Jeannie C. Riley
Encyclopedia
Jeannie C. Riley is an American
country music
and gospel
singer. She is best known for her 1968 country
and pop
hit "Harper Valley PTA
" (written by Tom T. Hall
), which missed (by one week) becoming the Billboard
Country and Pop number one hit at the same time. In subsequent years, she had moderate chart success with country music, but never again duplicated the success of "Harper Valley PTA". She became a born-again Christian and began recording gospel music during the late 1970s.
. As a teenager, she married Mickey Riley and gave birth to a daughter, Kim Michelle Riley on January 11, 1966. Later, they moved to Nashville, Tennessee
after receiving a letter from Weldon Myrick, who heard a demo tape of Jeannie's and believed she could be successful. In Nashville, Riley worked as a secretary for Passkey Music while recording demos on the side.
Riley's career was stagnant until former Mercury Records
producer Shelby Singleton
received a demo tape of Riley's voice. Singleton was starting and succeeding with his own label, Plantation Records
, at the time. He worked with Riley in the recording of the Tom T. Hall
demo song that Singleton saw potential in, "Harper Valley PTA
." The record quickly became one of the best-known country music songs of all time.
" was released in 1968. The song immediately became a hit for Riley and went to number one on both the Billboard
Pop
and Country
charts, a feat not repeated until 1981 when Dolly Parton
released "9 to 5
". The song is about a widow
ed woman by the name of Mrs. Johnson, who confronts a group of members of the PTA
after her daughter brings home a note from school that's critical of her (Mrs. Johnson's) habits of wearing miniskirt
s, going out with men, and other behavior of which they do not approve. The climax of the song comes when Mrs. Johnson turns the tables on the PTA and exposes their hypocrisy
, one member at a time.
Riley and the song became an overnight sensation, and the song earned her the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance
and the Country Music Association
'Single of the Year' award. Riley also became one of the very few country artists ever nominated in the major pop Grammy categories of "Best New Artist" and "Record of the Year". Globally it sold over five and a half million copies, and was awarded a gold disc
by the R.I.A.A. just four weeks after the song's release. The album of the same name sold over one million units to gain a further gold disc for Riley.
The song was a phenomenon which led to Riley making country music history in 1969 as the first female vocalist to have her own major network variety special Harper Valley U.S.A., which she hosted along with Jerry Reed. Then in 1978 a film
and the 1981 Harper Valley PTA television show
were made.
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 by wearing gingham
dresses, Riley kept in tune with typical late-60s fashion by donning miniskirt
s and go-go boots
for her stage outfits. Her mod persona opened many doors (and perhaps started a sexual revolution) in country music, but Riley herself was not comfortable with her image, and she eventually abandoned it for a more conservative wardrobe. In the 1993 CBS documentary The Woman of Country, she noted that during the "Harper Valley" period, it was largely her publicist and manager who were responsible for creating and playing up her sexy image (replicating somewhat the look of the protagonist in the song).
, Dean Martin
, Bette Davis
, Tom Jones
, Ed Sullivan
and others on various television programs.
Riley left Plantation Records for MGM Records
in 1972, recording several albums, but only two of her singles from the period, "Good Morning Country Rain" and "Give Myself A Party," cracked the 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 the song for a time, due to its content. However, it was never removed from her live set and she still performs it. In 1980, she published her autobiography
, From Harper Valley to the Mountain Top, which told her story of stardom in pop music to moving more into gospel music
. The following year, she released a new gospel album with the same title.
after her split from Mickey and severing ties with a manager that left her broke. She was bed-ridden for six years and was receiving disability payments as her weight expanded from a size
6 to a size 26. After family intervention and subsequent treatment for her depression, Riley says "I've never been so happy in all my life. I've never had such peace of mind. I trust the Lord with everything."
United States
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country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
and gospel
Gospel
A gospel is an account, often written, that describes the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In a more general sense the term "gospel" may refer to the good news message of the New Testament. It is primarily used in reference to the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John...
singer. She is best known for her 1968 country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
and pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
hit "Harper Valley PTA
Harper Valley PTA
"Harper Valley PTA" is a country song written by Tom T. Hall that was a major international hit single for country singer Jeannie C. Riley in 1968. Riley's record sold over six million copies as a single. The song made Riley the first woman to top both Billboard's Hot 100 and the U.S...
" (written by Tom T. Hall
Tom T. Hall
Thomas "Tom T." Hall is an American country music singer-songwriter. He has written 11 #1 hit songs, with 26 more that reached the Top 10, including the pop crossover hit "I Love", which reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100...
