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Friday, July 10, 2015

2015[28]A -- Ins-Net As for July 10, 2015: "It's TorF Trivia (Ode to Billie Joe)" [A-A-A]

Insomniac-Net ANSWERS -- Friday[28], July 10, 2015 [ A - A - A ]
Tonight's Topic: "It's TorF Trivia (Ode to Billie Joe)"
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    It's that time again:  Some TRUE or FALSE ("TorF") Trivia -- about Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe.
    On July 10, 1967 -- forty-eight years ago today -- Bobbie Gentry recorded a song in Studio C of the Capitol Records tower on Vine Street in Hollywood.
    It took less than an hour for Gentry to record the song track while accompanying herself on the guitar; the arranger, Jimmie Haskell, added background violins and cellos later.
     That song -- Ode to Billie Joe -- originated when Gentry woke up one night and scribbled on a pad of paper: "Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge".
     It relates a down-home story about two Mississippi teenage lovers -- sharing a dark secret up on Choctaw Ridge and throwing something off the Bridge -- that eventually leads to the boy’s suicide.
    After debuting on the Billboard Hot 100 on August 5, 1967, the song charted at No. 1 three weeks later; and in 1968, Gentry collected 3 GRAMMYs for the song.
    Since then, and for tonight, how much do you know about Bobbie Gentry and her enduring lyrical mystery of why "Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"?

    Please give us your best answers for each of the following 3 TRUE or FALSE questions, by using the (reuseable) answers of "A"=TRUE or "B"=FALSE.
    Good Luck and remember, YOU are always a WINNER with us, regardless of your actual answers!
    OK, "y'all remember to wipe your feet" and let's get TorF-ing about good Ode to Billie Joe!
 ++ "It's TorF Trivia (Ode to Billie Joe)" ++
Question #1: The finished version of Ode to Billie Joe was over 7-minutes long; however, Capitol edited it down to a more manageable 4-minutes and stuck it on the flipside (B-side) of Gentry's first released single, Mississippi Delta -- True or False?
        A. True, or
        B. False.
     “Ode” was recorded on July 10, 1967 at Studio C in the Capitol tower. Accompanying herself on guitar, Bobbie nailed a keeper take in 40 minutes. Arranger Jimmie Haskell told MOJO, “I asked Kelly, ‘What do you want me to do?’ He said, ‘Just put some strings on it so we won’t be embarrassed. No one will ever hear it anyway.’ The song sounded to me like a movie—those wonderful lyrics. I had a small group of strings—two cellos and four violins to fit her guitar-playing. I was branching out in my own head for the first time, creating something that I liked because we thought no one was ever gonna hear it.”
    The finished version of “Ode” was over seven minutes long. Capitol edited it down to a more manageable four minutes and stuck it on the flip side of “Mississippi Delta.” But those were the days when DJs still had minds of their own, and as in the stories of so many classic hits, the B-side became the A-side.
[SOURCE: Lydia Hutchinson(2013)_Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode To Billie Joe]
Question #2: During an interview, Gentry said: “Everybody has a different guess about what was thrown off the bridge -- flowers, a ring, even a baby". However, Gentry claimed the song was actually a "sort of a study in unconscious cruelty." -- True or False?
        A. True, or
        B. False.
 In this song, a family finds out about the death of Billie Joe and shares gossip about him at the dinner table along with their other mundane concerns. Bobbie Gentry explained: "The message of the song revolves around the nonchalant way the family talks about the suicide. The song is a study in unconscious cruelty."
[SOURCE: Ode To Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry]
Question #3In 1976, inspired by Gentry's song, Max Baer, Jr -- who played "Jethro Bodine" on the TV show The Beverly Hillbillies -- directed and produced the movie Ode to Billy Joe -- True or False?
        A. True, or
        B. False.
Max Baer (born December 4, 1937) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director.
He is best known for playing Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies and in January 2015, after the death of Donna Douglas, Baer became the last surviving member of the show's cast....
He then had the idea of using the title of a popular song as a movie title and acquired the rights to the
Bobbie Gentry hit song and producing Ode to Billy Joe (1976).
Made for US$1.1 million, it grossed $27 million at the box office, plus earnings in excess of $2.65 million outside the US, $4.75 million from television, and $2.5 million from video.
The film starred Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor.
Since the success of Ode to Billy Joe, the motion picture industry has produced more than 100 song title movies.
[SOURCE: Wikipedia -- Max Baer, Jr.]
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    ++ QUOTES OF THE DAY ++  -- by Bobbie Gentry:
            “My grandmother noticed how much I liked music, so she traded one of her milk cows for a neighbor’s piano,” and
            “We didn’t have electricity, and I didn’t have many playthings."
        [SOURCE: Lydia Hutchinson(2013)_Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode To Billie Joe]
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Ode to Billie Joe (Lyrics) [SOURCE: The Mystery of Ode to Billie Joe]
It was the third of June,
another sleepy, dusty Delta day.
I was out choppin' cotton
and my brother was balin' hay.
And at dinner time we stopped,
and we walked back to the house to eat.
And mama hollered at the back door
"y'all remember to wipe your feet."
And then she said she got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Today Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

Papa said to mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas,
"Well, Billie Joe never had a lick of sense,
pass the biscuits, please."
"There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow."
Mama said it was shame about Billie Joe, anyhow.
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge,
And now Billie Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show.
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
"I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it don't seem right.
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge,
And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge."

Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?
I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite.
That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today,
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday. Oh, by the way,
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge
And she and Billie Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge."

A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billie Joe.
Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo.
There was a virus going 'round, papa caught it and he died last spring,
And now mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything.
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge,
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge.
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