Bobby Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe
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- Music video by Bobby Gentry performing Ode to Billie Joe (HQ/HD version)
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high class classic country at its finest 💖 🎶
Thanks for the music of the day's gone by of good music
Now that is beautiful. Finish...
Jeorge jone
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@@pattynaugle5938❤
Best song about conversation at a kitchen table ever written.
In 2024 she is now 81 years old, I'm glad she is still here...
Bless her 🥰
God bless
Why though?
I don’t want her dead or anything, but unless something changed she retired.
@@ryansmith4494 Hum, strange response! For the same reason I'm glad the likes of James Earl Jones are still alive...
@@ryansmith4494she’s mysterious and just vanished from the music scene. With all her talent and beauty - just as haunting as her music.
The conversation that the violins have with her voice is priceless. What a masterpiece.
If you appreciate that, check out Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole sometime. The violin tries to escape the theme, but is always drawn back
"Conversation". I like that.
Wow, i agree ! She earned her Masters. This song has an eerie, haunting feel. I can recollect my childhood as soon as I hear this amazing song.
@@lolapalacios1654 Arranger Jimmie Haskell penned the string arrangement. It's scored for four violins & two 'cellos.
Every Saturday in the 1970’s growing up my Mama had my sister and I clean the house,and she would put on the 45’s --Harper Valley PTA ,Rose Garden, & Honey by Bobby Goldsboro . I still have those 45’s and they mean the world to me. ❤️
Boy are you bringing back many moons. I still remember all of them I'm just glad I'm still here
I'm glad you still have the 45 keep them and make sure they stay in the family❤
I still have all the old 8 track tapes and the 71 Chevy truck that we cruised in and enjoyed all the old great music and we still grab some beers and have another great cruise.
Back in those days my elementary school teacher would let us bring our records on Friday, Harper valley PTA and Rose garden 😊
Ah..Love the same songs as my Mum..What an Era!
You don't sing along to this, you just listen, pure quality, brilliant
so true
Or you read comments and reply while listening.
I do both. Listen and sing
❤
I beg to differ if you don't mind.
Sometimes there's that one moment at the bridge (climax) of the song, you just CANT help but to sing.
Actually when ever I watch this movie and this song starts....
I cant help but to sing along.
Sometimes you can sit there with your eyes closed and just listen....
Then there are others when the melody hits you so hard and the words start that you have to sing along.
I hope we can AGREE and also DISAGREE on this point.
@@ghostwritter1075*differ
Defer means you bow to someone else's expertise.
Some vocals are forever burned into you and no other version can replace it. This one is in me.
Such a beautiful ballad. Where did this type of talent go? This world might be better if there was music such as this being written today
There is loads of excellent music written today, you just have to put the work in to find it.
Thanks for the way you just put that truth 🙌 🙏 💯
Your WELCOME 🙏
I think it takes a hell of a lot more than good music to straighten out out country's shit.
The best. The most emotional. The most mysterious song. Ever. ❤
Sooooo mysterious! Ignoring the movie.
BJ jumped because he was ashamed of being molested by the sheriff.
Yes, seems like she's really feelin this song...
Ballads don't get any better than this. Bobbie Gentry is a phenomenal singer, songwriter. She simply brings music to life. You feel it down in your soul.
The song was great, the movie made it even better.
Made me cry when I was 12, hard not to now.
I wouldn't want to imply something that simply isn't true here, but I'd not be willing to wadger that Bobbie Gentry wasn't singing about something she has first-hand knowledge/experience with.
After all, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
P.S. A virus? Really? all the way back in the 1960s?
Imagine that.
Pay attention, folks. because in all likelihood, what has been will be again. It sucks, but it is what it is.
@@guarddog318 : Why don't you get your little teddy bear and go to sleep. Your mind is working overtime.
@@dudekfox7685 - Unlike yours, which apparently fails to work at all?
Seriously, try thinking every once in a while, rather than simply sitting there and hammering inanely away at the keyboard, as if you actually know anything worth passing along.
simplicity
What a story to tell. At age 70 I still love it.
One of the best, and most haunting, songs ever- Love it!
Choctaw ridge is random, but always horsts
Songs of the real talented back in the day. Where on God's green earth has the talent gone.
