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Ode to Billie Joe "Ode to Billie Joe" is a song written and recorded by Bobbie Gentry, a singer-songwriter from Chickasaw County, Mississippi. The single, released on July 10, 1967, was a number-one hit in the US and a big international seller. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 3 song of the year.[1] It generated eight Grammy nominations, resulting in three wins for Gentry and one for arranger Jimmie Haskell.[2] "Ode to Billie Joe" has since made Rolling Stone's lists of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" and the "100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time" and Pitchfork's "200 Best Songs of the 1960s".[3][4]
Ode to Billie Joe The song takes the form of a first-person narrative with "sparse" musical accompaniment, that reveals a tale about a family's dysfunctional - and overtly indifferent - reactions to the shocking news of a local boy's suicide. He is suggested as connected in some way to the young female narrator. The song concludes by expressing the malaise, death of her father, and depression affecting the narrator and her own family over the following year. Its theme - according to Gentry - is indifference and the emotional gaps between people.[5]