Legacy
Bobbie Gentry charted 11 singles in Billboard Hot 100 and four singles in the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart.
Beth Orton recorded a song entitled "Bobby Gentry" featured on her The Other Side of Daybreak album. Similarly, Jill Sobule recorded "Where Is Bobbie Gentry?" for her album California Years. Gentry's 1969 composition "Fancy" provided a top-ten country hit for Reba McEntire, who covered the song in 1991.
Producer and singer Joe Henry, in a 2011 interview, cited "Ode" as "an incredibly deft bit of writing in the way that that story is unfolded. ... t places the character in a moment, and then the story just starts to unfold around it", and was a song that influenced him early in his life listening to music on the radio.
On 14 May 2012, BBC Radio 2 in the UK broadcast a documentary entitled 'Whatever Happened to Bobbie Gentry?', presented by country music artist Roseanne Cash.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)