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For the 1967 Bobbie Gentry album, see <a href="/wiki/Ode_to_Billie_Joe_(album)" title="Ode to Billie Joe (album)">Ode to Billie Joe (album)</a>. For the 1976 film based on the song, see <a href="/wiki/Ode_to_Billy_Joe_(film)" title="Ode to Billy Joe (film)">Ode to Billy Joe (film)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="color: #202122;background-color: khaki; font-size: 125%;">"Ode to Billie Joe"</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Bobbie_Gentry_-_Ode_to_Billie_Joe_45_single.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Label of a 45 single. The design features orange and yellow spirals. On the top it reads "Ode to Billie Joe". The logo of Capitol Records is printed on the left and "Bobbie Gentry" on the bottom. The right side features the catalog number, length of the song and copyright details."><img alt="Label of a 45 single. The design features orange and yellow spirals. On the top it reads "Ode to Billie Joe". The logo of Capitol Records is printed on the left and "Bobbie Gentry" on the bottom. The right side features the catalog number, length of the song and copyright details." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Bobbie_Gentry_-_Ode_to_Billie_Joe_45_single.jpg" decoding="async" width="210" height="211" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="210" data-file-height="211" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Side A of US single</div></td></tr><tr class="description"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: khaki;"><a href="/wiki/Single_(music)" title="Single (music)">Single</a> by <a href="/wiki/Bobbie_Gentry" title="Bobbie Gentry">Bobbie Gentry</a></th></tr><tr class="description"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: khaki;">from the album <i> <a href="/wiki/Ode_to_Billie_Joe_(album)" title="Ode to Billie Joe (album)">Ode to Billie Joe</a> </i></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/A-side_and_B-side" title="A-side and B-side">B-side</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">"<a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Delta_(song)" title="Mississippi Delta (song)">Mississippi Delta</a>"</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Released</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist">July 1967</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Recording_studio" title="Recording studio">Studio</a></th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Capitol_Studios" title="Capitol Studios">Capitol</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hollywood,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Hollywood, California">Hollywood, California</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Music_genre" title="Music genre">Genre</a></th><td class="infobox-data category hlist"><a href="/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music">Country</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><span class="duration"><span class="min">4</span>:<span class="s">15</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">Label</a></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records">Capitol</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Songwriter" title="Songwriter">Songwriter(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data hlist">Bobbie Gentry</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Record_producer" title="Record producer">Producer(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data hlist"><a href="/wiki/Kelly_Gordon" title="Kelly Gordon">Kelly Gordon</a>, Bobby Paris</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header description" style="color: #202122;background-color: khaki;"><a href="/wiki/Bobbie_Gentry" title="Bobbie Gentry">Bobbie Gentry</a> singles chronology</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="background: transparent; color: inherit; width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; display: inline-table;"> <tbody><tr style="line-height: 1.4em;"> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em .1em .2em 0;">"Stranger in the Mirror" <br />(1966) </td> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding:.2em .1em;">"<b>Ode to Billie Joe</b>" <br />(1967) </td> <td style="width: 33%; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; padding: .2em 0 .2em .1em;">"<a href="/wiki/I_Saw_an_Angel_Die" title="I Saw an Angel Die">I Saw an Angel Die</a>" <br />(1967) </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:khaki">Official audio</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZ_ViDADOE"><span class="plainlinks">"Ode To Billie Joe"</span></a> on <a href="/wiki/YouTube_video_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="YouTube video (identifier)">YouTube</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>"<b>Ode to Billie Joe</b>" is a song by American singer-songwriter <a href="/wiki/Bobbie_Gentry" title="Bobbie Gentry">Bobbie Gentry</a> released by <a href="/wiki/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records">Capitol Records</a> in July 1967, and later used as the title-track of <a href="/wiki/Ode_to_Billie_Joe_(album)" title="Ode to Billie Joe (album)">her debut album</a>. Five weeks after its release, the song topped <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard's</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100">Pop singles chart</a>. It also appeared in the top 10 of the <a href="/wiki/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)" title="Adult Contemporary (chart)">Adult Contemporary</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hot_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Songs" title="Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs">Hot R&B singles</a> charts, and in the top 20 of the <a href="/wiki/Hot_Country_Songs" title="Hot Country Songs">Hot Country Songs</a> list. </p><p>The song takes the form of a <a href="/wiki/First-person_narrative" title="First-person narrative">first-person narrative</a> performed over sparse <a href="/wiki/Acoustic_guitar" title="Acoustic guitar">acoustic guitar</a> accompaniment with strings in the background. It tells of a rural Mississippi family's reaction to the news of the suicide of Billie Joe McAllister, a local boy to whom the daughter (and narrator) is (unknown by the rest of the family) connected. The song received widespread attention, leaving its audience intrigued as to what the narrator and Billie Joe threw off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Gentry later clarified that she intended the song to portray the family's indifference to the suicide in what she deemed "a study in unconscious cruelty," while she remarked the object thrown was not relevant to the message. </p><p>"Ode to Billie Joe" was nominated for eight <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Awards" title="Grammy Awards">Grammy Awards</a>; Gentry and arranger <a href="/wiki/Jimmie_Haskell" title="Jimmie Haskell">Jimmie Haskell</a> won three between them. Gentry's writing was adapted for the 1976 film <i><a href="/wiki/Ode_to_Billy_Joe_(film)" title="Ode to Billy Joe (film)">Ode to Billy Joe</a>.</i> The song appeared on <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a>'s</i> lists, <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone%27s_500_Greatest_Songs_of_All_Time" title="Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time">500 Greatest Songs of All Time</a> and Greatest Country Songs, while <i><a href="/wiki/Pitchfork_(website)" title="Pitchfork (website)">Pitchfork</a></i> featured it on their 200 Best Songs of the 1960s list. In 2023, the song was selected by the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> for preservation in the <a href="/wiki/National_Recording_Registry" title="National Recording Registry">National Recording Registry</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background_and_recording">Background and recording</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ode_to_Billie_Joe&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background and recording"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Singer-songwriter <a href="/wiki/Bobbie_Gentry" title="Bobbie Gentry">Bobbie Gentry</a> was born in <a href="/wiki/Chickasaw_County,_Mississippi" title="Chickasaw County, Mississippi">Chickasaw County</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a>. After her parents divorced, she continued to live there with her paternal grandparents.