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e a rock n roll guitarist her a straight laced catholic school girl plaid skirts fish sticks on friday and bruised knuckles compliments of the nuns rulers a jarringly intelligent girl with a protest gene that led her to speak her voice about the war i wasn t as forceful about it as she was now we have much of the same things marvin gaye sang about happening in our country what goes around comes around and it s not always good back then it was us young folks against the establishment our parents views and our grandparents staunch loyalty to this republic don t trust anyone over thirty we didn t see it we were too busy being young idealistic and most of the time plain stupid about the reality of what was carrying us on top of the wave of discontent we would give others the two finger peace sign as we passed them by not knowing that it meant victory and that winston churchill made it famous our parents had fought the evil that wanted to end america and knew at best it was a temporary fix they tried to tell us but we didn t listen the music and the evening news rewired our thinking taking away our logic will our grown adult children teach their children well momo and i carry our own fears and insecurities from our upbringing and subliminally pass them on to our children who will do the same with theirs we have to ask ourselves did we teach them well enough to overcome those moments will they see their parents hell slowly go by do our children and grandchildren have the fortitude to stand up for this country and lay down their lives for the good of it ben franklin was a genius when he told a woman when asked do we have a monarchy or a republic he replied madam we have given you a republic if you can keep it can we will we lord put your divine hand on every citizen of this country and lead us to victory over the forces of evil that are real and coming for us share this share on x opens in new window x share on bluesky opens in new window bluesky share on mastodon opens in 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in the chapel bob sullivan was the sound engineer on our record and he also worked as the sound engineer for the rolling stones and a few other famous rock groups that chose to record in dallas the original recording featured guitars and organ but marvin wrote horn parts and added them later giving it that chicago and tijuana brass sound which was just emerging around that time share this share on x opens in new window x share on bluesky opens in new window bluesky share on mastodon opens in new window mastodon share on nextdoor opens in new window nextdoor share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on telegram opens in new window telegram share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp share on threads opens in new window threads share on facebook opens in new window facebook print opens in new window print share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest email a link to a friend opens in new window email like this like loading say it ain t so billy joe an ode to rock music and bobbi gentry featured phil strawn 36 comments after a few months of rehearsals and gigs with our new members danny and marshall alice our manager announced that she had arranged an audition for a female singer for the band no consulting the boys on this one it was full ahead alice had good ideas so we rolled with them she thought some familiarity would add depth and make us more audience friendly since we were a bunch of surly young men with longish hair and the attitude to accompany our looks she knew someone who had a neighbor who knew another neighbor of a family who lived next door to a lady who attended church with a woman who had a daughter who sang in the choir at school and did solos at church so alice one step ahead of us escorted her into the practice room and announced boys this is miss janelle in walks this teenage girl with a full grown woman s head of long hair piled up in a big bump on top then falling down past her shoulders she was a dead ringer for bobbie gentry but could she sing a tv dinner tray sat by marshall s organ used for drinks and lyric sheets so the auditioning singer pulled from a coppertone beach bag a few record albums a book of lyrics a tab cola and a framed 8 10 autographed photo of bobbie gentry now we knew why she looked so much like bobbie gentry she dug the gal danny asked miss janelle what songs she knew do ya ll know any dusty springfield petula clark diana ross lulu sonny and cher marianne faithfull april and the flowers dione warwick lesli gore ronnie spector she asked danny said nope we are a rock band not the ed sullivan show that kind of busted her bubble a little bit well she says how bout some bobbie gentry i just love her and she is my favorite singer in my whole life we had already figured that out from the picture and the hair du our inquisitive drummer barry interrupted her isn t that the song where she and the boyfriend throw a baby child off a bridge into the muddy river miss janelle whirled around and yelled no moron she didn t throw no itty bitty baby off a bridge it was a bouquet of mississippi wildflowers to solidify her big love for her man billy joe macallister but then he got caught dating his auntie s pet sheep causing him to jump off the old bridge into the muddy tallachee river bobbie sent me a letter along with this picture explaining the whole song but i promised to keep it a secret we re friends you know she thinks hard for a minute then says the only rock n roll song i know is gracie slick s somebody to love ya ll know that one we sort of knew it so we gave it a go the lass let loose and was jumping around like tina turner hair flying everywhere strutting and shimmying doing the bug a loo the monkey the watusi and a few others while singing when we ended the tune marshall our organ player was staring her down with those big pansy boy watery puss n boots eyes he clearly had a severe case of the hubba hubba s for this gal danny told us that this happens about once a week and he will be alright once he gets home and eats his mama s hot supper alice announces she is marvelous and is now part of the band okey dokey at the next rehearsal miss janelle comes in with red eyes and mascara trails down her cheeks all sniffily and weepy she says my boyfriend said i can t sing with a bunch of degenerate rock musicians we are in love big time and i must quit the band now still in the grip of the hubbas hubbas marshall puts