Peter Bryan on Instagram: "Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe [1967] - The Andy Williams Show, 1971 Wikipedia: Bobbie Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter; July 27, 1942) is a retired American singer-songwriter, who was one of the first female artists in America to compose and produce her own material. "Ode to Billie Joe" takes the form of a first-person narrative performed over sparse acoustic guitar accompaniment with strings in the background. It tells of a rural Mississippi family's reaction to