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBronson,_Fred1997229_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBronson,_Fred1997229-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At age 13, Gentry moved to California to live with her mother. She graduated from high school and entered <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Los_Angeles" title="University of California, Los Angeles">UCLA</a> as a philosophy major, before transferring to the <a href="/wiki/California_Institute_of_the_Arts" title="California Institute of the Arts">Los Angeles Conservatory of Music</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcCall,_MichaelRumble,_JohnKingsbury,Paul200481_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcCall,_MichaelRumble,_JohnKingsbury,Paul200481-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After she met <a href="/wiki/Jody_Reynolds" title="Jody Reynolds">Jody Reynolds</a> at one of his concerts, Gentry took part in a recording session with him to sing two duets.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201437_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201437-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Singer-songwriter <a href="/wiki/Jim_Ford" title="Jim Ford">Jim Ford</a> introduced Gentry to record companies and music publishers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201441_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201441-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford took Gentry to <a href="/wiki/Del-Fi_Records" title="Del-Fi Records">Del-Fi Records</a>, where he presented "Ode to Billie Joe" to the label's <a href="/wiki/Artists_and_repertoire" title="Artists and repertoire">A&R</a> man <a href="/wiki/Barry_White" title="Barry White">Barry White</a>. Ford claimed credit for writing the song, telling White he had brought Gentry along because he felt he could not sing it himself. The composition impressed White, and Ford expressed an interest in selling it to him. White took the song to Del-Fi Records president <a href="/wiki/Bob_Keane" title="Bob Keane">Bob Keane</a>, who did not like it and refused to make a purchase.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201442_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201442-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records">Capitol Records</a> producer <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Gordon" title="Kelly Gordon">Kelly Gordon</a> received Gentry's <a href="/wiki/Demo_(music)" title="Demo (music)">demo</a> for "<a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Delta_(song)" title="Mississippi Delta (song)">Mississippi Delta</a>". Gordon liked it, and he asked for a <a href="/wiki/A-side_and_B-side" title="A-side and B-side">B-side</a> for the song.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201467_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201467-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gentry planned to sell "Ode to Billie Joe" to Capitol Records, and she decided that recording the demo herself was cheaper than using a professional singer.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha_Tara2017_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha_Tara2017-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The song's recording happened soon after Gentry's session that yielded "Mississippi Delta" in February 1967,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeather,_Leonard1967C_13_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeather,_Leonard1967C_13-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while Bobby Paris assisted her in the studio in exchange for guitar session work on some of his own studio recordings. Gentry intended to have <a href="/wiki/Lou_Rawls" title="Lou Rawls">Lou Rawls</a> record the song.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha_Tara2017_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha_Tara2017-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Larry Shayne, Gentry's publisher, warned Gordon against adding a rhythm section to the track.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201467_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201467-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shayne was a friend of <a href="/wiki/David_Axelrod_(musician)" title="David Axelrod (musician)">David Axelrod</a>, Capitol Record's main A&R man. He sold Axelrod recording rights to the song for $10,000 (equivalent to $91,400 in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201468_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201468-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gordon liked Gentry's vocals on the demo, but he decided to add a sparse instrumental arrangement to the recording. Gordon called <a href="/wiki/Jimmie_Haskell" title="Jimmie Haskell">Jimmie Haskell</a>, who prepared an arrangement for string sextet with four violins and two <a href="/wiki/Cello" title="Cello">cellos</a>. Jesse Erlich played one cello like a double bass.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha_Tara2017_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha_Tara2017-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Haskell felt the song sounded like a film and decided to write the arrangement as if it were a score.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201470_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201470-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gordon then <a href="/wiki/Overdubbing" title="Overdubbing">overdubbed</a> Gentry's recording with the strings. He determined that "Ode to Billie Joe" would be the A-side of the single.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha_Tara2017_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha_Tara2017-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Haskell later claimed that a seven-minute recording of the song existed, but that Gordon cut it to under five minutes for radio airplay. The existence of a seven-minute version has not been confirmed. Meanwhile, a manuscript of a draft of the song donated by Gentry to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Mississippi" title="University of Mississippi">University of Mississippi</a> contained verses that were not included on the final recording.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201469_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201469-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Content">Content</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ode_to_Billie_Joe&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Content"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"Ode to Billie Joe" takes the form of a <a href="/wiki/First-person_narrative" title="First-person narrative">first-person narrative</a> by the young daughter of a <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Delta" title="Mississippi Delta">Mississippi Delta</a> family. It offers fragments of dinnertime conversation on the day that a local boy, an acquaintance of the narrator, jumped to his death from a nearby bridge. The account is interspersed with everyday, polite, mealtime conversation. The song's last verse conveys the passage of events over the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESullivan,_Steve2013114_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESullivan,_Steve2013114-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1096940132">.mw-parser-output .listen .side-box-text{line-height:1.1em}.mw-parser-output .listen-plain{border:none;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded{width:100%;margin:0;border-width:1px 0 0 0;background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .listen-header{padding:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen-embedded .listen-header{padding:2px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen-file-header{padding:4px 0}.mw-parser-output .listen .description{padding-top:2px}.mw-parser-output .listen .mw-tmh-player{max-width:100%}@media(max-width:719px){.mw-parser-output .listen{clear:both}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .listen:not(.listen-noimage){width:320px}.mw-parser-output .listen-left{overflow:visible;float:left}.mw-parser-output .listen-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right listen noprint"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg/50px-Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="50" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg/75px-Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg/100px-Gnome-mime-audio-openclipart.