a consoling arm around her shoulders and tells her it can t be all that bad she barks at him shut up moon doggy it s my party and i ll cry if i want to and with that she packed her coppertone beach bag with her albums lyrics book tab cola and the autographed picture of bobbie gentry and left leaving the air heavy with teenage perfume hair spray and juicy fruit gum then more to come in my series share this share on x opens in new window x share on bluesky opens in 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by the rock a rolla bug he knew another guy on his block who played guitar and owned a fender bassman amp which automatically made him a band member and he knew a neighbor across the street who was a drummer with a snare and one cymbal he also knew a kid with another cheap japanese guitar who would part with it for 10 00 i snatched it bought his sears amp for another 15 00 and was back in the biz hours of practice produced twenty songs which we could repeat at least once or twice by shuffling them around and changing singers and keys our first gig was at the harrington park swimming pool plano texas in the early summer of 1965 the dolphins left to right jarry boy davis warren whitworth ron miller jay roe nelson phil strawn guitar tuners hadn t been invented yet so we used a pitch pipe and got as close as possible to a440 and apparently it wasn t close enough we sounded like hammered raccoon crap on grandma s china plate it was a humiliating experience in my playing frenzy i broke my b string and had to play with five strings then our amplifiers went south because the outside temperature was over 100 degrees and we were in the direct sun then the drummer s head on his snare split his cymbal fell over and cracked and jerry nelson another guitar flanger tripped on an extension cord and fell flat damaging his silvertone guitar our third guitar player warren came into contact with water splashed from the pool onto the concrete while touching the strings of his electrified ungrounded guitar resulting in a bad electrical shock hair frizzed out smoking from his ears and burns on his fingers he finished the gig not knowing who or where he was the grand debut ended with sympathetic applause and the pool manager refused to pay us even though our contract stipulated free burgers and shakes warren our previously electrocuted guitar player got into a fight with our drummer and the two rolled around in the gravel parking lot for a while with no clear victor we thought warren was a trooper considering the amount of electricity that had almost fried him an hour before bad music tends to piss folks off the final curtain was when my pal jarry discovered his mustang had a flat tire so we had to call our parents to rescue us welcome to the rock n roll music business from 1966 into 1967 the band continued with better gear a new drummer and bass player and a different name we were now known as the orphans a strange pick since we were all middle class guys with full sets of parents but barry corbett our drummer thought it sounded tough and a bit rebellious barry may have been the biggest rebel of the four members listening to frank zappa and spike jones and teaching himself to play the sitar george harrison s influence led him into the realm of indian music which he fully embraced to the point of obsession he developed a strange peter sellers type accent wore a red dot on his forehead and had two high school girls follow him around town wearing white robes and playing with small cymbals attached to their fingers he was also a rudderless musical genius and would soon lead us into the semi big time and the really big show alice davis jarry s mother was now our official manager and did a wonderful job she knew people and had connections and was not afraid to use them or to press a business contact into hiring her band we were booked around dallas and fort worth most friday and saturday nights we made some good cash from high school kids but spent it all on new equipment and clothing band members were in constant rotation teenage musicians proved to be an unreliable commodity our keyboard and bass player left us for high school football again leaving three of us calls went out alice worked the phones and contacts and we auditioned two musicians from mckinney texas danny goode a bass player singer and former member of the excels and marshall sartin church organist classically trained pianist and blues guitar player we played a few songs as a five member band and almost passed out it was as if the ghost of phil spector had brought us into that practice room at this appointed time in the universe which was strange because spector was still alive and kicking in los angeles the orphans left to right front jarry davis danny goode left to right rear barry lil spector corbett phil strawn marshal sartin miss alice was religiously overcome with musical emotion and experienced a spell of the rock n roll vapors that led to seating herself with a double jack daniels and branch water barry our drummer and musical genius had an epiphany and went to work on arranging our music and vocal parts showing marshall how to play them on his farfisa organ which was another strange thing jarry and i didn t know barry could play the piano or as we soon found out the guitar the trumpet the sax or the vibes we dubbed him lil spector in honor of the famous wall of sound producer after the miss janelle bobbie gentry infused tenure that ended in a puff of hairspray and perfume the band took a vote no females allowed marshall was still recovering from a severe case of the love fever hubba hubba s and we needed him in good condition for our upcoming gigs miss alice grew weary of working the phones dealing with clubs and booking gigs her realty business was suffering and needed her attention she arranged for us to be managed by an upstart agency called mark lee productions of dallas texas mark was a go getter and had more connections than bell telephone his one and only main band kenny and the kasuals had just released a great 45 that was climbing the charts so we were excited about working with him we signed on the dotted line of a ten page contract that not one of us read why bother we were young and full of piss and vinegar point us in the direction of the stage and plug us in within twenty four hours the orphans were booked into some of the hottest venues in the dfw the studio club luanns the pirates nook phantasmagoria teen a go go and the box 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