), which missed (by one week) becoming the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Country and Pop number one hit at the same time. In subsequent years, she had moderate chart success with country music, but never again duplicated the success of "Harper Valley PTA". She became a born-again Christian and began recording gospel music during the late 1970s.
Early life and rise to fame
Riley was born in 1945 in Anson, TexasAnson, Texas
Anson is a city in and the county seat of Jones County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,556 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Abilene, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area...
. As a teenager, she married Mickey Riley and gave birth to a daughter, Kim Michelle Riley on January 11, 1966. Later, they moved to Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
after receiving a letter from Weldon Myrick, who heard a demo tape of Jeannie's and believed she could be successful. In Nashville, Riley worked as a secretary for Passkey Music while recording demos on the side.
Riley's career was stagnant until former Mercury Records
Mercury Records
Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...
producer Shelby Singleton
Shelby Singleton
Shelby Singleton was an American record producer and record label owner.-Early Life:...
received a demo tape of Riley's voice. Singleton was starting and succeeding with his own label, Plantation Records
Plantation Records
Plantation Records was a country music record label started by Shelby Singleton. The label is best known for the Jeannie C. Riley 45rpm single, "Harper Valley P.T.A." which was a number one pop record in 1968....
, at the time. He worked with Riley in the recording of the Tom T. Hall
Tom T. Hall
Thomas "Tom T." Hall is an American country music singer-songwriter. He has written 11 #1 hit songs, with 26 more that reached the Top 10, including the pop crossover hit "I Love", which reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100...
demo song that Singleton saw potential in, "Harper Valley PTA
Harper Valley PTA
"Harper Valley PTA" is a country song written by Tom T. Hall that was a major international hit single for country singer Jeannie C. Riley in 1968. Riley's record sold over six million copies as a single. The song made Riley the first woman to top both Billboard's Hot 100 and the U.S...
." The record quickly became one of the best-known country music songs of all time.
The success of "Harper Valley PTA"
"Harper Valley PTAHarper Valley PTA
"Harper Valley PTA" is a country song written by Tom T. Hall that was a major international hit single for country singer Jeannie C. Riley in 1968. Riley's record sold over six million copies as a single. The song made Riley the first woman to top both Billboard's Hot 100 and the U.S...
" was released in 1968. The song immediately became a hit for Riley and went to number one on both the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Pop
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
and Country
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
charts, a feat not repeated until 1981 when Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...
released "9 to 5
9 to 5 (Dolly Parton song)
"9 to 5" is a song written and originally performed by Dolly Parton for the 1980 film comedy Nine to Five, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Parton in her film debut....
". The song is about a widow
Widow
A widow is a woman whose spouse has died, while a widower is a man whose spouse has died. The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed widowhood or occasionally viduity. The adjective form is widowed...
ed woman by the name of Mrs. Johnson, who confronts a group of members of the PTA
Parent-Teacher Association
In the U.S. a parent-teacher association or Parent-Teacher-Student Association is a formal organization composed of parents, teachers and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a public or private school. Most public and private K-8 schools in the U.S. have a PTA, a...
after her daughter brings home a note from school that's critical of her (Mrs. Johnson's) habits of wearing miniskirt
Miniskirt
A miniskirt, sometimes hyphenated as mini-skirt, is a skirt with a hemline well above the knees – generally no longer than below the buttocks; and a minidress is a dress with a similar meaning...
s, going out with men, and other behavior of which they do not approve. The climax of the song comes when Mrs. Johnson turns the tables on the PTA and exposes their hypocrisy
Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is the state of pretending to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually have. Hypocrisy involves the deception of others and is thus a kind of lie....
, one member at a time.
Riley and the song became an overnight sensation, and the song earned her the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance
Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance was first awarded in 1965, to Dottie West. The award has had several minor name changes:*From 1965 to 1967 the award was known as Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female...
and the Country Music Association
Country Music Association
The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre...
'Single of the Year' award. Riley also became one of the very few country artists ever nominated in the major pop Grammy categories of "Best New Artist" and "Record of the Year". Globally it sold over five and a half million copies, and was awarded a gold disc
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
by the R.I.A.A. just four weeks after the song's release. The album of the same name sold over one million units to gain a further gold disc for Riley.
