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Harper Valley PTA
"Harper Valley PTA" is a country song written by Tom T. Hall, which in 1968 became a major international hit single for country singer Jeannie C. Riley. Riley's record, her debut, sold over six million copies as a single, and it made her the first woman to top both the Billboard Hot 100 and the U.S. Hot Country Singles charts with the same song (but not at the same time), a feat that would not be repeated until Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" 13 years later in 1981. It was also Riley's only Top 40 pop hit in the USA.
Publisher Newkeys Music, Inc. filed the original copyright on December 26, 1967, which was revised on October 28, 1968, to reflect new lyrics added by Hall.
Nashville studio musician-producer Jerry Kennedy played the dobro prominent on the record.
The focus of the song's narrative is Mrs. Johnson, whose teenage daughter attends Harper Valley Junior High. The girl comes home one day with a note for her mother from the local PTA, criticizing Mrs. Johnson for wearing short dresses and spending her nights drinking in the company of men. The note closes with a statement by the PTA that she should do a better job of raising her daughter.
During a PTA meeting that afternoon, Mrs. Johnson barges in unannounced, wearing a miniskirt, and reveals a long list of the members' private indiscretions:
Mrs. Johnson rebukes the PTA for having the nerve to call her an unfit mother, comparing the town to Peyton Place and labeling the members as hypocrites.
In the final lines, the narrator reveals that Mrs. Johnson is her mother.
The song makes two references to short hemlines ("you're 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 into mainstream fashion.
Harper Valley PTA
"Harper Valley PTA" is a country song written by Tom T. Hall, which in 1968 became a major international hit single for country singer Jeannie C. Riley. Riley's record, her debut, sold over six million copies as a single, and it made her the first woman to top both the Billboard Hot 100 and the U.S. Hot Country Singles charts with the same song (but not at the same time), a feat that would not be repeated until Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" 13 years later in 1981. It was also Riley's only Top 40 pop hit in the USA.
Publisher Newkeys Music, Inc. filed the original copyright on December 26, 1967, which was revised on October 28, 1968, to reflect new lyrics added by Hall.
Nashville studio musician-producer Jerry Kennedy played the dobro prominent on the record.
The focus of the song's narrative is Mrs. Johnson, whose teenage daughter attends Harper Valley Junior High. The girl comes home one day with a note for her mother from the local PTA, criticizing Mrs. Johnson for wearing short dresses and spending her nights drinking in the company of men. The note closes with a statement by the PTA that she should do a better job of raising her daughter.
During a PTA meeting that afternoon, Mrs. Johnson barges in unannounced, wearing a miniskirt, and reveals a long list of the members' private indiscretions:
Mrs. Johnson rebukes the PTA for having the nerve to call her an unfit mother, comparing the town to Peyton Place and labeling the members as hypocrites.
In the final lines, the narrator reveals that Mrs. Johnson is her mother.
The song makes two references to short hemlines ("you're 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 into mainstream fashion.