COUNTRY MUSIC TELLS THE BEST STORIES!! JEANNIE C. RILEY - HARPER VALLEY PTA (REACTION)
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Hi from Canada, I just wanted to say that you and one other couple are my two top favorites there's more and I like them but you guys are honest I love your reaction videos thank you God bless and this was awesome
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Kyle white Twitty and Loretta. They did a album a whole album. I got a song called. Don't cry don't cry jonie conway and loretta
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The song was written by “The Story Teller” Tom T Hall
R.I.P. Tom T. Hall. A legend.
Loved his songs, especially Old Dogs and Children, and Watermelon Wine..
On the documentary Country Music that aired on PBS. Tom T. Hall said he wrote Harper Valley PTA because of an incident that actually happened.
Things were different 50 years ago. Which is not to say that all the changes have been for the better.
@@philly452009 That song makes me cry every time
This song came out in 1968. It was a huge country crossover hit for Jeannie C. Riley. Ten years later in 1978 due to the popularity of the song and its story. They made a television movie starring Barbara Eden of "I Dream of Jeannie." The movie went on to garner great television ratings and views. Great reaction as always.
I feel like watching the movie now. This song triggered the mood.
I remember also that after the movie they attempted to make a weekly tv show out of it and while I enjoyed it it only lasted a few episodes and I haven't seen them since.
It was not a television movie. I saw it at the movie theater.
@@Rebel9668 I completely forgot that! Thanks for sharing 👍
@@NunyaDammeBiznis I saw it on tv as well as the short lived tv series it spawned.
People who live in glass houses... Love songs like this that tell a story.
I'm not ashamed but I believe you understand why I am telling the rest of the story you hid
very true
Sometimes people need to be told about themselves. Very saucy for that time period. Love it!
Saucy! That’s the word I was looking for!
For 1968? Woodstock was a year later.
Mrs. Taylor sure seems to use a lot of ice when ever he's away- means that she drinks a big amount. And Mr. Baker can you tell us why your secretary had to leave this town--may mean that he got her pregnant. This song is crazy with small town scandal.
The look on y'all's faces when you realized the note went home with the daughter, and it said she wasn't raising her daughter right, was *PRICELESS *🤣🤣👍👍👍
When she says “this is just another Peyton Place”, she’s referring to a soap opera which was based on a movie which was based on a book. Peyton Place was full of scandals, just like Harper Valley.
The song was made into a movie.
Haha, ya know for the longest time I always thought she said "This is just a little hatin' place and you're all Harper Valley hypocrites."
@@cyberwolf_1013 lol. I spent years trying to understand the lyrics of the song that Archie and Edith sing on All in the Family. Finally told my Mother who explained the a LaSalle was a car, so the line went "Gee our old LaSalle ran great". It had been meaningless gibberish before she explained.
I will probably spell this incorrectly... The novel’s author was Grace Metalious... Eye-opening book for my teenage brain!!
I love that you know about Peyton Place...my name is Connie, but I knew I was in trouble when my Mom called me
"Constance McKenzie from Peyton Place". Thank you for the memory.
My momma use to watch that soap opera, when I was a kid, with ryan O'neal
Another classic from another time... That hair, those boots! Love it!
I grew up in Nashville and met her at a telethon when I was six. In her white boots, mini dress, cascades of hair and eyelashes, she was the most glamorous creature I'd ever seen.
Jeanine was the original tea spiller
This song was why Jeannie C Riley was the first woman to win the entertainer of the year award from the Grammys. Everybody loved this song, from country people through folk and rock people.
and they loved it because it spoke to them
Y’all are in the rabbit hole of the music I grew up listening to.
When Jeannie C. Riley recorded "Harper Valley PTA" in 1968, it not only became her most beloved hit to date, but also threw songwriter Tom T. Hall into the spotlight: The song became a major, international hit -- the song hit No. 1 in Canada and Australia, and earned a Top 20 spot in the U.K. (No. 12) -- and has sold more than 6 million copies. "Harper Valley PTA" also made Riley the first woman to land at No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Hot 100 charts with the same song -- something that no other female artist would do until 1981 (Dolly Parton's "9 to 5").
