Bobbie Gentry “Ode To Billie Joe” LP (1967)

Details: “Ode to Billie Joe” is the debut studio album by Bobbie Gentry. It was released on August 21, 1967, by Capitol Records. Light scuffs and scratches —cover is aged, but near mint, graded conservatively—record wear does not affect play-through. Description: “In August 1967, Lyndon Johnson announced that he was sending 45,000 more troops to Vietnam. Black power advocate Stokely Carmichael called for revolution in the streets. Beatles manager Brian Epstein died from an overdose of sleeping pills. But around water coolers, the hot topic was what Billie Joe McAllister and his girlfriend threw off the Tallahatchie Bridge. The mystery created by Bobbie Gentry in her debut single “Ode To Billie Joe” cast a spell over the entire country. Set to a backing of spare acoustic guitar chords and atmospheric strings, Gentry’s sensual, Southern-fried voice relates the story of two Mississippi teenage lovers who share a dark secret that eventually leads to the boy’s suicide. And over 40 years lat