Tammy Wynette - Ode to Billy Joe video free download


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Duration: 04:21
Uploaded: 2010/07/19

This great song was not on youtube so I had to put it up. This is THE BEST version of this song mostly due to the producers idea to put an awesome drum beat with a ride cymbal halfway through. Genius. The bass line thumps pretty hard too. And let's not forget the spectacular vocals of the first lady of country music, Tammy Wynette.

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8 years ago

Ben Voiles

I like this version.

9 years ago

john crawford piano

I love the Bobbie and Nancy versions of this song, but I'm really digging this one too- is that allowed?

10 years ago

Bruan Hardrada

Bobbie Gentry's version is so haunting and powerful, I feel the music on this version detracts from the song rather than adds to it.

10 years ago

slim471

A great version. not heard this before. i cant find it on itunes....Love the guitar work on this version.

10 years ago

18winsagin

Love Tammy, but Bobbi gives u the chill bumps to go with it when she sang it. Just saying.

10 years ago

sweetcharlie63

every time I drive thru Mississippi on 55, going thru Carroll County, I play this song.

10 years ago

Gummigrottan

I really love Bobbie Gentrys version but the arrangements on this one is superb. I don't want to be a besserwisser but it should be Billie not Billy in the title.

10 years ago

iaof2012

The development of the instrumentation is fantastic, and I might add, pretty modern for the country music coming out of that time period, not typical style of country music. Beautiful. As always Miss Wynette has top notch voice, but, it didn't seem that her voice always was in groove with the instrumentation. Neat version all the same.

10 years ago

laotzu4272

Bobbie didn't need to work again she wrote this song and Tammy had to pay her for the right to sing it. YOU DO KNOW THAT BOBBIE GENTRY WROTE OTHER SONGS AND PRODUCED OTHER ALBUMS. 'RIGHT'?

10 years ago

lobothedog2002

If you ask me, Tammy's vocals are always incomparable. The instrumentation throughout this version absolutely kicks ass. The way each instrument comes in, then falls out, then come back in hard, is just perfect.

11 years ago

Daniel Wilkinson

Tammy Wynette put out a lit cigarette, stood up and recorded this song and ended a career. We never heard from Bobbie Gentry again. MAY TAMMY REST IN PEACE...FOR SHE'S THE ""QUEEN"".

11 years ago

CSUTAMTAM

Tammy Wynette has a voice so unique its a gift no one can take away ~ its a once in a life time its like passing by the most beautiful sunset or something like the blooming of hundreds of roses at the same time ~

11 years ago

PhancyPants99

Love it!

11 years ago

Octavio Slick

Guess what? I heard Fatboy Slim is doing a remake of this song. Love Bobbie Gentry. Love Tammy Wynette. However, Fatboy Slim gets my props already cuz you know it wil KICK ASS!!! Why? He's Fatboy Slim, momma.

12 years ago

DfromSD

Love the song & Tammy is fantastic singing it! I always pictured the bridge much higher than the one shown here however.

12 years ago

Brooks Warner

Bobbie gentry totally owns at this song, nancy and tammy are great but bobbie is by far the best

12 years ago

GregoryMRD

@blezaola I'm a HUGE Nancy Wilson fan. The version I just heard from her was very Jazz. It felt joyful and "cool." That felt odd for this song.The first half I enjoyed. The rest was disturbingly disconnected from the song's story for this listener. I love Wilson as a story teller and vocalist, but this song and its treatment didn't work for this fan.

12 years ago

blezaola

The best is Nancy Wilsons version. She kept the story telling style of the original but sings more colourfull than Bobby. Also Ray Charles Live version is better to than Bobby's.

12 years ago

nauort23

@beerpongplayer1 Thank GOD almighty! Someone else gets it. All these nay-sayers.... Like my good friend, the former president of the local chapter of the Tammy Wynette fan club, used to say: Bobby Gentry wrote it. But Tammy lived it.

12 years ago

Robert Potter

I love Tammy but the folks are right on this one. It's Bobbie Joe Gentry's song and that's all there is to it. Phrasing is so important especially in story songs. But then again, Bobbie probably wouldn't do 'Stand By Your Man' or 'Till I Get It Right' the way Tammy does either.

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