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="160" /></span><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><div class="haudio"> <div class="listen-file-header"><a href="/wiki/File:Bobbie_Gentry_Ode_To_Billie_Joe.ogg" title="File:Bobbie Gentry Ode To Billie Joe.ogg">Excerpt of Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe"</a></div> <div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="232" style="width:232px;" data-durationhint="26" data-mwtitle="Bobbie_Gentry_Ode_To_Billie_Joe.ogg" data-mwprovider="local"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/Bobbie_Gentry_Ode_To_Billie_Joe.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/transcoded/a/aa/Bobbie_Gentry_Ode_To_Billie_Joe.ogg/Bobbie_Gentry_Ode_To_Billie_Joe.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></div> <div class="description">As the narrator returns home, her mother tells the family of Billie Joe's suicide.</div></div></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"><hr /><i class="selfreference">Problems playing this file? See <a href="/wiki/Help:Media" title="Help:Media">media help</a>.</i></div> </div> <p>The song begins on June 3 with the narrator, her brother and her father returning from farming chores to the family house for dinner.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After reminding them to wipe their feet, the mother announces she received news from Choctaw Ridge: "Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the <a href="/wiki/Tallahatchie_River" title="Tallahatchie River">Tallahatchie Bridge</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEElicker,_Martina199783_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEElicker,_Martina199783-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The verse is repeated through the song as the story develops to "heighten the mystery."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEToft,_Robert20108_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEToft,_Robert20108-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unmoved, the father comments that "Billie Joe never had a lick of sense" before asking for the biscuits and adding "there's five more acres in the lower forty, I've got to plow."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEToft,_Robert20109_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEToft,_Robert20109-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The brother then expresses his surprise, but continues eating his meal.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEToft,_Robert201010_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEToft,_Robert201010-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The mother notices her daughter is distraught and not eating.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara2014X_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara2014X-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She mentions the "young preacher" Brother Taylor visited the house earlier and that they would have dinner with him on Sunday. As an afterthought, the mother adds the preacher saw Billie Joe with a girl that "looked a lot" like the daughter and that "she and Billie Joe was throwin' somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEToft,_Robert201010_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEToft,_Robert201010-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A year later, the brother marries and moves to <a href="/wiki/Tupelo,_Mississippi" title="Tupelo, Mississippi">Tupelo, Mississippi</a>, while the father dies of an unnamed virus. Even though she expresses no sadness over her father's death, the daughter notices her mother is still distraught by it. Rather than consoling her, she routinely picks flowers and throws them off the bridge.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEElicker,_Martina199786_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEElicker,_Martina199786-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The song became a success because it created listener curiosity, given that Gentry did not mention what was thrown off of the bridge or why Billie Joe committed suicide.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEToft,_Robert201011_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEToft,_Robert201011-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It features <a href="/wiki/Perfect_and_imperfect_rhymes" title="Perfect and imperfect rhymes">perfect rhymes</a> from the first to the sixth line of every verse. Meanwhile, the fifth and sixth lines of the song repeat the rhyme of "ridge" and "bridge" in every stanza. The composition does not have a chorus. The <a href="/wiki/Phrase_(music)" title="Phrase (music)">musical phrases</a> begin with <a href="/wiki/Anacrusis" title="Anacrusis">pickup notes</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Melisma" title="Melisma">melismas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Downbeat_and_upbeat" class="mw-redirect" title="Downbeat and upbeat">downbeats</a> are used for the rhymes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEElicker,_Martina199783_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEElicker,_Martina199783-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gentry's_comments_on_the_lyrics"><span id="Gentry.27s_comments_on_the_lyrics"></span>Gentry's comments on the lyrics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ode_to_Billie_Joe&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Gentry's comments on the lyrics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BobbieGentryBridge1967.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Photograph of Bobbie Gentry crossing the Tallahatchie Bridge in Money, Mississippi" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7f/BobbieGentryBridge1967.jpg/170px-BobbieGentryBridge1967.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7f/BobbieGentryBridge1967.jpg/255px-BobbieGentryBridge1967.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/BobbieGentryBridge1967.jpg 2x" data-file-width="302" data-file-height="328" /></a><figcaption>In this photograph from the November 10, 1967 issue of <i>Life</i> magazine, Gentry crosses the Tallahatchie Bridge in <a href="/wiki/Sidon,_Mississippi" title="Sidon, Mississippi">Sidon, Mississippi</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In August 1967, Gentry told the <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i> she wanted to show "people's lack of ability" to empathize with others' "tragedy." She pointed out the mother, who noticed but did not understand her daughter's lack of appetite, while later the daughter is unaware of the similarity of her mother's behavior after the father dies. Gentry explained that both characters had "isolated themselves in their own personal tragedies" and remained unconcerned for the others. The songwriter compared the end product to a play. On the object thrown off the Tallahatchie Bridge, she commented that the audience had found more meanings than she had intended. Gentry mentioned that theories of the time included a baby, a wedding ring and flowers. While she indicated that what happened at the bridge was the motivation behind Billie Joe's suicide, she also left it open to the listener's interpretation. Gentry said she had no answer and her sole motivation was to show "people's apathy".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeather,_Leonard1967C_13_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeather,_Leonard1967C_13-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In an interview with the <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> in November 1967, Gentry called the song "a study in unconscious cruelty."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAssociated_Press_staff19671_(TV_section)_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAssociated_Press_staff19671_(TV_section)-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also said that audiences were still asking her what was thrown off the bridge rather than noticing "the thoughtlessness of people expressed in the song," adding that what had been thrown was unimportant.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAssociated_Press_staff19671_(TV_section)_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAssociated_Press_staff19671_(TV_section)-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She said people suggested to her it was a draft card, or a bottle of <a href="/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide" class="mw-redirect" title="Lysergic acid diethylamide">LSD</a> pills. The songwriter clarified that she knew what it was, but said she considered it irrelevant to the story and deliberately left that interpretation open. Gentry remarked that the song's message revolved around the "nonchalant way" the family discussed the suicide. She also said that what was thrown off of the bridge was included because it established a relationship between Billie Joe and the daughter, providing "a possible motivation for his suicide the next day".