Fancy is the eighth album by Bobbie Gentry

Bobbie Gentry

Roberta Lee Streeter , professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is a former American singer-songwriter notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material...

. The first of three albums she released in 1970, it was recorded at Fame Recording Studios

FAME Studios

FAME Studios are located at 603 East Avalon in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. They have been an integral part of American popular music from the late 1950s to the present...

, Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Muscle Shoals is a city in Colbert County, Alabama, United States. As of 2007, the United States Census Bureau estimated the population of the city to be 12,846. The city is included in The Shoals MSA. It is famous for its contributions to American popular music.-Geography:Muscle Shoals is located...

 and produced by Rick Hall

Rick Hall

Roe Erister "Rick" Hall is an American record producer, songwriter, music publisher and musician who is best known as the owner and proprietor of the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.-Life and career:...

. String arrangements were by Jimmie Haskell. It was released on Capitol Records

Capitol Records

Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...

Three singles were released from the album:

• " Fancy" (which depicts its heroine's overcoming poverty to become a successful courtesan
  Courtesan
  A courtesan was originally a female courtier, which means a person who attends the court of a monarch or other powerful person.In feudal society, the court was the centre of government as well as the residence of the monarch, and social and political life were often completely mixed together...
  
  , and for which Gentry received a Grammy nomination for best female pop vocal performance)
• "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
  Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
  "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is B. J. Thomas's #1 song, written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. David and Bacharach also won Best Original Score. It was recorded in seven takes, after...
  
  " (a cover of the Hal David
  Hal David
  Harold Lane "Hal" David is an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. David is best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach.-Career:...
  
   and Burt Bacharach
  Burt Bacharach
  Burt F. Bacharach is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick...
  
   song written for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman...
  
  )
• "He Made A Woman Out of Me"

Side One

1. "Fancy" (Gentry)
2. "I'll Never Fall in Love Again
   I'll Never Fall in Love Again
   "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" is a popular song by composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David. Originally written for the 1968 musical Promises, Promises, it soon became one of Bacharach and David's most enduring songs. It was nominated for Song of the Year in the 1969 Grammy awards...
   
   " (Burt Bacharach
   Burt Bacharach
   Burt F. Bacharach is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick...
   
   , Hal David
   Hal David
   Harold Lane "Hal" David is an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. David is best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach.-Career:...
   
   )
3. "Delta Man" (Leon Russell
   Leon Russell
   Claude Russell Bridges , known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music....
   
   )
4. "Something in the Way He Moves" (James Taylor
   James Taylor
   James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Taylor was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....
   
   )
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
   Harry Nilsson
   Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. On all but his earliest recordings he is credited as Nilsson...
   
   )
5. "Wedding Bell Blues" (Laura Nyro
   Laura Nyro
   Laura Nyro was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist. She achieved considerable critical acclaim with her own recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession and New York Tendaberry, and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and The 5th...
   
   )

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
   I'll Never Fall in Love Again
   "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" is a popular song by composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David. Originally written for the 1968 musical Promises, Promises, it soon became one of Bacharach and David's most enduring songs. It was nominated for Song of the Year in the 1969 Grammy awards...
   
   " (Bacharach
   Bacharach
   Bacharach is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rhein-Nahe, whose seat is in Bingen am Rhein, although that town is not within its bounds....
   
   , David)
2. "Something in the Way He Moves" (Taylor)
3. "Rainmaker" (Nilsson
   Nilsson
   Nilsson is a Swedish surname and the fourth most common surname in Sweden. The name is a patronymic meaning "Nils's son". Nils was a very common name, especially in 19th century Sweden.Some people named Nilsson:...
   
   )
4. "Billy the Kid" (Gentry)
5. "Wedding Bell Blues" (Nyro)
6. "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (Bacharach
   Bacharach
   Bacharach is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rhein-Nahe, whose seat is in Bingen am Rhein, although that town is not within its bounds....
   
   , David)

Side Two

1. "Fancy" (Gentry)
2. "In the Ghetto" (Mac Davis
   Mac Davis
   Mac Davis is a country music singer, songwriter, and actor originally from Lubbock, Texas who has enjoyed much crossover success...
   
   )
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)