60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
6/3/66 - For those of you keeping score, this would have been the day that Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge, according to Bobbie Gentry’s #1 Hit song released the following year. ("It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day") … but during the course of the song, Gentry mentions that “a year has come and gone since we heard the news ‘bout Billy Joe” … so that would have meant ol’ Billie took his leap on the 3rd of June, 1966, according to musical folklore.
You can relive some of the fun we've had over the years with this song here: https://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/search?q=ode+to+billie+joe
