Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe (LP)

The Southern Gothic masterpiece ODE TO BILLIE JOE, by American singersongwriter Bobbie Gentry, would top the Billboard album chart in 1967. Its first single, the album’s title track, also topped the US pop chart for 4 weeks and received 8 Grammy nominations in 1967, resulting in 3 awards for Gentry (Best New Artist, Best Female Vocal Performance, and Best Contemporary Female Solo Vocal Performance), and one for arranger Jimmie Haskell (Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist).

Muzikanten:
BOBBIE GENTRY - (vocals & guitar)
George Fields - (harmonica & harp)
Harold Diner, Barrett O’Hara - (trombone)
Jack Sheldon - (trumpet)
James Burton, Mike Deasy - (guitar)
Norman Serkin, Joseph Saxon, Jesse Ehrlich - (cello & bass)
Carl Nashan, Ralph Schaeffer, William Kurasch - (violin)
Dale Anderson - (percussion)
Earl Palmer - (drums)

Original demo recorded by Bobby Gentry and Bobby Paris, early 1967.
Overdub sessions made at Capitol Studio C, Hollywood, California, between May & July 1967.

SIDE A
A1. MISSISSIPPI DELTA
A2. I SAW AN ANGEL DIE
A3. CHICKASAW COUNTY CHILD
A4. SUNDAY BEST
A5. NIKI HOEKY
SIDE B
B1. PAPA, WONCHA LET ME GO TO TOWN WITH YOU
B2. BUGS
B3. HURRY TUESDAY CHILD
B4. LAZY WILLIE
B5. ODE TO BILLIE JOE