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.
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?
A. True, or
B. False.
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?[SOURCE: Lydia Hutchinson(2013)_Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode To Billie Joe”]
A. True, or
B. False.
[SOURCE:
Ode To Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry]
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.
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.]
=================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.
++ 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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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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