Talk:Billie Jo Spears

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Of course anyone not interested in country music (except for the appeal of the "pop"-crossover artists,) has obviously never heard of Billie Jo Spears, that is until her death! As for this sub-category called "countrypolitan", that has NEVER, ever been used here in the US; in fact, it sounds more of a label the British may have coined, as they had "Northern Soul". You'll pardon me, but I don't believe my southern cousins are literate enough, nor liberal to come up with such an appellation. As concerns the late Ms. Spears' singing style, it should be corrected that her voice and "technique" was more "bluesly", as in Rhythm and "Bluesly". Without a doubt her contemporaries, like Mac Davis, the younger Kenny Rogers and the bewitiching Ms. Crystal Gayle mimicked the African American Soul music venacular and tenor, as did most white artists in the 50s, 60s and especially the 70s (Play-That-Funky-Music-White-Boys-and-Gals)! Again, it is quite amazing that Billie Jo was not famliar nation-wide, and in fact was a regional artist. One of her songs mentioned was "MISTY BLUE", cited to have been covered by numerous artist. The only version that peaked nation-wide, and at the top of the charts was recorded by DOROTHY MOORE, and hands-down the best rendition and intereptation of that composition. Also, I must say that I don't remember Joe Simon singing this tune, and being something of an Eddy Arnold fan when I was very young-listening on the "Easy radio" stations' format, I swear I never heard him sing Misty Blue either, and I doubt if hecould have pulled it off!!! --67.86.98.26 (talk) 20:21, 15 December 2011 (UTC)Veryverser