"was changed at the last minute at the suggestion of his ""wife at the time"". Tom T. Hall reportedly first offered the song to Skeeter Davis, who declined. Plantation Records, the label on which Riley recorded the song, rush-released the single when they learned that both Billie Jo Spears and Margie Singleton had just recorded the song as well. Riley's record was an immediate smash; Capitol Records did release Spears' version the same week, but it failed to chart. Hall later stated that his inspiration for the song came when one day he was passing by the Harpeth Valley Elementary"
"Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine"" #93 in their list of the 100 greatest country songs. On February 12, 2008, Hall was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Is also a member of the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame Tom T. Hall Thomas T. Hall (born May 25, 1936 in Olive Hill, Kentucky) is an American country music songwriter, singer, instrumentalist, novelist, and short-story writer. He has written 12 No. 1 hit songs, with 26 more that reached the Top 10, including the No. 1 international pop crossover smash ""Harper Valley PTA"" and the hit ""I Love"", which reached"
"two albums were also on Plantation label; Penitentiary Blues and Requiem for A Harliquin Plantation Records Plantation Records was a country music record label of the 1960s and 1970s helmed by Shelby Singleton. The label is best known for Jeannie C. Riley's 1968 hit ""Harper Valley PTA"", which topped both the country and ""Billboard"" Hot 100 charts. The label established Riley as one of the major country female vocalists of the late 1960s and early 1970s with a string of hits for the label and also topping the Billboard country album chart with the ""Harper Valley PTA"" album. Grand Ole"
"Nashville, arriving in 1964 with $46 and a guitar; within months he had songs climbing the charts. Hall has been nicknamed ""The Storyteller,"" and he has written songs for dozens of country stars, including Johnny Cash, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings, Alan Jackson, and Bobby Bare. One of his earliest successful songwriting ventures, ""Harper Valley PTA,"" recorded in 1968 by Jeannie C. Riley, hit No. 1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and Hot Country Singles charts a week apart, sold over six million copies, and won both a Grammy Award and CMA Award. The song would go on to"
"Plantation Records Plantation Records was a country music record label of the 1960s and 1970s helmed by Shelby Singleton. The label is best known for Jeannie C. Riley's 1968 hit ""Harper Valley PTA"", which topped both the country and ""Billboard"" Hot 100 charts. The label established Riley as one of the major country female vocalists of the late 1960s and early 1970s with a string of hits for the label and also topping the Billboard country album chart with the ""Harper Valley PTA"" album. Grand Ole Opry star Ray Pillow had light success on the label with one top 40"
"Valley PTA: Original Soundtrack Recording was released in June 1978 on vinyl, cassette and 8-track by Plantation Records. To promote the film's release and its soundtrack, the title song by Jeannie C. Riley was re-issued as a single. The album made its compact disc premiere through Varèse Sarabande on October 27, 2017. In 1981, ""Harper Valley PTA"" was made into a television sitcom (created by Sherwood Schwartz) which aired on NBC from January 1981 to May 1982. Barbara Eden reprised her role as Stella Johnson for the series which lasted two seasons and a total of 30 episodes were produced."
