Jeannie C. Riley On The Honky Tonk Highway With Jeannie C. Riley (CD)

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Jeannie C. Riley: On The Honky Tonk Highway With Jeannie C. Riley (CD)
- The first in Bear Family Records’® new series of hard-hitting country music from artists who travelled the Honky Tonk Highway in the 1960s and ‘70s.
- This CD displays the full range of the astonishing recordings Jeannie C. Riley made for Plantation Records between 1968 and 1971, a time when her songs told the truth and shamed the devil.
- Jeannie had 24 country hits and 6 pop hits, including her international smash Harper Valley P.T. A. - the only song by a female country singer to top both the country and pop charts until Dolly Parton went pop 13 years later. She also had 9 charted albums.
- Jeannie was an excellent singer, the real deal, whose authentic Texas honky tonk twang came together with an ability to put across a song to wider audience.
- Standout songs from the finest country writers include Tell The Truth, The Girl Most Likely, The Back Side Of Dallas, Oh Singer, Country Girl, Roses And Thorns, The Street Singer, In A Moment Of Weakness, and ... Harper Valley P.T.A.
- The accompanying booklet by Martin Hawkins tells the fascinating story of young Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson complete with original interviews and rare photographs.
In 1968 she was heard by producer Shelby Singleton. His vision saw how her voice and personality could bring alive a story song by Tom T. Hall about a woman calling out the various small town hypocrites who were criticising her. He saw Harper Valley P.T.A. as a hit single, an album, a movie and a TV series - all of which came to pass. When Jeannie recorded Harper Valley, she said: ”There wasn’t a sound as the last echoes of the guitars faded. Then I heard one of the musicians say, ‘Great God A’mighty’.” Everyone in the room was now hearing what Shelby had envisioned. Legend has it that half the music people in Nashville came in to hear the playbacks.
Even though the highway took her first to the top of the pop charts, to national and international TV, and to Vegas, she was still as country as they come. She said, “I took every engagement that came along – state fairs, concerts, night clubs, dinner clubs, and joints.”
The music Jeannie made during her three years with Plantation has been overshadowed by Harper Valley and not recognised for the significant and influential body of work it is – until now! Here, the story is told the Bear Family way in words, pictures, and especially in this music.
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Album titlle: On The Honky Tonk Highway With Jeannie C. Riley (CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
- Preiscode AR
- Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
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EAN: 5397102176364
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Riley, Jeannie C. - On The Honky Tonk Highway With Jeannie C. Riley (CD) CD 1 | ||||
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01 | Harper Valley P. T. A. | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
02 | Tell The Truth And Shame The Devil | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
03 | The Girl Most Likely | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
04 | The Little Town Square | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
05 | The Back Side Of Dallas | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
06 | Things Go Better With Love | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
07 | Country Girl | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
08 | Duty Not Desire | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
09 | Good Enough To Be Your Wife | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
10 | Oh Singer | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
11 | Darling Days | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
12 | Roses And Thorns | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
13 | I Almost Called Your Name | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
14 | Satan Place | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
15 | Light Your Light (And Let It Shine) | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
16 | Am I That Easy To Forget | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
17 | In A Moment Of Weakness | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
18 | The Tree Of Joy | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
19 | Teardrops On Page 43 | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
20 | The Cotton Patch | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
21 | Shed Me No Tears | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
22 | Before The Next Teardrop Falls | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
23 | One Toke Over The Line | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
24 | The Street Singer | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
25 | I'll Take What's Left Of You | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
26 | No Brass Band | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
27 | That's A No No | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
28 | We Were Raised On Love | Jeannie C. Riley | ||
29 | Yesterday All Day Long Today | 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
Read more at: https://www.bear-family.de/various-country-und-western-hit-parade-1968.html
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A fantastic collection of work from country singer Jeannie C Riley!
A fantastic collection of work from country singer Jeannie C Riley – an artist that most folks know for her one major hit, but who also has a heck of a lot more to offer – as you'll discover on this set! Riley is best known for the seminal "Harper Valley PTA" – and the vibe of that track does a good job of setting up the spirit of the rest of the work here – which includes a fair bit of no-nonsense cuts that have Jeannie coming across almost like a feminist – really throwing things back at the boys of the country music world, with songs that are a response to their drinking and cheating – as the lady herself paves a new path forward. Riley can also be a great straighter country singer too, and you'll hear that on the work on the collection too – pulled together almost exclusively from tracks recorded for Plantation Records in 1968, with titles that include "The Back Side Of Dallas", "The Little Town Square", "Good Enough To Be Your Wife", "Duty Not Desire", "In The Tree Of Joy", "Satan Place", "I Almost Called Your Name", "The Street Singer", "The Cotton Patch", "Teardrops On Page 43", "Yesterday All Long Today", "The Girl Most Likely", and "Tell The Truth & Shame The Devil". 29 tracks in all, including some non-LP singles and b-sides that appear here on CD for the first time ever – and the great Bear Family set of notes!
5 Stars!
Very nice compilation, great packaging and brings back great memories!
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