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Margie Singleton – Ode to Billie Joe

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Margie Singleton's version of Bobbie Gentrie's Ode to Billie Joe. This song got a lot of play on country music stations in the late 1960s but has all been forgotten in the past 50 years. The oldies stations still play Bobbie Gentry's version but I doubt many country stations still play Margie Singleton.

The irony of the song is that the Tallahatchie Bridge is not a good one to commit suicide on. It's only about 20 feet above the river that is fairly deep and muddy, and plenty of people have jumped off it and walked away without a scratch. https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2705/4539269463_edfbbb8d6c_b.jpg

Bobbie Gentry intended for the song to be more ironic then about suicide. Bobbie Gentry's goal with the song called out the callousness of society as the Vietnam War was escalating, with the family noting the suicide in with more mundane business of life.

Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound

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Most people don't understand how a digital recording is an exact reproduction of the analog waveform with no distortion.  Nyquist-Shannon says if you sample an audio signal digitally at twice the maximum bandwidth, as defined by the low-pass filter, mathematically the only signal that come out the other end, after going through another low-pass filter is the exact sine wave that went into the recorder. So, the digital sampling, actually can reproduce the exact analog sine wave -- all thanks to math. A Russian scientist invented Nyquist-Shannon in 1933 but it was rediscovered by Nyquist and Shannon in America circa 1964.