Bobbie Gentry released “Ode to Billie Joe” backed with “Mississippi Delta” in July 1967. The song, a first-person narrative, sees the narrator’s family react to the news that Billie Joe McAlister ...

Nashville singer/songwriter LAURA PURSELL today (July 10) releases the video and single of her interpretation of the classic Bobby Gentry song “Ode To Billy Joe.” This marks the second single from her ...

Many Mississippians know the third of June as the day Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge as Bobbie Gentry sang in her 1967 smash "Ode to Billie Joe." This year the date will ...

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 ...

On this day (July 10) in 1967, Bobbie Gentry released “Ode to Billie Joe,” the lead single from her debut album of the same name. Weeks later, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100, giving Gentry her ...

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 ...

A flower? A ring? A baby? The big summer mystery, the question that resounds from Boston to the Bayou is: What did Billie Joe McAllister throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge? Singer Bobbie Gentry, 23, ...