Bobbie Gentry
Wikimp3 information about the music of Bobbie Gentry. On our website we have 29 albums and 70 collections of artist Bobbie Gentry. You can find useful information and download songs of this artist. We also know that Bobbie Gentry represents Country genres.
Biography
[Edit]Bobbie Gentry remains one of the most interesting and underappreciated artists to emerge out of Nashville during the late '60s. Best-known for her crossover smash "Ode to Billie Joe," she was one of the first female country artists to write and produce much of her own material, forging an idiosyncratic, pop-inspired sound that, in tandem with her glamorous, bombshell image, anticipated the rise of latter-day superstars like Shania Twain and Faith Hill. Of Portuguese descent, Gentry was born Roberta Streeter in Chickasaw County, MS, on July 27, 1944; her parents divorced shortly after her birth and she was raised in poverty on her grandparents' farm. After her grandmother traded one of the family's milk cows for a neighbor's piano, seven-year-old Bobbie composed her first song, "My Dog Sergeant Is a Good Dog," years later self-deprecatingly reprised in her nightclub act; at 13, she moved to Arcadia, CA, to live with her mother, soon beginning her performing career in local country clubs. The 1952 film Ruby Gentry lent the singer her stage surname.
After graduating high school, Gentry settled in Las Vegas, where she appeared in the Les Folies Bergère nightclub revue; she soon returned to California, studying philosophy at U.C.L.A. before transferring to the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. In 1964, she made her recorded debut, cutting a pair of duets — "Ode to Love" and "Stranger in the Mirror" — with rockabilly singer Jody Reynolds. Gentry continued performing in clubs in the years to follow before an early 1967 recording a demo found its way to Capitol Records producer Kelly Gordon; upon signing to the label, she issued her debut single, "Mississippi Delta." However, disc jockeys began spinning the B-side, the self-penned "Ode to Billie Joe" — with its eerily spare production and enigmatic narrative detailing the suicide of Billie Joe McAllister, who flings himself off the Tallahatchie Bridge, the single struck a chord on country and pop radio alike, topping the pop charts for four weeks in August 1967 and selling three million copies. Although the follow-up, "I Saw an Angel Die," failed to chart, Gentry nevertheless won three Grammy awards, including Best New Artist and Best Female Vocal. She was also named the Academy of Country Music's Best New Female Vocalist.
With her second album, 1968's The Delta Sweete, Gentry returned to the country charts with the minor hit "Okolona River Bottom Band." Although her recordings were typically credited to Capitol staff producers, she later maintained she helmed the sessions herself and also wrote much of her own material, drawing on her Mississippi roots to compose revealing vignettes that typically explored the lifestyles, values, and even hypocrisies of the southern culture. Favoring more soulful and rootsy arrangements over the lavish countrypolitan style in vogue in Nashville at the time, Gentry's records sound quite unlike anything on either the country or pop charts at the time and her smoky, sensuous voice adapted easily to a variety of musical contexts. But to many listeners, she remained a one-hit wonder and her excellent third album, 1968's Local Gentry, received little notice. That same year, Gentry issued a duet album with Glen Campbell, returning to the country Top 20 with "Let It Be Me"; the duo regularly collaborated throughout the 1970s, scoring their biggest hit with a reading of "All I Really Want to Do."
In 1969, Gentry reached her creative zenith with Touch 'Em With Love — though cut in Nashville, the record owed far more to the gritty R&B sounds emanating across the state in Memphis and generated her first U.K. number one, a smoldering rendition of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David perennial "I'll Never Fall in Love Again." The single's success also earned Gentry her own short-lived BBC television variety series. However, as her star diminished stateside, she became a fixture of the Las Vegas circuit, mounting an elaborate nightclub revue that she not only headlined but also wrote and produced, even overseeing the choreography and costuming. Gentry's 1969 marriage to Desert Inn Hotel manager Bill Harrah ended after only three months, but the following year she returned to the county and pop Top 40 with the title cut from her fifth album Fancy. In 1971, she issued her final Capitol effort, Patchwork, primarily confining her performing to her nightclub act for the next several years. A CBS summer replacement series, The Bobbie Gentry Happiness Hour, aired for four episodes in 1974; Gentry next surfaced on the big screen, credited as co-writer for a 1976 film adaptation of Ode to Billie Joe. After a second marriage, to fellow singer/songwriter Jim Stafford, ended in 1979 after only 11 months, Gentry gradually receded from public view, retiring from performing and eventually settling in Los Angeles.