"Harper Valley PTA" shows off Hall's mastery of translating keen observations into compelling lyrics and music -- and that's no accident. The now-famous songwriter had planned on making a career as a journalist or novelist -- but then "Harper Valley PTA" won the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Vocal Performance and the CMA Award for Single of the Year.
Below, Hall tells The Boot about the hit song and what inspired him to write it.
The story is a true story. I didn't make the story up; I chose the story to make a statement, but I changed the names to protect the innocent.
There were 10 kids in our family. We'd get up in the morning, and my mother and father would get bored with us running around, and we'd go terrorize the neighbors up and down this little road we lived on -- after we had done our chores, of course. I was just hanging around downtown when I was about nine years old and heard the story and got to know this lady. I was fascinated by her grit. To see this very insignificant, socially disenfranchised lady -- a single mother -- who was willing to march down to the local aristocracy read them the riot act, so to speak, was fascinating.
I wrote the song 30 years later; that song was my novel. I had been reading Sinclair Lewis. As a young man, I read Lewis' novels Babbitt and Elmer Gantry, which is about hypocrisy; Babbitt is, of course, about the social structure of the small town. So, being a big Sinclair Lewis fan, when I wrote "Harper Valley," I incorporated elements of Elmer Gantry into the song.
Read More: Story Behind the Song: Jeannie C. Riley, 'Harper Valley PTA' | theboot.com/jeannie-c-riley-harper-valley-pta-lyrics/?
Thank for taking the time to post the details about this song’s origin!! 👍🏻
Thank your your very nice comment
The Karen is a dinosaur. This was my mama she went to my school in 1970 to scold the principal for me getting bullied everybody heard her in the hall and said is that your mama scolding the principal? I said yes so proud. My mama played this song and it fit us because we were the poor white single mama family. So sad that they treated folks this way. Thanks for the memory.
I'm showing my age here, but I remember when this song came out! And, man did it rock country and little towns EVERYWHERE!!! YA'LL ARE MY FAVORITE REACTORS. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!
Hey Shelia, thank you so much for watching. Happy to bring back good memories for you ❤️❤️❤️
The 60's were special. I never asked why, but my mother was a HUGE fan of this song. I didn't ask, I didn't wanna know. But mama sang every single word. Every single time. And there was dancing. Oh my Lord.
Your description of your mother made me smile and giggle so much. What a great memory for you.
I wish they had video cameras at that time. My Mother ran a foster home and 2 of the girls borrowed my copy of that 45! They spent 3 days practicing a lip sync version of this song. One sat in a chair and the other was behind her. The one in front had on a huge sweater and the one in back put her hands and arms thru the arms of the sweater. The one in front sang it lip sync, and the one in back did hand gestures to fit the moment. They performed it to the family at the dining rm table, and we were ALL in stitches. If Americas Funniest Home Videos was around at that time and we could have recorded it we could have won not only the $10,000 but it would have gone clear to the $100,000 show and won! That’s how good it was. We were ALL in TEARS for a good 10 min after it was over. Every time I hear that song I flash back to that night. What a wonderful and FUNNY memory you brought me today. Thank you!!!!! Miss those days.
I used to perform it too ! 😂. I posted the description just now, but it’s not in a conversation thread so it should be easy to find if you want a good laugh. 😂
Glad you have your memories 👍🙂
Jeannie C. Riley also did a song called Return To Harper Valley. You might like it also.
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Haven't heard this song in years. Thanks for the great reaction.
I grew up with this song, thanks for the memory ! Now my kids understand why I have their back when they're right ! 😋
This goes back to my teenage years and i have always loved it .
