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    Lanny said:
    This song came out when I was in the Army in Basic Training. Never could figure out what it meant, just knew it was sad.
    Fortunately, I got side tracked with learning what the purpose of the bayonet was and still is and didn't have time to get gloomy.
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    Bobby Gentry called Ode To Billy Joe "a study in unconscious cruelty." It's not about anything really specific other than the girl who's eating dinner talking to her parents who mention that Billy Joe died jumping off the Tallahatchie River Bridge. And that a girl that looked liked her had been seen before hand with Billy, throwing something off it as well. In reality, the aforementioned bridge was only a few feet deep and people who consequently jumped off it just ended up in muddy water. The song is more about how terrible things are trivialized and fall into the background with the passage of time. But its one of those songs that almost has a mythology all by itself. Funny, but if you listen to the song "Fancy" by Bobby Gentry, the one Reba McEntire covered, that story draws straight from Gentry's own life and personal reflections. Sadly, Reba's version overshadows Gentry's which I feel is superior in every way.
     
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    ripcityboy said:
    Bobby Gentry called Ode To Billy Joe "a study in unconscious cruelty." It's not about anything really specific other than the girl who's eating dinner talking to her parents who mention that Billy Joe died jumping off the Tallahatchie River Bridge. And that a girl that looked liked her had been seen before hand with Billy, throwing something off it as well. In reality, the aforementioned bridge was only a few feet deep and people who consequently jumped off it just ended up in muddy water. The song is more about how terrible things are trivialized and fall into the background with the passage of time. But its one of those songs that almost has a mythology all by itself. Funny, but if you listen to the song "Fancy" by Bobby Gentry, the one Reba McEntire covered, that story draws straight from Gentry's own life and personal reflections. Sadly, Reba's version overshadows Gentry's which I feel is superior in every way.
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    That song has great sentimental value to me. I was just entering the Army and was in a particular tough training regimen in Basic.
    Thanks for the explanation, I've wondered all these years about the song's significance.
     
    Lanny said:
    The New Vaudeville Band - Winchester Cathedral (for you old timers)
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    You play this anywhere near my mother and she will scream. I'm not kidding. She hates this song.. I'm the same way with that song Brandy by Looking Glass. Play that anywhere near me and I will leave the room. Human beings are weird I guess.
     
    ripcityboy said:
    You play this anywhere near my mother and she will scream. I'm not kidding. She hates this song.. I'm the same way with that song Brandy by Looking Glass. Play that anywhere near me and I will leave the room. Human beings are weird I guess.
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    It has sentimental value to me. I remember listening to it over and over and over again when I worked at my first job, where my father was not my boss, at Montgomery Ward in NW Portland. This was also shortly before I got drafted. Otherwise, no, it's not particularly good music.
     
    Lanny said:
    It has sentimental value to me. I remember listening to it over and over and over again when I worked at my first job, where my father was not my boss, at Montgomery Ward in NW Portland. This was also shortly before I got drafted. Otherwise, no, it's not particularly good music.
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    I feel that way about a lot of 90's Country. I worked for my father a lot growing up and they always had like Garth Brooks music playing in the foundry. It was popular at the time but looking back, geez that was some trite stuff.
     
    ripcityboy said:
    I feel that way about a lot of 90's Country. I worked for my father a lot growing up and they always had like Garth Brooks music playing in the foundry. It was popular at the time but looking back, geez that was some trite stuff.
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    Thanks for reminding me of two great country and western songs. I'll post them below.
     
    another great song from the 70's that encapsulated that time of drugs and psychedelic music of the 70's. This song definitely has a San Francisco bay area sound with a bit of Jefferson Airplane in it.

     
    Another great album with 60/70 sound.
    I was in Concord and saw them play in a quansa hut type build with Sly Stone. JJ was so drunk she puked on stage which didn't surprise me!
     
    Don't know what steps lead me down this road today but I heard this song and it's been kind of floating in my head all day. I actually think about this subject a lot in regards to my kids, and the memories I want to leave with them.
     
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