Folk-blues singer Bobbie Gentry achieved the unthinkable when she dethroned the Beatles with her debut album, 'Ode to Billie ...

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 ...

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.

Psych-pop greats Mercury Rev have recorded an entire tribute album to Bobbie Gentry‘s The Delta Sweete, the 1968 concept album followup to her chart-topping 1967 debut Ode to Billie Joe. Not a ...

In 1967, Bobbie Gentry turned a mysterious story about a Mississippi family, a young man's death and an unnamed object tossed from a bridge into one of the year's biggest hits. "Ode to Billie Joe" was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Country Music's Influential Icon Bobbie Gentry Left the Spotlight More Than 44 Years Ago On April 30, 1982, Bobbie Gentry attended ...

Of all the major label box sets issued last year, perhaps the one whose commercial and critical success most took the market by surprise was Universal’s The Girl From Chickasaw County, an eight-CD ...

Country music seems to have nearly forgotten one-time megastar Bobbie Gentry, who rose to mainstream fame in 1967 with pop crossover hit "Ode to Billy Joe," and just as suddenly vanished in the early ...

Fifty-one years ago this month, Capitol Records released the debut single by Mississippi-born singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry. Now, for the first time, all seven of Gentry’s studio albums will be ...

In May 1981, Bobbie Gentry appeared on NBC’s “An All-Star Salute to Mother’s Day” and sang a song to her mother, seated in the studio audience. When the two-hour TV special ended, viewers had ...

The tenuous nature of fame means that several artists have walked away from the ACM Awards never to be seen again, but Bobbie Gentry may be the only country singer to have done it so deliberately. On ...