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Bobbie Gentry
Chickasaw County, Mississippi, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bobbie Lee Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter; July 27, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter who was one of the first female artists to com…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bobbie Lee Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter; July 27, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter who was one of the first female artists to compose and produce her own material. Gentry rose to international fame with her intriguing southern gothic narrative "Ode to Billie Joe" in 1967. The track spent four weeks as the No. 1 pop song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was fourth in the Billboard year-end chart of 1967, earning Gentry Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1968. Gentry charted 11 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and four singles on the United Kingdom Top 40. Her album Fancy brought her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. After her first albums, she had a successful run of variety shows on the Las Vegas Strip. In the late 1970s Gentry lost interest in performing.
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2014
Country Queens at the BBC
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2011
Country at the BBC
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1974
Dinah!
TV show Self
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1973
The Bobby Goldsboro Show
TV show
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1971
Disco
TV show Self
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1969
The Jim Nabors Hour
TV show
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1969
The Johnny Cash Show
TV show Self
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1969
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
TV show Self
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1968
Bobbie Gentry
TV show
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1967
The Carol Burnett Show
TV show Self - Guest
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1966
4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet
TV show Self
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1964
The Hollywood Palace
TV show Self
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1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV show Self
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1961
The Mike Douglas Show
TV show Self - Co-Host
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1958
Kraft Music Hall
TV show Self
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1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV show Self
