Bobbie Gentry or Dusty Springfield?

Interesting to see Bobbie Gentry and Dusty Springfield in topic. 

I bring my period press of Ode to Billy Joe and Dusty's LOL to hear on show systems.

Both album recordings are fantastic on nice systems.

As a child,I was  in love with Bobbie. Her album was in regular rotation on the family Grundig console. 

Must have been the big hair and tight jeans.

Use your own shovel.

I'd do both of them.

Best part of this is I don't have to choose, I can revel in the glory of both of them (plus, of course Shelby's tribute recording to Dusty).  Bobbie wrote great songs and made great records.  Dusty sang great songs and made great records.  And the Mercury Rev, WOW.  Lucinda's vocal on that record is wonderful to these ears.  

I don't have an opinion on the vs. question, but sort of on topic, I recommend checking out Shelby Lynne's Just a Little Lovin' record.  It's her tribute to Dusty Springfield and a great listen.

@pehare  I’ve been enjoying the MV album.   

@n80, if you're interested enough, give a listen to Dusty In Memphis, considered her best album. Prior to that, she, like almost all Pop singers, was a "singles" artist, not an album one. Her voice has a subtle, exquisite quality of heartbreak and longing. She's one of my five or so favorite female singers of all time.

@bdp24 : I’ve never been into either one of them but I completely get what you’re saying.

Off topic but I do like Jack White's cover of Dusty Springfield's  "I Don't Know What to Do With Myself" written by Burt Bacharach.

love em both grew up listening to that stuff....you may want to checkout delta sweetie by mercury rev fantastic hears some info:
A tribute to Bobbie Gentry's 1968 gem The Delta Sweete that features an amazingly talented group of vocalists: Hope Sandoval, Norah Jones, Lucinda Williams, Beth Orton, Vashti Bunyan, Carice van Houten from Game of Thrones, and more. Bobbie Gentry was an American singer-songwriter and one of the first female artists to compose and produce her own material. 'Ode to Billie Joe' was Bobbie Gentry's 1967 debut as a singer-songwriter and a Number One single for three weeks in the late Summer of Love.