The musical score was composed by a legendary three-time Oscar winner.

It’s been 50 years since the movie Ode to Billy Joe was released. The drama film directed by Max Baer Jr. made its nationwide ...

That is the opening line of one of music’s most discussed, examined and appreciated songs — “Ode to Billie Joe,” written and performed by Bobbie Gentry, who was born in Mississippi’s Chickasaw County.

Gentry has not given interviews, performed, or appeared publicly since her 1982 appearance at the Academy of Country Music ...

JACKSON, Miss. — If I haven’t responded to your email following the “What happened to singer Bobbie Gentry?” column on June 1, consider this a personal apology and a “thank you” for each one. I have ...

Though her birth name was Roberta Lee Streeter, she was known around the world as Bobbie Gentry. Born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, and raised in the town of Greenwood, Gentry is most known for ...

It was not the third of June, nor was it another sleepy, dusty, Delta day. It was on another muggy July evening in St. Tammany Parish when my buddies and I first heard Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billie ...

If Bobbie Gentry never recorded anything other than her first single “Ode to Billie Joe” and later “Fancy,” her two biggest hits, she would still hold a significant place in country music history. But ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bobbie Lee Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter; July 27, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter who was one of the first female artists to compose and produce her ...

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