Thursday, May 20, 2021

Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1968-1970

Here's the second of three albums of Bobbie Gentry at the BBC. As I said previously, there's been an official BBC album released for her, but I've managed to find a lot of material not included on that, making this three albums instead of one.

On this album, 10 out of the 19 songs remain officially unreleased. Most of those are from other TV show appearances, but a couple are from BBC shows that didn't get included on the official release for some reason, maybe because they were duets. In fact, speaking of duets, she does a bunch of those here,  singing songs with Bing Crosby (twice),  James Taylor, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, and John Hartford and Roy Clark. I presume there are more with Campbell that I didn't find, since the two of them did a whole duets album together during this time period.

As with the other albums in this series, some of the songs here haven't been officially released by her in any form. Many of those are the duets, like "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," "Something's Wrong," and "Shady Grove."

01 Niki Hokey - Barefootin' (Bobbie Gentry)
02 Penduli Pendulum (Bobbie Gentry)
03 Ace Insurance Man (Bobbie Gentry)
04 Chickasaw County Child (Bobbie Gentry)
05 Okolona River Bottom Band (Bing Crosby & Bobbie Gentry)
06 Little Green Apples (Glen Campbell & Bobbie Gentry)
07 Recollection (Bobbie Gentry)
08 Sweete Peony (Bobbie Gentry)
09 Something's Wrong (Bobbie Gentry & James Taylor)
10 Sandman's Comin' (Bobbie Gentry)
11 Refractions (Bobbie Gentry)
12 Greyhound Goin' Somewhere (Bobbie Gentry)
13 Cotton Candy Sandman (Bobbie Gentry)
14 Put a Little Love in Your Heart (Bing Crosby & Bobbie Gentry)
15 Rainmaker (Bobbie Gentry)
16 Shady Grove (Bobbie Gentry, John Hartford & Roy Clark)
17 When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder - In the Sweet By-and-By (Bobbie Gentry)
18 Fancy (Bobbie Gentry)
19 Bayou Baby - On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain (Bobbie Gentry & Johnny Cash)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15117222/BobbieGen_1968-1970_BBSessionsVolume2_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo comes from a BBC TV show in 1968. I actually cropped it from a larger photo that includes her doing a duet with Donovan. (The songs from that are on the first volume.) If you look at the bottom right corner, that tiny bit of purple is from Donovan's clothes.

3 comments:

  1. Hi Paul
    Thanks so much for the Bobbie Gentry BBC material - so wonderful -I'm a big fan!
    One query though - would it be possible to identify the BBC programme source and date for each track please....(even if just the year)?
    For the 3 albums?
    Thanks,
    Mike

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    1. It's all there already, in th3 mp3 tags. If you don't know what those are, you can just click or right click on the files to get that info. Or use a free program like Mp3Tag or TagScanner for better access.

      As an example, here are some of the tags for this album:

      Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - The Girl from Chickasaw County (Bonnie Gentry (BBC TV Show). London, Britain, 8-10-1968) - Niki Hokey - Barefootin' - 01 - 1968 - -
      Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - The Girl from Chickasaw County (Bonnie Gentry (BBC TV Show). London, Britain, 8-10-1968) - Penduli Pendulum - 02 - 1968 - -
      Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - The Girl from Chickasaw County (Bonnie Gentry (BBC TV Show). London, Britain, 8-10-1968) - Ace Insurance Man - 03 - 1968 - -
      Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - The Girl from Chickasaw County (Bonnie Gentry (BBC TV Show). London, Britain, 8-10-1968) - Chickasaw County Child - 04 - 1968 - -
      Bing Crosby & Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - Unreleased, The Hollywood Palace (TV Show), 1-4-1969 - Okolona River Bottom Band - 05 - 1969 - - X
      Glen Campbell & Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - Unreleased, Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (TV Show), 1-29-1969 - Little Green Apples - 06 - 1969 - - X
      Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - The Girl from Chickasaw County (Bonnie Gentry (BBC TV Show). London, Britain, 7-16-1969) - Recollection - 07 - 1969 - -
      Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - The Girl from Chickasaw County (Bonnie Gentry (BBC TV Show). London, Britain, 7-16-1969) - Sweete Peony - 08 - 1969 - -
      Bobbie Gentry & James Taylor - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - Unreleased, Bonnie Gentry (BBC TV Show). London, Britain, 7-16-1969 - Something's Wrong - 09 - 1969 - -
      Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - Unreleased, Bonnie Gentry (BBC TV Show). London, Britain, 7-16-1969 - Sandman's Comin' - 10 - 1969 - -
      Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - The Girl from Chickasaw County (Bonnie Gentry (BBC TV Show). London, Britain, 7-16-1969) - Refractions - 11 - 1969 - -
      Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - The Girl from Chickasaw County (Bonnie Gentry (BBC TV Show). London, Britain, 7-16-1969) - Greyhound Goin' Somewhere - 12 - 1969 - -
      Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - The Girl from Chickasaw County (Bonnie Gentry (BBC TV Show). London, Britain, 7-16-1969) - Cotton Candy Sandman - 13 - 1969 - -
      Bing Crosby & Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - Unreleased, The Hollywood Palace (TV Show), 10-11-1969 - Put a Little Love in Your Heart - 14 - 1969 - - X
      Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - Unreleased, The Hollywood Palace (TV Show). 1-17-1970 - Rainmaker - 15 - 1970 - - X
      Bobbie Gentry, John Hartford & Roy Clark - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - Unreleased, The Hollywood Palace (TV Show), 1-17-1970 - Shady Grove - 16 - 1970 - - X
      Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - Unreleased, The Hollywood Palace (TV Show), 1-17-1970 - When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder - In the Sweet By-and-By - 17 - 1970 - - X
      Bobbie Gentry - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - Unreleased, The Johnny Cash Show (TV Show), 1-21-1970 - Fancy - 18 - 1970 - - X
      Bobbie Gentry & Johnny Cash - BBC Sessions, Volume 2 - Unreleased, The Johnny Cash Show (TV Show), 1-21-1970 - Bayou Baby - On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain - 19 - 1970 - - X

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    2. Oh - I didn't know about that - great! Thanx so much!!

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