This song is legend. I love the story telling and the actual story line. Super enjoyable reaction.. Cheers.
written about a real live story
I'm old enough to have watched both the movie Payton Place and the soap opera based on it. And I love how most people today miss the point of Mrs Taylor using a lot of ice when her husband's away. Way back in the 40s,50s and 60s refrigerators did not come with an ice box like they do today so companies delivered ice to your house in big, square blocks that would normally last a few days. So it would be a little fishy if the ice delivery man was seen at her house a couple days in a row, implying she was banging the delivery guy. We actually had an older style fridge like that when I was little. We also had the old type washing machine that you had to run the wet clothes through the rollers to wring the excess water out. Those were the good old days. And a last point especially in small towns groups like the local Parent and Teachers Association held a lot of power to influence people's lives. It took a lot of courage to stand up to them as they also tended to be among the wealthier business people in town who could cause a person a lot of grief if they wanted to. Today luckily they have lost most of that kind of influence. I remember when the song came out a lot of snobbier people were offended by it and thought both Jeannie Riley and the fictional Mrs Johnson were offensive white trash. Now days all these facts are kind of lost on modern listeners but the message still comes through basically mind your own business and don't cast the first stone.
Thanks for explaining the ice term. Never understood what it meant.
@@angelatillman9013 It helps that I'm 63 and still remember the ice man coming by. There used to be a lot of naughty cartoons about the big tongs sitting in a pool of melted ice water outside some woman's door!!!
I’d like to thank you for bringing this up. As a 23 year old who has listened to this song probably hundreds of times, I guess I got the point but in the wrong way. I always heard that Mrs. Taylor used a lot of “I”s when her husband was away. In that way, I always thought that she was sleeping around and hitting on people. Because that seemed logical to me in a song that was all about gossip, it was also reasonable that the townspeople would have heard her neglect to include her husband, hence the “I”s. If I would have known the proper word was ice, I probably would have laughed a lot harder at this song a lot sooner. I appreciate you bringing this into my perview.
Thank you for explaining. I always thought it meant she used a lot of ice cubes because she was "entertaining company" whenever her husband was away.
Great explanation!!!
The opening guitar playing that starts this song is just a rocking riff.
I remember when I was little and this song was popular, if you were going to sing it, you had to make the guitar sound as well. "Mom I've got a note here from the Harper Valley PTA, drrn drrrn drrrn drrrrrrrn...."
Certainly a great song, but a great song made much greater by the guitar work.
"Sock it to me " was a popular phrase in the 60's. I would say you got a hear this and you would say sock it to me. Or. "do wany another beer?" Sock it to me. You get the point. Watch some "Laugh In" videos to get a feel for 60's humor.
I agree 👍 💯
This song says Look at Your Own Life Before Looking At Mine
"Clean their own backyards," Love it! Absolutely big thumbs up.... Come on everyone hit the thumbs up button, we love this music and Shawn and Mel's reactions are so much fun to watch. I love it when I see people love the music I love...
In Germany we say "Go sweep on your own front porch first" 😉
Old "country music " like this is amazing. They were as real and savage as hip hop was and is.
Another fun hit blast from the past.👍👍👍
From the 70's and earlier country music was bursting with "story" songs like this. If you want a sad one try El Paso by Marty Robbins! A classic by a classic.
Omg. That one's a heart breaker.
Poncho and Lefty use to get me everytime...
She recorded a great song called,
"Neglected."
"Phantom 409" by Red Sovine is a good listen; it always sent chills up & down my spine.
Every time I see this video I give major props to the dobro player.
this song was such a huge hit that a t.v. movie was made about it. barbara eden (the one who played genie in the t.v. show 'i dream of genie') played mrs. johnson.
Thank you for playing this song I love it ♥️
Such a great song they made it into a movie
Someone pointed out how short the song seems, yet the single version is over 3 minutes. But, when you're following the story it moves right along.
As a slightly rebellious teen in the late '60s, I loved this song - sticking it to the hypocrisy of the older generation. I particularly loved repeating with emphasis, "The day my mama SOCKED it to the Harper Valley PTA!" Glad to hear younger generations are appreciating it too - thanks for bringing back wonderful memories!
