If you ask Orville Peck, he'll tell you that there are two original versions of "Fancy": one by Reba McEntire; the other by Bobbie Gentry. Both performers, he says, interpreted the song with uncanny ...

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 ...

While promoting her boxed set, “Revived, Remixed, Revisited,” country legend, Reba McEntire explained why her 1990 hit “Fancy” is always her closing song. The tune has long captivated listeners with ...

Today, Bobbie Gentry is often talked about because of her mysterious disappearance from country music. In late April 1982, at the height of her music career, the star abruptly stepped away from the ...

Bobbie Gentry is one of the great legends of 1960s popular music, an artist who debuted with an enigmatic, enduring smash hit who then cultivated an idiosyncratic country-pop crossover sound for a few ...

June 3 is unofficially Bobbie Gentry Day, as that's the day the singer's most famous character jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge in the smash hit "Ode to Billie Joe." Fifteen years later, Gentry ...