Word: joe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farewell to Thee. Diana's demise came in 1925, when the New York Life Insurance Co. decided to build a skyscraper on the site. As the last boxing event got under way the night of May 5, 1925, the gravelly voice of Announcer Joe Humphreys boomed over the crowd: "Farewell to thee, O Tem ple of Fistiana, farewell to thee, O sweet Miss Diana." He climbed from the ring, sobbing. Next day Lawyer-Statesman Elihu Root and Fight Promoter Tex Rickard stood together bare headed in the rain as a derrick lowered Diana from her pedestal...
...flower? A ring? A baby? The big summer mystery, the question that resounds from Boston to the Bayou is: What did Billie Joe McAllister throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge...
Singer Bobbie Gentry, 23, may know the answer, but she isn't telling. Instead, the slim Mississippi farm girl is basking in the news that her Ode to Billie Joe, which she cut for Capitol Records on July 10, has passed the million-sales mark, and that her first LP album (including Billie Joe and eight other songs written and sung by her) has an initial run of 500,000 copies...
...Billie Joe, says Bobbie, is a ballad based on her recollection of life around...
Languorous Narrative. The pop-music industry, always alert for new categories, sees in Billie Joe a lot more than that. There is talk of a new division of the already thin-sliced rock-'n'-roll world; the song, says a rock connoisseur, is the world's first example of "folk-rock narrative." It is also the only one; the other songs in the album are straightforward, pleasant folk ballads...