"Tom T. Hall Thomas T. Hall (born May 25, 1936 in Olive Hill, Kentucky) is an American country music songwriter, singer, instrumentalist, novelist, and short-story writer. He has written 12 No. 1 hit songs, with 26 more that reached the Top 10, including the No. 1 international pop crossover smash ""Harper Valley PTA"" and the hit ""I Love"", which reached No. 12 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. He became known to fans as ""The Storyteller,"" thanks to his storytelling skills in his songwriting. Hall was born in 1936. As a teenager, he organized a band called the Kentucky Travelers that"
"Mayor Harper, Widow Jones, and Shirley Thompson. The classic ""Harper Valley PTA"" album cover shows a minidress-clad Riley—portraying Mrs. Johnson with PTA note in hand—standing beside a girl, who is portraying the teenage daughter of Mrs. Johnson. Jeannie C. Riley's recording won her a Grammy for the Best Country Vocal Performance, Female. Her recording was also nominated for ""Record of the Year"" and ""Song of the Year"" in the pop field. In the 1970s, Riley became a born-again Christian, started to sing gospel music and briefly distanced herself from the song. However, she never dropped it from her concerts, and"
"the fatalities of young men in his company. It then goes on to relate the events at My Lai from Calley's point of view. The song was written in April 1970 by Julian Wilson and James M. Smith of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. In November 1970 a few copies of it were issued by Quickit Publishing. In March 1971 Shelby Singleton, publisher of ""Harper Valley PTA,"" obtained the rights to the song and issued a new recording under his Plantation Records label. The single sold over one million copies in just four days, and was certified gold by the RIAA on"
"School in Bellevue, Tennessee, not far from his then-home in Franklin. He liked the sound of the name and decided to write a song using a similar place name. He also reportedly wrote the song about Olive Hill, Kentucky, where Hall grew up. The song was later the inspiration for a 1978 motion picture and a short-lived 1981 television series, both starring Barbara Eden, playing the heroine of the story, Mrs. Johnson—who now had a first name, Stella. Several other songs in the ""Harper Valley PTA"" album told stories of some of the other characters from the title tune, including"
"nominations and four Country Music Association nominations, and performed a duet with Loretta Lynn. She had success on the country charts again, but on a lesser scale. Other hits following ""Harper Valley PTA"" include ""The Girl Most Likely,"" ""There Never Was A Time,"" ""The Rib,"" ""The Back Side of Dallas,"" ""Country Girl,"" ""Oh Singer,"" and ""Good Enough to Be Your Wife."" Riley became known as much for her sex appeal and beauty as for her music, foreshadowing Shania Twain and other contemporary female vocalists by nearly three decades. At a time when many country queens were keeping a wholesome image"
"the town's alleged moral standards as the PTA's accusations against her) on the part of numerous people, present or not. She concludes her smackdown by calling Harper Valley ""a little ""Peyton Place"""" and labeling the PTA a bunch of hypocrites. The song makes two references to short hemlines (""you've been wearing your dresses way too high""; ""wore her miniskirt into the room"") in reference to the miniskirt and the minidress, which had been gaining popularity in the four years since they were first introduced. The expression ""This is just a little Peyton Place"" is a reference to the ""Peyton Place"""
"television show based on the earlier novel and film of the same name where a small town hides scandal and moral hypocrisy behind a tranquil facade. The show, then in the top 20 of Nielsen ratings, was in its fourth season when ""Harper Valley PTA"" was released. In the final line of the song the singer reveals herself as Mrs. Johnson's daughter, with the line: ""The day my mama socked it to the Harper Valley PTA"", referring to the popular phrase of that period ""Sock it to me"" from ""Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"". According to producer Shelby Singleton, this line"
"she married Leon Ashley, and soon moved to United Artists Records. In 1967, she moved to her husband's label, Ashley Records. That year, she recorded a cover version of the Bobbie Gentry hit song ""Ode to Billie Joe"", which reached the country Top 40. She had a Top 60 duet with her husband called ""Hangin' On"" in 1968. That same year, she appeared in a movie with Marty Robbins called ""Road to Nashville"". Her chart success was fading rapidly, although she continued to record, including recording the first version of ""Harper Valley PTA"" that was later a huge crossover hit"
"so I did."" After receiving this encouragement from Kennedy, Hall went on to record nine LPs with Mercury Records from 1968 to 1974, including his famous ""Harper Valley PTA"". Kennedy himself left Mercury in 1984 to start JK Productions, through which he produced recordings by The Statler Brothers, Connie Smith, Mel McDaniel, Reba McEntire and other artists. In 1987, Kennedy and David Briggs released a cut for Mercury Records credited to Joe Kenyon, which was a cover of Vangelis' ""Hymne"". E & J Gallo Winery used this version in its commercials, and it went to number 33 on Hot Country"
