I was only 4 years old…but I wanted to be Bobbie.
I was only 4 years old. But I knew Bobbie Gentry was the absolute bomb. All that long brown hair, those long eyelashes, the guitar and her voice.
Here she was on the Smothers Brothers. I remember them too.
Number 412 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
So simple, southern and slightly spooky.
Just perfect.
So true, Jamie. Women today don’t wear enough mascara or fake eyelashes. The hair is kinda scary, though, part Elvis (and Priscilla), part Al Sharpton, part Sha Na Na.
The Smothers Brothers are still arguing over which one “mom liked best.”