# Bobby Gentry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [December 28, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270 "2024-12-28T17:55:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jinkzx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/da6949/32.png) [@jinkzx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jinkzx)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/1 "2024-12-28T17:55:49Z")
I want to say Im thinking of Bobby Gentry ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/2 "2024-12-28T18:01:23Z")
First, welcome to the SDMB! Second, why are you thinking of Bobbie Gentry? Did you hear one of her songs? In looking up her Wikipedia entry, I see that she’s still alive, but she’s been completely retired from public life since 1982 (which I did not know), and has not done any recordings, given any interviews, or done any public appearances since then. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/3 "2024-12-28T18:01:36Z")
Many, many years ago, my first Straight Dope post as ‘What got thrown off the Tallahatchie Bridge’! ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/4 "2024-12-28T18:21:23Z")
Pass the biscuits please. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/5 "2024-12-28T18:37:01Z")
Just saw this in a book I’m reading (“Long Haul”, about serial and other murders committed by long-haul truckers): “An unidentified body was found on August 20, 2003, under the Tallahatchie Bridge in the mudflats near Choctaw Ridge in Lafayette County, Mississippi. The whole scene sounded like a macabre remix of “Ode To Billie Joe”, Bobbie Gentry’s 1967 chart-topping single.”\* \*the [serial killer](https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/williams-john-robert.htm) implicated in that murder apparently liked to throw bodies off bridges, although not necessarily into muddy water. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/6 "2024-12-28T18:51:18Z")
> [@jinkzx](#): > > I want to say Im thinking of Bobby Gentry _I_ want to say “she slit the sheet, the sheet she slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit”. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/7 "2024-12-28T18:56:08Z")
> [@jinkzx](#): > > I want to say Im thinking of Bobby Gentry Funny you should say that - I’ve been thinking of Braindrill recently. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/8 "2024-12-28T19:33:29Z")
There’s always a _Becky_ ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/9 "2024-12-28T22:02:41Z")
We’re always thinking about her. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/10 "2024-12-28T22:36:46Z")
I’m thinking of a number between one and ten thousand. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/11 "2024-12-29T00:31:39Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > We’re always thinking about her. Yeah, @jinkzx, it’s not like you’re special. Just funnin’ with ya. Welcome to the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/12 "2024-12-29T00:39:39Z")
Y’all remember to wipe your feet. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/13 "2024-12-29T00:42:10Z")
Is it 711? ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/14 "2024-12-29T00:43:25Z")
I’m kind of interested to learn why she completely retired from public life in the early 1980s. But since she hasn’t given an interview in more than 40 years, I doubt my curiosity will be sated. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/15 "2024-12-29T00:45:15Z")
If _you_ married Jim Stafford would you show your face in public? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/16 "2024-12-29T00:46:41Z")
My cat’s breath smells like cat food. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/17 "2024-12-29T00:49:56Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Is it 711? It is always 42. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/18 "2024-12-29T02:32:23Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > I’m kind of interested to learn why she completely retired from public life in the early 1980s. From 1969-1980, Gentry was married and divorced three times, she had a long-running contract dispute with Capitol Records which kept her from releasing any new music for several years, and when she finally released a new album it flopped. One of her songs suggested some of her fans were over the top in their affection for her.Instead of touring, she performed strictly in Vegas. She made buckets of money and proved herself to be financially wise. And when she had a baby, she pretty much quit performing entirely. Young, rich, ten years of personal and professional turbulence, raising a kid on her own – she probably just wanted to be left alone, and decided she liked it better that way. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/19 "2024-12-29T03:00:16Z")
Before and after. [![](https://i.imgur.com/Oz0Bxjz.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/Oz0Bxjz.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270/20 "2024-12-29T03:21:31Z")
First, a banana duct taped to a wall is considered priceless art. > **[How a viral, duct-taped banana came to be worth $6.2 million](https://www.voanews.com/amp/how-a-viral-duct-taped-banana-came-to-be-worth-6-2-million/7871610.html)** > > The buyer purchased a certificate of authenticity that gives them the authority to duct-tape a banana to a wall and call it 'Comedian' Then, this thread. I must confess that I just don’t get popular culture these days. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bobby-gentry/1012270.md?page=2)