What the heck did they throw off that bridge? Listeners have been asking that ever since Bobbie Gentry debuted "Ode To Billie ...
Q: What can you tell me about the song “Ode to Billie Joe” by Bobbie Gentry? What year did it come out and was it about a real or fictional person? I ask because I was in the Army with a Billy Joe ...
In 1967, folk-country singer Bobbie Gentry became famous for her song “Ode to Billie Joe.” The unlikely hit about a young man’s tragic jump off the Tallahatchie Bridge in Mississippi went to No. 1 on ...
Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to Billy Joe” inspired a drama of the same name in 1976. The screenplay followed the basic facts in the song’s narrative, which details the events of a Mississippi man who ...
The snippets above draw from the liner notes of The Girl From Chickasaw County, an exhaustive box set dedicated to Gentry’s years with Capitol Records. Evidently, she has had nothing to do with its ...
TUPELO • Bobbie Gentry was the darling of the 1967 Grammys, winning three awards behind the strength of her breakthrough single, “Ode to Billie Joe.” Gentry, the singer/songwriter from Chickasaw ...