“Harper Valley PTA” is the story of a mother named Mrs. Johnson who receives a complaint from her daughter’s parent–teacher association saying Mrs. Johnson wears her skirts too high.

"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 ...

In 1968, a song about a miniskirt-wearing mom who stood up to the Harper Valley PTA and its small-town hypocrisy made singer Jeannie C. Riley the first woman to top both country and pop charts.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tom T. Hall, the singer-songwriter who composed "Harper Valley P.T.A." and sang about life's simple joys as country music's consummate blue-collar bard, has died. He was 85.

Phil Borack, the Cincinnati film producer who filmed the 1978 movie “Harper Valley PTA” in Lebanon, Ohio, has died. Watch Party Newsletter Best TV shows of 2025 📺 Win $100 📚 The Essentials ...

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Music Fifty-five Years Later, the Harper Valley P.T.A. Is Still in Session Jeannie C. Riley celebrated her seventy-seventh birthday with a big bash in the tiny town of Burton, where she reflected ...

Tom T. Hall, the country singer-songwriter who wrote hundreds of songs but was best known for composing the 1968 hit “Harper Valley PTA,” died Friday in his Franklin, Tennessee, home.

Tom T. Hall, the singer-songwriter who composed “Harper Valley P.T.A.” and sang about life’s simple joys as country music’s consummate blue collar bard, has died. He was 85.… ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country music legend Tom T. Hall, a singer and songwriter who penned “Harper Valley PTA,” died Friday. He was 85. The Country Music Hall of Famer died at his home in ...