Jeannie C. Riley - Discography - 320kbps Bitrate

Jeannie C. Riley

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.

Jeannie C. Riley was born Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson on October 19, 1945 in the small Texas town of Stamford. Her father made his living as a mechanic and her mother had a career of her own as a nurse. Growing up in Texas, Riley grew to love music, and dreamed that her talent could be the key to a better way of life. Riley made her public debut as a singer in the early '60s at a performance hosted by her uncle Johnny Moore, a country singer who had scored a few regional hits. Local country fans were impressed with Riley's performance, and she began singing regularly at Moore's monthly jamborees. She had yet to graduate from high school when she married her boyfriend, Mickey Riley, in December 1962, and they welcomed a daughter, Kim Michelle Riley, in January 1966. Meanwhile, Weldon Myrick, a pedal steel guitarist who had played at several of Riley's jamboree shows in Texas, had relocated to Nashville and felt that rising star Connie Smith sounded a great deal like her. Myrick encouraged Riley to come to Nashville and pursue a career as a singer, and in time Riley and Mickey packed their bags and moved to Music City. She worked as a secretary at Passkey Records while cutting demos in her spare time and eventually struck a deal with Little Darlin' Records, a Nashville label co-founded by Johnny Paycheck. In 1967, Little Darlin' issued her debut single, "You Write the Music" b/w "What About Them." Riley would cut an album's worth of material for Little Darlin' but after her first 45 flopped, they declined to release a second single.

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1968 - Sock Soul

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1968 - Harper Valley P.T.A


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1969 - Yearbooks & Yesterdays


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1969 - Songs Of Jeannie C. Riley


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1969 - Things Go Better With Love


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1970 - Generation Gap


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1970 - Country Girl


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1971- Jeannie


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1971 - Greatest Hits


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1972 - Down To Earth


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1972 - Give Myself A Party


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1972 - When Love Has Gone Away


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1973 - Just Jeanie


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1976 - Country Queens


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1977 - From Nashville With Love


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1979 - Truck Driver's Dream


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1979 - Wings To Fly


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1981 - From Harper Valley To The Mountain Top


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1982 - On The Road


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1983 - Taste Of Tears


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1984 - Total Woman


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1986 - Jeannie C. Riley


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1992 - Here's Jeannie C


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1995 – Sings The Gospel


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2017 - The Music City Sessions