"Peter Salett Peter Joseph Salett (born May 12, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter. He is best known as a musician for his song ""Heart of Mine"" in the movie ""Keeping the Faith"", his song score for the 2006 film ""Down in the Valley"", and for co-writing the Dracula puppet musical finale, ""A Taste for Love"", in the Judd Apatow produced film, ""Forgetting Sarah Marshall"". Born in Princeton, New Jersey, Salett moved with his family to Columbia, Maryland when he was four years old. His father, Stan Salett, was a civil rights organizer. While at Harper's Choice Middle School, he was"
"In his autobiography ""Waylon"", Jennings recalled of the song, ""I waited a damn year to cut that song; Charlie Louvin's bass player had the original version for Capitol. I didn't want to cover him. I think he outsang me on it, but I had the best track. I knew it had the potential to go all the way, and it might had not 'Harper Valley P.T.A.' kept it out of the number-one slot."" In Canada, the song reached Number One on the ""RPM"" Country Tracks charts for the week ending September 30, 1968. Jennings would perform the song as part"
"is arrested for embezzlement just as the PTA Board is about to vote against Stella's candidacy. Dutch and Tex, already in custody for the Skeeter Duggan kidnapping, tell the police that Flora was behind it all to keep Stella off the PTA Board. Stella decisively wins the election and becomes the new PTA president, with the whole town voting to get rid of Flora and her snobbish friends. Will and Stella then fly off in his helicopter (which is trailing a sign saying ""Stella Johnson for Mayor"") to get married. ""Harper Valley PTA"" was filmed in twenty-seven days from October"
"by Barbara Eden wearing a black wig), much as she had when she was on her more famous series, ""I Dream of Jeannie"" when she played her evil twin sister, Jeannie II. The show ran from January 1981 to August 1982 on NBC; it was later released into syndication to local stations briefly in the mid-1980s, even though there were too few episodes made for it to be normally syndicated. Cable television network TV Land showed reruns of the show in 2000. Harper Valley PTA (TV series) Harper Valley PTA (known simply as Harper Valley during its second season) is"
"join, contributing his tremendous bass skills ... Almost immediately we were in the studio recording a single-only release ""The Generation Gap"", a song originally recorded by Jeannie C. Riley (of ""Harper Valley PTA"" fame). I changed a couple of lines to suit myself but the ones about grown-ups getting stoned were from the original."" - Dave Faulkner. The single represents the earliest recorded performance by the most stable version of Hoodoo Gurus. Credited to: The Generation Gap (song) ""The Generation Gap"" was a single by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was released on RCA Records in 1988 as a"
"top 30. Later stints at Mercury Records and Warner Bros. Records produced only a couple of charted singles, but Riley remained highly in demand as a concert artist well into the 1980s. In the 1970s, she became a Born Again Christian and began recording gospel music. As result of her conversion, she distanced herself from ""PTA"" for a time, due to its content. However, the song remained part of her live set and she still performs it in her shows. In 1980, she published her autobiography, ""From Harper Valley to the Mountain Top,"" which told her story of stardom in"
"Your Squaw Is on the Warpath Your Squaw Is on the Warpath is twelfth studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on February 17, 1969, by Decca Records. The album includes cover versions of hit country songs, including ""Harper Valley PTA"" by Jeannie C. Riley and ""Kaw-Liga"" by Hank Williams, and the 1968 hit ""I Walk Alone"" by Marty Robbins. The song ""Barney"" was on the original 1969 pressings of the album. The Salem cigarette company filed a claim that the music was a violation of their copyrighted theme for their commercials. As a result,"
"Billboard Top Country Hits: 1968 Billboard Top Country Hits: 1968 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1990, featuring 10 hit country music recordings from 1968. Each of the tracks reached No. 1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles chart during 1968. Included is the year's No. 1 song, ""Folsom Prison Blues"" by Johnny Cash. Another track on the album — ""Harper Valley PTA"" by Jeannie C. Riley — peaked at No. 1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The next year chronicled in Rhino's ""Top Country Hits"" series was , with that album part of a series released"
"Peace in the Valley ""Peace in the Valley"" is a 1937 song written by Thomas A. Dorsey, originally for Mahalia Jackson. The song became a hit in 1951 for Red Foley and the Sunshine Boys, reaching number seven on the Country & Western Best Seller chart. It was among the first gospel recordings to sell one million copies. Foley's version was a 2006 entry into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. In 1950, it was one of the first songs recorded by a young Sam Cooke, during his tenure as lead singer of the Soul Stirrers. After the success"
