Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry (BBC Live 1968)
Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry (BBC Live 1968) Here is Bobbie's own delicate rendering of perhaps her best known song. Lost in the BBC archives since 1968, and looking and sounding just as good as the day when this version was first laid down.
About Bobbie Gentry
Bobbie Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter, July 27, 1942) 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. 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 Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop V...
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