BOBBIE GENTRY - Ode to Billie Joe (REACTION!!!)
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Her family and mine went to the same church in the Atlanta community in chickasaw county mississippi. Some of the best folks youd ever meet. Her grandmother maude streeter gave me a crystal dish for Christmas 42 years ago when i was 15. It still sits on my coffee table after all these years. Love the reaction!
Wow! That is truly amazing! Do you remember the name of the church, or if Bobbie ever sang in the church choir or sang solos there?
@@johnbattles1002 yes, i remember the name of the church. Its pleasant grove baptist church. Its located in the atlanta community like i said but i believe that its address is probably listed as woodland Mississippi. Both of our families are buried in the cemetery there. And i dont know about her singing in that church. She had moved away long before i moved there.
@@tammylester1387 , thank you! God bless you and have a great evening!
@@johnbattles1002 aw...youre very welcome. God bless you too.
It was a true story.
In America we call this “southern gothic”. This song is a perfect flawless diamond. It’s the most atmospheric song I’ve ever heard. You don’t have to visit the American south because this song captures the total feeling of that area and it’s unique dark mysterious culture.
Beautiful southern woman with a beautiful voice to match.
Most Beautiful song really is a haunting song love Bobbie Gentry
One of the best records of all time. Love you
She is magically beautiful woman
From what I understand, the song is not based on any specific person or events. Bobby is just so good with her storytelling that it sounds believable.
notice that the only times she smiles in this whole song is when she "remembers when Billy Joe put a frog down my back" - -an amazing talent - just a girl & guitar!!! A true BARD!!!!
you are literally the only person who seems to have noticed that...
I can see and hear and smell that dinner table. I grew up in a place much like this….. it just feels so strangely familiar. One of my all time favorites🐝🤗❤️
Likewise for me! I'm Georgia born and bred from the 50's & 60's! I can just smell and taste those biscuits!
@@johnbattles1002 Yes, and the way the sunlight was so soft and hazy coming through the window.🐝🤗❤️
Yep... South Carolina too.
I love how Gentry shows restraint and lets the story slip out bit by bit. Anticipation builds and builds. And the end is just so sad.
Don't apologize for not hearing this before. I was already here on earth when Bobbie dropped this amazing ballad into history. I'm just happy that you found it and enjoy it. Great reaction !
Bobbie truly wrote a masterpiece. It is timeless, as iconic today as when it was released in the 60’s. And her voice is one of a kind. I’m also a Mississippi girl and I have to say she did us proud! ♥️
Excellent analysis. I was 16 years old in 1968. Never dreamed this would still give me chills in 2023.
She wrote it, she sang it, and she finger picked that parlor guitar live during this performance. And with no apologies, she was beautiful too. She pretty much left show biz on her own terms. A smart lady who probably didn't want to play the game.
Yeah, and apparently she's been very smart with her finances, she's worth about $100 million.
Bobby Gentry is an American singer-songwriter who was one of the first female artists to compose & produce her own material. A lot of her songs were stories. Her biggest hit was in 1967 with "Ode To Billy Joe". Other songs are "Mississippi Delta", "Fancy", "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head", "I'll Never Fall In Love Again", "Sunday Mornin" (with Glen Campbell) etc.
One of the most brilliant narrative songs ever written... Bobbie had a cold when she sang this, you can probably hear it in her voice
In the sixties we heard music on our radios, at home and in the car. This song had massive airplay. The songs story was so very easy to see in your minds eye. As you said haunting, so so haunting. Another haunting and beautifully written songs is Gordon Lightfoot's Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Colin Pate - I never cease to be amazed by the number of people on here who toss in Gordon's "Wreck......" into random comments like you did. Been a fan of his forever! Love to hear the reactions to his stories.
@@pageribe2399 I have loved Gordon Lightfoot’s music as long as I can remember! When I was 16 I attended my first concert.. you guessed it, Gordon Lightfoot~ Amazing!
This one had a story line that was so good in 1976 a movie by the same name was released
I remember! Robby Benson played Billy Jo McAllister and he jumped because he was molested by a coach. Such a sad song and movie but she is fantastic!!
