To paraphrase Sun Tzu, if you wait by the river long enough, all that you seek with float by, and I've been standing on that river bank waiting for this to come into sight for an age now. Bobby Gentry's 'Ode To Billie Joe'. I've wanted a vinyl copy of this for years and knew one day (like many others I seek) it would turn up in a charity shop record box. I've searched those boxes regularly. Over the years I've come across two other Bobby Gentry albums, both nice, 'Fancy' (released in the UK as 'I'll never fall in love again') and 'Way down South' (the 1972 release of Gentry's 1968 The Delta Sweete'), and today there it was, a lovely condition, vinyl and cover, 'Ode To Billie Joe' for a quid. Oh happy day!
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