Bobbie Gentry sings Fancy

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Here's Bobbie singing one of her greatest songs on The Johnny Cash Show from Jan. 21, 1970.

Channel: Music
Uploaded: February 18, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Author: shirlgirlwhirl

Length: 0:04:21
Rating: 4.79
Views: 103,640

Tags: Bobbie Gentry Fancy Johnny Cash

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gorgon53 (Sunday 16th of November 2008 09:51:36 AM)
Breathtaking. Sympathetic tale of an impoverished girl pushed by life into prostitution, that isn't the least bit whiney or apologetic about it. This clear and confrontational country song held its own on the charts, against the monster hits by The Beatles. Just look at Bobbie match her recording, live. One of the grandest folk song poets of the mid-century, and where did she disappear?
gwizdawka (Saturday 8th of November 2008 04:56:18 AM)
It is 1970? She looks older.
danieldrownr (Saturday 8th of November 2008 08:52:00 PM)
She looks beautiful and sophisticated at 26 in this video. Recent pictures of her in her 60's still show a woman of considerable beauty with the same great figure and signature mane of thick flowing hair in a shorter style.
jache77 (Friday 7th of November 2008 06:14:41 PM)
this was a damn good song! deal with it country bitch!
LyricLover420 (Tuesday 4th of November 2008 06:54:38 PM)
Ooops...my bad. This is the only "country" music I listen to...never heard this version until today. Yes, Bobbie Gentry is the original author!
danieldrownr (Thursday 6th of November 2008 03:41:52 AM)
The first cover of this Bobbie Gentry classic was by Lynn Anderson in 1970.
jellybug9 (Saturday 1st of November 2008 12:33:19 PM)
Was this song country at first?
danieldrownr (Saturday 1st of November 2008 11:15:09 PM)
Bobbie Gentry had a scatter gun market with her singles and albums. It went #26 country, #65 r&b, 31# pop and #18 on what was then called the mor(middle of the road) charts, today called adult contemporary.
LyricLover420 (Tuesday 4th of November 2008 10:37:58 AM)
This was a Reba McEntire song...so this a was cover of it. So, yeah, I guess it was country. Listen to Reba's original if u wanna know what it was at first.
TheChosenOne613 (Tuesday 4th of November 2008 02:31:48 PM)
No, this is Gentry's song; McEntire covered it, as did Julia Murney.