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Obla-Di to Billy Joe

Eagle-eyed pop-culture fanatic reader Steve T. points out that the woman with the gigantic black wig in the astounding Bing-Crosby-Meets-the-Beatles clip I posted earlier is Bobbi Gentry, who sang “Ode to Billy Joe.” This just gets better and better. UPDATE: Another alert reader, Dave at Garfield Ridge, has scoured the Internet and discovered that this clip comes from an October 11, 1969 episode of “Hollywood Palace,” which aired on ABC.

John Podhoretz, a New York Post columnist for 25 years, is the editor of Commentary.
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