This is my moms favorite song. Tom T. Hall wrote this, and Barbara Eden (I dream of Jeanie ) played in the "made for tv " movie.
Wow I didn’t know about the Tom T Hall connection. He was always one for the more out there lyrics and what were called novelty songs.
Have always loved this song!! It was a big hit in the late 60’s 🥰💜😻🎶☮️
This country needs more parents like this.
Mamma's not playing with PTA hypocrites...lol lol 🤣🤣🤣. Loved your facial expressions..😮
I was 13 when this song came out, and of course I loved the irony of it, and unfortunately, the truth of it. I grew up during an AMAZING time of U.S. AND World history! But, most of us at the time did not REALIZE the significance of it! To us, it was just ordinary life. We were VERY AWARE that having grown up during the Great Depression and World War II our parents and grandparents had witnessed history first hand!! But, us? Shoot, we were living in the reward of everything THEY had survived/conquered! We were living on Easy Street by comparison! But in reality, the 50's,60's,&70's were as challenging in the social changes that were coming at record speed. And, the music of those decades reflected all THOSE challenges. At 66 now, I am just realizing how special those years were, and it is by watching younger people like you reacting to the music of those decades. I REALLY enjoy your watching your reaction videos and seeing your responses to the music I grew up with and just took for granted! I look forward to seeing more of your reaction videos! Thank You for sharing your reactions!
How about reacting to a Thanksgiving song, hee🤭 Some restaurants play it all Turkey Day (or used to). Alice’s Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie
That's such a long, slow song for today's fast paced culture but it's a hoot to listen to if you have the patience.
@@r.g.o3879 😉👍
Catch it at noon on q 1043!
True story and she put em all on Blast!
Love it❤✌ 70's were so good😎👍
I remember growing up and hearing this song learned every word. I was living in a small town called Lewisburg Tennessee and meet Jeannie c Riley at a Walmart over by the record department she was very nice and pretty. I also meet Tom T. Halls son as he was taking a driver license test a few seats from me. When I lived in Nashville TN working at Shoney's restaurant as a hostess ( they would travel in their tour busses) I met many country music stars and it was great.
I liked Shoneys
Oh my gosh-- you love stories?! Ode to Billy Joe- The nights the Lights Went out in Georgia - Angie Baby- you must!
All great choices! Also The Night Chicago Died.
If anyone can speak on small town life it's this woman, she grew up in a small town in Texas, called Anson. She was 'discovered' at the local Texaco station. My parents went to High School with her.
Now I'm a middle aged black woman and this is so funny to me, I was thinking about this song the other day because I loved that show even though I was young my mom watched it on Saturdays and we sat an watched along with her been looking for episodes.
Country music can be really good it's just white people Blues. Thanks for sharing.
He played his guitar like a lap harp pretty cool.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to Shawn and Mel and their family's and to everyone.
I was only 9 years old when this song was released in 1968. I remember, what a fun song, calling everyone out for being their hypocrisy. I also love how you guys were at first shocked, then was laughing hysterically. This made me even smile more. I love how you thoroughly enjoy the music and instruments that I grew up with. You are both old souls. May God Bless You both with continued health to bring more happiness to everyone’s life.
Happy Thanksgiving 😎
I grew up with this classic Country.
My mom was a very hot young mama who’s husband just like that daddy. I remember all my friends moms hated my mom and the dad’s couldn’t take their eyes off her. I grew up on this song👏👏👏👏
Ah yes, country music is truly the teller of human nature stories. I was never much of a country music fan, but I have always loved the lyrics of so many of the songs. It truly does cross over generations and cultures. I actually knew most of the lyrics to this one, and I don't know why!! I must have heard it a lot over the course of my life somewhere... I wasn't born when it was released.
Love this. Thanks for the memory! ❤️
Our school put on a play with this song. Down in Newton, GA. Blacks kids ✊🏿✊🏿She song Never Promise you a Rose Garden.
