Bobbie Gentry - 1968 Interview
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- Опубликовано: 24 июн 2021
- here's 2 very short and rare interviews with the elusive bobbie gentry.
both are from a radio only record from the national guard titled, "guard session". based on the songs played (which have been edited out) they both seem to be from 1968.
within the photo slide show is a photo of bobbie's original lyrics to, "ode to billie joe" which sheds a little more light on the story.
and as a reminder, i have added a small blurb at the end about the release of a 2018 bobbie gentry box set on capitol records. i do not own it nor am i being compensated for the mention. 
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54 years and we're still talking about Ode to Billy Joe... what an incredible contribution to music. You are an amazing artist Bobbie Gentry!
Yes, I just had a discussion the other day about how maybe he handed her flowers that she threw off the bridge. Bobbie later said the song was about 'unconscious cruelty'. The pastor saw them throw something off. Then she would go back and pick flowers and throw them off after his suicide as tribute and regret perhaps.
He wasnt into drugs and alchohol until the mid 70's
56 years now and yes - an incredible contribution! Lessons to be learned in this on indifference to others and their feelings and needs.
i never heard of it -- how many people talking about ode to billy joe were alive 54 years ago? i bet all of them
@@gb747gb I remember the first time I heard the song, on my car fadio, on my way to work. I had to sit in the parking lot until it was over, so I'd know how to find it in a record shop. I've been an avid fan ever since.
She is so articulate, well spoken and intelligent. I could listen to her talk all day.
I could do a lot more than that!
Over 50 years later and Ode to Billie Joe is still loved and enjoyed by millions! She was one of the best songwriters of all time, if only she recorded more!
Yes! If only.
She was right in 1968, Ode to Billie Joe has become a folk song.
Her speaking voice is as lovely as her singing voice!!!
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
This lady is the epitome of class. spending just an hour speaking with her would be on my bucket list.
The Perfect Woman!
And mine! SO much I'd want to say/ask.
Pure class and so talented!
Thank you to the National Guard for all the wonderful things they do for our nation
I’m intrigued with this female artist, on both accounts. Indeed. 💜
Her beautiful black hair at 0:58 Wow.
The omni magnificent deep southern accent.
Can't beat it!
I listened to Ode just now, and it really is a good piece of writing. It has a communicative style that's been emulated since, and possibly done before, but not quite from the context she performed it with. I'm baffled by her just disappearing about 40 years ago. Well done!
this is a really cool interview, thanks for posting
Thank you for finding and posting this gem!
My god, that derriere!
I Really like those lyrics shown at 2:55 there a lot, wish we had both done back then..!!! ✅
Nonetheless, it DID make it to becoming a “Folksong” in her own qualifier she stated back then.😎👍
Love this Icon!
Bobby was the ultimate rebel. Her words were prophetic ; Ode To Billie Joe is still an all,time classic.
Bobbie Gentry would be so awesome if you showed yourself in 2022.
She surfaced in 2020 at a friends party! Someone took a pic. She has short blonde hair. Her face is recognizable bit of I saw her on the street I’m not sure if recognize because it’s like really blonde and such a contrast with her dark hair. Ste looked well though!!!
Excuse me. It was 2020 Google her name and 2020!
@@taeylorbrooks8074 Right now!
I found it! But the text says it was actually taken in 2014. ???
She can play any string instrument, what a talent
Wow, didn't know that, I saw her playing a different instrument, other than her guitar one time but didn't know she could play all stringed instruments and hearing her says she even went church on a horse drawn wagon. So folksy and down to earth
Love her!
her voice is so perfect bra holy
I love her duet with Glen Campbell, "Let it be Me".
cant stop listening to this braaa my god she's so perfect her voice is crazy
Bobby was so beautiful and very intelligent. I read that she quit the music business to work as a college professor.
It's nice to listen to an obviously intelligent woman talking expressively and unapologetically despite the reporter who is obviously a little intimidated by her.
Perhaps he should have called in the National Guard to help him out.
Omg What a thoughtful person
her roots added alot of independence pushed her to her excelance in singing song writing and of course her looks and charm she was blessed with very respectful lady she very well was for herself and others I had a chance of hearing her song for the first time in my life with my foster family I never heard of her but I seen her ❤️ beautiful red 🍒 dress and was bewitched so I heard fancy and thought to myself yes this girl is a self made star ✨ God bless you fancy where ever you may be 🌹🌼🪄🍒✨
How come she doesn't give interviews now? She'd doing fine. She 78 and has a net worth of $100,000,000.
I've recently become aware of Bobbie Gentry's reclusiveness and her wealth. I hope she comes forward in 2022.
@@c.s.mcleod7383 Yes, and I have a wonderful opportunity for her in cryptocurrency investing that I 'd like to discuss with her, so let me know if you find her.
She chose to remove herself from the limelight and continue her life in private, like an everyday person.
I wonder if she had voice/diction lessons to rid herself of a strong southern drawl. You can tell she's southern but doesn't speak like she's from the Mississippi delta.
Yet she sings with her accent. I'm southern, and learned to speak, minimizing my accent, at least, when I left the South. Some people would pretend they couldn't understand me with my accent. Not really believable, as my accent is not strong,
I grew up in a city in the 60's/70's. Most people outside the South loved my accent.
Drawl is western/southern, Texas, etc., accent is elsewhere in the South.
No, its just that Southern "accents" are often exaggerated on Movies and TV. I am from the South and most Southerners sound normal but we don't have the oddities that Northerners often do such as adding e vowels to their I vowels so that time sounds like "tieeem" and I sounds like "aheee" . Southerners are relaxed speakers and there is more than just one Southern accent.
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic True. But I grew up in the Mississippi Delta. I know a LOT of people that speak just like the way we are represented in movies.
She moved to Palm Springs, CA to live with her mother and her mother's husband when she was 13.
Great intervewer for once, most journalists and or presenters back then were super overbearing
She's pretty with that long raven colored hair and great shape.
Plow the south forty, not touchin that one!
☘ Irish Honey Badger - 😇
I'll bet she made a lot of men uncomfortable back then with her level of intelligence.
And looks like a Greek goddess.
i think Bobbie and Glen would have made a good couple
Me Too !!! I'm a huge fan of both Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry and love their songs. The perfect couple? You becha! 🙂
I dont think bobbie would have put up w/ his drunken abuse " tanya tucker"
Where’s the southern accent?
I'm in France but I detect a refind Southern accent.
@@pippin1ful Thanks for your comment. If you want to hear a real southern accent from the 50’s or 60’s, listen to this man; just discount any racist stuff.ruclips.net/video/6gX6WIEzB08/видео.html
@@pippin1ful Good ear, y'all
faaer-shn :-))
She moved to California when she was a teenager
Wow, the most beautiful women I've ever heard speak ❤
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