She had this song out in the late 60’s. This amazing song still sounds wonderful today
♥ Hit like before the music started because I know you're going to love this!! Bobbie really paints a picture with her lyrics.
So glad I grew up with the wonderful music of the 60's~~ I love your reactions!
You did a reaction a while back to Reba McIntyres song Fancy, Bobby Gentry also wrote that song and had a #1 hit. She stopped performing, and started producing. Another golden voice did the same thing. Gary Pucket of the Union Gap also went into producing. You should check them out, soon, oh what a voice he had/has. Gary Pucket and the Union Gap. Young Girl, Woman, really anything he did was gold.
You beat me to it. ,😁 I was wondering what he'd/ you'd think about Fancy actually being Bobbie Jo song. Now you gotta try to find her Fancy & see what you think !
Love, love, LOVVVE Gary Puckett and The Union Gap!!!
You definitely need to react to "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" That is another one that is just incredible!!
I have had a crush on Bobbie Gentry since I can remember. Son of a preacher man is a great song to react to.
LOVVVVE "Son of a Preacher Man"!!
Yes!
Sometimes the automatic subtitles are just hilarious - like in this song "Papa said to Mama as he passed around the black guy in peace". That gives this great song quite a different meaning I'd say.
I just watched a video about “The Ohio State Martian Band.” They looked remarkably human.
The entire composition is incredible. The instrumentation is perfect. The walk downs with the cellos is amazing.
LOVE this.. Bobbie has said over the years that the song was really about the casual dismissal (my words, not hers) - where people just sit around the table and "pass the biscuits, please.. too bad about that kid..."... thanks for your reaction!
She is special, one of the first women to compose and produce her own music.
Loved your reaction! The song “Fancy” was written and recorded by Bobby Gentry.
Just as I was to type that she has a hauntingly beautiful voice you nailed it.
Such a unique voice that pulls you in and makes you listen to each word.
This came out when I was 14 and even then I knew it was a masterpiece.
Thanks. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
You would love the song, Harper Valley, PTA by Jeannie C. Riley. Similar vibe.
That song has been a favorite of mine for so many years, like from the first time I heard it in the early 70's as a little kid.. There was actually a short lived TV show based on it.
The bridge mentioned in the song soon became an attraction and many attempted to jump from it. However, no casualties were ever reported since the bridge was only 6 meters high. The bridge collapsed in 1972 but was later rebuilt.
I have always really liked this song..so mysterious and captivating and she is such a good story writer/singer. Until I read the reviews I didn't know Bobbie had written several of my favorite songs. So cool! Thank you for reacting to this.
I remember hearing this song on the car radio on my way to school when I was 5 or 6 and it's still a favorite for Mr, thx for playing...♡
Incredible story telling. You can picture them all talking around the table. Lay back country folk.
Every 3rd of June I play this. Isn’t she amazing!
She is telling the background story of many of us in the south then.
What I always liked about this song was that it gave you broad outline of a story and left it to your own mind to flesh it out.
A great tale that evokes the Southern culture of the day.
This song became a huge hit when it came out. It was so popular and mysterious they made a movie about it!
Masterpiece
I've been listening to this song since she first put it out. Still gives me chills. So glad you like it so much. Hauntingly beautiful
Totally agree with your reaction! I could listen to her all day long😀
They actually made a movie in the mid 70's based on the song that is one of my favorite movies.
she is a great storyteller. You feel like you're sitting at the table with them. You can almost smell and taste the food.
An epic song. It's timeless.
Loved since I was young
Such a storyteller, its how people just gossiped and when on their life if someone died. What do you think they threw off THE bridge.
In the movie,the item dropped off the bridge was a doll that belonged to the girl. She and Billy were arguing and the doll got dropped by accident.
Keep in mind that this was live. The studio version is very close. I remember this from my childhood and have a very cherished vinyl album from the 60's with Bobby Gentry and Glen Campbell which is an outstanding album. I thought the BBC violins/cellos were outstanding - they really knew how to arrange so that it sounds very close to the recorded version.
