Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe

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. Nine years later, Max Baer Jr (aka Jethro of "The Beverly Hillbillies") bought the rights to the song and had Herman Raucher write a screenplay. The title of the film was changed to "Ode To Billy Joe." Raucher interviewed Bobbie Gentry and asked her why Billy Joe had jumped and she said, "To tell you the truth, I have no idea." This gave Raucher the freedom to write his own theory and in Raucher's novel and screenplay, Billy Joe kills himself after a drunken homosexual experience, and ...