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Bob Shane loved The Kingston Trio's "Something Special" album (rel: 1962)....
and in an interview waaay back in 1998, he said:

"We knew Jimmie Haskell was hired to work on the orchestrations and stuff, but it was done in an unusual way.
Most of the time the orchestra would lay down the track and then you would sing over it.
What we did, we sang the songs, then they made the orchestra track, which was completely different at the time.
The album, to me, was an extremely good album."

- Bob Shane

FOR THE RECORD:

In the case of "Ode To Billie Joe" ~> Jimmie Haskell did the same thing he did with The Kingston Trio.
Jimmie Haskell added the orchestral arrangements AFTER Bobbie Gentry had recorded the song accompanying herself on the guitar.