fabulous song....and American original....
Thanks for the memories. Song got a lot of airplay,
Robby Benton played billyjoe in the movie.IIRC.Loved this song.
I so enjoyed this being posted last year. Don’t know if it was you that did but it really went to me. Was actually just thinking of it yesterday, unaware of the exact day or what month even, lol, I do not know the lyrics that well.
Nice to hear this haunting song again. Really makes a summer memory.
Radio stations held contests. Who had the best guess of what was thrown off the bridge. Though Bobby Gentry never said, most think they were throwing a dead baby in the water.
An interesting note is Bobby Gentry grew up in L.A. She had relatives from the South be never spent much time there.
The movie was made PC, even back then. Billy Joe killed himself because he’d had a homo experience. That was NOT in the song.
Thanks for the memories
That was such a great song and so different from everything else on the radio at the time. I don’t think there’s been another like it.
A timely posting of a great, American classic. Thanks.
Obviously Brother Taylor was there on the bridge when Billy Joe “jumped”. I have always thought he followed them and pushed BJ off the bridge to have her for himself. When he said he saw BJ and her throw something off the bridge, it was a cover. She wasn’t eating because of what she knew and also knew no one would take her word over his.
Don’t y’all worry yo-selves none about it.
Pass the biscuits, please.