The song was a phenomenon which led to Riley making country music history in 1969 as the first female vocalist to have her own major network variety special Harper Valley U.S.A., which she hosted along with Jerry Reed. Then in 1978 a film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and the 1981 Harper Valley PTA television show
Harper Valley PTA (TV series)
Harper Valley PTA is an early 1980s American television sitcom based on the 1978 film Harper Valley PTA, which was itself based on the 1968 song recorded by country singer Jeannie C. Riley, written by Tom T...
were made.
After "Harper Valley PTA"
During the late 1960s and into the very early 1970s, Riley ranked among the most popular female vocalists in the country music industry. She had five Grammy AwardGrammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
nominations and four Country Music Association
Country Music Association
The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre...
nominations, and performed a duet with Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter, author and philanthropist. Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a coal miner father, Lynn married at 13 years old, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Lynn. Their marriage was sometimes tumultuous; he...
. 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
Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. Her album The Woman in Me , brought her fame and her 1997 album Come On Over, became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold over 40 million...
and other contemporary female vocalists by nearly three decades. At a time when many country queens were keeping a wholesome image by wearing gingham
Gingham
Gingham is a medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric made from dyed cotton or cotton-blend yarn.The name originates from an adjective in the Malay language, genggang , meaning striped. Some sources say that the name came into English via Dutch...
dresses, Riley kept in tune with typical late-60s fashion by donning miniskirt
Miniskirt
A miniskirt, sometimes hyphenated as mini-skirt, is a skirt with a hemline well above the knees – generally no longer than below the buttocks; and a minidress is a dress with a similar meaning...
s and go-go boots
Go-go boots
Go-go boots are a low-heeled style of women's fashion boot worn since the mid-sixties when fashion silhouettes focused on accentuating the leg...
for her stage outfits. Her mod persona opened many doors (and perhaps started a sexual revolution) in country music, but Riley herself was not comfortable with her image, and she eventually abandoned it for a more conservative wardrobe. In the 1993 CBS documentary The Woman of Country, she noted that during the "Harper Valley" period, it was largely her publicist and manager who were responsible for creating and playing up her sexy image (replicating somewhat the look of the protagonist in the song).
Late 1970s and the 1980s
Riley's great success brought a number of offers from Hollywood, and she appeared with Bing CrosbyBing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
, Dean Martin
Dean Martin
Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...
, Bette Davis
Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional...
, Tom Jones
Tom Jones (singer)
Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...
, Ed Sullivan
Ed Sullivan
Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of the TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show. The show was broadcast from 1948 to 1971 , which made it one of the longest-running variety shows in U.S...
and others on various television programs.
Riley left Plantation Records for MGM Records
MGM Records
MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946, for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films. Later it became a pop label, lasting into the 1970s...
in 1972, recording several albums, but only two of her singles from the period, "Good Morning Country Rain" and "Give Myself A Party," cracked the top 30. Later stints at Mercury Records
Mercury Records
Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...
and Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...
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
Gospel music
Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
. As result of her conversion, she distanced herself from the song for a time, due to its content. However, it was never removed from her live set and she still performs it. In 1980, she published her autobiography
Autobiography
An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...
, From Harper Valley to the Mountain Top, which told her story of stardom in pop music to moving more into gospel music
Gospel music
Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
. The following year, she released a new gospel album with the same title.
Depression
In the 1990s, Riley was suffering from clinical depressionClinical depression
Major depressive disorder is a mental disorder characterized by an all-encompassing low mood accompanied by low self-esteem, and by loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities...
after her split from Mickey and severing ties with a manager that left her broke. She was bed-ridden for six years and was receiving disability payments as her weight expanded from a size
US standard clothing size
US standard clothing sizes were developed from statistical data in the 1940s-1950s. They were similar in concept to the EN 13402 European clothing size standard....
6 to a size 26. After family intervention and subsequent treatment for her depression, Riley says "I've never been so happy in all my life. I've never had such peace of mind. I trust the Lord with everything."