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAssociated_Press_staff_219674_(TV_section)_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAssociated_Press_staff_219674_(TV_section)-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The interview ended with Gentry's suggestion that it could have been a wedding ring.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAssociated_Press_staff_219674_(TV_section)_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAssociated_Press_staff_219674_(TV_section)-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gentry told <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> in 1969: "I had my own idea what it was while I was writing it, but it's not that important. Actually it was something symbolic. But I've never told anyone what it was, not even my own dear mother."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKlemesrud,_Judy196932_D_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKlemesrud,_Judy196932_D-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Release_and_reception">Release and reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ode_to_Billie_Joe&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Release and reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bobbie_Gentry_-_Ode_to_Billie_Joe_(Capitol_Records_publicity).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="See caption" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Bobbie_Gentry_-_Ode_to_Billie_Joe_%28Capitol_Records_publicity%29.jpg/200px-Bobbie_Gentry_-_Ode_to_Billie_Joe_%28Capitol_Records_publicity%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Bobbie_Gentry_-_Ode_to_Billie_Joe_%28Capitol_Records_publicity%29.jpg/300px-Bobbie_Gentry_-_Ode_to_Billie_Joe_%28Capitol_Records_publicity%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Bobbie_Gentry_-_Ode_to_Billie_Joe_%28Capitol_Records_publicity%29.jpg/400px-Bobbie_Gentry_-_Ode_to_Billie_Joe_%28Capitol_Records_publicity%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1064" data-file-height="1612" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records">Capitol Records</a> publicity poster featuring Gentry</figcaption></figure> <p>The single "Mississippi Delta"-"Ode to Billie Joe" was released in July 1967.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff196716_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff196716-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStewart,_Perry196718-A_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStewart,_Perry196718-A-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonnelly,_Dave1967H-5_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonnelly,_Dave1967H-5-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paris was given a co-producer credit on the single with Gordon.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201465_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201465-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Five weeks after its release, it reached number 1 on the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100">Billboard Hot 100</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeather,_Leonard1967C_13_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeather,_Leonard1967C_13-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the sixth week, the single had sold one million copies.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELife_staff1967104_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELife_staff1967104-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also appeared at number 7 on <i>Billboard's</i> <a href="/wiki/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)" title="Adult Contemporary (chart)">Adult Contemporary</a> chart,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff_22021_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff_22021-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at number 8 on the <a href="/wiki/Hot_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Songs" title="Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs">Hot R&B singles</a> chart,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff2021_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff2021-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and number 17 on the <a href="/wiki/Hot_Country_Songs" title="Hot Country Songs">Hot Country Songs</a> chart.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff_32021_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff_32021-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Billboard's</i> year-end chart placed the song at number 3,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff_2196742_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff_2196742-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while Canada's <a href="/wiki/RPM_(magazine)" title="RPM (magazine)">RPM</a> placed it at number 16.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERPM_staff19685_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERPM_staff19685-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Australia, the song reached number 4 on <i><a href="/wiki/Go-Set" title="Go-Set">Go-Set</a>'s</i> National Top 40.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGo-Set_staff19672_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGo-Set_staff19672-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, it peaked at number 6 on the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Singles_Chart" title="Irish Singles Chart">Irish Singles Chart</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEIRMA_staff2020_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIRMA_staff2020-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the <i><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Listener" title="New Zealand Listener">New Zealand Listener</a></i> chart, the song reached number 3.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKohler,_Steve2007_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKohler,_Steve2007-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 1967, <i><a href="/wiki/Life_(magazine)" title="Life (magazine)">Life</a></i> published an article about the song's success after a visit with Gentry and her parents in Mississippi. Gentry showed the journalists a bridge in <a href="/wiki/Money,_Mississippi" title="Money, Mississippi">Money, Mississippi</a>, that featured the characteristics of the one she wrote about as she clarified: "this is what I had in mind" she continued: "The river isn't very deep here, but the current is strong."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELife_staff1967109_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELife_staff1967109-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gentry was photographed crossing the bridge for the story.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELife_staff1967104_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELife_staff1967104-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The single was nominated in eight categories at the <a href="/wiki/10th_Annual_Grammy_Awards" title="10th Annual Grammy Awards">10th Annual Grammy Awards</a> and won three: <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Female_Pop_Vocal_Performance" title="Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance">Best Female Pop Vocal Performance</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_New_Artist" title="Grammy Award for Best New Artist">Best New Artist</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Arrangement,_Instrumental_and_Vocals" title="Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals">Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEUPI_staff19686B_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEUPI_staff19686B-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGrammy_staff2021_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGrammy_staff2021-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1969, Gentry estimated the single had sold three million copies.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKlemesrud,_Judy196921_D_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKlemesrud,_Judy196921_D-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gentry sued Paris to have his co-producer credit removed, claiming she was the recording's sole producer. Paris's credit was removed on the album release.