Yet no one sees her or hears from her. Good for her if that's the way she wants it.
Former owner of the Phoenix Suns? And what the heck were they throwing off the bridge?
Believe it or not, I was actually the last person to cross that Tallahatchie bridge before it collapsed. I grew up not far from there.
A bit of trivia, she was married to Jim Stafford for a period
Some of her content definitely was pushing the boundaries of what was allowed in country music radio in the late 1960s.
She can’t match the power of Reba’s voice in her version of “Fancy” but I find Bobby’s softness gives her rendition an element of vulnerability. It’s the same quality that makes her character in “Louisiana Man” (one of my favorites of hers) seem child-like and takes you back to the time in your own childhood when the world seemed impossibly big and even the simplest things seemed special.
She pulled a Howard Hughes and walked away from music while she still was relatively popular and became a hermit. The tabloids say she’s only been seen in public once in the 40+ years since she retired, but I expect that’s an oversimplification. It’s not that she hasn’t been seen, it’s just that she keeps a low profile and doesn’t get recognized.
Love when this is posted, nearly every year!
The photo reminds me of how makeup became so so heavily used by women in the 60s and after.
I remember (about 1964, I would have been 10) a 40ish woman, who was a local farmer’s daughter (who married a city guy) that would visit our church with her parents. She had grown up at that church. I was shocked at the amount of paint on her face. She didn’t look real.
Nowadays people think nothing of it. Many women are afraid to be seen without it. That really unfortunate.
You could just “feel” that song.
This year is the 100th anniversary of the Jefferson Davis monument at his birthplace in Kentucky. It's shaped like the Washington Monument (but not as tall). Supposedly a lot of tourists stop and their first question is "Who was Jefferson Davis"?
One of those feel-good songs—until you actually listen to the lyrics.
From wikipedia:
Gentry married casino magnate Bill Harrah on December 18, 1969. The couple divorced April 16, 1970.
On May 16, 1970, it was announced that Gentry was engaged to be married to Stanley Dorfman, the producer and director of her BBC television series Bobbie Gentry.[20] She married Thomas R. Toutant on August 17, 1976 and she divorced him on August 1, 1978.
On October 15, 1978, Gentry married singer and comedian Jim Stafford with whom she had a son, Tyler Gentry Stafford. Gentry and Stafford divorced in September 1980.[34][35][36]