Bobbie Gentry
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Bobbie Gentry is an American retired singer-songwriter. She was one of the first female artists in the United States to compose and produce her own material.
Publicity photo for Capitol Records, 1969
Gentry in 1968
Billboard advertisement, May 8, 1971
Ode to Billie Joe
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"Ode to Billie Joe" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry released by Capitol Records in July 1967, and later used as the title track of her debut album. Five weeks after its release,
Bobbie Gentry
…artists in the United States to compose and produce her own material. Gentry rose to international fame in 1967 with her Southern Gothic narrative "Ode to Billie Joe". The track spent four weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was third in the Billboard year-end chart of 1967, earning Gentry the…
In this photograph from the November 10, 1967, issue of Life magazine, Gentry crosses the Tallahatchie Bridge in Money, Mississippi.
Capitol Records publicity poster featuring Gentry