Question: Ode to Billy Joe is a 1976 film with a screenplay by Herman Raucher, inspired by the 1967 hit song by Bobbie Gentry, which 1967 song written and recorded by Bobbie Gentry, a singer-songwriter from Chickasaw County, Mississippi?

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Reflections (The Supremes album): Reflections is the twelfth studio album recorded for Motown by Diana Ross & the Supremes.  Released in 1968, it was the first regular studio LP to display the new billing of the group formerly known as "The Supremes."  It contains the singles "Reflections", "In and Out of Love" and "Forever Came Today".  Also included are covers of songs made famous by Martha and the Vandellas ("Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)") and The 5th Dimension ("Up, Up and Away").  Also present are songs written by other famous names, including "Bah-Bah-Bah" co-written by Motown singer Brenda Holloway with her younger sister, Patrice, an original Smokey Robinson composition titled "Then", and "What the World Needs Now Is Love" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, which Motown planned to release as a single in the spring of 1968, but cancelled.  It also contains a cover of Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe," whose original recording kept the single #2 "Reflections" from peaking at the top spot on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in September 1967, and it hit #2 on "Cashbox".

Sweet November (1968 film): Sweet November is a 1968 romantic comedy-drama Technicolor film written by Herman Raucher and starring Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley and Theodore Bikel.  The film had originally been written as a stage play by Raucher, but before it was even performed, Universal Pictures got wind of the project and paid Raucher $100,000 USD (or the modern equivalent of $583,000) to stop work on the play and adapt it as a screenplay.

Ode to Billie Joe: "Ode to Billie Joe" is a 1967 song written and recorded by Bobbie Gentry, a singer-songwriter from Chickasaw County, Mississippi.  The single, released in late July, was a number-one hit in the United States, and became a big international seller.  "Billboard" ranked the record as the No. 3 song for 1967 (the other two were #2 "The Letter" by the Box Tops and #1 "To Sir With Love" by Lulu).  The song is ranked #412 on "Rolling Stone"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".  The recording of "Ode to Billie Joe" generated eight Grammy nominations, resulting in three wins for Gentry and one win for arranger Jimmie Haskell.

Love Letters (Leslie Satcher album): Love Letters is the debut album from American country music artist Leslie Satcher.  It was released in 2000 on Warner Bros.  Records.  Although it produced four singles, none of them charted.  Satcher wrote or co-wrote eleven of its twelve tracks, with the only outside contribution being her cover of Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe".

Stormy (song): "Stormy" is a hit song by the Classics IV released on their LP "Mamas and Papas/Soul Train" in 1968.  It entered Billboard Magazine October 26, 1968 peaked at #5 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart.  This single release along with the prior release of "Spooky", and soon afterward the release of "Traces", made great success for the band, apart of the well known songs from the ensemble.  The song was covered in 1968 by O.C. Smith on his Columbia album titled "For Once In My Life" and in 1978 by Santana on the album "Inner Secrets", and by Marker Starling on the 2016 album "I'm Willing".  There is video of an unreleased 1969 cover by Bobbie Gentry.

The Delta Sweete: Released in March 1968, Bobbie Gentry's second album, The Delta Sweete, did not quite match the success of "Ode to Billie Joe".  The "Sweete" in the title referred to both Gentry's southern-belle good looks and the album's suite structure.  The LP contained a selection of Bobbie Gentry originals and some covers.

Ode to Billy Joe (film): Ode to Billy Joe is a 1976 film with a screenplay by Herman Raucher, inspired by the 1967 hit song by Bobbie Gentry, titled "Ode to Billie Joe".

Ode to Billie Joe (album): Ode to Billie Joe is the debut solo studio album by Bobbie Gentry.  It was released in 1967.  It was produced by Kelly Gordon and arranged by Jimmie Haskell and Shorty Rogers.  It was the only album to displace The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" from its 15-week reign at the top of the "Billboard" 200 album chart.

Bobbie Gentry: Roberta Lee Streeter (born July 27, 1944), professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is an American singer-songwriter notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material.  Her songs typically drew on her Mississippi roots to compose vignettes of the Southern United States.

Fancy (Bobbie Gentry song): "Fancy" is a song written and originally performed by Bobbie Gentry in 1969.  The song depicts its heroine overcoming poverty to become a successful courtesan.  Gentry's personal view on the song:

Supporting paragraphs: Ode to Billy Joe (film) Ode to Billie Joe
Answer: Ode to Billie Joe