We'll be on our way up to Boston for our son's wedding. Hopefully the weather will be warm so we can have the windows open and the music going! Getting ready for a great weekend. It is also my middle son's birthday - he'll be 26 on Wednesday June 6th.
I think the Cook's will be getting ready for their big day too.
going to babbie louies for some good southren bbq corn bread hand pulled pork bbq beans cold bud and maybe some butter pecan ice cream yummie not dickies dee's but close then on to the hitching post bar n saloon for some good country music
Tomorrow, June 3,2009 I will be having lunch & a few cocktails at Cornelia Street cafe (Village) with my old friend Jeffrey & then onto Rocco's on Bleeker for expresso & whatever else......
No one seems to know what was thrown off the bridge. Being a person who believes in conspiracies, are we sure he jumped off the Tallahachi Bridge - or did someone push him? An irate Father perhaps???
The mysteries surrounding the characters in the song created something of a cultural sensation at the time and at least one urban legend. In 1975, Gentry told author Herman Raucher that she hadn't come up with a reason for Billie Joe's suicide when she wrote the song. She has stated in numerous interviews over the years that the focus of the song was not the suicide itself, but the rather matter-of-fact way that the narrator's family was discussing the tragedy over dinner, unaware that Billie Joe might well have been her boyfriend.
A popular speculation at the release of the song in 1967 (unsupported by either the song's lyrics or the culture of that area and time period) was that the narrator and Billie Joe threw their baby (either stillborn or aborted) off the bridge, and Billie Joe then killed himself out of grief and guilt. This version of events is accentuated in the Sinéad O'Connor version, where a baby is heard to cry at the moment the mystery item is thrown off the bridge. There was also speculation that Billie Joe was a black man, having a forbidden affair with the white narrator, although the culture of that area, in that time period, made it extremely unlikely that a black male would have had any part in the events described in the song's lyrics (a frog down the narrator's back at a public movie theater, socializing with the narrator's family after church, or being seen together throwing "something" off of a bridge in public).
Gentry continually dismissed the belief that the song was biographical. At the height of the song's popularity, numerous rumors circulated that Ms. Gentry had been questioned by Mississippi police.
I think this could be turned into an award winning - top 10 - milllionaire making screenplay by none other then our own John C. It would be much better then the original with greed, indifference, sex and violence abounding. (all missing in the original). Now, who would play Billie Jo?
i am hysterical. you guys/gals are all nuts. i was just telling them at work what your responses were & i'll be damned guess what came on the radio. that made me hysterical all over again.
how'd i get into your classes? i am the only sane one!!!
keep putting a smile in my day all of you. love it
Unlike other tunes such as "Miss American Pie" or "Abraham, Martin & John" in which you know who the subjects are and what occurred, this song is very Beatles-esque in that it leaves you wondering, "What the Hell was that all about? Is Paul dead? Did John 'bury' Paul?"
I like the mystique of it; not particularly the song but the idea of writing a song as such.
Hmmm...maybe it was Billie Joe and not Chen Fuchao threatening to jump from a bridge in China....and was pushed by a motorist who was annoyed at him for holding up traffic while threatening to jump??? I understand the irrate motorist was on his way to Kentucky Fried Chicken for some FREE grilled chicken and was going to be late. THAT DARNED OPRAH!
instead of Billy Jo can we push Corizine off the bridge? can use the Driscoll as far as i am concerned only make SURE he sinks..............
pass the biscuits please
Papa said to Mama as he passed around the black-eyed peas
"Billie Joe never did make a lick of sense. Pass the biscuits, please.
There's five more acres in the lower 40 I got to plow."
And Mama said it was a shame about Bilie Joe anyhow.
Am I the only one who went to see the movie circa 1975ish starring Robby Benson?
I do remember Gene Shalit's review of it- and I quote " I tell you what's ode.. the audience is owed their money back for this"
