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(1,046 posts)that names June third as a significant marker in time.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)That date has stuck in my head for years. 06/03/1977 getting my drivers license and Rocky!
Laxman
(2,419 posts)I hope you're not a Neil Diamond fan. This was was just such an annoying song on the radio when I was a freshmen in college. I hated it but the stupid lyrics (It was the third of June.....) are burned into my memory.
byronius
(7,406 posts)49jim
(560 posts)WABC in NY (my AM car radio) as I commuted to Suffolk Community College as a Freshman in September 1967.
John1956PA
(2,665 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)about that song. It somehow really hooked me 'way back when, and I always wondered what they threw off the bridge.
The link was fascinating.
BodieTown
(147 posts)...and she was asked the inevitable question, what does the song mean?
"Absolutely nothing." It was just a song, a story, and nothing more to it.
It's always been a favorite of mine.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)clip from the movie 'Ode To Billy Joe' with Robbie Benson
and how they marketed it based on the mystery of the song's lyrics
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)on the album Intercontinental.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)allowed an interesting conversation and had to play him the song.
thumbs up
groundloop
(11,529 posts)butterfly77
(17,609 posts)I was a kid but I would always sing the part about the Tallahasse bridge.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)I remember workin' late into the morning when this song was a hit.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)After listening to it I wanted to jump off the Tallahatchie bridge.
pinto
(106,886 posts)Stuff not generally talked about. For some reason it stands out for me. The times they were a changing as Dylan showed up later to note.