"in 1993. It has not been explained why Rhino did not release any ""Billboard Top Country Hits"" albums covering the years 1969 through 1985. Billboard Top Country Hits: 1968 Billboard Top Country Hits: 1968 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1990, featuring 10 hit country music recordings from 1968. Each of the tracks reached No. 1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles chart during 1968. Included is the year's No. 1 song, ""Folsom Prison Blues"" by Johnny Cash. Another track on the album — ""Harper Valley PTA"" by Jeannie C. Riley — peaked at No. 1 on"
"She starred in and co-produced, with her own production company (MI-Bar Productions), the NBC TV movie romantic comedy ""The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick"" (1988). She also starred in and produced the romantic comedy TV movie ""Opposites Attract"" (1990), co-starring John Forsythe. In 1978, she starred in the feature film ""Harper Valley PTA"", based on the popular country song. This led to a namesake television series in 1981. In both the movie and the TV series, Eden played the show's heroine, Stella Johnson. The show won 11 of its 13 time slots during its first season. It was a comedy"
"Women Are From Venus"", and a show about life in Marin County, ""For Whom The Bridge Tolls"". She remained a resident of Mill Valley at least until 2014, when it was reported that she was moving out of the area. Rita Abrams Rita Abrams (born August 30, 1943) is an American songwriter, performer and writer. Her song ""Mill Valley"", recorded with children at the school where she was teaching, was released under the name Miss Abrams and the Strawberry Point Third Grade Class in 1970, becoming a ""Billboard"" Hot 100 hit and being nominated for a Grammy. In 1980, she"
"movie ""Seven Brides For Seven Brothers,"" and was very loosely based upon the transportation of single women from the East Coast to what was then the frontier logging outpost of Seattle, which in time became a major metropolitan area of present-day Washington State. The show's theme song, ""Seattle,"" was covered by crooner Perry Como, who enjoyed some chart success with it. Hanley's character was the love interest of Jeremy Bolt, played by then teen heartthrob Bobby Sherman; Sherman's interpretation of ""Seattle"" was not as successful as Como's had been. ""Harper Valley PTA"" was an early 1980s American television sitcom based"
"the video, Hank Jr. walks through the door and magically appears by his father's side to finish the song together. There's a Tear in My Beer ""There's a Tear in My Beer"" is a country song written and recorded by Hank Williams, and later re-recorded by his son in 1988. The original version was written and recorded by Hank Williams during one of his Nashville sessions in 1950-51, but he decided against releasing it. It was not until many years later, in 1989, that the original song would get its first official release. The song was recorded by Bill Lister,"
"one of the Ten Greatest Love Songs of Country Music. Billy Edd Wheeler Billy Edward ""Edd"" Wheeler (born December 9, 1932, Boone County, West Virginia) is an American songwriter, performer, writer, and visual artist. His songs include ""Jackson"" (Grammy award winner for Johnny Cash and June Carter) ""The Reverend Mr. Black"", ""Desert Pete"", ""Ann"", ""High Flyin' Bird"", ""The Coming of the Roads"", ""It’s Midnight"", ""Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back"", ""Coal Tattoo"", ""Winter Sky"", and ""Coward of the County"" (which inspired a 1981 television movie of the same name) and have been performed by over 160 artists including"
"Valleys of Neptune (song) ""Valleys of Neptune"" is a song by American rock musician Jimi Hendrix, featured on his 2010 posthumous studio album ""Valleys of Neptune"". Written and produced by Hendrix, the song was originally recorded between 1969 and 1970. Hendrix began work on the musical composition for ""Valleys of Neptune"", under the title of ""Gypsy Blood"", in February 1969, with the first recordings taking place at Olympic Sound Studios in London on February 22 & 26, 1969 – three takes on guitar and piano and one take on guitar, respectively. Hendrix wrote the lyrics for the song under the"
"James Ervan Parker James Ervan ""Jim"" Parker (born December 21, 1942 in La Habra, California) is an American singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Huntsville, Alabama sub-chapter of the Nashville Songwriters Association International. Parker lives in Madison, Alabama, his home since 1985. Parker received his first guitar from Jimmy Gilmer of The Fireballs in 1961. At the time Gilmer was dating Parker's sister. In 1961 Jim Parker joined a music group that called themselves The Illusions: The group recorded a single with Dot Records which was produced by Tommy Allsup (Buddy Holly's lead guitar player) in Odessa, Texas. Parker wrote the"
"Accident""."" ""Cashbox"" published a review of the album, saying that, ""Gaining in strength as one of the more popular country female artists, Dolly Parton follows up her chart single of ""In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)"" with a strong LP that should solidify her position with the disk buyers. In addition to her own hit single, the LP features such monster titles as ""D-I-V-O-R-C-E"" and ""Harper Valley PTA"", among others."" The album peaked at No. 15 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot Country Albums chart. The album's only single release, ""In the Good Old Days (When Times Were"