That flat guitar is a DOBRO!! Awesome reaction and yes she had a hit out of this song!!! Country music does tell us all a story!!! Music conquers all my Brother and Sister!!!! 💞💞💞
Thank you so,much for playing one of my favorite songs.. there’s much truth in those lyrics.. Your such a lovely couple, I enjoy your videos so much! I watch you before I go to sleep at night! Keeping the Music Alive!
Hey I used to BE Jeannie C. Riley !, when I was a kid. My mother had that album with the PTA song. I’d play that thing after dark, our living room was my honkey tonk and for atmosphere I kept the lights out. Ambient light came through from other rooms. I’d stand there and act out the song. I must have been “precocious”. 😂. The authority she had in her voice was very cool, and her swank impressed me so I just had to be her. 😂 And she was beautiful, so yeah.
I haven’t thought about that in ages, maybe I’ve never thought about it since way back when I was acting it out. Wow. Thanks for the memories 👍
As some people have said Barbara Eden played the lead role in the *_Harper Valley PTA_* movie. And let me tell you she kicked behinds and took names in that movie!
This song was popular back in the day. I think they even made a movie of this.
I remember my friends and myself singing this over and over at recess when I was in 5th grade . I still like the song
Love this song.
This song was so popular that it inspired a sitcom on television.
I grew up with this song thanks to my dad and grandpa.
I clicked just to get their reactions to this song.
Was not disappointed! They're not even through the first verse yet and Shawn's eyes are bugging out and they're having to pause! They have no idea what's coming next!
Love it!
I just found y'all and I love seeing your reaction to the songs of my young years! Y'all should definitely check out a song by Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn called You're the reason our kids are ugly! I could run down a long list of wonderful storied songs, but I'm sure you get plenty of suggestions. Thanks for sharing your reactions, y'all are awesome!
Great history of these songs being told in the podcast Cocaine and Rhinestones by Tyler Mahan Coe.
I was raised and weaned on this music! lol PEACE!!!!!
That’s awesome Martin, thank you so much for watching 😀
I included this song in the syllabus that I created for a new class that I designed for a French university in Paris. It took me a couple of years to develop this program. I was super happy to come across this review as I was doing last minute additional fluff research.
Wow ! haven't heard this one in a while
If you want some more really great story telling music you guys should check out C.W. McCall. A few good songs to start with are Convoy, Four Wheel Drive, and Wolf Creek Pass. I think you both would love it.
I’ve never been to a karaoke bar where somebody didn’t sing this song. People from 21 years old to 70 will sing this song! Super famous and favorite karaoke song. EVERYBODY knows it!
The one hands down fantastic thing about my childhood, was that we had kick arse music, Country, Rock, Rockabilly, folk, bluegrass, blue's you name it, I grew up in the greatest music era of all time!
I was 10 years old when that song came out! It was considered quite racy at the time and my mother wouldn't allow us to sing along with it if it came on the radio! Absolutely cried laughing at your response to it! Loved it
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 Shawn & Mel! You always make my day a little brighter💖
Women were kickin ass waaaaay back. Making a huge impact on so many things. Your reaction is the best
This is my go to karaoke song 😄 I grew up with this song. My mom had the 45 and I listened to it all the time. Loved your reaction! Thank you for the oldie
This is my karaoke song, too! It's a fun song to sing.
If you like stories, check out Tom T Hall as has been mentioned by some others here.
Put Another Log on the Fire...
@@jefflast9489 that's a GREAT song. Somehow I missed that Tom T Hall wrote that one, too!
One of the best country songs ever imo, and she looked fabulous
This story has probably been true many times. There are many Harper Valleys; I grew up in one myself where the most self-righteous adults at the school got up to worse than this. There were divorces and at least one suicide because of all the shenanigans when I was a kid. I don't recall anyone in a miniskirt telling off the PTA but my friend's divorced mother was someone who shot from the hip and woe to anyone who messed with her or her daughters, who were both very nice. She was nice too but a single woman in a community like that has to make sure everyone knows she's armed, literally or figuratively, or she'll get run over.