She also wrote a song called Fancy. You should listen to that one too. Reba Macintyre also recorded Fancy.
He reacted to Reba's version.
what a nice reaction you had to this song that has given me chills since it first came out.
Hello from Georgia!! This song was so popular when I was a little girl. Thank you for your reaction to this. I enjoy ALL your reactions. You are so genuine and heart warming. Have a great day ..from south of Atlanta Georgia!!
Haunting is the right word! Will always be remembered for this song!
She wrote Fancy. Reba did a cover of it. Bobbie is a great writer.
Bobby was more famous for her amazing song writing than she was for singing. She wrote so many great songs for other artists to record. Several were #1 hits. The big debate that this song caused, was what did her and Billy Joe throw off of that bridge. Many say it was a baby.
It was unquestionably a baby. Literally nothing else fits within the words of the song and the culture of the time.
Either stillborn, or more likely (due to Billie Joe committing suicide out of guilt), an abortion or a botched birth due to teenage ignorance or neglect.
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter Yes, the debate began the day the song was released and continues; however, whatever it was was no more important than the Carroll County picture show, the sawmill, or chopping cotton. The point of the song was how crass her family acted concerning a tragedy involving someone they all knew. Whatever was thrown seems important, but it isn't. It's a MacGuffin.
@@dchall8 Actually, you're incorrect.
The whole story is what was thrown, a deceased baby. And the fact that she can't talk about her deceased child, or his father, and the fact that she knows perfectly well why his father Billie Joe has committed suicide. She just has to sit there and be silent with what she knows...and take it. And pretend to eat. Which, according to the song, her perceptive mother notices she is failing at...not having eaten a bite.
And contrary to what some people think, it is not at all about the alleged, but nonexistent "family crassness or unconcern" about either her or her secret boyfriend.
Families, particularly fathers, talk about teenage boys like this all the time. Particularly ones they don't directly know, but do know of in general, but don't have a high opinion of. They don't even have to hate them. All it takes is just to know of some infraction or another, or failure of some sort, by the hapless young man, or if he has a sense of humor or something, and played a prank or something, and the father will automatically talk trash about him. And it wouldn't matter if he did just commit suicide.
Billie Joe was known for pranks...as was the man's own son, as helpfully referenced in the song. That should have been a clue, as to the cause of the fathers casual contempt. The clue is that he probably pranked other people as well. And that is why the father said he didn't have "a lick of sense". That is PRECISELY how a father of that day would refer to a young man who was known to have a gonzo sense of humor. I pick up on these clues, other people, not so much apparently.
That's the story in a nutshell. It's so utterly simple. It's embarrassing that some modern people, who are naive and culturally removed from the culture this song is written about, and who besides, don't have any independent, critical thinking skills, cannot automatically perceive the story. I automatically knew what this song was all about when I was a teenager. And so did everyone else at the time.
Some people here think I'm getting "wound up about it", but it is just the contempt I have for people who are incapable of thinking their way out of a brown paper bag. I feel like someone who is having to explain a Dick and Jane, and Spot the Dog book to someone. This story is of course more complicated than that, but it's not mysterious, nor a story with a hidden meaning or anything. The listener has a birds eye view of all the details of the story, necessary to understand it. And no movie is necessary to understand it further. And unfortunately the movie that was made, was a purely invented farce. It was not the story of the song at all. There was no rag doll, and Billie Joe did not have a gay experience. The producer of the movie was gay, and he wrote himself into the story, that's all there was to that. Geez people! Get a BRAIN! And THINK with it! Don't just use it to prop out the inside of your skull! Use your brain!
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter I was more or less going off of what Bobbie Gentry has been saying, unwaveringly, for over 50 years. But it's okay for you to know more than the author.
@@dchall8 1) Simply saying "muh Gentry said this and muh movie said that" is not an argument. It is mental laziness!
2) Gentry was trying to avoid the appearance of being difficult, by disagreeing with the absurd false interpretation of the movie. She wanted more movie deals for her songs. She ultimately didn't get them, but she wanted them.
