- Bobbie Gentry's song, "Ode to Billy Joe" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
- In a 2003 CMT poll, Bobbie Gentry's song "Fancy" was ranked #27 as one of the 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music. Inexplicably, "Ode to Billy Joe" was not on the list.
- In December 2008, Bobbie Gentry was inducted into the Mississippi Musician's Hall of Fame.
- In Los Angeles, she worked briefly as a department store clothing model.
- She took her professional name from the movie Ruby Gentry (1952).
- Currently resides in Memphis, Tennessee [December 2018].
- Hit #113 on the Billboard Singles Charts in 1969 with "Touch 'Em with Love" (Capitol 2501)
- Has one son Tyler.
- Bobbie Gentry was a partial owner of the Phoenix Suns NBA team from the team's inception in 1968-1987.
- Bobbie Gentry wrote her country classic "Fancy" as a fictionalized reference to her marriage to first husband /casino magnate William Fisk Harrah, who was over 30 years her senior.
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