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201465_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201465-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Soon after she left Capitol Records, Paris sued Gentry for $100,000 and the label for $300,000 in punitive damages for failing to pay him one fifth of the royalties from the song's sales. Gentry and Paris testified against one another in the 1973 case.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201452_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201452-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The jury awarded Paris one percent of the total royalties from "Ode to Billie Joe" and "Mississippi Delta", that amounted to $32,277.40 (equivalent to $221,500 in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201453_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha,_Tara201453-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gentry told Penny Anderson of the <i>New York Times</i> in 1974 that she originally produced "Ode To Billie Joe" and most of her recordings, adding that "a woman doesn't stand much chance in a recording studio. A staff producer's name was nearly always put on the records."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnderson,_Penny197415-T_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnderson,_Penny197415-T-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gentry expressed the desire to gain more control over the production of her songs and recordings.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnderson,_Penny197415-T_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnderson,_Penny197415-T-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critical_reception">Critical reception</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ode_to_Billie_Joe&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Critical reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The staff of <i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i> welcomed the release as "fascinating material and performance" with a "potent lyric content that is worth the unusual length of the disk".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff196716_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff196716-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Los Angeles Times</i> critic <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Feather" title="Leonard Feather">Leonard Feather</a> considered it an "aural parallel" to the film <i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Heat_of_the_Night_(film)" title="In the Heat of the Night (film)">In the Heat of the Night</a></i> (1967), deeming them both "sardonic, knife-edge studies of human nature". Feather concluded Gentry added "a durable new dimension" to American "contemporary folklore".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFeather,_Leonard1967C_13_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFeather,_Leonard1967C_13-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The New York Times</i> commented on the success of the song four weeks after its release. Critic <a href="/wiki/John_S._Wilson_(music_critic)" title="John S. Wilson (music critic)">John S. Wilson</a> felt the song was "a most unlikely candidate for success," as it was "long by radio programming standards" and he considered the topic "nothing startling, nothing strange, nothing particularly original," Wilson remarked the lyrics had "something to say about indifference ... which, after a couple of clarifying hearings, drifts off into the midst of forgotten poesy".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilson,_John196730_D_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilson,_John196730_D-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Nixon_Smiley" title="Nixon Smiley">Nixon Smiley</a> wrote in his piece for the <i><a href="/wiki/Miami_Herald" title="Miami Herald">Miami Herald</a></i> that "not since <a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a> wrote <i><a href="/wiki/As_I_Lay_Dying" title="As I Lay Dying">As I Lay Dying</a></i> has anything come out of Mississippi as earthy and as fundamental" as 'Ode to Billie Joe.'" Smiley determined that upon "casual hearing there seems to be nothing great about the song, the lyrics or the rendition," but that it "captivated both the young and old." He noted disc jockeys were "surprised, even flabbergasted," and "sometimes disgusted".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmiley,_Nixon19673_G_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmiley,_Nixon19673_G-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Montgomery_Advertiser" title="Montgomery Advertiser">Montgomery Advertiser</a></i> found the song "hard to classify." It remarked that it "has [a] rhythm and blues beat, and it's clever," and also noted the presence of mystery.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWolfe,_Thomas1967D1_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWolfe,_Thomas1967D1-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/Fort_Worth_Star-Telegram" title="Fort Worth Star-Telegram">Fort Worth Star-Telegram</a></i> called it "one of the most haunting songs of the year."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStewart,_Perry196718-A_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStewart,_Perry196718-A-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/Honolulu_Star-Bulletin" title="Honolulu Star-Bulletin">Honolulu Star-Bulletin</a></i> wrote that "the lyrics are too much" and that "after a few listenings, the subject matter becomes clear, and the message gets across." The review pointed out that "musically, the song is as fine as it is lyrically inventive" and that it "grips with heretofore taboo themes."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonnelly,_Dave1967H-5_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonnelly,_Dave1967H-5-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2024, <i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i> ranked the song at #51 on its 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time ranking.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ode_to_Billie_Joe&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ode_to_Billie_Joe_ad_-_Cashbox.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Ode_to_Billie_Joe_ad_-_Cashbox.png/220px-Ode_to_Billie_Joe_ad_-_Cashbox.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="315" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Ode_to_Billie_Joe_ad_-_Cashbox.png/330px-Ode_to_Billie_Joe_ad_-_Cashbox.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Ode_to_Billie_Joe_ad_-_Cashbox.png/440px-Ode_to_Billie_Joe_ad_-_Cashbox.png 2x" data-file-width="1657" data-file-height="2376" /></a><figcaption>Advertisement for "Ode to Billie Joe", featured in <i><a href="/wiki/Cashbox_(magazine)" title="Cashbox (magazine)">Cashbox</a></i> magazine in July 1967</figcaption></figure> <p>Following the success of the single, Capitol Records received 500,000 pre-orders for <i><a href="/wiki/Ode_to_Billie_Joe_(album)" title="Ode to Billie Joe (album)">Ode to Billie Joe</a>,</i> surpassing the label's record held by <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">the Beatles</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/Meet_the_Beatles!" title="Meet the Beatles!">Meet the Beatles!</a></i> <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMurtha_Tara2017_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMurtha_Tara2017-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gentry began receiving offers to make a motion picture based on the song in 1967, but she rejected them, preferring to wait for an offer from a movie maker who would "portray Billie Joe and his girlfriend in a serious, sensitive manner."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAssociated_Press_staff197519_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAssociated_Press_staff197519-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1975, Gentry and Shayne accepted an offer from <a href="/wiki/Max_Baer_Jr." title="Max Baer Jr.">Max Baer Jr.</a>, who decided to direct the film. Baer said his interest was to have two unknown young people "because the audience has to believe they are Bobbie and Billie Joe." The film would be shot on location in Mississippi with a budget of $1.5 million (equivalent to $8.49 million in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScott,_Vernon197515-E_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScott,_Vernon197515-E-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a> commissioned <a href="/wiki/Herman_Raucher" title="Herman Raucher">Herman Raucher</a> to write an adaptation of the song for the upcoming film; Raucher's adaptation and novel were both titled <i><a href="/wiki/Ode_to_Billy_Joe_(film)" title="Ode to Billy Joe (film)">Ode to Billy Joe</a>.