Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry (BBC Live 1968) descargar videos gratis

Wah Tenn

I was serving in the U.S. army in South Vietnam in 1968, when I heard this haunting beautiful song. Thank you Bobbie Gentry. God Bless you.

Tim Myles

GREAT PERFORMANCE.... LOVELY VOICE>... classy...and sexy...without getting trashy...like Miley

Mike McCarroll

Timeless classic.....

Andrew Lawson

WONDERFUL,a real songwriter and performer,haunting song,still

Michael Cosgrove

The bridge they show in the video doesn't really seem high enough. Especially with all the water and probably soft mud underneath.

squeakystool

Bob Dylan did a good tribute or parody called "Clothes Line Saga"(Ode to Joe) from the basement tapes during the summer of 1967 at Big Pink.

Marcus Calahan

It was the Third of June

Joe Herald

In honor of today being the 3rd of June... This was an interesting song, a bit more to it than most of the typical 1968 top 40 stuff. We used to talk and make guesses about the storyline details.

edward gentile

This is a case of when the perfect singer and the perfect song are the same person and I don't think it's happened since ! I remember when this song came out and I walked into the living room and saw her on the tv and nearly passed out ! She was and is the definition of sultry and in my minds eye I see her dancing and touching herself but she's sitting on a chair playing a guitar and the felling she stirred up are are still there ! At the time I think if she had wanted , people would have elected her queen of the world ! She was stunning and brilliant , and so together and talented ! Hope she's happy - because , wow she was sensational !!!!!!!!!!!!!

OldMod1

It's the 3rd of June, y'all!!

Roxanna Gardner

Ode to Bill Joe....Bobby Gentry..

Shannon Marquardt

I think I know what they threw off the bridge. Billie Joe was probably a bit of a hippy and was into pot, Playboy, pre-martial sex, anti-war protests and maybe LSD. His authoritarian, fundamentalist Christian father probably beat the crap out of him when he found out about the above. The remaining evidence of the above was thrown off the bridge but his fater continued his abuse. So, Billie Joe committed suicide. The clue in the song "Is nothing comes of anything up on Choctaw Ridge." The very brutal McCarthy era mentality colliding with a young teenage boy's dreams and lifestyle.

charles shipman

Remember though that this song was written in the late sixties and was even then a tale remembered from some years previous, many of the songs characters would have experienced death in the community on a scale that is hard for most to comprehend now; WWii, Korea and Vietnam all took friends, sons, husbands and brothers. Billy joes' tragic end was just another. 

carrie xtina

She is one of my favorites. Love her music. 

Saltwaterebel

southern soul. conversations around the supper table in the south are,, were exactly like this. seeming indifference to the events happening around you was the gist of this story and the attitude of an entire region at that time. we didn't know that our culture, way of life and heritage were to be buried and subsequently trampled upon. R.I.P. southern America

Lyle Wiley

What a beautiful talented woman! Dam!

Mario Gutierrez

*"...a study in unconscious cruelty..."*Digging through some oldies today and came across this gem that I remember hearing on the radio over and over and over again in my youth. A TREMENDOUS piece of song-writing that captures a lifestyle in stark reality -- in its lyrics, its tone and in the way she sings it.I believe I know the answer to what Billie Joe and his girlfriend threw off the Tallahatchie Bridge, but Bobbie never revealed the answer and many have speculated about it over the years. I guess it's up to the listener. Gentry downplayed the importance of the answer in an interview years later, saying:"Those questions are of secondary importance in my mind. The story of Billie Joe has two more interesting underlying themes. First, the illustration of a group of people's reactions to the life and death of Billie Joe, and its subsequent effect on their lives, is made. Second, the obvious gap between the girl and her mother is shown when both women experience a common loss (first Billie Joe, and later, Papa), and yet Mama and the girl are unable to recognize their mutual loss or share their grief."

Brian Turner

Gentry wrote a simply brilliant song. It does not matter why this young man jumped or what he threw. What matters is the peculiar reactions of that family to the tragedy.

OzClawhammer

She's gorgeous

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