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Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe (Paperback)
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Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe (Paperback)
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In August 1967, "Ode to Billie Joe," a B-side throwaway performed
by a total unknown, knocked the Beatles' "All You Need is Love" out
of the Billboard chart's top slot. Listeners obsessed over the
mysteries ensnarled in the song's haunting refrain: Billie Joe
McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Why did Billie Joe
kill himself? Is he the narrator's secret lover? Fans also wanted
to know: Who is this glamorous young woman who could boil air with
just a parlor guitar and voice low as the Mississippi moon? That is
a mystery as deep as the Tallahatchie's rushing water. Less than 10
years after bursting onto the world's stage with an album that
scored an unprecedented trifecta on the Pop, Country and Black
charts, the woman born Roberta Lee Streeter vanished from the
spotlight. This much we know: Gentry was an artistic polymath and
astute businesswoman. After "Ode," she wrote more music, DJed a
radio program, hosted a TV show and started her own publishing
company. Disenchanted with the record business, she produced
spectacular Las Vegas shows, writing the music, choreographing the
routines and designing the costumes. But despite working herself to
exhaustion, Gentry was unable to replicate the commercial sales of
her debut, and she disappeared. Bobbie Gentry has not been seen in
public for over 30 years. With unprecedented access to a treasure
trove of Gentry's memorabilia, Murtha excavates the mysteries of
"Ode to Billie Joe," in terms of both the record's production and
the effect of its success on Gentry. With input from the artist's
collaborators and contemporaries, Murtha argues that though Gentry
has every right to vanish, her role as a pioneering woman in the
music industry should not.
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