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 ...

On July 10, “Ode to Billy Joe” will celebrate the 57-year anniversary of the song’s release in 1967. It was written and recorded by BOBBIE GENTRY, and five weeks after its release, topped ...