Bobbie Gentry released “Ode to Billie Joe” backed with “Mississippi Delta” in July 1967. The song, a first-person narrative, sees the narrator’s family react to the news that Billie Joe ...

And she and Billie Joe was throwing something off the Tallahatchie Bridge. KEVIN WHITEHEAD, BYLINE: Carla Cook, in the year 2000, on a rare, jazz vocal version of "Ode To Billie Joe." ...

And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin’ off the Tallahatchie Bridge.” I first heard the song, “Ode to Billy Joe,” by Bobbie Gentry that summer in 1967 on WCAO on the AM dial of the ...

Many Mississippians know the third of June as the day Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge as Bobbie Gentry sang in her 1967 smash "Ode to Billie Joe." This year the date will ...