Bobbie Gentry
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Birth Name: Roberta Lee Streeter
Age: 81, born 27 July 1942
Country of origin: United States
Currently Residing In: United States
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55 votes
500 Greatest Album Sleeves!
(307 items)list by Happy Vader
Published 12 years, 2 months ago
7 comments
44 votes
500 Greatest Songs of all time - Updated!
(262 items)list by Happy Vader
Published 12 years, 2 months ago
7 comments
43 votes
If the School Of Rock Was Real...
(295 items)list by 13th moody grape
Published 11 years ago
4 comments
17 votes
Singers and musicians of yore
(90 items)list by irishblue
Published 9 years, 2 months ago
1 comment
15 votes
500 favorite songs of the 60's - UPDATED
(227 items)list by jeffpsych
Published 10 years, 10 months ago
5 comments
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Born: Chickasaw County, Mississippi, USA.
An American singer-songwriter notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material. Her songs typically drew on her Mississippi roots to compose vignettes of the Southern United States.
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 and earned her Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1968. Gentry charted
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1. The Carol Burnett Show (1967)
Rating: | 112 Watched |
2. Top of the Pops (1964)
Rating: | 109 Watched |
3. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
Rating: | 89 Watched |
5. The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
Rating: | 20 Watched |
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1. Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
Rating: | 8 Watched |
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" ROBERTA LEE STREETERBorn: 27 July 1942Grammies: 3 6Top 10s: 1 (1) 2 (1) Ode to Billie Joe (1967) - 1I'll Never Fall in Love Again (1969) - 1All I Have to Do is Dream (1969) - 3"
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