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DescriptionBobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe (33 1/3) Paperback – December 18th 2014 by Tara Murtha (Author) {Bindaredundat}  Format: AZW3 / EPUB / MOBI / PDF File Size: 2.50MB Product Details Series: 33 1/3 Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic (December 18th 2014) Language: English ISBN-10: 1623569648 ISBN-13: 978-1623569648 Contents Acknowledgments Foreword, by Jill Sobule 1 Out of a Swamp Fog 2 Where is Bobbie Gentry? 3 The Bobbiebilia 4 Chickasaw County Child 5 Becoming Bobbie Gentry 6 “Produced by Kelly Gordon and Bobby Paris” 7 The Summer of “Ode to Billie Joe” 8 Capitol Pre-orders Five Times as Many Records as Meet the Beatles 9 The Capitol Years 10 Viva Las Vegas 11 What the Song Didn’t Tell You, the Movie Will 12 So I’m Packin’ Up and I’m Checking Out Notes July, 1967: It seems the entire country stopped to listen to a husky voice steeped in the simmering secrets of the South tell a tragic tale of teenage suicide. So much for the Summer of Love. “Ode to Billie Joe” knocked the Beatles' “All You Need is Love” off the top of the charts, and Bobbie Gentry became an international star. Almost 50 years later, Gentry is as enigmatic and captivating as her signature song. Of course, fans still want to know why Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. They also wonder: Why did Bobbie Gentry, who has not performed or made a public appearance since the early 1980s, leave it all behind? Through extensive interviews and unprecedented access to career memorabilia, Murtha explores the real-life mysteries ensnarled within the much-disputed origin of Ode to Billie Joe. The result is an investigative pop history that reveals, for the first time, the full breadth of Bobbie Gentry's groundbreaking career-and just may help explain her long silence. Reviews “Tara Murtha examines that song and the rest of Bobbi Gentry’s career in Ode To Billie Joe, the latest release in the 33 1/3 series of books. It is a wonderfully compelling book and the best I’ve read in the series since “Television: Marquee Moon.” Perhaps it’s her background as a reporter, but Murtha does not go down the pedantic path that many of the books in this series seem to do lately. Instead, the author presents a fascinating study of Gentry and her career-defining debut. That’s right; “Ode to Billie Joe” was her debut recording. Wow.” – Steve J., AllMusicBooks “Murtha pulls free the threads of truth from a tangled knot of personal mythology and contradictions. Her book is likely to be a hit with casual listeners and pop-culture obsessives alike.” - Katie Haegele, Utne Reader “Philadelphia journalist Tara Murtha has dug deep into the story behind Gentry’s song with the latest entry in the “33 1/3” book series devoted to various pop albums of significance… Murtha charts Gentry’s challenges as a musician who in her teens was most interested in selling her songs to other singers, not recording them herself. But once she did get into the position of recording, she was up against a male-dominated record industry that offered little validation to a young woman with her own ideas about performance and production.” – Randy Lewis, L.A. Times  Bobbie Gentry sued Movie Stars magazine for defamation in response to this magazine story, that claimed she was pregnant with Elvis’s child.  Sharing Widget |
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