It seems as though we're seeing "the music die" Did you see Biden give the South Korean president Don McCleans guitar and he strummed a bit and sang "bye bye miss American pie? It was a few days ago.
@@julietspoto9652 ...What a disgrace for a President!
We had more talent, because the majority actually cared more back then. Now, they pump out so called talent, in the name of superficial popularity.
@@rebeccalavoy6655 nigga rapp
Just enjoy it and stop whinging. Plenty of talent around still. They just aren’t aiming at cranks shouting at clouds.
Bobby gentry was simply a fantastic singer and this song identifies her when she was mainly at her peak. Thank you so much for sharing such a wonderful song.🙏🙏🙏🍀🍀🍀🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️
Shucks
And a fantastic song writer.
A true timeless classic. Sure takes me back to my childhood.
You cannot duplicate this. THIS is country music, mixed with soul and blues. If a person ever does this song better, it's her in a new life form.
This is the type of song that should never ever be covered
I agree.
I love this song! Don't know if it's the words/ writing of the song or Bobby's delivery but this song makes me feel like she's singing about events that actually happened. Awesome!
It is the combination of all three, John.
She saw the song, wrote the song , and sung the song.
I believe the song is based on actual events
It's that heart the mighty one put in a flesh body! Tic tock! Tic tock!
Maybe she is ,wasn't she born and raised there?
I love the way she plays that guitar and then delivers the vocals with hsitations in exactly the right places, with the beat of guitar and her phrasing not quite matching, but also not clashing either. Very sophisticated performance and she makes it look SO easy.
Her phrasing on this song is flawless.
Amen.
Pass the biscuits please
I’m 55 and heard this for the 1th time when I was 9 years old and was amazed how I just sat and listened to every word , lsiteneing today 46 years later I still can’t stop listening to every word. I just believe I was there on that bridge every time I hear this being sung. That’s the power she has in her voice and how she tells this story. Love it to bits
Hi Mark, same age here. Aren't we fortunate to have experienced better times. What I mean by that, is not easier times, but more meaningful times. With at least, an illusion of innocence 😊
Hi Rebecca , yes todays world has so much in it , good and bad but when we were growing up everything seemed so much easier to me . I mean I grew up in Belfast Northern Ireland during the troubles here but still life was easier lol .
@@MarkMccullough-pz8gf...Mark, I am just seeing your reply now. Greetings, from America. Ireland is such a beautiful Country!! I wish you the best, navigating this new world order.
Hello Mark same age here and yes times are easier it seemed like back then and the beautiful music that was put out was wonderful it helped me through a lot of difficult times I do believe. I don't know if you have heard the story about the song but if you haven't you might go back and find it's out there on TH-cam but the song says it all really except a few things that was left out so enjoy digging deeper into the song God bless have a wonderful day.
@@MarkMccullough-pz8gfoh and wanted to say greetings from America I've always heard of Ireland and my family history is from Ireland hence the red hair so yeah greetings my friend greetings❤
Many classify this as a 'Southern Gothic Masterpieces'. It's hard not to agree.
Southern Gothic Folk Rock.
When I was a kid I heard this song on the radio for the first time and I was totally captivated. I had never heard anything like it.
When I was a 15 year old gas pump jockey, this song played on the radio all that summer at the gas station when it came out and it puts me back in that special early time of my life. Such a fond memory. Wish I could go back.
I know in the movie that it was a rag doll thrown from the bridge, but when I first heard the song I immediately imagined it was a still-born baby that secretly belonged to her and Billy Joe.
That's not just a country song that's a country blues song:)
Bobby Gentry whew...
A hauntingly beautiful song and singer. I think Hollywood really lost an opportunity to make her a movie star. A song can be a three act play, this is certainly one and acted to perfection. 🌼🌷🌻
It was made into a TV movie with Bobby Benton......
your brainy?
Phuck Hollywood, and Bobby Gentry never wanted a part of that commercialized MSM BS, no matter the money.
She lives that way till her end. Which only makes her more respectable and honorable., now.
She retreated from fame and money, because it wasn't her, or her music, or how she had been brought up.
Elvis does not stand up so high. Besides , Ms. Gentry wrote and sang her own songs.
