Reba McEntire Drops a Stunner About Her Song "Fancy"

It's been 30 years and Reba McEntire still can't get "Fancy" on the phone.

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Here's more about why Bobbie Gentry disappeared: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v-ncvSMJps

"Fancy," McEntire's hit from her 1990 Rumor Has It album, is the song the singer says she always includes during live shows as it's her most requested song despite only peaking at No. 8 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. Find her original and two remixes of the song on her newly released 30th anniversary edition of the album. It's a story-song much more closely associated with the Country Music Hall of Famer than the woman who wrote and recorded it — and made it a Grammy nominated, Top 40 hit — 20 years prior.

Since the early 1980s, Bobbie Gentry has been an enigma. "I've never met her. I've never talked to her," McEntire admits. She was talking to Taste of Country and select media about the new 30th anniversary album, released on Sept. 11. Gentry first released "Fancy" in 1969.

"When she released it," McEntire adds, "I fell in love with 'Ode to Billie Joe' and the albums, her duet album with Glen Campbell. I'm just a huge fan. I think she's a genius. Great songwriter, beautiful woman, great singer and it's just been kind of a — she's a mystery woman."

Gentry (born Robert Lee Streeter) disappeared from the public after the ACM Awards in 1982. She's been active in the business world and once owned a percentage of the Phoenix Suns NBA basketball team. The way she vanished is so curious because she was not just a one-hit wonder who fell out of favor. She was a star in the late '60s and early '70s and maintained artistic credibility up to the day she dropped off the celebrity map. It'd be like 2020 Maren Morris taking her money and successes and running.

"I talked to so many people who have gotten to work with her and know her and do stay in communication with her and I would say, 'Hey, would you tell her that I'd really like to meet her sometime or talk to her or email or text or smoke signals or anything,'" McEntire says. "I don't care, I'd just really like to communicate with her. I'd love to know where did she get the idea of 'Fancy' and what was the thinking behind it."

The two women just missed overlapping as McEntire's commercial career had just started to take off by the 1982 ACMs, when Gentry bowed out. Several journalists have attempted to track her down in recent years with separate stories concluding she lived currently near Memphis or Los Angeles. The singer would be 78 years old today. Simply vanishing is something McEntire says she could never do.

"Dolly (Dolly Parton) and I have talked about it several times," the actor and entertainer says. "I said, 'Dolly, are you gonna retire?' She said, 'And do what? I got the best job in the world, what would I do?'"

"I'm with her 100 percent. I love what I do."

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