Jeannie C. Riley - Yearbooks and Yesterdays '1969

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       Few artists in the history of country music became famous as fast as
Jeannie C. Riley. Her second single, "Harper Valley P.T.A.," was a runaway hit
immediately upon release in 1968; it sold over five million copies in the United
States and was the first song by a female artist to top the country and pop
charts at the same time. The song also set the template for much of Riley's
career to follow, singing songs about the harder side of life and small-town
scandal, as seen through the eyes of a down-to-earth woman with a proud spirit
and a strong voice — buoyed by the unapologetic Texas twang of her
instrument. The accessible but unabashed country sound of Riley's music took on
a softer tone after she embraced Christianity in the late '70s and released
albums like 1979's Wings to Fly and 1981's From Harper Valley to the Mountain
Top. By the '90s, Riley's recording career had faded out and a struggle with
depression kept her out of the public eye for most of the decade, but she made a
low-key comeback in the early 2000s, hosting a radio show and returning to live
performing.



1.01 - Jeannie C. Riley - Yearbooks and Yesterdays (3:27)
1.02 - Jeannie C. Riley - What Was Her Name (3:54)
1.03 - Jeannie C. Riley - Edna Burgoo (3:39)
1.04 - Jeannie C. Riley - My Scrapbook (3:12)
1.05 - Jeannie C. Riley - The Part of Honey (2:36)
1.06 - Jeannie C. Riley - What Ever Happened to Charlie Brown (2:16)
1.07 - Jeannie C. Riley - The Girl Most Likely (2:08)
1.08 - Jeannie C. Riley - Back to School (3:00)
1.09 - Jeannie C. Riley - That's How It Is with Him and Me (2:27)
1.10 - Jeannie C. Riley - Teardrops on Page Forty-Three (2:42)
1.11 - Jeannie C. Riley - Box of Memories (2:31)
1.12 - Jeannie C. Riley - A Taste of Tears (2:42) 

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