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. ❤️
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.
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.
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 UA-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❤
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
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. 🌼🌷🌻
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've never lived in Mississippi, but I did grow up in Arkansas. But somehow, this song always takes me back to a place I belong. That hasn't ever changed for me since 1976. I was one of the first to the theatres.
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.🙏🙏🙏🍀🍀🍀🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️
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.
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.
@@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.
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."
Itz too bad that it took me so long to find out this song was or is a true story. I miss the lady and her music . This is the stuff i grew up on. Thank you ms Gentry. You are sorely missed.
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.
When my brother visited from the old Country decades ago, he first wanted to go to the Tallahatchie bridge. Seeing New Orleans, Elvis childhood home and such were secondary. That’s how much he loved this song and the story behind it…
Another country classic delivering yet another story about a shame that never should have been. How many were crushed by those who bore their own dark secrets to divert their own sins and shame. And those kitchen table conversations...
...the pause for 'OH, BY THE WAY' in this live version brings truth to the dinner table with black-eyed peas and biscuits. I can feel it in my soul. Just a child, barely 10, when Bobby Gentry released this haunting tune on her 3/4 size Gibson... I still get goosebumps.
Minimum wage was 99 cents, so you would have worked an hour to buy that record. Probably around 12 bucks at today's prices. That's a lot of money for a 45.
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.
@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. : (
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
Heard this song riding in our old chevy heading to town. It slowly and permanently stirred and enlarged my brain's capacity to feel for others. It b-12'd my soul... I never miss a chance to replay it. "Thanks" to Bobbie is not a sufficient offering of gratitude, but like the song, simple and true is redemption.
That movie did me in! I'm 62 now but back then it made absolutely no sense to me and it almost turned me off this song forever. I still don't care for the movie.
Now if we could know what happened to this young lady and hopefully, she is doing well today. Bobby is great and she should know that many people like and respect her for all that she did.
Love her deep tones. Very smart lady. I had no idea that her and Jim Stafford were once married. One of his songs called Spiders and Snakes in the 70s was a huge favorite of mine. Havent heard in years but knew all the words to it. ❤❤
Songs that tell a story that speak to the soul are the most powerful songs. Everyone has a story to tell. Many stories are haunting. The only way to heal is to bring them into the light.
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❤
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!
What a story to tell. At age 70 I still love it.
83 and me to too.
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.
Best song about conversation at a kitchen table ever written.
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.
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.
That's not just a country song that's a country blues song:)
Bobby Gentry whew...
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...
Some vocals are forever burned into you and no other version can replace it. This one is in me.
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 UA-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❤
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
I'm 71 and I remember when this beautiful song came out, but I still love it just as much today.
Incredible song…and Bobby was SMOKING HOT
What do you mean was hot . She's still hot 👍💙👍. And that's a guarantee fact 👍♥️👍
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.
One of the best, and most haunting, songs ever- Love it!
Choctaw ridge is random, but always horsts
Many classify this as a 'Southern Gothic Masterpieces'. It's hard not to agree.
Southern Gothic Folk Rock.
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.
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.
Beautiful lady with great singing talent.
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.
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.
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.
Her phrasing on this song is flawless.
Amen.
Pass the biscuits please
A true timeless classic. Sure takes me back to my childhood.
This is a song that is a milestone in folk music. I just love it.
Great way to describe it.
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
a song.. a story...a legend...such a classic cause she POURED her heart into it. the pinnacle of performance
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.
Just such a great song sung by a fantastic lady!
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?
Still one of my absolute, all-time favourites.
She does this well. She makes you see it and feel it. She knows how to capture a feeling with a song.
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
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....
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!
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
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.
I have loved this song since it came out in 1967.And Bobby Gentry was such a beautiful Waman.
When I was a kid my dad would take us riding on Sunday and listening to music. This one of the best!!!
I've never lived in Mississippi, but I did grow up in Arkansas. But somehow, this song always takes me back to a place I belong. That hasn't ever changed for me since 1976. I was one of the first to the theatres.
Goosebumps every single time!
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.
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.
If "Gorgeous" can be defined , It is Bobbie Gentry singing this song, in so many ways.
No one can sing it like her. Glad this is understood by those who try.
She sounds so country kinfolk, dirt road music yet her beauty would stop traffic. Great story teller.
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."
Itz too bad that it took me so long to find out this song was or is a true story. I miss the lady and her music . This is the stuff i grew up on. Thank you ms Gentry. You are sorely missed.
