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Download # Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe (33 1/3) PDF by * Tara Murtha eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe (33 1/3) 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. "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. Foreword by musician Jill Sobule.. Of course, fans still want to know why Billie Joe McAllister jumped off th
| Title | : | Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe (33 1/3) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.22 (608 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1623569648 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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. "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. Foreword by musician Jill Sobule.. Of course, fans still want to know why Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. 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. So much for the Summer of Love. 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
Tara Murtha is a journalist based in Philadelphia, USA.
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. 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. 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 repo
"I dove in right away, and can't wait to" according to Amazon Customer. I dove in right away, and can't wait to get more books from the series. As an English major I took every opportunity to write about music as literature, and this is a whole series that aims to do the same.. "Song of the South" according to M Roy Clark. A fascinating read about a story shrouded in mystery and a reclusive former Pop and Country star.. Cooke Harvey said A well written, expertly investigated story regarding the mystery of "Ode to Billie Joe" and Bobbie Gentry.. Having read several of Tara Murtha's journalistic articles I was as anxious to read this new medium of hers as I was to learn about the subject. We all remember the song, the mystery, maybe even the film but I never realized how much a mystery Bobbie Gentry was herself. That is not to say she had an illusive
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