3) Songwriters frequently (and inexplicably to me) often state that they don't know what their songs are about.
This is not uncommon. Many of them write from their subconscious or unconscious mind rather from their conscious mind. And while this may make their songs more creative sometimes, it literally keeps them from actually understanding their own song consciously. In these cases, I've noticed that their conscious interpretation of their song is poorly constructed logically, or is illogical, or is utterly impossible.
This is the case here, if, in the unlikely event, Gentry were actually NOT looking for additional movie deals. Which I am 100 percent certain that she was.
So, in conclusion. In point #2 above, I don't know more about her song than she does. But she is lying to her fans to this day about the song. And knows it.
In point #3, she's not lying to the fans, but she is deeply incorrect. And in this scenario, in fact, I and millions of her fans do literally, in fact, know more about her song than she does.
At the end of the day, it is a deceased baby. It is centrally important, and is in point of fact the pivotal fact of the entire song. And the movie, in every way that it contradicts the song, is a retconned lie, after the fact, of the song.
Gentry is lying, or she is wrong! It wouldn't be the first time that a music industry person lied to the fans, or was wrong, and it won't be the last.
I remember it well when it came out. It was BIG! Bobbie Gentry was BIG! Everybody heard this song.
Love that song! Great reaction friend ❤ Thanks
Back when this song came out in 1967 there were huge debates over what it was that she and Billy Joe were throwing off the bridge. The general consensus was that it was a baby and Billy Joe was so full of remorse that he took his own life on the same site. When Bobbie Gentry was asked what it was she would never tell. She said to just interpret it however you wanted to interpret it. She also wrote and was the first person to record Fancy that was recorded much later by Reba McEntyre. You are correct that her song writing is nearly flawless.
It was unquestionably a baby. Literally nothing else fits within the words of the song and the culture of the time.
Either stillborn, or more likely (due to Billie Joe committing suicide out of guilt), an abortion or a botched birth due to teenage ignorance or neglect.
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter unquestionably a rag doll.
@@bobbimccain2385 No it emphatically is not a rag doll, you Gentry/Jethro Bodine sycophant!
Prove it's a rag doll "from the song", or concede.
And furthermore if you are so out of touch with human psychology that you actually think there's a SINGLE male, even a gay one, on the planet who would throw himself off a bridge because he helped a girl drown her doll, or even feel a single moment of remorse...you are stark raving mad!!
And furthermore, no guy would jointly hold onto a DOLL to throw it in the water, unless it was part of a joke, in the first place. You don't know humans very well, do you. And that's a statement, not a question. You're just another of those mindless Gentry sycophants who can't think on their own, and therefore make me sick!
Love this song even though I have heard it over 100 times It still sounds amazing
Great song .
She wrote Fancy for Reba McIntyre too I think.
Southern Gothic feels.
she was the original artist who did "Fancy " before Reba did a cover
That is amazing story telling at it's finest..great video well enjoyed..
Bobbie Gentry also wrote &Fancy" that Reba McIntire recorded.
Great song and reaction
Whether it's true or not or based on something that happened, it is a mesmerising story. Haunting and chilling and that bass cello..wow....
I've been binging your reactions all day and love them. You seem like a very nice person and you should definitely be proud of being a veteran.
I would like to request Conway Twitty "Don't Take It Away " and/or Gary Stewart "I See the Want Too In Your Eyes".
Thank you so much! I have been looking forward to getting back to Conway Twitty for a while so thank you for your recommendation! 😃
Such a sultry voice 🥰
I ran into this song for the first time about three or four weeks ago, and I can't stop listening to it, and finding people to react to it. I feel like I'm looking for others that understand it.
Knew you would love this song. So right about the storytelling. There's still lots of debate over what they threw off the bridge. This is a song that never gets old, one of my favourites.
I believe it was a stillborn baby. I don't want to believe it was a live baby..going with stillborn
Yes I’ve always thought that too, I believe that is the most popular belief.
