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Although Bobbie Gentry's career as a country and pop music performer was short-lived, her "Ode to Billie Joe" remains one of popular music's all-time classics. The mystery of the song inspired a movie of the same name, and even 35 years after the fact, listeners continue to ask what Billie Joe threw off of the Tallahatchie Bridge. Although Gentry remained a onehit wonder in many people's minds, she enjoyed several smaller hits, including a version of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" that topped the charts in England. She also recorded several durable albums and was a pathbreaker as an ambitious female songwriter.

Gentry was born Roberta Lee Streeter on July 27, 1944 in Chickasaw County, Mississippi. Her parents divorced, and she grew up in poverty on her grandparents' farm in Greenwood, Mississippi. At seven, she showed her inclination toward music by writing her first song, "My Dog Sergeant Is a Good Dog," and taught herself to play the piano. The hardship of her early life and of the Mississippi landscape would later permeate her music. When Gentry was 13, her family moved to Palm Springs, California. She learned to play guitar, banjo, bass, and vibes, and sang at a local country club while she was in high school. Gentry also sang in nightclubs to save money to attend college, allowing her to enroll in philosophy courses at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and then to transfer to the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music.

Following graduation Gentry borrowed her stage name from Ruby Gentry, a 1952 film starring Jennifer Jones as a heroine born into poverty but determined to make a success of her life. The name change not only confirmed Gentry's determination to be successful in show business, but also showed that she, unlike many other women singers of her time, would take charge of her own career.

Moving to Las Vegas for a time, Gentry briefly joined the nightclub revue Les Folies Bergere. She teamed with rockabilly singer Jody Reynolds to make her first singles in 1964, "Ode to Love" and "Stranger in the Mirror." Her career failed to take off, however, and she continued performing in nightclubs until Capitol Records executive Kelly Gordon heard a demo she recorded in 1967. Although Capitol staffer rejected "Ode to Billie Joe" because he believed the lyrics were about abortion, Kelly offered Gentry's publisher $10,000 for the song. Capitol released her first single, "Mississippi Delta," but disc jockeys preferred the B-side, which was "Ode to Billie Joe." By August of 1967, the song rose to number one on American pop charts and remained there for the entire month. "Ode to Billie Joe" would also win Gentry three Grammy awards for Best New Artist, Best Vocal Performance (Female), and Best Contemporary Female Solo Vocal Performance.

In many ways "Ode to Billie Joe" was quite different from the usual country song of its the day. First of all, it was over four minutes long, and the musical production was spare, allowing Gentry's husky voice to take center stage. "The song sounded to me like a movie," producer Jimmy Haskell told Robert Webb of the Independent. Unlike many story songs, the lyric of "Ode to Billie Joe" was elliptical, neither offering a reason why Billie Joe committed suicide nor revealing the relationship between Billie Joe and the narrator. The unreleased demo ran for seven minutes, perhaps filling in more details, but despite much speculation, the song remains a mystery. "Whatever the story's secret," wrote Webb, "Gentry has kept her silence."

Gentry's career moved slowly after her first hit, but she nonetheless fashioned a number of artistic successes. Her second single, "I Saw an Angel Die," never reached the charts, though she had a minor hit with "Okolona River Bottom Band" in 1968. Despite the weak performance of her single releases, Gentry excelled in the studio, cutting fine albums such as The Delta Sweete and Local Gentry. "She later maintained she helmed the sessions herself," wrote Ankeny, "drawing on her Mississippi roots to compose revealing vignettes that typically explored the lifestyles, values, and even hypocrisies of the southern culture." Gentry also recorded with Glen Campbell, and the pair had a top 20 hit with "Let It Be Me."

Gentry recorded another well-received album in 1969; Ankeny contended that "Touch 'em With Love is Bobbie Gentry's finest studio effort, a fascinatingly eclectic and genuinely affecting record that broadened her musical horizons far beyond the limitations of the Nashville sound." Although her singles continued to struggle on the charts in the United States, her version of "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" reached number one in England, and the single's success prompted a short-lived BBC television show. As her chart presence dwindled, Gentry turned her talent toward mounting a revue in Las Vegas, a variety show in which she starred, and for which she also helped to develop the costumes and choreography. She married Bill Harrah, manager of the Desert Inn Hotel, in 1969, but the marriage only lasted three months.