</i> Gentry was present during the shooting and contributed a musical score. At the time of the production, she told <a href="/wiki/United_Press_International" title="United Press International">United Press International</a> that the film would "answer many questions left unanswered by the song."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEUPI_staff197513_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEUPI_staff197513-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film starred <a href="/wiki/Robby_Benson" title="Robby Benson">Robby Benson</a> as Billy Joe and <a href="/wiki/Glynnis_O%27Connor" title="Glynnis O'Connor">Glynnis O'Connor</a> as Bobbie Lee. It was released in 1976. In the adaptation, the pair throw a rag doll off of the bridge, while a homosexual experience with the owner of the sawmill is established as the reason for Billy Joe's suicide.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarkin,_Colin2011864_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELarkin,_Colin2011864-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"Ode to Billie Joe" reappeared on the charts in 1976. It charted at number 65 on the <i>Billboard</i> Hot 100,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff_12021_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff_12021-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in Canada at numbers 92 and 42 on the RPM Top Singles and Adult Contemporary charts, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERPM_staff197645_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERPM_staff197645-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERPM_staff_2197642_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERPM_staff_2197642-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After hearing "Ode to Billie Joe" on the radio, <a href="/wiki/Tony_Joe_White" title="Tony Joe White">Tony Joe White</a> was inspired to write songs. White felt that his own life experience resembled that of Billie Joe, as he inhabited a similar place during his childhood and he remarked that the song was "real." Soon after, White composed "<a href="/wiki/Polk_Salad_Annie" title="Polk Salad Annie">Polk Salad Annie</a>" (1969).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStanley,_Bob2014_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStanley,_Bob2014-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1969, <a href="/wiki/Leflore_County,_Mississippi" title="Leflore County, Mississippi">Leflore County</a> established a fine of $180 (equivalent to $1,500 in 2023) for people who jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge and the other bridges of the area. The county estimated that between 40 and 50 men had jumped off the 20-foot-high (6.1 m) structure, but none had died.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAssociated_Press_staff1969V_15_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAssociated_Press_staff1969V_15-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The bridge collapsed in June 1972 after a fire and a new one was built in its place.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEClayson,_Alan199758_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEClayson,_Alan199758-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, a memorial marker for the song was added south of the new bridge as part of the Mississippi Country Music Trail.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStole,_Bryn20131_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStole,_Bryn20131-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a></i> included "Ode To Billie Joe" at number 419 on its 2003 <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone%27s_500_Greatest_Songs_of_All_Time" title="Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time">500 Greatest Songs of All Time</a> list.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERolling_Stone_staff2003_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERolling_Stone_staff2003-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The publication also listed it at number 47 on its 100 Greatest Country Songs in 2014; Richard Gehr deemed the track a "sultry country blues that drifts downstream on Gentry's ominous acoustic guitar."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERolling_Stone_staff2014_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERolling_Stone_staff2014-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, <i><a href="/wiki/Pitchfork_(website)" title="Pitchfork (website)">Pitchfork</a></i> placed it at number 144 on its 200 Best Songs of the 1960s list.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPitchfork_staff2006_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPitchfork_staff2006-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The song was selected by the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> for preservation in the <a href="/wiki/National_Recording_Registry" title="National Recording Registry">National Recording Registry</a> in 2023, based on its "cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation's recorded sound heritage."<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-loc2_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loc2-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1999, the 1967 recording of "Ode to Billie Joe" by <a href="/wiki/Bobbie_Gentry" title="Bobbie Gentry">Bobbie Gentry</a> on <a href="/wiki/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records">Capitol Records</a> was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Hall_of_Fame" title="Grammy Hall of Fame">Grammy Hall of Fame</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_versions">Other versions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ode_to_Billie_Joe&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Other versions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In August 1967, <a href="/wiki/Margie_Singleton" title="Margie Singleton">Margie Singleton</a> released a cover of the song that reached number 40 on <i>Billboard's</i> Hot Country Singles.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhitburn,_Joel2005346_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhitburn,_Joel2005346-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ray_Bryant" title="Ray Bryant">Ray Bryant</a>'s version (an <a href="/wiki/Instrumental" title="Instrumental">instrumental</a>) reached number 89 on <i>Billboard's</i> Hot 100 and number 34 on their Adult Contemporary chart soon after.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhitburn,_Joel1990415_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhitburn,_Joel1990415-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/King_Curtis" title="King Curtis">King Curtis</a> charted with his cover (another instrumental version) at number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhitburn,_Joel1990417_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhitburn,_Joel1990417-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> also in 1967, and at number 6 on the <a href="/wiki/Hot_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Songs" title="Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs">R&B chart</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhitburn,_Joel2006346_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhitburn,_Joel2006346-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also in 1967, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Dassin" title="Joe Dassin">Joe Dassin</a> released a cover of the song in French, entitled "Marie-Jeanne." In the song, the main character is a man, while Marie-Jeanne jumps off of the <a href="/wiki/Garonne" title="Garonne">Garonne</a> bridge.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGrimaldi,_MarysePlait,_Jacques201087_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGrimaldi,_MarysePlait,_Jacques201087-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A parody by <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> entitled <a href="/wiki/List_of_Basement_Tapes_songs_(1975)#"Clothes_Line_Saga"" title="List of Basement Tapes songs (1975)">"Clothes Line Saga"</a>, originally recorded in 1967, was released on the 1975 album <i><a href="/wiki/The_Basement_Tapes" title="The Basement Tapes">The Basement Tapes</a></i>. It mimicked the conversational style of "Ode to Billie Joe" with lyrics concentrating on routine household chores.