Jeannie C. Riley
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 , which missed 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 bornagain Christian and began recording gospel music during the late 1970s.
Riley was born in 1945 in Stamford, Texas. 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 Jeannies and believed she could be successful. In Nashville, Riley worked as a secretary for Passkey Music while recording demos on the side.
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