Gentry recorded Fancy in 1970 and followed it up with her last Capitol album, Patchwork, in 1971. In the summer of 1974, she appeared in four episodes of The Bobbie Gentry Happiness Hour, a CBS summer replacement series. In 1976 she received a co-writing credit for Ode to Billie Joe, an intriguing television movie that suggested that repressed homosexuality lay behind the young man's suicide. The movie also provided its own answer to the question of what was thrown off of the Tallahatchie Bridge: a rag doll. In 1979 Gentry married performer Jim Stafford, but the marriage ended 11 months later. By the end of the 1970s, Gentry had quietly left the music scene behind and dropped out of public view, reportedly working behind the scenes in television production. "She just disappeared," Lucinda Williams told Rolling Stone, "and I heard she married some rich guy in Vegas. It just adds to the mystery of it all."

Selected discography
Ode to Billie Joe, Capitol, 1967.
The Delta Sweete, Capitol, 1968.
(With Glen Campbell) Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell, Capitol, 1968.
Local Gentry, Capitol, 1968.
Touch 'em With Love, Capitol, 1969.
Fancy, Capitol, 1970.
Patchwork, Capitol, 1971.

Sources

Periodicals
Independent (London, England), October 31, 2003, p. 14.
Rolling Stone, October 30, 2003.
Tennessean, June 3, 2001, p. 45.

Online
"Bobbie Gentry," All Music Guide, http://www.allmusic.com (November, 10, 2003).
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Bobbie Gentry remains one of the most interesting and underappreciated artists to emerge out of Nashville during the late '60s. Best-known for her crossover smash "Ode to Billie Joe," she was one of the first female country artists to write and produce much of her own material, forging an idiosyncratic, pop-inspired sound that, in tandem with her glamorous, bombshell image, anticipated the rise of latter-day superstars like Shania Twain and Faith Hill. Of Portuguese descent, Gentry was born Roberta Streeter in Chickasaw County, MS, on July 27, 1944; her parents divorced shortly after her birth and she was raised in poverty on her grandparents' farm. After her grandmother traded one of the family's milk cows for a neighbor's piano, seven-year-old Bobbie composed her first song, "My Dog Sergeant Is a Good Dog," years later self-deprecatingly reprised in her nightclub act; at 13, she moved to Arcadia, CA, to live with her mother, soon beginning her performing career in local country clubs. The 1952 film Ruby Gentry lent the singer her stage surname.

After graduating high school, Gentry settled in Las Vegas, where she appeared in the Les Folies Bergère nightclub revue; she soon returned to California, studying philosophy at U.C.L.A. before transferring to the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. In 1964, she made her recorded debut, cutting a pair of duets -- "Ode to Love" and "Stranger in the Mirror" -- with rockabilly singer Jody Reynolds. Gentry continued performing in clubs in the years to follow before an early 1967 recording a demo found its way to Capitol Records producer Kelly Gordon; upon signing to the label, she issued her debut single, "Mississippi Delta." However, disc jockeys began spinning the B-side, the self-penned "Ode to Billie Joe" -- with its eerily spare production and enigmatic narrative detailing the suicide of Billie Joe McAllister, who flings himself off the Tallahatchie Bridge, the single struck a chord on country and pop radio alike, topping the pop charts for four weeks in August 1967 and selling three million copies. Although the follow-up, "I Saw an Angel Die," failed to chart, Gentry nevertheless won three Grammy awards, including Best New Artist and Best Female Vocal. She was also named the Academy of Country Music's Best New Female Vocalist.