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWeisbard,_Eric2007125_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWeisbard,_Eric2007125-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The shocking event buried in all the mundane details is a revelation that "The Vice-President's gone mad!." Dylan's song was originally titled "Answer to 'Ode'".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarcus,_Greil1997286_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarcus,_Greil1997286-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bobbie Gentry re-recorded the song for the film <a href="/wiki/Ode_to_Billy_Joe_(film)" title="Ode to Billy Joe (film)">Ode to Billy Joe</a>, with the spelling of the name changed to "Billy." Gentry stated that the original spelling had been a typographical error; this is corroborated by her original handwritten lyrics of the song. "Ode to Billy Joe - Main Title" was issued as a single in April 1976. It peaked at No. 65 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Capitol Records, Gentry's label when the original 1967 recording was released, reissued it as a single in June 1976 to capitalize on the film's success. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Sin%C3%A9ad_O%27Connor" title="Sinéad O'Connor">Sinéad O'Connor</a> performed the song in 1995 on the compilation album <a href="/wiki/The_Help_Album" title="The Help Album">Help</a>, a fundraiser for the charity <a href="/wiki/War_Child_(charity)" title="War Child (charity)">War Child</a>. This downtempo version of the song includes a brief sample of a wailing baby after the words "she and Billy Joe was throwing something off the Tallahatchie Bridge." </p><p>A 2008 episode of <i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live" title="Saturday Night Live">Saturday Night Live</a></i> parodied the song where <a href="/wiki/Kristen_Wiig" title="Kristen Wiig">Kristen Wiig</a> and host <a href="/wiki/Paul_Rudd" title="Paul Rudd">Paul Rudd</a> play a married singer-songwriter couple who perform "Ode to Tracking Number."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESNL_staff2008_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESNL_staff2008-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Jill_Sobule" title="Jill Sobule">Jill Sobule</a>'s album <i><a href="/wiki/California_Years" title="California Years">California Years</a></i> (2009) featured "Where is Bobbie Gentry?", which used the same melody in a lyrical sequel. The narrator, seeking the reclusive Gentry, claims to be the abandoned child of Gentry and Billie Joe.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELewis,_Randy2015_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis,_Randy2015-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2016, <a href="/wiki/Lorrie_Morgan" title="Lorrie Morgan">Lorrie Morgan</a> covered the song at a slower pace for her 2016 album <i>Letting Go<span class="nowrap"> </span>... Slow</i>. Morgan commented on recording the song with producer <a href="/wiki/Richard_Landis" title="Richard Landis">Richard Landis</a>: "Richard purposely slowed the record down to make the musical passages through there really feel kind of spooky and eerie. Everything just felt so swampy and scary. Everybody has their own interpretation of that song and just what they threw off of the Tallahatchie Bridge."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDauphin,_Chuck2016_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDauphin,_Chuck2016-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Chart_performance">Chart performance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ode_to_Billie_Joe&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Chart performance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bobbie_Gentry">Bobbie Gentry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ode_to_Billie_Joe&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Bobbie Gentry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1216972533">.mw-parser-output .col-begin{border-collapse:collapse;padding:0;color:inherit;width:100%;border:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .col-begin-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .col-break{vertical-align:top;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .col-break-2{width:50%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-3{width:33.3%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-4{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .col-break-5{width:20%}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .col-begin,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr,.mw-parser-output .col-begin>tbody>tr>td{display:block!important;width:100%!important}.mw-parser-output .col-break{padding-left:0!important}}</style><div> <table class="col-begin" role="presentation"> <tbody><tr> <td class="col-break col-break-2"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Weekly_charts">Weekly charts</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ode_to_Billie_Joe&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Weekly charts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Weekly chart performance of "Ode to Billie Joe" in 1967 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Chart (1967) </th> <th scope="col">Peak<br />position </th></tr> <tr> <td>Australia (<i>Go-Set</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGo-Set_staff19672_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGo-Set_staff19672-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">4 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Canada Top Singles (<i><a href="/wiki/RPM_(magazine)" title="RPM (magazine)">RPM</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_Canadatopsingles_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Canadatopsingles_-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Ireland (<a href="/wiki/Irish_Singles_Chart" title="Irish Singles Chart">IRMA</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_Ireland2_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Ireland2_-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">6 </td></tr> <tr> <td>New Zealand (<i><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Listener" title="New Zealand Listener">Listener</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKohler,_Steve2007_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKohler,_Steve2007-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">3 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" class="mw-redirect" title="UK Singles Chart">UK Singles</a> (<a href="/wiki/Official_Charts_Company" title="Official Charts Company">OCC</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_UKsinglesbyname_Bobbie_Gentry_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_UKsinglesbyname_Bobbie_Gentry-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">13 </td></tr> <tr> <td>US <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a><sup id="cite_ref-sc_Billboardhot100_Bobbie_Gentry_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Billboardhot100_Bobbie_Gentry-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">1 </td></tr> <tr> <td>US <a href="/wiki/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)" title="Adult Contemporary (chart)">Adult Contemporary</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_Billboardadultcontemporary_Bobbie_Gentry_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Billboardadultcontemporary_Bobbie_Gentry-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">7 </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row">US <a href="/wiki/Hot_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Songs" title="Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs">Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">8 </td></tr> <tr> <td>US <a href="/wiki/Hot_Country_Songs" title="Hot Country Songs">Hot Country Songs</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_Billboardcountrysongs_Bobbie_Gentry_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Billboardcountrysongs_Bobbie_Gentry-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">17 </td></tr> <tr> <td align="left">U.S. <i>Cash Box</i> Top Singles <sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="center">1 </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Weekly chart performance of "Ode to Billie Joe" in 1976 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Chart (1976) </th> <th scope="col">Peak<br />position </th></tr> <tr> <td>Canada