss JoJo. I am so happy she wasn't on that flight, but living with losing your friends....I was so sad to hear of this angel's passing, but I hope she found them again...
JOJO was a close friend of mine she told me about the dream she had the night before the plane crashed that killed most her band She said God showed her the plane crashed and them dying in the crash She said she called the band and told them about the dream and said she wasnt getting on it she been warned by God She said got saved her for a reason and she gave her life to God after and became a Rev and preached and sang for God Because God gave her another chance she saved my life with her music and her preaching to me She said she stood on that stage many nights drunk and high singing to 1ks of people she said she wasnt right with God at the time but after the crash it CHANGED HER she gave her life to God and then sang for God I have her last cd i not been able to find it She sent it to me and my mom and signed the cover in her name and the cd is signed Rv i know she didnt give out many of the cds i still not found all the songs on it
In the fall of 1977, I was stationed at a California Air Force Base. I remember being in the TV room watching TV when I heard the news about the crash. One of the Officers I worked with was from McComb Mississippi and later told me about the area of that crash. What I found interesting about this interview was her statement about the inner voice that said wait, don't join the band at Greenville. In the last week of August 2001, I was in management of a large Georgia-based company and had been asked to travel. It was a two-day trip and my return date to Atlanta would have been Sept 11th. I remember getting out of bed on or about the 5th of Sept and a heavy feeling came over me. I asked my boss one of the company VPs if he would go in my place. My boss was on one of the planes that got diverted to Gander, Newfoundland after the FAA closed the US air space. Unless you have had this happen you will never understand how spooky it feels.
According to Gene Odom. Ronnie fired Jo Jo. She kept calling Allen at the hotel begging for her job back. That's why she wasn't on the plane. Her dream in my mind was true but, that's not the reason she didn't get on the plane. Ronnie may have hired her back and said meet us in Baton Rouge. Jo Jo was always a sweetheart. I wonder if her story or Gene's is the correct one. Everything that I have heard from Gene Odom has always been accurate. He didn't smoke,drink, drugs, that's why Ronnie hired him as their head of security. I'm just glad she wasn't on that plane. Gene has said in hindsight that he should have put his foot down with Ronnie and not boarded that plane. Ronnie was the boss and he said if you don't get on the plane you're fired. The Pilots were incompetent at best. They should have never taken off that day without proper maintenance and a full tank of fuel. The plane sat on the tarmac for almost an hour running some type of AUX engine while waiting for Artimus Pyle who lived nearby. So, many factors contributed to that tragic day. The great music we never got to hear. R.I.P. Jo Jo.
Incredible testimony. Same thing happened to me in '84, cried out to The LORD JESUS in motel room & he saved me immediately! I was next to death. Saw them play in '74 in Memphis; Foghat lead off, then them at the football stadium. Rebel flags everywhere, the glorious Rebel yell, BLEW everyone AWAY. Clapton finished the night, everyone just sitting cool because of the BOYS just given a real ole SAW treatment (Southern Ass Whippin'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)---Man OH MAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You Must Be BORN AGAIN to see the kingdom of God said JESUS. John 3.3, 33-34-)--do this now!
they made the movie about the band Queen. Bohemian Rhapsody. huge hit. BUT WHERE IS THE Lynyrd Skynyrd MOVIE? I Believe it would be even a bigger movie. not a documentary but a Hollywood Movie
JoJo was such a sweetheart, glad she was in Skynyrd, she and all the band were just the best, keep Skynyrd alive, get those grown grandkids in Skynyrd all of you!!
Good for you. I remember driving to high school listening to my Lenard Skynyrd 8 track tape and it got eaten in the truck tape player that morning. I get to school and somebody tells me about the plane crash. I was devastated.
Im confused, they were already on the tour because the other two singers were on that tour. One them didnt want two fly on that POS plane and ronnie bullied Steve's sister and said, get on the damn plane or your fired. When it's your time to go, its your time. A couple days later the plane crashed and she was one of them killed. I
Why do these guys always ask how a death "affected you". I have yet to see some one say they were happy. I think some people just like to hear themselves talk.
Who knows the actual truth, but according to Gene Odom, Ronnies best friend he claimed she was fired by Ronnie, not just waited out the flight. He told everybody to either get on the plane or get fired, she had been fired a couple days before. But who knows?
Gene is right, Ronnie fired her for screwing around with collins, a married man. Ronnie was a friend of his wife and wanted it to end. She was never going to be on that flight.
