Local Gentry

Local Gentry
Studio album by Bobbie Gentry
Released 1968
Recorded 1968
Genre Female vocal
Label Capitol
Producer Kelly Gordon
Bobbie Gentry chronology

The Delta Sweete
(1968)
Local Gentry
(1968)
Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell
(1968)

Local Gentry[1] is the third album by Bobbie Gentry. The second of four albums she released in 1968, it was produced by Kelly Gordon.

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Track listing

Side one

  1. "Sweete Peony" (Bobbie Gentry) - 2:26*
  2. "Casket Vignette" (Gentry) - 2:34*
  3. "Come Away Melinda" (Fran Minkoff, Fred Hellerman) - 3:21
  4. "The Fool on the Hill" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 3:44
  5. "Papa's Medicine Show" (Jamie Horton) - 3:50
  6. "Ace Insurance Man" (Gentry) - 3:33

Side two

  1. "Recollection" (Gentry) - 2:10*
  2. "Sittin' Pretty" (Gentry, Kelly Gordon) - 3:19
  3. "Eleanor Rigby" (Lennon, McCartney) - 2:27
  4. "Peaceful" (Kenny Rankin) - 2:51
  5. "Here, There and Everywhere" (Lennon, McCartney) - 2:28

Sittin' Pretty

In 1971 the album was reissued as Sittin' Pretty minus the track "Come Away Melinda".

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