It was unquestionably a baby. Literally nothing else fits within the words of the song and the culture of the time.
Either stillborn, or more likely (due to Billie Joe committing suicide out of guilt), an abortion or a botched birth due to teenage ignorance or neglect.
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter stillborn and depression sounds about right.
Buddy, I just found your channel, and it is already one of my favorites. Your reactions are so pure, and from the heart. I appreciate you brother. Thanks!!
This is one of those songs where you need to pull up the lyrics on Google to follow along. The conversation around the family’s table could have been my family when I was a kid,
She wrote and first performed "Fancy".
Made a movie of this. Staring Robby Benson as Bobby Jo. True story also.
Now please react to “Fancy”; she wrote and recorded it. It’s been covered, but I’ve always felt that hers is the best.
Bobbi Gentry also wrote and performed Fancy one of Reba McIntyre one of her biggest hits. Listen to Bobbi Gentry version.
You found a really good one to react to! She has such a unique sultry voice! Sad song. Nice Reaction!
I forgot to say that she is from my home state of Mississippi. I have played in the Tallahatchie River many times in New Albany, Mississippi because it runs through there also. And, I am sure that you caught the mention of TUPELO. Of course that is where ELVIS was born and grew up, until he was around 14 years of age. She is a fantastic singer and song writer. She also sang her piece "FANCY", although Reba seemed to do better with that one. However, I do like to hear BOBBY sing it too! "ODE TO BILLY JOE " hauntingly beautiful and stays with you for days after you hear it. In my opinion, it is the perfect song; A MASTERPIECE!!! I have never heard another song that affected me in the way this song did! ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL! And like I said in the other comment, "ODE TO BILLY JOE" won single of the year and she won best new female in 1968!
Love the movie too...she wrote this and the song Fancy,
For me... it's a "Masterpiece"....
It's the most beautiful and haunting song ever written or performed.... Bobby Gentry, a true American gift and icon...
She won young female artist in 1968. Her son, "ODE TO BILLIE JOE" won single of the year and she also won Album of the year. She went on to write "FANCY", that Reba McIntyre recorded. She also was the first female to begin her very own recording Agency.
Haunting and chilling are perfect descriptions. Great choice!
You should try listening to Tom T. Hall. He was a great storyteller in his own right as well.
Southerners have a way with story telling!! 🥰
I wonder if you can hear the flavor of Celtic step-notes. Ireland, Scotland and Wales strongly influenced Southern music and Singer/Songwriters have always been held in esteem. To hear an example of this at it's finest check out Union Station's "Man of Constant Sorrow" AND Home Free's Acapella version which is even more reminiscent of the old step note sounds!
Been wondering most of my life what she and Billie Joe threw off the Tallahatchee Bridge. This song always brings tears to my eyes.
a bowling ball
Storytelling at its best.
You got it!! Great reaction to a unique song and artist.
sadest movie but great one thank you ffor the songs xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx never stop playing them for up PlEeeeeeaaaaSe
You might like Harper Valley PTA by Jeannie C Riley. Came out around the same time, similar style. Not as dark, more satirical, but another storytelling song.
The song is also a movie
Such a great storyteller
Thanks much for the reaction and share.
She also recorded the song FANCY
HUGE hit song
Hi Mr. Taylor, A movie was made about this song. Look it up on RUclips. Movie name, same as song. Bless You.
I read they were supposed to jump off the bridge together. He did she chickened out. Probably had to do with what they threw off the bridge.. I was a child when this came out however it was favorite through out my childhood into be young lady.❤❤❤ Great reaction and new sub..
This was in the 60’s and she left the biz.
This song has haunted me since the first time I heard it. NOBODY but Bobby knows if its true... and what exactly "true" means.
Oh SWOON.
Her voice.
Reminds me of Harper valley pta have you ever reacted to it if not try it
💯 agree great storytelling
@@Mankind_- I hate to tell you Tom T Hall wrote Harper Valley PTA
@@Mankind_- I didn't mean hate that way I didn't want for it to seem like I was one of those that looks to disrespect someone