F Hollywood
It sends chills down my spine. It is as though you feel his spirit. Unbelievable song and singing.
yes
It sure does,love the song.
One of my all time favorites
Yes! The superb vocal combined with that instrumental arrangement - those strings echoing after the lyrics with that metronomic strum. So nice
I was mesmerized when this song first played on the radio. My friends in grade school and I would endlessly try to come up with answers about what happened to make Billy Joe MacAllister jump off of Talahatchee Bridge. This song is pure Southern Gothic wrapped up in a ballad.
Incredible song…and Bobby was SMOKING HOT
Still one of my absolute, all-time favourites.
This is a song that is a milestone in folk music. I just love it.
Great way to describe it.
This reminds me so much of growing up around the Mississippi Delta. My mother's name was Bobbie Jo even. She was 1 if 12 sisters born to share-cropper parents during the great depression. My daddy used to tease that he married her because she could pick more cotton than the other girls and I was young enough to believe him. Anyway, this song takes me back.
My daddy was born in the delta. Sunflower County
a song.. a story...a legend...such a classic cause she POURED her heart into it. the pinnacle of performance
This song is so classic, l don't recall anybody doing a cover. How could you? This song is timeless. Thanks Bobby. Love ya.
How can you cover the plus ne ultra?
No "cover" required. The people who lived 50 year ago are not the soul-less lizards of today. people with "connection" no longer to be found
A story in a song....you really can't get anything better...👏👏👏♥️
Babababeeee
A long time favorite that never loses any of it's enchantment. 💙❤️🔥👑
I was 11 when I first heard this song 55 years ago. I would stay awake school nights with my transistor radio turned low tuned to the Far East Network hoping to hear it again.
I was about 10 years old when this came out. Beautiful woman and voice. We only had country music in our home. I've been looking for this and Fancy and I found both. I prefer this version of Fancy to Reba's. Thank you very much for this.
No you where not 10. You was 11.
I was 12. Our family was actually eating supper when we heard it played on the radio. We all commenting how nonchalant about someone’s death whi,e eating supper as we say it in the South.
Or folk music
Heard this song on my 1st night at Marine bootcamp Parris Island SC.1967.Won't hear any music for the next 3 months.
@@wd8557 every am radio station in the south played it four, five, six times a day. I listened to it every morning waiting on he school bus to arrive, I was nine going on ten years old.
Almost Billie Joe day, 2024. It’ll be hot and dusty no doubt
Now you can sing along ❤️ ❤️
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
Such a haunting song!
Hello🌹
Such talent no longer exists in today's "music".
I never get tired of this song
No one can sing it like her. Glad this is understood by those who try.
Gentry is a premier balladeer. ODE TO BILLY JOE and Lightfoot's WRECK of the EDMUND FITZGERALD are two ballads that haunt the human heart. They both describe human emotions; wonderment and hurt. ODE TO BILLY JOE describes my youth in an agricultural county. It strikes straight to the human heart's wonder about love and loss, rather you're rural born or city born. Gentry is superb in her renditions. Linda Ronstadt, Carly Simon, Bobby Gentry, Dusty Springfield, et al are superb balladeers. Each is unique. I am thankful I was alive to hear them. And that is also my thanks for hearing Peggy Lee and Patti Page.
This is a great list you have here my friend. Love them all too.
Jim Stafford's " Hattie's Shack,". Excellent!
Love her throaty voice. Great song. A milestone really in the annals of folk music.
She does this well. She makes you see it and feel it. She knows how to capture a feeling with a song.
When I was a kid my dad would take us riding on Sunday and listening to music. This one of the best!!!
John and Minnie Freeman . You are loved and missed. Rest in eternal peace. Gone but not forgotten.
One of my favorites while serving in Vietnam when it came out...
Thank you for your service, sorry you had to wait to get the recognition you & do many deserve.
@william strozier My dad, named William also, stayed in the service until 1969..he decided to retire after 25 years, he was to go back for a 3rd tour in vietnam in 1969 but enough was enough. I was born a few years later. THANK YOU for your service.... a regconition not given freely back then and its sad, my dad never got over how he and others were not welcomed back. : (
Never served Viet Nam. You guys are my Heros. I was 17 yrs old in 75. Again you are my Heros.