With her second album, 1968's The Delta Sweete, Gentry returned to the country charts with the minor hit "Okolona River Bottom Band." Although her recordings were typically credited to Capitol staff producers, she later maintained she helmed the sessions herself and also wrote much of her own material, drawing on her Mississippi roots to compose revealing vignettes that typically explored the lifestyles, values, and even hypocrisies of the southern culture. Favoring more soulful and rootsy arrangements over the lavish countrypolitan style in vogue in Nashville at the time, Gentry's records sound quite unlike anything on either the country or pop charts at the time and her smoky, sensuous voice adapted easily to a variety of musical contexts. But to many listeners, she remained a one-hit wonder and her excellent third album, 1968's Local Gentry, received little notice. That same year, Gentry issued a duet album with Glen Campbell, returning to the country Top 20 with "Let It Be Me"; the duo regularly collaborated throughout the 1970s, scoring their biggest hit with a reading of "All I Really Want to Do."

In 1969, Gentry reached her creative zenith with Touch 'Em With Love -- though cut in Nashville, the record owed far more to the gritty R&B sounds emanating across the state in Memphis and generated her first U.K. number one, a smoldering rendition of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David perennial "I'll Never Fall in Love Again." The single's success also earned Gentry her own short-lived BBC television variety series. However, as her star diminished stateside, she became a fixture of the Las Vegas circuit, mounting an elaborate nightclub revue that she not only headlined but also wrote and produced, even overseeing the choreography and costuming. Gentry's 1969 marriage to Desert Inn Hotel manager Bill Harrah ended after only three months, but the following year she returned to the county and pop Top 40 with the title cut from her fifth album Fancy. In 1971, she issued her final Capitol effort, Patchwork, primarily confining her performing to her nightclub act for the next several years. A CBS summer replacement series, The Bobbie Gentry Happiness Hour, aired for four episodes in 1974; Gentry next surfaced on the big screen, credited as co-writer for a 1976 film adaptation of Ode to Billie Joe. After a second marriage, to fellow singer/songwriter Jim Stafford, ended in 1979 after only 11 months, Gentry gradually receded from public view, retiring from performing and eventually settling in Los Angeles. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
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Bobbie Gentry
Birth name Roberta Lee Streeter
Born July 27, 1944 (1944-07-27) (age 67)
Origin Chickasaw County, Mississippi, United States
Genres Country, pop, soul
Occupations Singer-songwriter
Instruments Vocals, guitar
Years active 1964–1978
Labels Capitol
Associated acts Glen Campbell

Roberta Lee Streeter (born July 27, 1944), professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is an American former singer-songwriter notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material.[1] Her songs typically drew on her Mississippi roots to compose vignettes of the Southern United States.

Gentry shot to international fame with her intriguing Southern Gothic narrative "Ode to Billie Joe" in 1967. The track was fourth in the Billboard year-end chart of 1967[2] and earned her Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1968. Gentry charted eleven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and four singles on the United Kingdom Top 40.[3] Her album Fancy brought her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. After her first albums, she had a successful run of variety shows on the Las Vegas Strip. She lost interest in performing in the late 1970s and has since lived privately in Los Angeles.

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Early life

Gentry was born Roberta Streeter and is of English and Portuguese ancestry.[citation needed] She was born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, to Robert and Ruby (Bullington) Streeter. She has an older brother, Robert Streeter, Jr. Her parents divorced shortly after her birth, and her mother moved to California. She was raised on her grandparents' farm in Chickasaw County. Her grandmother traded one of the family's milk cows for a neighbor's piano, and seven-year-old Bobbie composed her first song, "My Dog Sergeant Is a Good Dog". She attended school in Greenwood, Mississippi, and began teaching herself to play the guitar, bass, banjo, and vibes.

At 13, she moved to Arcadia, California, to live with her mother. Gentry graduated from Palm Valley School in 1962. She chose her stage name from the 1952 film Ruby Gentry about a heroine born into poverty but determined to make a success of her life and began performing at local country clubs. Encouraged by Bob Hope, she performed in a revue at Les Folies Bergeres nightclub of Las Vegas.

