[PROCON]

I enjoyed her music.

Seems she's in seclusion nowadays.

[nickcarraway]

I saw her at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge.
Maybe she jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge?

[eyeamok]

Last time I talked to her she was still living on Bellagio in Bel-Air, but that was probably 15 years ago.

[ifinnegan]

Thing is, that song is not that great.

[humblegunner]

I saw her working the counter at Buccee’s in Beaumont.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Started off as a Country and Western singer. Got the big head, married some rich old codger, rejected her C&W roots claiming to be a “Blues” singer, never heard from again.

[bigbob]

Here’s a great live version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaRacIzZSPo

She could knock a song out of the park, and sure filled a pair of jeans nicely, too.

[Talisker]

[bigbob]

Named one of the 500 Greatest Songs Ever. And here is the answer to your actual question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghGjS5kPM_E

Happy Third of June, all!

[MamaB]

She is from my hometown county. I do not know if she still has relatives in Chickasaw County, MS. She has been out of the public eye since the 1980’s. She was just a country girl who made it through her music.

[exDemMom]

Ode To Billy Joe is a wonderful song. I read a book once based on the song, which was a disappointment and dimmed my liking for the song. But the more I forget the book, the better the song sounds.

[bleach]

This is my favorite track by her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMtn52TvBa0

[odawg]

“And why did he jump to his death off that bridge?”

Someone who claimed to know stated there was a lover’s spat, she took the engagement ring off, threw it in the river, and he jumped in to retrieve it.

[vetvetdoug]

Ode to Billie Joe was songwriting at the very best and is why we are talking about it. Fancy was also a great song. She became disillusioned with the music business and got away from it and is probably living a great life without the notoriety. Physically she is beautiful, her singing really good and quite an artist. Stafford quoted one time that she was bed bug crazy but then most women are.

[Fiji Hill]

I like the song for its depiction of life in rural northwestern Mississippi—the farm economy, the customs, the religion (the preacher, Brother Taylor is probably Southern Baptist), and the cuisine—blackeyed peas, biscuits, apple pie served during “dinner,” which is the noontime meal, as it is in Oklahoma.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“Today, computer databases clearly show that perhaps the nation’s most reclusive pop star lives in an 8,000-square-foot house with a great pool not all that far from the old homestead. Real estate agents confirmed it. “

[Mozilla]

Not sure about her but Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

[Gay State Conservative]

I was a kid growing up in the suburbs of Boston when her hit came out.Country music and the South might as well have been on another planet to me.But that song has always been beyond spooky to me.

[Kenny500c]

Don’t give a hoot about the song or what they was throwing off the bridge, but pass the biscuits, please.

[MayflowerMadam]

One of my favorite albums in the ‘60s was Bobbie Gentry singing duets with Glen Campbell. I still love it (but don’t have it any more).

[Gay State Conservative]

Just realized...today's the 3rd of June! Duh!