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(Sun Records) 12 tracks Few artists manage to sell millions of records and land a number one hit...more

Jeannie C. Riley: Harper Valley P.T.A. (CD)

(Sun Records) 12 tracks

Few artists manage to sell millions of records and land a number one hit with their first release, but that's exactly what happened to Jeannie C. Riley. As a high-coiffed, miniskirt and high boot-wearing country siren, she ended up identifying completely with the role of Widow Johnson from her international hit “Harper Valley P.T.A” by Tom T. Hall.

Indeed, Jeannie broke out of familiar roles and became famous for both her looks and her singing, while providing the antithesis of the typical country singer image of wholesome family, long dresses and ruffles (which ironically was the look she would have preferred).

Over the decades, her records disappeared and the songs were hard to find on CD - this unique compilation remedies that: 56 tracks on two CDs with recordings for the Plantation label from 1968 to 1970. A compilation of the first five albums, “Harper Valley P.T.A”, “Yearbooks And Yesterdays”, “Things Go Better With Love”, “Country Girl” and “The Generation Gap” with a rare B-side that never appeared on an album.

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  • Interpret: Jeannie C. Riley

  • Album titlle: Harper Valley P.T.A. (CD)

  • Genre Country

  • Label SUN RECORDS

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0015047811427

  • weight in Kg 0.1
Riley, Jeannie C. - Harper Valley P.T.A. (CD) CD 1
01Harper Valley PTAJeannie C. Riley
02Widow JonesJeannie C. Riley
03No Brass BandJeannie C. Riley
04Mr HarperJeannie C. Riley
05Run Jeannie RunJeannie C. Riley
06Shed Me No TearsJeannie C. Riley
07The Cotton PatchJeannie C. Riley
08Sippin' Shirley ThompsonJeannie C. Riley
09The Little Town SquareJeannie C. Riley
10The Ballad Of LouiseJeannie C. Riley
11Satan PlaceJeannie C. Riley
12Yesterday All Day LongJeannie C. Riley
Jeannie C. Riley Harper Valley P.T.A. Listener appreciation day at radio station... more
"Jeannie C. Riley"

Jeannie C. Riley

Harper Valley P.T.A.

Listener appreciation day at radio station WENO in Madison, Tennessee, 1967: the station laid on food and called in favors to get some entertainment. Tom T. Hall, newly signed to Mercury Records, was there as were Leon Ashley and his wife, Margie Singleton, joint owners of Ashley Records in nearby Hendersonville. As the food was served, Margie Singleton asked Hall to write a song along the lines of Ode To Billie Joe.Driving south of Nashville, a sign saying Harpeth Valley Utility District triggered a memory of a woman in Hall's home town who had taken on the PTA (Parent Teacher Association) for their indiscretions. He didn't see Harper Valley PTAas a sequel or prequel to Billie Joe,but saw both as musical adaptations of Erskine Caldwell-type stories. “I wrote it sitting at my red checkered tablecloth,”Hall wrote later. “I don't recall that it took more than an hour or so, but I had the idea for twenty years.”Some of the rhymes were sloppy (…wife/high, …again/gin, etc.) but the story was compelling.

He called Margie Singleton but she was out on tour, so he took the song to his publisher, Jimmy Key, who asked him to play it to Billy Grammer. According to Hall, Grammer took the song home and played it for his kids, who told him it was implausible. Grammer said he'd record it if he could change it, but Hall refused. Meanwhile, Leon Ashley handed the song to Alice Joy, the wife of Texas dee-jay-songwriter Neal Merritt, who'd written May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose.This was probably in 1967 because Harper Valleywas copyrighted that year. Somehow, Margie’s ex-husband, Shelby Singleton, heard Joy's recording. It sat in his desk for six months, he said.

Singleton had only been in business for himself for a little over a year, focusing on R&B. Soon after relocating to Nashville in May 1968, he branched into country with a new imprint, Plantation. Dee-jay Paul Perry brought Jeannie C. Riley to Shelby's attention. In the two years she'd been in Nashville she'd recorded for Little Darlin' Records, and landed a job as a secretary as Passkey Music. Singleton decided that she had the feistiness to make Harper Valleywork, so he booked a session at Columbia. It's part of Nashville folklore that he recorded the song after Riley got off work. Jerry Kennedy, who played Dobro on the session, says they recorded at 6PM on Thursday July 25 but the consensus is 6PM on Friday. Singleton's then-wife, Barbara, changed Hall's original concluding words from “that's the day my mama put down the Harper Valley PTA”to “That's the day my mama socked it to the Harper Valley PTA.” Rowan& Martin's Laugh-In was big at the time, and “sock it to me” was one of their trademark lines (some say that Margie Singleton recorded the song before Jeannie C., but Margie used the “socked it to…” line, so that’s unlikely).

Jeannie C. strutted through the words with Kennedy echoing every line. The session was over by 9 or 10PM, but the musicians, who'd been working since 10AM, stuck around to hear the Harper Valleysong again. Singleton tested his hunch that he was onto something by taking an acetate to WSM's late night dee-jay, Ralph Emery. Over that weekend, Singleton serviced it by Air Express to every country station. “The first guy to play it was Dick Kent at WMAK in Knoxville,”Shelby told Walt Trott. Kennedy had spent the weekend in nearby Gatlinburg and by the time he drove back on Monday, he was hearing Harper Valley on the radio. “I sat in the office,”Singleton told Trott, “and my sales manager, Colonel Jim Wilson, totaled it up to where I had personally taken orders one day for 900,000 copies.” Harper Valleycracked the country and pop charts on August 24 and reached #1 on the pop charts on September 21 and the country charts one week later. It was a career moment for all involved. Hall would never write a bigger song, nor would Riley record one. Singleton sold 7 million copies of the single and another 5 million LPs, 8-tracks, and cassettes. He plowed the profits into building a studio and buying Sun Records, but never scored another major hit. Jerry Kennedy made $91 in session fees.

 - Colins Escott -

Various Country & Western Hit Parade 1968

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Tracklist
Riley, Jeannie C. - Harper Valley P.T.A. (CD) CD 1
01 Harper Valley PTA
02 Widow Jones
03 No Brass Band
04 Mr Harper
05 Run Jeannie Run
06 Shed Me No Tears
07 The Cotton Patch
08 Sippin' Shirley Thompson
09 The Little Town Square
10 The Ballad Of Louise
11 Satan Place
12 Yesterday All Day Long