Gentry then moved to Los Angeles to enter UCLA as a philosophy major. She supported herself in clerical jobs, occasionally performing at nightclubs. She later transferred to the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music to develop her composition and performing skills. In 1964, she made her recording debut in two duets – "Ode to Love" and "Stranger in the Mirror" with rockabilly singer Jody Reynolds. She continued performing in nightclubs until Capitol Records executive Kelly Gordon heard a demo she had recorded in 1967.

Professional career

Cover of Bobbie Gentry's debut album (1967)

In 1967, Gentry produced her first single, the country rock "Mississippi Delta"; however, it was the flipside, "Ode to Billie Joe" with its sparse sound and controversial lyrics that started to receive airplay in the U.S.[4] Capitol's shortened version added to the song's mystery. Questions arose among the listeners: what did Billie Joe and his girlfriend throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge, and why did Billie Joe commit suicide? Gentry herself has commented on the song, saying that its real theme was indifference:[5]

“ Those questions are of secondary importance in my mind. The story of Billie Joe has two more interesting underlying themes. First, the illustration of a group of people's reactions to the life and death of Billie Joe, and its subsequent effect on their lives, is made. Second, the obvious gap between the girl and her mother is shown when both women experience a common loss (first, Billie Joe and, later, Papa), and yet Mama and the girl are unable to recognize their mutual loss or share their grief. ”


The track topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in August 1967 and placed #4 in the year-end chart.[2] The single hit #8 on Billboard Black Singles and #13 in the UK Top 40[3] and sold over three million copies all over the world.[1] Rolling Stone magazine listed it among the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2001.
"Ode to Billie Joe"
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The LP replaced Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at the top of U.S. charts. It also reached #5 of the Billboard Black Albums charts. Gentry won three Grammy Awards in 1967, including Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. She was also named the Academy of Country Music's Best New Female Vocalist.[citation needed]

In February 1968, Gentry took part in the Italian Song Festival in Sanremo, as one of two performers (alongside Al Bano) of the song "La siepe" by Vito Pallavicini and Massara. In a competition of 24 songs, the entry qualified to the final 14 and eventually placed ninth.[6]

Bobbie Gentry's second album, The Delta Sweete, released in 1968, did not match the success of her first. It yielded a Billboard top-sixty hit "Okolona River Bottom Band". She also collaborated on the album Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell, which earned a gold record certificate. Gentry made numerous guest appearances on TV shows hosted by Glen Campbell, Tom Jones, Andy Williams, Carol Burnett and Bobby Darin. Among them was her performance of the Cajun number "Niki Hoeky" on The Summer Smothers Brothers Show.[7][8] In 1969, she released Touch 'Em with Love, her most critically acclaimed album, which gave her a number-one hit in the UK with "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. In January 1970, it became a number-six hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for Dionne Warwick. Gentry hosted her own series on BBC-TV in London, which was later widely shown in Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and elsewhere.

In 1970, she received recognition for her composition "Fancy", which rose to #26 on the U.S. Country charts and #31 on the pop charts.[1] Gentry's personal view on the song:[9]

“ "Fancy" is my strongest statement for women's lib, if you really listen to it. I agree wholeheartedly with that movement and all the serious issues that they stand for — equality, equal pay, day care centers, and abortion rights. ”

The album, as was the case with the rest of her post-"Ode to Billie Joe" recordings, had little commercial success. However, it brought Gentry an Academy of Country Music Award and a Grammy nomination, both in the category of Best Female Vocalist.[10]

Stage performances and television work (1971-1981)

Gentry continued to write and perform, touring Europe, generating a significant fan base in the United Kingdom. She signed a million-dollar contract to headline in her own $150,000 nightclub revue in Las Vegas for which she produced, choreographed, and wrote and arranged the music. She said,[5]

“ I write and arrange all the music, design the costumes, do the choreography, the whole thing. I'm completely responsible for it. It's totally my own from inception to performance. I originally produced "Ode To Billie Joe" and most of my other records, but a woman doesn't stand much chance in a recording studio. A staff producer's name was nearly always put on the records. ”