JoJo was fired by Ronnie for her conduct involving a band mate and her behavior drunken soundtracks amongst other things she says she was going to meet them in Little Rock they weren’t going to Little Rock they were going to Baton Rouge from Greensville South Carolina and I could say more but I will not RIP JoJo
@@edwardhenry3158 - Never heard of this person before, but I don't buy it. Don't buy the dream or getting hired with not singing. A dream 2 night before the plane crash. SMH.
I have to ask, if it was "god" telling her in a dream, then did "god" DOOM Ronnie Van Zandt, Stevie Gaines and Cassie Gaines and ALLOW the others to suffer horrific injuries?? Why would any "god" do that? Why did her "god" LET this happen? RVZ and the others had great careers and lives ahead of them, and he just had a baby daughter. WHY would anyone's "god" do that?
R.I.P. JOJO and to all the other beautiful souls we lost in Skynyrd. They live on forever.
Rip gary
I did not know JoJo passed until now. God bless her soul
@@mjsmcd RIP CASSIE AND STEVE....!!!!
She seems impossibly sweet. An angel.
Ironic, Jo Jo was screwing around with a married man, Allen Collins and gets fired by Ronnie. This saved her life. I am glad she found Jesus.
So many judgemental ppl on here. None of us were there. She was honest enough to tell you she was an alcoholic and done drugs and was a mess of a person. I bet most of you that were or are still addicts cant be that honest!!! I beleive her....RIP beautiful. Prayers to her family...😢😢❤
@susierae1190 JoJo was a awesome woman I knew her right before she passed she became a Rev
We will always Love you JoJo. Thanks for the All the Love . my the Lord hold you near.......
I believe she dreamt that plane crash because her daddy warned her by showing her the crash in the dream . The lord and her daddy had other plans joko had three Devine encounters one with Lynard Skynyrd the next her dreaming the crash and thirdly where she is finally at her true happy . Jojo had a beautiful voice I'm so glad she found herself and was loved. My sincerest condolences to her husband Tim her daughter and son and entire family! Jojo your back in the arms of your daddy , family, friends, & thee heavenly father - 🙏🏻 Amen 🙏🏻♥️🙏🏻
@kellyhiggins4234 She did have the dream she told me all about it and how it saved her life and she then started singing for God
How awesome, thank you JoJo for your testimony, God is so good!
Yeah Jojo thank you for your gentle and generous reminder to me to keep believing every day that I wake up my Higher Power isn't done with me being down here on earth trying on a daily basis to do and learn what he has for me that day so 👍 I say thank you Jojo for your reminder that if I'm lucky 🍀 enough to wake up tomorrow my Higher Power ain't done with me yet and for me to keep on keepin on for the rest of my time down here
yep i needed that too. thank you JoJo rip .
Leslie and Cassy were pretty...JoJo was sexy back in the 70's.
Loved JoJo and her beautiful voice.
I don’t care what anyone else says ever , lynyrd skynrd was the best band in the world ever , ever ever !
I agree !!!! Definitely
Thank you
I agree on top of the best live band to ever play
Along with the Allman Bros, there were no better bands than Skynyrd and the ABB…hands down!
You misspelled Gorillaz, but yes.
so she never had to sing for Ronnie, don’t be fooled because Jo was likely know to be a great singer with music training and choir experience. She has the voice of Skynrd and it was born of God. and the gift of prophecy to boot. oh Sweet Home.
@deangray9552 She does a song called Sweet home heaven
RIP!!! JoJo see you in heaven one day!!!
I hope not
I can't imagine her trauma of finding out about the plane crash...
@onazram1 She had a dream about it before it happened I heard the story straight from her.
@@BarbaraCorley Yes I know she did. it's no secret..
Can’t wait to meet you someday in Heaven Miss Jo Jo.
She was hot as hell when she was younger💞She grew to be a beautiful woman 🙏🏻Rip jojo🙏🏻🙌🏻
Imagine 350,000 people that must of been loud
Deborah Jo Billingsley (May 28, 1952 - June 24, 2010)
God Bless you Jo Jo Billingsley. 🙏
BEAUTIFUL LADY INSIDE AND OUT.
What a Sweet & Joyful Lady with a Beautiful Voice. And a Faithful story of redemption. She didn't go back on the road & OD. She followed redemption until the end & God called her home, young. Rest in Paradise, Deborah Jo Billingsly 🎶 Keep them boys a little in line up there 🤣🎶🙏🕊️✌️
Amen, God's love can lift your life, and change everything 🙏
Even when are mad at God, even when we turn our backs on him, God is the only one that will forgive and truly forget. He loves us more than we can ever imagine. So glad she found that out before it was too late !
God is loving and never punishing that is Religion!
RIP JoJo!❤️
Amen Jo Jo! God is amazing!!
