VOICES IN THE SKY.....Bobbie Gentry

 


     Bobbie Gentry (Roberta Lee Streeter) was Mississippi born and bred. At 13, Bobbie moved to Palm Springs to live with her mother who had remarried and they appeared together as a singing duo, Ruby and Bobbie Meyers. 
     She studied philosophy at the University of California and later enrolled at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music where she took classes in composition, music theory and arranging. Meanwhile, she found well-paid work as a singer and dancer in Las Vegas. Drawing on country, folk and blues – and taking her stage name from the Charlton Heston movie Ruby Gentry – she wrote her own first hit (Ode To Billie Joe). In the States, the album Ode to Billie Joe knocked Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band off the top spot and earned Gentry three Grammy awards. Such a daring start made her record company nervous, and Bobbie adopted a cosier personality to keep them happy. She produced seven albums, established her own production company and headlined the Desert Inn and Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, Gentry was eventually straitjacketed so ruthlessly that, by the late 1970s, she had to find another career – in TV production.

The Best Of Bobbie Gentry

Capitol,1994

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