In the beginning of the song it was said that she was a widow. This was a big hit, and it was in a movie, but I love how she put thier lives out there and they were just trying to hide, and she wasn't. Love this song 🎵. Much love to you and your family.
I remember when it was a hit in the 70's on the radio. I always liked it.
Me and my sister sang it with the Karoke machine at our family reunion. 😊👍
Everyone wore mini skirts in the 60's and 70's.
Sitting in first grade and humming a tune at my desk. The teacher told me if I was going to sing I needed to share it with the class and, to her shock and awe, I did. The tune was Harper Valley PTA. I'll bet she never asked another kid to sing again.
Counrty songs in the old days told some awesome stories the modern country is missing today .
This was the number 1 song on the country when I was born.
Everything single time I've ever heard this song I've seriously laughed out loud but like wickedly.
Love the fact when this came out everyone thought she was singing just about herself. Then at the end you realize it's the daughter singing & telling the story. Tom T. Hall did a great job picking her to sing it
Yes that was basically a true story and still to this day.. people throw rocks and hide their hands!!!.. LOVE IT..!!!
There was a TV show back in the day called Harper Valley PTA starring Barbara Eden from I Dream of Jeannie.
I went to meet my HVAC guy one day and this came on the radio on the way over. I sang my heart out!! When I got there I asked him what he did when "Harper Valley PTA" comes on the radio. He said, "Turn it up as loud as it goes and belt it out!". We laughed!
"The day my mama socked it to the Harper Valley PTA" omg. I love it! I remember when this song came out. It was very popular.
I am in my 50's now but as a child stayed with my grandma during the summer .She had the album this song was on I would play over and over again. I probably played harper valley PTA thousands of times each summer from the time I was 7 until I started working at 16 during the summer and now longer took summer break at her house. I now realize she must of had the patience of a saint. because not one time did she ever told me to put something else on no matter how many time I played it never rolled her eyes or acted the least but annoyed that I playing it again even if it was the hundred plus time for that day. The only times she ever told me to turn off the record player is if it was time for bed or we was gong some place and I never argued with her about it. you would think after listen to this song so many times I would not like it as much but the truth is I still love it just as much today as I did all those years ago.
Am I being watched? I literally just listened to(and danced to) this song last night and here this video shows up in my feed?!?! Ok spotify or whoever! 😄
That being said I grew up in the 70s loving this song and when I listened to it last night I thought how advanced the theme is and we just don't hear this type of story now.
Also this couple, S&M (😂), so adorable! I am following y'all now! 😘
Seen JCR when I was very young girl. Mom & Dad was a huge fan & she was appearing at our local fair. Yes I was with them.
I never EVER get tired of this song.
Its for every one of these same hypocrites out there today.
Gotta love it!! 😍👏👏👏
Story telling through song at its best. This is an Iconic wonderful song. Totally awesome.
This is one of my favorite songs, it reminds me of my hometown. Everyone acts like this 😂
That was a dobro. That is a wonderful instrument.
I am 47. I grew up listening to this on vinyl on my parents big magnavox console stereo. The albums are the only thing I ever wanted from that house and now that album is in the spare room down the hallway right this moment along with all the others I grew up on.
My Daddy was a chief of Police here in Texas. He was patrolling in the early morning hours and saw the lights on in a laundromat that was supposed to be closed and he saw a bus behind it so he went in and it was Jeannie C. Riley and her band washing cloths. He talked to her the rest of the morning. I still have the picture she signed for him. It was at the height of her fame while Harper Valley PTA was high on the charts.
I was in second grade when this song came out and we had the worst winter in Idaho on record and school was shut down for 2 weeks for country kids, because the bus couldn't make it out to the farm. We played this record everyday singing it using wooden spoons as microphones and wearing out gogo boots.
There's a movie! This was my mama's favorite song when she was young. I grew up singing this in school when teachers and stuff got to in our business