In addition to being beautiful, she appeared to be a fantastic human being. She's gone too young, just like Billy, Leon, Allen. I don't even speak English, she wanted to understand the stories. :(
I love me some Honkettes
Gone but never forgotten Jojo. We love and miss you.🎶💟🎶
love her, RIP Jo Jo 💕
We will love you always JOJO , Rest in Peace 💔💔💔🤟🤟🤟
What a beautiful spirit
Second time watching this. Second time crying like a baby. Quite a lady.
In 77 I was 4 and, to this day, in the KISS ARMY. I first heard Freebird because of the wrestling tag team the Freebirds and they came to the ring with that tune. I then saw a live clip and omg, who is that girl?? This young kid SWOOONED over Miss JoJo. I am so happy she wasn't on that flight, but living with losing your friends....I was so sad to hear of this angel's passing, but I hope she found them again...
Those must have been some good drugs Jo-Jo.
JOJO was a close friend of mine she told me about the dream she had the night before the plane crashed that killed most her band She said God showed her the plane crashed and them dying in the crash She said she called the band and told them about the dream and said she wasnt getting on it she been warned by God She said got saved her for a reason and she gave her life to God after and became a Rev and preached and sang for God Because God gave her another chance she saved my life with her music and her preaching to me She said she stood on that stage many nights drunk and high singing to 1ks of people she said she wasnt right with God at the time but after the crash it CHANGED HER she gave her life to God and then sang for God I have her last cd i not been able to find it She sent it to me and my mom and signed the cover in her name and the cd is signed Rv i know she didnt give out many of the cds i still not found all the songs on it
Another spiritual miracle survivor & reminder of the Importance of faith...
A sad story still she was lucky
Sending Positive Thoughts and Loving Prayers to all of JoJo's Loved Ones 🕊
Rest in peace , JOJO.
RIP Pretty Lady
In the fall of 1977, I was stationed at a California Air Force Base. I remember being in the TV room watching TV when I heard the news about the crash. One of the Officers I worked with was from McComb Mississippi and later told me about the area of that crash. What I found interesting about this interview was her statement about the inner voice that said wait, don't join the band at Greenville. In the last week of August 2001, I was in management of a large Georgia-based company and had been asked to travel. It was a two-day trip and my return date to Atlanta would have been Sept 11th. I remember getting out of bed on or about the 5th of Sept and a heavy feeling came over me. I asked my boss one of the company VPs if he would go in my place. My boss was on one of the planes that got diverted to Gander, Newfoundland after the FAA closed the US air space. Unless you have had this happen you will never understand how spooky it feels.
Amazing Story I'm glad you found your way home 🙏🏻❤
Bless your ❤ God is so Good! 🙏❤🙏
Praise God🙏🏼
I get dreams like that sometimes. It is very humbling.
Jojo is so cute.....
Jo Jo had a beautiful voice and great commanding stage presence.
According to Gene Odom. Ronnie fired Jo Jo. She kept calling Allen at the hotel begging for her job back. That's why she wasn't on the plane. Her dream in my mind was true but, that's not the reason she didn't get on the plane. Ronnie may have hired her back and said meet us in Baton Rouge. Jo Jo was always a sweetheart. I wonder if her story or Gene's is the correct one. Everything that I have heard from Gene Odom has always been accurate. He didn't smoke,drink, drugs, that's why Ronnie hired him as their head of security. I'm just glad she wasn't on that plane. Gene has said in hindsight that he should have put his foot down with Ronnie and not boarded that plane. Ronnie was the boss and he said if you don't get on the plane you're fired. The Pilots were incompetent at best. They should have never taken off that day without proper maintenance and a full tank of fuel. The plane sat on the tarmac for almost an hour running some type of AUX engine while waiting for Artimus Pyle who lived nearby. So, many factors contributed to that tragic day. The great music we never got to hear. R.I.P. Jo Jo.
I wish I could have met you ur so awesome
beautiful
I miss you so much my dear friend.
Thank you, LORD!
Hallelujah! Amen
Michael55620 -Life is an empty stretch and man is an empty vessel, without Jesus Christ. Nothing in this satan's kingdom can fill the void!
The Lord Jesus Christ our savior!
@@Michael55620 G-D is ONE...
@@nasdaqua No, not pizsa rules.