Albums
| Year | Album | Chart Positions | RIAA Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States... |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
CAN | |||
| 1968 | Sock and Soul | — | — | — | — |
| Harper Valley PTA | 1 | 12 | 5 | Gold | |
| 1969 | Yearbooks and Yesterdays | 9 | 187 | — | — |
| Things Go Better with Love | 14 | 142 | — | — | |
| 1970 | Country Girl | 25 | — | — | — |
| Generation Gap | 34 | — | — | — | |
| 1971 | The Girl Most Likely | — | — | — | — |
| Greatest Hits | 22 | — | — | — | |
| Jeannie | 34 | — | — | — | |
| 1972 | Give Myself a Party | — | — | — | — |
| Down on Earth | 43 | — | — | — | |
| The World of Country | — | — | — | — | |
| 1973 | When Love Has Gone Away | 40 | — | — | — |
| Just Jeannie | — | — | — | — | |
| 1977 | From Nashville with Love | — | — | — | — |
| 1979 | Wings to Fly | — | — | — | — |
| 1981 | From Harper Valley to the Mountain Top | — | — | — | — |
| 1984 | Total Woman | — | — | — | — |
| 1986 | Jeannie C. Riley | — | — | — | — |
| 1991 | Here's Jeannie C. Riley | — | — | — | — |
| 1995 | Praise Him | — | — | — | — |
| The Best | — | — | — | — | |
| 2000 | Good Ol' Country | — | — | — | — |
Singles
| Year | Song | Chart Positions | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
CAN Country | CAN | |||
| 1968 | "Harper Valley PTA Harper Valley PTA "Harper Valley PTA" is a country song written by Tom T. Hall that was a major international hit single for country singer Jeannie C. Riley in 1968. Riley's record sold over six million copies as a single. The song made Riley the first woman to top both Billboard's Hot 100 and the U.S... "A |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Harper Valley PTA |
| "The Girl Most Likely The Girl Most Likely (song) "The Girl Most Likely" is a single by American country music artist Jeannie C. Riley. Released in November 1968, it was the first single from her album Yearbooks and Yesterdays. The song peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart... " |
6 | 55 | 1 | 34 | Yearbooks and Yesterdays | |
| 1969 | "The Price I Pay to Stay" | 35 | — | 22 | — | Sock and Soul |
| "There Never Was a Time" | 5 | 77 | 12 | 76 | Things Go Better With Love | |
| "Rib" | 32 | 111 | — | — | ||
| "The Back Side of Dallas" | 33 | — | — | — | ||
| "Things Go Better With Love"B | 34 | 111 | 3 | — | ||
| 1970 | "Country Girl" | 7 | 106 | 16 | — | Generation Gap |
| "Duty Not Desire" | 21 | — | 13 | — | ||
| "My Man" | 60 | — | — | — | ||
| "The Generation Gap"C | 62 | — | — | — | ||
| 1971 | "Oh Singer" | 4 | 74 | 5 | 62 | Jeannie |
| "Good Enough to Be Your Wife" | 7 | 97 | 22 | 67 | ||
| "Roses and Thorns" | 15 | — | 15 | — | ||
| "The Lion's Club" | — | — | 36 | — | single only | |
| "Houston Blues" | 47 | — | — | — | Give Myself a Party | |
| 1972 | "Give Myself a Party" | 12 | — | 37 | — | |
| "Good Morning Country Rain" | 30 | — | — | — | ||
| "One Night" | 57 | — | — | — | Down on Earth | |
| 1973 | "When Love Has Gone Away" | 44 | — | — | — | When Love Has Gone Away |
| "Hush" | 51 | — | — | — | Just Jeannie | |
| "Another Football Year" | 57 | — | — | — | single only | |
| 1974 | "Missouri" | — | — | — | — | Just Jeannie |
| "Plain Vanilla" (with The Red River Symphony) | 89 | — | — | — | singles only | |
| 1976 | "The Best I've Ever Had" | 94 | — | — | — | |
| "Pure Gold" | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1977 | "Reach for Me" | — | — | — | — | |
| 1979 | "It's Wings That Make Birds Fly" | — | — | — | — | Wings to Fly |
| 1982 | "From Harper Valley to the Mountain Top" | — | — | — | — | From Harper Valley to the Mountain Top |
| 1984 | "Return to Harper Valley" | — | — | — | — | Total Woman |
- A "Harper Valley PTA" was certified Gold by the RIAARecording Industry Association of AmericaThe Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...
. - B B-side of the "The Back Side of Dallas."
- C B-side of "My Man."
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award Program | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Grammy Awards | Record of the Year Record Of The Year Record of the Year may refer to:*Grammy Award for Record of the Year*The Record of the Year, a British award based on public polling... , "Harper Valley PTA" |
Nominated |
| Best New Artist | Nominated | ||
| Best Female Country Vocal Performance "Harper Valley PTA" | Won | ||
| CMA Awards | Single of the Year, "Harper Valley PTA" | Won | |
| Album of the Year, "Harper Valley PTA" | Nominated | ||
| Female Vocalist of the Year | Nominated | ||
| 1969 | Grammy Awards | Best Female Country Vocal Performance, "The Back Side of Dallas" | Nominated |
| CMA Awards | "Female Vocalist of the Year" | Nominated |