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Friday[28], July 10, 2015
Tonight's Topic: "It's TorF Trivia (Ode to Billie Joe)"
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We hope you'll discover something interesting during the time we spend together on the Insomniac Net for the next 90+ minutes.
-- The ever-delightful Shelley [KF7TBA] and just plain old LW [K7LWA] (email K7LWA.INS@gmail.com).
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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.
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.
Question #3: In 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.
[SOURCE: TBA -- LW's Super-Secret TorF Trivia Ode to PWT Bob]
=================
++ 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: TBA -- LW's Super-Secret BG Quote Book]
=================
=================
Ode to Billie Joe (Lyrics) [SOURCE: TBA]
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.
=================
Please include you name, Callsign, and those correct answers.
Good luck everyone!
Shelley [KF7TBA] & LW [K7LWA]
K7LWA.INS@gmail.com
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Posted 2015-07-10 21:00PT
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Tonight's Topic: "It's TorF Trivia (Ode to Billie Joe)"
We hope you'll discover something interesting during the time we spend together on the Insomniac Net for the next 90+ minutes.
-- The ever-delightful Shelley [KF7TBA] and just plain old LW [K7LWA] (email K7LWA.INS@gmail.com).
(Please Note: The Net Controller's Answers are always CORRECT (even if they aren't every time!)
Please check out Winsystem's Insomniac Trivia Net page.
You can get these Questions & Answers at the Yahoo-groups' Messages Link.
=================
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"?
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!
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?
B. False.
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?
B. False.
Question #3: In 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?
B. False.
[SOURCE: TBA -- LW's Super-Secret TorF Trivia Ode to PWT Bob]
=================
++ 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: TBA -- LW's Super-Secret BG Quote Book]
=================
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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.
=================
Please include you name, Callsign, and those correct answers.
Good luck everyone!
Shelley [KF7TBA] & LW [K7LWA]
K7LWA.INS@gmail.com
| NOTE:
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info
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KE6LGE Big Al
KG6PH Chuck
K4GET Ronald
K4GET Fiona
WX7JM Josh
||| -- Alternate Net Controllers (Will Call)
N6MGW Herb
N5ZUA Steve
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K6JSI Shorty
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KL3KC Andrew
KL7BM Bruce
N6QCU Wayne
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KF4MXS Mark
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KI6JIP Bud
KE6UHG Dan & Wink
K4LES Les
KD4JMV Harry
K7ZH Bob Miller
KB7EM Howard
KH6GKK Paul
K7VAG Alannah
N7WNS Will
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KC8TJV Marilyn
KL7ES Paul
AF6VZ Albert
W7NLV+ Joyce
W7NLV Don
KD6LOG Cheryl
KO6GS Darrell
VA7CJB Jonathan
VA7CJB+CanadianCrew
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W6SAX Bryan
[[ NODE DROP ]]
[[ Re-READ? ]] [+20-25 mins]
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JN2UNC Toshiaki (Toshi)
JS1LQI Masa
JF1UCX Robbie
VK5ZEA Michael
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AC2NW Mike
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KD0OEC Doug
KB4TWG Bob
KD8USF Andrew
Ava_N Ava
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K5SWT Steven
N5SRB Sammy
K5TEL Tim
K5LTR Robert
KK5KE Larry
K4DXY David
W3NH Owen
W4JDJ Jim
KC8DSB Matt
N4MYI Jeremy
[[ NODE DROP ]]
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W7MTL Craig
W7FIF Mary
WA7ABU Dan
W7DWE Don
KG7EBI Mike
K7VFO Jeremy
KG6ZOA Anna
KG7CSS Richard
KG7BYC Art & Joyce
KE7QXR Russel
KG7QVZ Chris
KF6FYD Richard
NW7OR Richard
N7DKB Debra
KG7EMK Marty
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KF7PCL John
WA7MSE John
K7PIA Philip
KG7ODB Dean
KF7TOV Darin
KE7ZMJ Tom
KF7TCA Marty
WT1IM Tim
KG7RZD Troyce
VA7XNL Sheldon
VE7IIJ Jaspal
[[ NODE DROP ]]
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KK6QIY Steve
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KK6MWX John
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KK6SFZ Jason
KJ6NIM Judy
W6HTW Hank
KD6DIQ Todd
KI6INW John
KK6JSN Matt
KI6WTI Jim
KG7SCQ Brandon
KK6RDB Kerem
KE6AJY Bryan
KD7DFE Jennifer
KK7XX Luke
WA6HMN Cornell
[[ NODE DROP ]]
||| -- NEW Last Week [+1:10 - 1:15 hr]
KE6KOI Ben
KK6IPR Charles
KG6LYI David
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KF4PLR Randy
KD6PDN Bruce
KF7TCA Marin
W6NGF Mike
W6FVM Stephen
KK6RBO Frank
KJ6WEV Glenn
[[ NODE DROP ]]?
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CALLED ON-AIR INSTEAD
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VE4WKB Bill
VA7RJE Rob
KE7FTV Lori
AE7AN Al
KL7WM Daniel
KL7WM+ Dianna
KK6KBI Margie
K6PET Tom
KE6DNM+ Martha
KE6DNM Russ
KG7NQO Kelly
KF7ROS Jeremy
KG7NLV Steve
KJ6OJL Don
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WB6CSH Mike
KA7HBB Mike
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