Incredible testimony. Same thing happened to me in '84, cried out to The LORD JESUS in motel room & he saved me immediately! I was next to death. Saw them play in '74 in Memphis; Foghat lead off, then them at the football stadium. Rebel flags everywhere, the glorious Rebel yell, BLEW everyone AWAY. Clapton finished the night, everyone just sitting cool because of the BOYS just given a real ole SAW treatment (Southern Ass Whippin'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)---Man OH MAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You Must Be BORN AGAIN to see the kingdom of God said JESUS. John 3.3, 33-34-)--do this now!
they made the movie about the band Queen. Bohemian Rhapsody. huge hit. BUT WHERE IS THE Lynyrd Skynyrd MOVIE? I Believe it would be even a bigger movie. not a documentary but a Hollywood Movie
JoJo's story is the kind of Story rock and roll is full of right up to the time of this interview, if you pay attention to enough interviews
Unless you see old videos of Lynnard Skynard you don't appreciate the backup singers had their album in the 70s
❤❤❤❤❤❤
JoJo was such a sweetheart, glad she was in Skynyrd, she and all the band were just the best, keep Skynyrd alive, get those grown grandkids in Skynyrd all of you!!
"I died for you". Amen.
Damn, does this lady seem genuine or what?
Thanks Jojo!! Your voice is legendary! Your soul was pure!! God Bless !
What’s the story with her being beaten by some crazy person backstage?
BEAUTIDA FUL JO JO. WENT DOWN THE SAME PATH WHEN MY DAD UNEXPECTEDLY PASSED. WE MADE IT GIRL. RIH YOU AND YOUR BUDDIES PLAY IT LOUD IN HEAVEN
I love 💕 watching this r i p. Jo jo
You got saved ! Amen Sister !
Awesome testimony for Jesus
Joe joe I went through the same thing but it was my mom instead
Gene Odom says this woman is a liar
And I'm thinking that when her time amongst us has passed she'll be looking down at us and humming sweet home is waiting for us to
She died many years ago of cancer.
Jeffrey Denis Lingle states that they are Engaged in 2022
"Why did that happen?" You have eyes do you not fools???
RIP Jojo
Good for you. I remember driving to high school listening to my Lenard Skynyrd 8 track tape and it got eaten in the truck tape player that morning. I get to school and somebody tells me about the plane crash. I was devastated.
The interviewer creeps me out, you can tell he thinks anyone who ever smoked a joint is Satan himself
Im confused, they were already on the tour because the other two singers were on that tour. One them didnt want two fly on that POS plane and ronnie bullied Steve's sister and said, get on the damn plane or your fired. When it's your time to go, its your time. A couple days later the plane crashed and she was one of them killed. I
I love this band tragedy when plane took them from us but the music lives on !
What a great story.
Why do these guys always ask how a death "affected you". I have yet to see some one say they were happy. I think some people just like to hear themselves talk.
I love you Ms. JoJo
This was her side of the story, there is another one. But none of it really matters now, God rest her soul.
❤️
Fame & fortune no good without sobriety & faith
Who knows the actual truth, but according to Gene Odom, Ronnies best friend he claimed she was fired by Ronnie, not just waited out the flight. He told everybody to either get on the plane or get fired, she had been fired a couple days before. But who knows?
Gene is right, Ronnie fired her for screwing around with collins, a married man. Ronnie was a friend of his wife and wanted it to end. She was never going to be on that flight.
AMEN
When did her account of her dream go public?
Where do they come up with these interviewers ?
Dang I heard Skynyrd when she sang at the end..
SHE WAS NOT IN PLANE CRASH.....!!!!!
True, she wasn't. But she did die in 2010.
I wonder if Jo Jo is mad a Ronnie for making all those folks get on that plane? I know I am.
💙🦅💔
Is she still living
@James Davis. No. She died from cancer in 2010.
She is telling a completely different story than what Ronnie's best friend and head of security said happened.
She still looks stoned as hell.
JoJo was fired by Ronnie for her conduct involving a band mate and her behavior drunken soundtracks amongst other things she says she was going to meet them in Little Rock they weren’t going to Little Rock they were going to Baton Rouge from Greensville South Carolina and I could say more but I will not RIP JoJo
“Completely different stories” seems to be the one constant in the saga of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
@@edwardhenry3158 - Never heard of this person before, but I don't buy it. Don't buy the dream or getting hired with not singing. A dream 2 night before the plane crash. SMH.
It was the 70s. Sometimes things got blurry.
She's not telling the truth. She wasn't on the plane because she was fired. Everyone that watches the interviews of other members knows that.
Fake news... Laura Jo Is alive.
These simple southern folk and their God delusions....wow. Whatever, at least she found peace later in life, or so she says.
350... thousand.... skynyrd was the best.
I have to ask, if it was "god" telling her in a dream, then did "god" DOOM Ronnie Van Zandt, Stevie Gaines and Cassie Gaines and ALLOW the others to suffer horrific injuries?? Why would any "god" do that? Why did her "god" LET this happen? RVZ and the others had great careers and lives ahead of them, and he just had a baby daughter. WHY would anyone's "god" do that?