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Gentry's personal view on the song:
The album as was the case with the rest of her post-"Ode to Billie Joe" recordings had little commercial success. The track spent four weeks as the #1 pop song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was fourth in the Billboard year-end chart of 1967 and earned her Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1968. Stage performances and television work (1971-1981)
Gentry continued to write and perform touring Europe generating a significant fan base in the United Kingdom.
After her first albums Bobbie Gentry had a successful run of variety shows on the Las Vegas Strip. The track spent four weeks as the #1 pop song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was fourth in the Billboard year-end chart of 1967 and earned her Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1968. She lost interest in performing in the late 1970s and since has lived privately in Los Angeles.
