Local Gentry

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Local Gentry
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Studio album by Bobbie Gentry
Released October 1968
Recorded May 10 - July 20, 1968
Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood, CA
Genre Female vocal
Length 33:23
Label Capitol
Producer Kelly Gordon
Bobbie Gentry chronology
The Delta Sweete
(1968)The Delta Sweete1968
Local Gentry
(1968)
Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell
(1968)Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell1968

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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