Thank you for your services. You are a treasure my friend, love the Viet Nam vets.
@@MydNyteRayne "Thank You for Your Service " was a joke cooked up by the Government/Bush Sr Neocon admin post Desert Storm to keep the Cold War Vets involved and a patriotic feeling among the masses. It was a joke then in the early 90's and it became more of joke after 9/11 to any real vets. I laugh inside whenever hear it, then I think of friends who died in service who never got to hear the joke. I laugh for them., because it has been a joke for a very long time.
WWII vets would laugh at it now.
Bobby Gentry FANTASTIC SINGER great song I love that SONG so much such a wonderful SONG I love her SINGING so much and I love her music so much she is the best ever and she is number one she can sing any SONG so wonderful I love all of her songs she has a amazing VOICE that is out of this world and she is so pretty to 💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹👍✌💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜☺️😊
I have a special place in my heart for this tune, one that my mom (God rest her soul) introduced to me, like other amazing classics from the 60s
I've been a music nut since 1967. I still think this is probably the finest song (country, folk, whatever - defies definition) I've come across in all that time.
It is perfectly crafted.
I agree, a tantalizing mystery constructed around an ordinary dinner table conversation. Along with the gorgeous music and voice, this is lyric story telling at its finest.
A masterpiece.
It’s years since I heard this song ,I love it 🥰
I loved this song then and still do now, but I am really blown away by this video.
I would not believe I could've loved it more. Thank you for posting.
What a great song!!!!
what a great movie
I still have this song on a 45 rpm record. From the first time I heard her sing the song, I was struck by how everything about the song, especially Ms. Gentry's voice, evoked so much atmosphere that it's almost visual... Those were the days. So much great music.
I also still have my 45 of this, ran out to Woolworths to get. Oh the good ole days....
This song brings me back when life was a bit easier, for me anyway. Not for everyone, childhood turns into oldhood before you know it.
Yup. I was a 15 year old gas pump jockey and life was good.
HA!
Great song!, Miss that old country. Country music has gone to hell. Country Music is Not Country these days.
There ain't no country music anymore! Bad English, yes, but the truth.
Absolutely 💯
@Hello Ricardo how are you doing
Goosebumps every single time!
My name is Billie Jo.. Growing up I was asked all the time if I had jumped off a bridge today.
Ever been to Choctaw ridge?
Remember hearing this on my brand-new transistor radio in the sixties coming home from school on a hot 🔥 dusty afternoon along a sunny Suffolk lane. I could really identify with the sentiments. God bless her.
AM radio, I bet
Transistor radios! Those were the days. I had a small, yellow, round one! Fun to listen to cool music back then.
It was the 3rd of June 2022.... still a great haunting song!
I’m Transported to another dimension by Brilliance of The voice…the lyrics…the melody. One of a KIND.
Saw the movie back in the 70s and heard song for 1st time. Shes got a voice
Do you remember the name of that movie
@@abelflores1593 Ode to Billy Joe is the name of the movie too.
I grew up with Bobbie and Joan Baez. 2 of the greatest voices of all time.
If "Gorgeous" can be defined , It is Bobbie Gentry singing this song, in so many ways.
I wish the next person that has a shot at this ballad all the best because it will have to be not from this world.
The South will rise again, and so will JC, no need to worry.
No matter much how much evil/bad things, you see now, just as much good arises as well
to maintain the balance,
It is the natural order of things. :)
100 percent pure....none finer....where did she go ? Almost like she was a dream . We woke up and she was gone.
She jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge 😲
See Wiki.
I first heard this song on the radio when I was 17 and thought it was so out of the ordinary but I immediately was enamored and hoped it would earn recognition so I could hear it again. Little did I know that I wasn't alone and that it would become a hit and gain such a large following. It resonated with me having grown up on a Midwest farm and now that we live in Mississippi, not far from the Delta, it has another dimension of special meaning, especially every summer "sleepy, dusty Delta day."
Southern Gothic at it's best by one of the best ❤👍
Today is December 12 or as I call it another sleepy dusty delta day
A classic song!!
She sounds so country kinfolk, dirt road music yet her beauty would stop traffic. Great story teller.
This song is very old but it really fits our time today perfectly
How?
