GET READY TO GAG!
Bobbie Gentry sings FANCY on THE JOHNNY CASH SHOW! Those groovy moves and that wasp-waist! Fancy is a southern drag lip-synch classic, though I guess more gals do the Reba McEntire 80's cover. But Reba's version doesn't have that Memphis/Muscle Shoals horn section or those phenomenal black-up singers. And I doubt if Reba was ever cool enough to wear a polka-dot blouse with red bolero jacket and stretch bell bottoms--with a slit up the frint of the pants to highlight matching mod boots! WORSHIP!
Bobbie on WIKiPEDIA
posted by Lady Bunny at Saturday, March 10, 2007
5 Comments:
I liked the understatedness of Bobbie's version better. It was really sweet and honest, and didn't have all those big, bashy drums like Reba's version.
(Did you ever hear "The Girl From Cincinnati?" Bobbie could belt it too...!)
Thanks for posting this!
this was awesome, I don't remember her being this gorgeous, better than anything today.....once again an example to show that we are getin robbed today.
Aaron, I've never heard that one!
Steve, I love it when others acknowledge that we're being culturally robbed by today's shit. I always think people get bored with me saying it! --LB
Aaron, I've never heard that one!
Steve, I love it when others acknowledge that we're being culturally robbed by today's shit. I always think people get bored with me saying it! --LB
All her variety-show appearances on YouTube are sensational, simple, and surreal in a similar way, but that one is something else. That must have knocked out people from coast to coast the night that it aired, and at school the next day I bet all the little girls (and the little Lady Bunny) were trying out the dance moves on the playground.
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