reba mcentire, fancy

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actually makes sex work redemptive, fantastic strange melodrama (the details, babies starving cockroaches on high heel shoes, etc) , production that is out of this world, and reba belts it like nina simone singing house of the rising sun.

its a lost classic, can we talk about it.

anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 28 May 2005 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, but it's also a bobby gentry cover, right?

xhuxk, Saturday, 28 May 2005 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

how is it a 'lost' classic - it's her biggest hit!!!!!!! they still play it like every four hours on the radio.

j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

it is a bobie gentry cover

j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

is it a bobbie gentry cover?!
holy fuck, this is excellent news
i havent heard it on the radio in a good couple of years

anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 28 May 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

love reba

Surmounter, Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:28 (seventeen years ago)

love her show, at least.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:29 (seventeen years ago)

it's good!

Surmounter, Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:32 (seventeen years ago)

...except Jake, who suffers the biggest pitfall of being a male child actor: deliver one laugh line and then exit the set as quickly as possible. Seriously, that kid's always leaving in the middle of scenes because he told a funny.

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:38 (seventeen years ago)

morbz if you liked that penetrating insight may i recommend a little television program called 'reba'

-- and what, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 15:27 (3 months ago) Link

···◊··· (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

never heard the reba m version but bobbie gentry's 'fancy' is such a great song. "and i got me a georgia mansion and an elegant new york town house flat - naw i ain't done bad!"

lex pretend, Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:53 (seventeen years ago)

Lex compares Bobbie Gentry's "Fancy" to The-Dream's:

Rolling Country 2009 Thread

xhuxk, Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

i genuinely thought the-dream would've meant that, the comparison seems so neat, but he'd never heard the bobbie gentry version. but he did write down her name to look it up after i explained what it was about!

lex pretend, Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:19 (seventeen years ago)

There's an amazing version by The Geraldine Fibbers, its on the rough trade country vol.1 comp.

preview here, couldnt find it on youtube: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Geraldine+Fibbers/_/Fancy

Jamie_ATP, Thursday, 4 June 2009 17:34 (seventeen years ago)

First song in 2009 that made he hit repeat and listen all over again, more than once: "Where Is Bobbie Gentry" on Jill Sobule's "California Years." Not that this has anyting to do with Reba or "Fancy." I should also note that Bobbie's "Fancy" was one of the first 45s I ever owned. My mother gave it to me....

mottdeterre, Thursday, 4 June 2009 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

I have a student who is like a MANIACAL Reba fan. For example, every time I see her working in the library, she's like "Yeah, I was up all night tweeting with Reba." She enters contests and shit.

She was going apeshit about this song and I thought I would give it a try. Verdict: surprisingly poignant! And a great opportunity for teaching unreal conditionals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayk3mp024SQ&feature=player_embedded#!

The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 14:28 (fifteen years ago)

Reba is the best damn singer

honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:45 (fifteen years ago)

she sings with a lot of feeling, which you just don't get every day
her voice sounds older and not like a belting teenager

The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:46 (fifteen years ago)

her 80s song "You Lie" used to make my cry my eyes out

honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:46 (fifteen years ago)


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