The 24-year-old singer-songwriter created one of the biggest hits of 1967, but listeners became obsessed with a mystery she deliberately refused to solve.

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 ...

Born Roberta Lee Streeter in 1942, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, Bobbie Gentry never harbored any singing aspirations. Although she would make history as one of the first female artists in the U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many Mississippians know the third of June as the day Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge as Bobbie Gentry ...

Singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry was just 24 years old when she wrote and recorded the iconic Southern Gothic ballad that would become her career-defining hit. Citing Tara Murtha's Bobbie Gentry's Ode ...