Title: The Girl From Chickasaw County - The Complete Capitol (CD8)
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Genre: World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: Bobbie Gentry: Greatest Hits
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Country, Pop
Title: Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell
Artist: Bobbie Gentry, Glen Campbell
Title: I'll Never Fall In Love Again: The Best Of
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Genre: Rock, World Music, Country, Pop, Folk
Title: The Very Best Of
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Genre: Soul, World Music, Country, Pop, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: The Capitol Years: Ode to Bobbie Gentry
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Rock, Punk Rock, Country, Pop
Title: The Girl From Chickasaw County - The Complete Capitol (CD1)
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Genre: World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: The Girl From Chickasaw County - The Complete Capitol (CD7)
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Genre: World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: The Girl From Chickasaw County - The Complete Capitol Masters
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Genre: Country
Title: The Very Best of Bobbie Gentry
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Country, Pop
Title: The Girl From Chickasaw County - The Complete Capitol (CD3)
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Genre: World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: The Girl From Chickasaw County - The Complete Capitol (CD2)
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Genre: World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: The Girl From Chickasaw County - The Complete Capitol (CD5)
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Genre: World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: The Girl From Chickasaw County - The Complete Capitol (CD6)
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Genre: World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Title: The Best of Bobbie Gentry - The Capitol Years
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Country, Pop
Title: The Girl From Chickasaw County - The Complete Capitol (CD4)
Artist: Bobbie Gentry
Genre: World Music, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Collections
Title: Women of the World Take Over
Genre: World Music
Title: When I Was a Young Girl: The Coolest Women of the 1960s
Genre: Pop
Title: Jukebox & Doo Wop Girls, Vol. 12
Genre: Pop
Title: Classic Country Essentials, Vol. 4
Genre: Country
Title: The No. 1 Hits - 1967
Title: The No. 1 Hits - 1969
Title: Compact Disc Club - Best Smooth Jazz Ever CD 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: Compact Disc Club - Best Smooth Jazz Ever Vol. 2 CD 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: 1000 Original Hits 1967
Genre: Rock
Title: Compact Disc Club - Wonderful CD 3
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: Top One USA CD 8 1967
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: 100 Oldie Collection CD 15
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: 100 Oldie Collection CD 22
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: Best Of The Sixties CD 4
Genre: Pop
Title: Good Vibrations CD 1
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: Good Vibrations CD 3
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: Late Night Tales
Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Pop Rock
Title: Sounds From The South (CD 1)
Genre: Soul Jazz
Title: Sounds From The South (CD 2)
Genre: Soul Jazz
Title: Cantando En Español / Cantando En Espanol
Genre: Pop
Title: 101 Voices (CD5)
Genre: Electronica, Pop
Title: The Best Smooth Jazz... Ever! (CD2)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Massive Hits! - Number 1s (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Title: Best Of Easy Listening - Disc 2
Genre: Country, Pop, Country Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Country Music 2013
Title: Sounds Of The The Sixties - 1967 (CD2)
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: 100 Hits - Love Songs (CD5)
Title: Sassafras & Moonshine: The Songs Of Laura Nyro
Genre: Pop Rock
Title: The Best Sixties Album Ever (CD2)
Genre: Rock
Title: Tio I Topp 1961-1974
Title: Alle 40 Goed (Easy Listening) (EMI 2013) (CD1)
Genre: Rock, World Music, Pop
Title: Alle 40 Goed (Easy Listening) (CD1)
Genre: Rock, World Music, Pop
Title: Vale A Pena Ouvir De Novo - Vol. 03
Genre: Latin
Title: Las 500 Mejores Canciones De La Historia (CD21)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Grunge, Rock & Roll, Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: A Time To Remember - 1967
Genre: Jazz, Rock, World Music, Pop
Title: A Time To Remember - 1969
Title: A Time To Remember - 1970
Title: Top Of The Pops 1967
Genre: Rock
Title: Top Of The Pops 1969
Genre: Rock
Title: The All Time Greatest Songs - 04 - Country
Genre: Country
Title: 70s Top Hits (CD3)
Genre: Pop
Title: 60s Top Hits (CD3)
Genre: Pop
Title: Te Acuerdas De... (B)
Genre: Pop
Title: The 70's - 1970 (CD2)
Title: 101 Country Classics (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Dancefloor, Country, Pop
Title: 1000 Original Hits 1970
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll, Pop
Title: The Best Of Blue Juice
Title: Hit History 1966
Title: 100 Hits - Classic 60s (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Title: 100 Hits - Classic 60s (CD4)
Genre: Pop
Title: 100 Hits - Classic 60s (CD5)
Genre: Pop
Title: Country The Ultimate Collection (CD1)
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Pop, Folk
Title: Girl Crazy!
Title: La Boîte Noire De Radio Nova 1967
Genre: Rock, Reggae, Latin, Theatre/Soundtrack, Funk
Featuring albums
Title: Late Night Tales: Snow Patrol
Artist: Snow Patrol
Genre: Electronica, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Jazz, Rock, Pop, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist, Contemporary Folk
Title: Magic Moments: The Definitive Burt Bacharach Collection (Disc 1)
Artist: Burt Bacharach
Genre: Pop
Title: The Capitol Years 65 / 77 (CD1)
Artist: Glen Campbell
Genre: World Music, Country, Pop, Country Pop
Title: Tribal Rites Part 2: Balearic
Artist: Bill Brewster
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop