Category: Murder ballads

"Miss, May I Drive You Home"

“Miss, May I Drive You Home”: Ends Badly For The Singer

Judy Lynn – “America’s Western Sweetheart” – would get her one and only 45 picture sleeve, tragically enough, for this cheerful-sounding honky tonk tale in which the singer informs us she has only seconds to live before the “kindly” stranger who offered a ride at the train station prepares to

January 31, 2025 No Comments

"Behind My Baby's Bedroom Door"

Johnny Seay Asks That You Not Look Behind His Baby’s Bedroom Door

In July of 1967, one month after the release of Bobbie Gentry’s Ode to Billie Joe album, Johnny Seay went into Columbia’s Nashville recording studio to record one song — a singularly strange, slightly surrealistic Southern gothic tale. Listen for the ghostly train whistle near the end of the first

August 27, 2013 No Comments