50 years ago today Ode To Billie Joe was released

[JWBrahman]

Everybody my age remembers his mother singing this song. It was huge in Louisiana. Max Baer (Jethro- Beverly Hillbillies) produced the 1976 movie.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rNB8AKMdqiQ

 

[Workinonit Farm]

I remember when this song came out. Still like it!

50 years ago???? :shock: (the years fly by so fast)

 

[dun]

Dam, I don;t even want to think of Bobbie Gentry being 50!

 

[Bright Raven]

That song was a good story. My, my! Lots of water has passed under the Tallahatche bridge!

 

[greybeard]

Dam, I don;t even want to think of Bobbie Gentry being 50!

27 July, she'll be 73... born in '44.

 

[dun]

Dam, I don;t even want to think of Bobbie Gentry being 50!

27 July, she'll be 73... born in '44.

A little long in the tooth (beak) but still a spring chicken.

 

[JWBrahman]

She lives about 2 miles from Choctaw Ridge.

 

[melking]

I am so old......