In 1974, Gentry hosted a short-lived summer replacement variety show, The Bobbie Gentry Happiness Hour, on CBS. The show, which was her version of Campbell's hit series The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, also on CBS, was not renewed for a full season. That same year, Gentry wrote and performed "Another Place, Another Time" for writer-director Max Baer, Jr.'s film, Macon County Line. In 1976, Baer directed the feature film Ode to Billy Joe, which was based on her hit song [11] and starred Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor. In the movie, the mystery of the title character's suicide is revealed as a part of the conflict between his love for Bobbie Lee Hartley and his emerging homosexuality. Gentry's re-recording of the song for the film hit the pop charts, as did Capitol's reissue of the original recording; both peaked outside the top fifty. Her behind-the-scenes work in television production failed to hold her interest. After a 1978 single for Warner Bros. Records, "He Did Me Wrong, But He Did It Right" failed to chart, Gentry decided to retire from show business. Her last public appearances as a performer were on Christmas Night 1978 as a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and on 10 May 1981 on All-Star Salute to Mother's Day.[12] After that, she settled in Los Angeles and remained out of the public eye.[1]

Personal life

Gentry has been married three times. Her first marriage was to casino magnate Bill Harrah in 1969 and lasted only weeks. She married singer and comedian Jim Stafford on October 15, 1975; they divorced a few years later after the birth of their son Tyler. She has since remarried.[13]

Artistry

In the hectic atmosphere of 1967, Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe" stood out with its simplicity and integrity.[14] Gentry is one of the first female country artists to write and produce her own material.[1] Typically her songs have autobiographic characteristics.[14]

Legacy

Bobbie Gentry charted 11 singles in Billboard Hot 100[1] and four singles in the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. [3]

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. ... [I]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.[15]

Discography

Albums

Year Album Peak chart positions[1] Certifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country US CAN UK[16]
1967 Ode to Billie Joe 1 1 — —
  • US: Gold
1968 The Delta Sweete — 132 — —
Local Gentry — — — —
Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell (with Glen Campbell) 1 11 8 —
  • US: Gold
Way Down South
  • Label: EMI MFP-5006
 — — — —
1969 Touch 'Em with Love 42 164 — 21
Greatest — 180 — —
1970 Fancy 34 96 79 —
I'll Never Fall In Love Again — — — —
Bobbie Gentry Portrait — — — —
1971 Patchwork — 221 — —
Sittin' Pretty — — — —
Tobacco Road — — — —
Your No 1 Fan — — — —
1983 All I have to do is Dream (with Glen Campbell) — — — —
1990 Bobbie Gentry's Greatest Hits
  • Label: Curb D2-77387
 — — — —
1994 The Best of Bobbie Gentry — — — —
1995 Bobbie Gentry - The Hit Albums
  • Label: DISKY HA-860502
 — — — —
1998 The Golden Classics of Bobbie Gentry
  • Label: Collectibles CD 5862
 — — — —
2000 The Capitol Years: Ode to Bobbie Gentry
  • Label: EMI 7243
 — — — —
2002 An American Quilt 1967-1974
  • Label: Raven 1302
 — — — —

Singles

Year Single Chart Positions Album
US Country US US AC CAN Country CAN CAN AC UK[16]
1963 "Requiem For Love" — — — — — — —
1967 "Ode to Billie Joe" 17 1 7 — — — 13 Ode to Billie Joe
"I Saw An Angel Die" — — — — — — —
"Okolona River Bottom Band" — 54 — — — — —
1968 "Louisiana Man" 72 100 — — — — — The Delta Sweete
"Hushabye Mountain" — — — — — — —
"Morning Glory" (with Glen Campbell) — 74 32 — 81 — — Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell
1969 "Let It Be Me" (with Glen Campbell) 14 36 7 1 85 15 —
"I'll Never Fall in Love Again" — — — — — — 1 Touch 'Em with Love
"Casket Vignette" — — — — — — —
1970 "All I Have to Do Is Dream" (with Glen Campbell) 6 27 4 2 36 3 3 Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell
"Fancy" 26 31 8 1 26 20 — Fancy
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" — — — — — — 40
"He Made a Woman Out of Me" — 71 — — 57 — —
"Apartment 21" — 81 19 — 68 — —
1971 "But I Can't Get Back" — — 37 — 93 — — Patchwork
1972 "Girl From Cincinnati" — — — — — — —
1976 "Another Time, Another Place" — — — — — — —
"Ode to Billie Joe" (re-recording) — 65 — — 92 46 — Greatest Hits
1978 "He Did Me Wrong But He Did It Right" — — — — — — —

