Who sang the song Ode to Billy Joe?

Question

It's a Song from the early 70's. and a Movie was Made about it. First correct answer gets the 10 points.

Answer 1

bobbie gentry

Answer 2

Bobby Gentry

Answer 3

Bobby Gentry

Answer 4

Bobbie Gentry a.k.a. Mrs. Jim Stafford

Answer 5

First off 'Ode To Billy Joe' was not the name of the song, it was the name of the movie...Anyway

The album 'Ode To Billie' Joe was written and performed by Bobbie Gentry in 1967. Warner Bros commisioned author Herman Raucher to adapt it to a novel and screenplay in 1976. The name of the movie was'Ode To Billy Joe'

Track list for Ode To Billie Joe:
1. Mississippi Delta
2. I Saw an Angel Die
3. Chickasaw County Chile
4. Sunday Best
5. Niki Hoeky
6. Papa, Won't Let Me Go to Town With You
7. Bugs
8. Hurry, Tuesday Child
9. Lazy Willie
10. Ode to Billie Joe

Lyrics:
It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet"
And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
"Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

'n' Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
"There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
'n' Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

'n' Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
"I'll have another piece-a apple pie, you know it don't seem right"
"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge"
"And now ya tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

'n' Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?"
"I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite"
"That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way"
"He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge"
"And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
'n' Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring
And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge

As to Bully's message...I am not a Dumb *** and maybe you should check the artist page before you blab off your mouth. Go to this web site and check it out yourself;
http://home.hetnet.nl/~sixties/LYRICS/1967/6709231208.html
If that doesn't work use a search engine or encyclopedia

Answer 6

Bobby Gentry---I luv that song

Answer 7

Bobbie Gentry
the oldies are the best

Answer 8

I thought it was Jeannie C Riley..am I right??