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?

full_context: Document 1: 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".
Document 2: 1776 (film): 1776 is a 1972 American musical drama film directed by Peter H. Hunt. The screenplay by Peter Stone was based on his book for the 1969 Broadway musical of the same name. The song score was composed by Sherman Edwards. The cast included William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Donald Madden, John Cullum, Ken Howard and Blythe Danner.
Document 3: 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.
Document 4: You're Sixteen: "You're Sixteen" is a song written by the Sherman Brothers (Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman). It was first performed by American rockabilly singer Johnny Burnette, whose version peaked at number eight on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 in December 1960 and number 3 in the U.K. in 1961. The original 1960 version of "You're Sixteen" by Johnny Burnette is featured prominently on the 1973 motion picture soundtrack of the film "American Graffiti".
Document 5: The Ballad of Thunder Road: "The Ballad of Thunder Road" is a song performed and co-written by actor Robert Mitchum in 1957, with music by composer Jack Marshall. It was the theme song of the movie "Thunder Road". The song made the Billboard Hot 100 twice, in 1958 and 1962, and while it never peaked higher than #62, it racked up 21 total weeks in the chart. The song moves ominously between minor and major keys.
Document 6: B. J. Thomas: Billy Joe "B.J." Thomas (born August 7, 1942) is an American popular singer. He is particularly known for his hit songs of the 1960s and 1970s, which appeared on the pop, country, and Christian music charts. His best-known recordings are the Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" and the original version of the Mark James song "Hooked on a Feeling".
Document 7: Jackson (Johnny Cash and June Carter song): "Jackson" is a song written in 1963 by Billy Edd Wheeler and Jerry Leiber and first recorded by Wheeler. It is best known from two 1967 releases: a pop hit single by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, which reached number 14 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart, and a country hit single by Johnny Cash and June Carter, which reached number two on the "Billboard" Country Singles chart and has become more appreciated by non-country audiences in recent years as a result of Cash's continued popularity and its use in the 2011 film "The Help". The song is about a married couple who find (according to the lyrics) that the "fire" has gone out of their relationship. The song relates the desire of both partners to travel to Jackson where they each expect to be welcomed as someone far better suited to the city's lively night life than the other is.
Document 8: Herman Raucher: Herman Raucher (born April 13, 1928) is an American author and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the autobiographical screenplay and novel "Summer of '42", which became one of the highest grossing films and one of the best selling novels of the 1970s, respectively. He began his writing career during the Golden Age of Television, when he moonlighted as a scriptwriter while working for a Madison Avenue advertising agency. He effectively retired from writing in the 1980s after a number of projects failed to come to fruition, though his books remain in print and a remake of one of his films, "Sweet November", was produced in 2001.
Document 9: 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.
Document 10: Live at Billy Bob's Texas (Stoney LaRue album): Live at Billy Bob's Texas is Stoney LaRue's first live album. They are one of many bands to record a "Live at Billy Bob's Texas" album at the Fort Worth honky-tonk. It was originally released in September 2005 as a limited edition CD/DVD combo. It was re-released in 2006 with the full track listing. The album included one new song, "Love You For Loving Me," as well as six cover songs. The song, "Feet Don't Touch The Ground," was originally recorded by Brandon Jenkins on his 2003 album, "Unmended". The song "Oklahoma Breakdown" was originally recorded by the Norman-based group, Hosty Duo. "Goin' Down the Road (Feelin' Bad) is a folk song originally sung by Woody Guthrie. The song The Weight was written by Robbie Robertson and recorded by The Band on their 1968 album, "Music from Big Pink". "Long Black Veil" is a 1959 song, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell as well as many other artists. The album's cover photograph was by Texas photographer Todd Purifoy.
Document 11: Mississippi Queen: "Mississippi Queen" is a song by the American rock band Mountain. Considered a rock classic, it was their most successful single, reaching number 21 in the "Billboard" Hot 100 record chart in 1970. The song is included on the group's debut album and several live recordings have been issued. "Mississippi Queen" has been recorded by several artists, including W.A.S.P., Sam Kinison, Amanda Ayala, and Ozzy Osbourne, the latter of which had a hit with the song in 2005.
Document 12: 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.
Document 13: 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".
Document 14: 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.
Document 15: Joey (1986 film): Joey is a 1986 film written and directed by Joseph Ellison, based on a story by Ellen Hammill. The rock and roll movie features songs by Tim Worman and the Polecats and performances by the Ad-Libs, the Silhouettes, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and others.
ground_truth: Ode to Billie Joe