This is an absolutely awesome song. I can't believe it was written by 2 men. But hearing this song at such a young age when everything about women's sexuality was a big no-no, was very real.
Bettye's version was not the one I heard first. I know both her and Bobbie Gentry made it their own. A great song and two powerful women singing it.
I apologize because I know this review belongs under Bobbie Gentry, but Songmeanings has stripped that album to only 4 songs. Disgusting.
I came here looking for Bobbie Gentry's version tho, because it was on one of the hands-down best albums ever, produced by Rick Hall. And this song, along with the title song Fancy (classic written by Bobbie Gentry herself!), and some very fine covers like Rainmaker, Something in the way he moves, Find 'em fool em' and forget em', Delta man, If ya gotta make a fool of somebody...all take me to the heat and laid back feeling of the south in a way nobody ever has before or since.
This is an absolutely awesome song. I can't believe it was written by 2 men. But hearing this song at such a young age when everything about women's sexuality was a big no-no, was very real.
Bettye's version was not the one I heard first. I know both her and Bobbie Gentry made it their own. A great song and two powerful women singing it.
I apologize because I know this review belongs under Bobbie Gentry, but Songmeanings has stripped that album to only 4 songs. Disgusting.
I came here looking for Bobbie Gentry's version tho, because it was on one of the hands-down best albums ever, produced by Rick Hall. And this song, along with the title song Fancy (classic written by Bobbie Gentry herself!), and some very fine covers like Rainmaker, Something in the way he moves, Find 'em fool em' and forget em', Delta man, If ya gotta make a fool of somebody...all take me to the heat and laid back feeling of the south in a way nobody ever has before or since.