Nothing like this today. And a beautiful woman.
Love her throaty voice. Great song. A milestone really in the annals of folk music.
I’m Transported to another dimension by Brilliance of The voice…the lyrics…the melody. One of a KIND.
I never get tired of this song
Such a haunting song!
Hello🌹
I can't believe that I almost forgot all about Bobby Gentry. Thanks, UA-cam, for reminding me.
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.
When my brother visited from the old Country decades ago, he first wanted to go to the Tallahatchie bridge. Seeing New Orleans, Elvis childhood home and such were secondary. That’s how much he loved this song and the story behind it…
Such talent no longer exists in today's "music".
Another country classic delivering yet another story about a shame that never should have been. How many were crushed by those who bore their own dark secrets to divert their own sins and shame. And those kitchen table conversations...
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
Definitely one of the most compelling songs ever.
Gives me goosebumps AND chills.
...the pause for 'OH, BY THE WAY' in this live version brings truth to the dinner table with black-eyed peas and biscuits. I can feel it in my soul.
Just a child, barely 10, when Bobby Gentry released this haunting tune on her 3/4 size Gibson... I still get goosebumps.
Bobbie Gentry makes that ballad come alive. It's a haunting song.
Perhaps the finest mysterious tragic love ballad in the history of music.
This was GREAT!!! I still have my 45 I bought back in the day at Woolworths for I think 49 or 99 cents. The great old days...
Minimum wage was 99 cents, so you would have worked an hour to buy that record. Probably around 12 bucks at today's prices. That's a lot of money for a 45.
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.
One of the best Ballads ever Written
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.
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
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.
Arguably the greatest ballad ever put to paper.
Bobbie Gentry’s amazing voice, recorded with the warm deep sound that Rick Hall put his touch on at FAME recording in Muscle Shoals, Al
When I was a young teenager about 55 years ago in Phoenix Arizona my first concert was Bobbie Gentry. I loved it. I'll never forget it
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
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!
Thanks Bobby, It was 1970 and I graduated from High School and you gave me this song. Thanks again, one of the best songs in my life.
An amazing song, brings tears to my eyes and is an ode to anyone who knows the deptths of sorrow locked up in suicide.
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.
A masterpiece.
Heard this song riding in our old chevy heading to town. It slowly and permanently stirred and enlarged my brain's capacity to feel for others. It b-12'd my soul...
I never miss a chance to replay it.
"Thanks" to Bobbie is not a sufficient offering of gratitude, but like the song, simple and true is redemption.
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!
She was very talented.
This song struck me at a young age because of the story.
Few songs rocked me to my to my core like this one.
It was the 3rd of June 2022.... still a great haunting song!
Third of June...Chopping Cotton, Brother Bailing Hay!
They bail weed now 🤪🤪
Right on. I grew up in Mississippi. Real as it gets
Omg I used to sing this as a child and swing on my swing set. Thank you for the memories. Well done.
This song is very old but it really fits our time today perfectly
How?
@@bluelava4282 Suicide rates? Just a guess ;)
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I started singing this song when I was younger. I'm 46 and it is still one of my favorite karaoke songs 🤩
Amazing!!!! A most iconic song. So well performed By Bobby Gentry. A milestone in folk songs.
I watched that movie last year, it's from the 70's & you know it was ground-breaking... I did not realize back then what it was about, brilliant!
This song was being played on radio well before 1970, thinking about 68’.
That movie did me in! I'm 62 now but back then it made absolutely no sense to me and it almost turned me off this song forever. I still don't care for the movie.
@@jamesbarfield6870 I know when the song came out dear James? Homophonic Darlin? Geez you guys, Americans no doubt lol...
How come are you really that hillbillyish? You really are I also learned that by watching the movie! Canada
I'm 70 and still listen to all the good oldies New music sucks now days ❤✌️
Ole school m
My boy in his 20s prefers our music
All time classic and very moving
More great memories. I was12. When this. Was a hit.
Now if we could know what happened to this young lady and hopefully, she is doing well today. Bobby is great and she should know that many people like and respect her for all that she did.
so sad so real so beautiful...............
Love her deep tones. Very smart lady. I had no idea that her and Jim Stafford were once married. One of his songs called Spiders and Snakes in the 70s was a huge favorite of mine. Havent heard in years but knew all the words to it. ❤❤
She was beautiful
Songs that tell a story that speak to the soul are the most powerful songs. Everyone has a story to tell. Many stories are haunting. The only way to heal is to bring them into the light.