B-Sides

Year B-Side Chart Positions Original A-Side
US Country US
1968 "Less of Me" (with Glen Campbell) 44 — "Morning Glory"
1969 "Touch 'Em with Love" — 113 "Casket Vignette"

References

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  2. ^ a b "Chairborne Ranger Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Songs 1967". Chairborne Ranger. http://www.chairborneranger.com/top100/top100-1967.htm. 
  3. ^ a b c "UK Top 40 Hit Database". everyhit.co.uk. http://www.everyhit.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-04-23. 
  4. ^ "Ode to Billie Joe". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/song/t6459358. 
  5. ^ a b "Biography". Ode to Bobbie Gentry. Archived from the original on 2009-10-26. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/odetobobbiegentry/bio.htm&date=2009-10-25+23:55:13. 
  6. ^ "Sanremo 1968". HitParadeItalia. http://www.hitparadeitalia.it/sanremo/edizioni/1968.htm. 
  7. ^ Bobbie Gentry - Niki Hoeky The Summer Brothers Smothers Show
  8. ^ "The Summer Brothers Smothers Show" Episode #1.6 IMDB
  9. ^ Morag Veljkovic, "Ode to Bobbie Gentry", After Dark Magazine monthly, July 1974 edition
  10. ^ 1971 Grammy Awards at www.metrolyrics.com
  11. ^ Ode to Billy Joe International Movie Database
  12. ^ "Bobbie Gentry". IMDB.com. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0313160/. 
  13. ^ Weisbard, Eric. Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music. New York: 2007.
  14. ^ a b Valter Ojakäär (1983) (in Estonian). Popmuusikast (On Pop Music). Eesti Raamat. 
  15. ^ "Joe Henry: An Eclectic And Raucous 'Reverie'", transcript, Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross, November 10, 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  16. ^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 225. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 
1950s

Bobby Darin (1959)
1960s

No award given (1960) · Bob Newhart (1961) · Peter Nero (1962) · Robert Goulet (1963) · The Swingle Singers (1964) · The Beatles (1965) · Tom Jones (1966) · No award given (1967) · Bobbie Gentry (1968) · José Feliciano (1969)
1970s

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1970) · The Carpenters (1971) · Carly Simon (1972) · America (1973) · Bette Midler (1974) · Marvin Hamlisch (1975) · Natalie Cole (1976) · Starland Vocal Band (1977) · Debby Boone (1978) · A Taste of Honey (1979)
1980s

Rickie Lee Jones (1980) · Christopher Cross (1981) · Sheena Easton (1982) · Men at Work (1983) · Culture Club (1984) · Cyndi Lauper (1985) · Sade (1986) · Bruce Hornsby and the Range (1987) · Jody Watley (1988) · Tracy Chapman (1989)
1990s

Milli Vanilli (1990) · Mariah Carey (1991) · Marc Cohn (1992) · Arrested Development (1993) · Toni Braxton (1994) · Sheryl Crow (1995) · Hootie & the Blowfish (1996) · LeAnn Rimes (1997) · Paula Cole (1998) · Lauryn Hill (1999)
2000s

Christina Aguilera (2000) · Shelby Lynne (2001) · Alicia Keys (2002) · Norah Jones (2003) · Evanescence (2004) · Maroon 5 (2005) · John Legend (2006) · Carrie Underwood (2007) · Amy Winehouse (2008) · Adele (2009)
2010s

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