Adult Contemporary (<i><a href="/wiki/RPM_(magazine)" title="RPM (magazine)">RPM</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_Canadaadultcontemporary_Bobbie_Gentry_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Canadaadultcontemporary_Bobbie_Gentry-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">42 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Canada Top Singles (<i><a href="/wiki/RPM_(magazine)" title="RPM (magazine)">RPM</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_Canadatopsingles_Bobbie_Gentry_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Canadatopsingles_Bobbie_Gentry-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">92 </td></tr> <tr> <td>US <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a><sup id="cite_ref-sc_Billboardhot100_Bobbie_Gentry_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Billboardhot100_Bobbie_Gentry-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">54 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><br /> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Weekly chart performance of "Ode To Billy Joe - Main Title" in 1976 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Chart (1976) </th> <th scope="col">Peak<br />position </th></tr> <tr> <td>US <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a><sup id="cite_ref-sc_Billboardhot100_Bobbie_Gentry_79-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Billboardhot100_Bobbie_Gentry-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">65 </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td class="col-break col-break-2"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Year-end_charts">Year-end charts</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ode_to_Billie_Joe&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Year-end charts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Year-end chart performance of "Ode to Billie Joe" </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Chart (1967) </th> <th scope="col">Position </th></tr> <tr> <td>Canada (<i>RPM</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERPM_staff19685_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERPM_staff19685-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">16 </td></tr> <tr> <td>US <i>Billboard</i> Hot 100<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">3 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="All-time_charts">All-time charts</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ode_to_Billie_Joe&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: All-time charts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>All-time chart performance of "Ode to Billie Joe" </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Chart (1958–2018) </th> <th scope="col">Position </th></tr> <tr> <td>US <i>Billboard</i> Hot 100<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">323 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_artists">Other artists</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ode_to_Billie_Joe&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Other artists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Weekly chart performance of "Ode to Billie Joe" by diverse artists </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Artist </th> <th scope="col">Chart (1967) </th> <th scope="col">Peak<br />position </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Ray_Bryant" title="Ray Bryant">Ray Bryant</a> </td> <td>US <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a><sup id="cite_ref-sc_Billboardhot100_Ray_Bryant_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Billboardhot100_Ray_Bryant-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">89 </td></tr> <tr> <td>US <a href="/wiki/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)" title="Adult Contemporary (chart)">Adult Contemporary</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_Billboardadultcontemporary_Ray_Bryant_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Billboardadultcontemporary_Ray_Bryant-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">34 </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="6"><a href="/wiki/King_Curtis" title="King Curtis">King Curtis and the Kingpins</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Canada R&B (<i>RPM</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">26 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Canada Top 100 (<i>RPM</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">16 </td></tr> <tr> <td>US <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a><sup id="cite_ref-sc_Billboardhot100_King_Curtis_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Billboardhot100_King_Curtis-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">28 </td></tr> <tr> <td>US <a href="/wiki/Hot_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Songs" title="Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs">Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_Billboardrandbhiphop_King_Curtis_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Billboardrandbhiphop_King_Curtis-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">6 </td></tr> <tr> <td>US <a href="/wiki/Cash_Box_(magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cash Box (magazine)"><i>Cash Box</i></a> Top 100<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="center">34 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Margie_Singleton" title="Margie Singleton">Margie Singleton</a> </td> <td>US <a href="/wiki/Hot_Country_Songs" title="Hot Country Songs">Hot Country Songs</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" title="Billboard (magazine)">Billboard</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-sc_Billboardcountrysongs_Margie_Singleton_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sc_Billboardcountrysongs_Margie_Singleton-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:center;">39 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading 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href="#CITEREFAssociated_Press_staff_21967">Associated Press staff 2 1967</a>, p. 4 (TV section).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKlemesrud,_Judy196932_D-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKlemesrud,_Judy196932_D_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFKlemesrud,_Judy1969">Klemesrud, Judy 1969</a>, p. 32 D.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff196716-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff196716_25-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBillboard_staff196716_25-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBillboard_staff1967">Billboard staff 1967</a>, p. 16.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEStewart,_Perry196718-A-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStewart,_Perry196718-A_26-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a 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'Em with Love">Touch 'Em with Love</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fancy_(Bobbie_Gentry_album)" title="Fancy (Bobbie Gentry album)">Fancy</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Patchwork_(Bobbie_Gentry_album)" title="Patchwork (Bobbie Gentry album)">Patchwork</a></i> (1971)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_the_BBC_(Bobbie_Gentry_album)" title="Live at the BBC (Bobbie Gentry album)">Live at the BBC</a></i> (2018)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Compilation albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Girl_from_Chickasaw_County:_The_Complete_Capitol_Masters" title="The Girl from Chickasaw County: The Complete Capitol Masters">The Girl from Chickasaw County: The Complete Capitol Masters</a></i> (2018)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Singles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Ode_to_Billie_Joe_(song)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ode to Billie Joe (song)">Ode to Billie Joe</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Let_It_Be_Me_(The_Everly_Brothers_song)" title="Let It Be Me (The Everly Brothers song)">Let It Be Me</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I%27ll_Never_Fall_in_Love_Again" title="I'll Never Fall in Love Again">I'll Never Fall in Love Again</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/All_I_Have_to_Do_Is_Dream" title="All I Have to Do Is Dream">All I Have to Do Is Dream</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Fancy_(Bobbie_Gentry_song)" title="Fancy (Bobbie Gentry song)">Fancy</a>"</li> <li>"<a 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