Fancy (Bobbie Gentry album)

Fancy ^[1][2] is the eighth album by Bobbie Gentry. The first of three albums she released in 1970, it was recorded at Fame Recording Studios, Muscle Shoals, Alabama and produced by Rick Hall. String arrangements were by Jimmie Haskell. It was released on Capitol Records
Three singles were released from the album:

• " Fancy" (which depicts its heroine's overcoming poverty to become a successful courtesan, and for which Gentry received a Grammy nomination for best female pop vocal performance)
• "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (a cover of the Hal David and Burt Bacharach song written for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
• "He Made A Woman Out of Me"

Track Listing (US Release)

Side One

1. "Fancy" (Gentry)
2. "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
3. "Delta Man" (Leon Russell)
4. "Something in the Way He Moves" (James Taylor)
5. "Find 'Em, Fool 'Em and Forget About 'Em" (George Jackson)

Side Two

1. "He Made a Woman Out of Me" (Fred Burch, Don Hill)
2. "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
3. "If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody" (Rudy Clark)
4. "Rainmaker" (Harry Nilsson)
5. "Wedding Bell Blues" (Laura Nyro)

UK Release

The album was released in the UK as "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" with a different track order and two extra tracks: "Billy the Kid" and "In the Ghetto"

Side One

1. "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" (Bacharach, David)
2. "Something in the Way He Moves" (Taylor)
3. "Rainmaker" (Nilsson)
4. "Billy the Kid" (Gentry)
5. "Wedding Bell Blues" (Nyro)
6. "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (Bacharach, David)

Side Two

1. "Fancy" (Gentry)
2. "In the Ghetto" (Mac Davis)
3. "Find 'Em, Fool 'Em and Forget About 'Em" (Jackson)
4. "Delta Man" (Russell)
5. "He Made a Woman Out of Me" (Burch, Hill)
6. "If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody" (Clark)

References