@@bluelava4282 Suicide rates? Just a guess ;)
Get your booster
Nothing like this today. And a beautiful woman.
So what do you all think was thrown off the bridge?
The song 'Ode to Billy Joe' explained:
The singer was Billy Joe's secret girlfriend; they had to keep their relationship secret because of a feud between her father and Billy Joe's father. The singer had become pregnant and was meeting Billy Joe behind the church to tell him that she could not marry him and she was going to abort the baby and terminate the relationship. They threw the unborn fetus off the bridge together; however, Billy Joe could not live with losing his first love and his unborn son, which is why he committed suicide.
A year later, the singer still gathered flowers and threw them into the river as tribute to her first love and her unborn son.
Beautiful lady with great singing talent.
If this song is a true story it’s an extremely sad one. I read that Billie Gentry was talking about the indifference within a family to a teenage boy jumping off a bridge to their death. Sometimes life really does suck. But the question is, what will we do about our lives sucking sometimes when we go through adversity? I’ve survived a stroke, a blood bacteria and cancer. I know I should be 6 feet under right now. But I’m still alive by the grace of God. But is my life perfect? Far from it. I’m 58 and still single. I’ve wanted to get married since I was 4. I didn’t want to get married at 4. I couldn’t wait to grow up and get married. And I’m still waiting, 54 years later. I
can see why people kill themselves. A lot of people are indifferent to the pain other people go through.
Us baby boomers had the best music..
I have crossed this bridge 500 times
A song that brings you back in time what a story she tells Bueatiful voice
'Ode to Billie Joe' Lyrics:
It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton, and my brother was bailin' 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, Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And papa said to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed peas
Well, Billie 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 Billie 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 Billie Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge
A year has come and gone since we heard the news 'bout Billie 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
👌❤
Sad song very emotional and sensitive
Song came out before I was even thought of. My parents owned this record 30 yrs ago and many more I listened to,guess that is where my love of music comes from
She passed away in 2022, this is the same Faye
Hello 👋 friend how are you doing today 😃 hope am not bothering you??
People need to look at when women artists were able to make it on talent not with money like Taylor Swift ask your self how many of Taylor's songs will last like this one
Hello 👋 friend how are you doing today 😃 hope am not bothering you??
I suppose that will depend on the grip of recording studios on music.
I’ve picked cotton…chopped cotton…can relate at age 82…
So freaking Haunting it isn't funny, don't know how else to put it other than Beautiful beyond belief.....................
Man remembered when this song came out my cousin and brother would song it boy what memories.
An amazing song, brings tears to my eyes and is an ode to anyone who knows the deptths of sorrow locked up in suicide.
so sad so real so beautiful...............
"never had a lick of sense....pass me dem biscuits" ROTFLMAO
This song will bring a tear to your eye
Ii kno.. It's too close to home.
ive only discovered
WOWWWWWWWWWWWW... What else can anyone say?
More great memories. I was12. When this. Was a hit.
Right on. I grew up in Mississippi. Real as it gets
Bobby, l fell in love way back in the 70s you are still a class act love ya. Thanks.
who did they through off the bridge ?
i think it was a miscararage ?
im gueesing a miscaridge fetus ?
withdraw sentiments
im working on a new thesis
The song 'Ode to Billy Joe' explained:
The singer was Billy Joe's secret girlfriend; they had to keep their relationship secret because of a feud between her father and Billy Joe's father. The singer had become pregnant and was meeting Billy Joe behind the church to tell him that she could not marry him and she was going to abort the baby and terminate the relationship. They threw the unborn fetus off the bridge together; however, Billy Joe could not live with losing his first love and his unborn son, which is why he committed suicide.
A year later, the singer still gathered flowers and threw them into the river as tribute to her first love and her unborn son.
She was beautiful
Bobbie Gentry makes that ballad come alive. It's a haunting song.
My dad was born on the 3rd of June. Obviously his twin brother was too. My first niece was born on the 3rd of June. That bridge is like 13 feet. Unless you land on your head, you're fine. I miss women like this. Talented!
She's in a league with Patsy Cline. Utterly exceptional, unbelievably talented, driven, intelligent, knew what she wanted and got it, then disappeared. Wish Patsy had lived longer.
National treasures, both of them.