Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A. ( Hiphop Head Reaction ) 😁

[@jaycee330]

2:52 Most people won't understand the "ice" reference. In those days, there were "ice men" who would deliver ice on a weekly basis in giant blocks for the ice box (the old style refrigerators). So, this line implies that Mrs Taylor is having an affair with the ice man.

[@shellyfox863]

Electric refrigerators were in every home and had been for a long time by the the time this song references. They entered mass production in 1918 and were pretty much in every home by the 30's. I think the phrase use a lot of ice is in reference to drinking alone. Whisky or some other hard liquor on the rocks sort of thing. Perhaps with the mailman. :)

[@arlenehenry1097]

U called it! Said hypocrites before the the lyrics came to fruition. Yeah, ❤️ Ur reaction! 👏👏😁👍

[@hectorsmommy1717]

Back in the day when songs had to be 3 minutes or less to get air play the songwriters had to be able to set a stage, tell a story, and wrap it up with precision. Major props to the songwriters of these hits! Too many to mention but Tom T. Hall was one of the best

[@garrymoore2161]

One of the best reactions to this song.

[@vickybrackin7483]

This is an Oldie but a goodie!! LOVE WHAT THIS SAYS!!

[@donnalehman6805]

Jeannie was simply adorable

[@WooWooGirl]

This was around 1968 and PTA's were known to be a bit JUDGEY. Nowadays...this song evokes wonderful memories of a different time...'cause I was 7 yrs old in '68.

[@RinniePere]

Oh how my mama loved this song. She was a single mom in a tiny town. ❤

[@sonnycathey5091]

My Dad was a chief of police here in Texas when this song was huge. He was patrolling one night and saw a tour bus behind a laundry that was supposed to be closed for the night so, he went in and Jeanie C. Riley was sitting on a washing Machine and her band was there. They were washing cloths. He talked to her until the wee hours of the Morning. I still have the picture she signed for him.

[@MariaMaria-sr8zg]

Loved this song as a young girl.

[@retroactive1autrey668]

I heard her sing and got her autograph when I was about fifteen. She was very nice. I still have the pen she used. You're dead on with the true that about this one. Keep on, young man.

[@dalem8332]

GREAT lyrics. So damn true. She had a huge hit with this. 🎼🎶🇨🇦

[@extraordinarilyaverage]

My mom loved this song... Used to listen to it all the time as a kid

[@abracadabra3033]

Funny Story but relatable

[@WendyCranmer]

life in small towns was like that... I saw this stuff happening when I was a kid. LOVED YOUR REACTION.

[@abracadabra3033]

Thank you, and you're right

[@jaq4608]

😂😂😂 that is some professional level tea spilling.

[@lelacurry1331]

If u liked this song try Ode to Billy Joe by Bobby Gentry..

[@abracadabra3033]

That’s funny because , I was gonna do it next , on my list from suggestions

[@lelacurry1331]

@@abracadabra3033 that's what's up lol

[@jimmyfortrue3741]

I was gonna make same suggestion.. glad to hear that it's on the list.

[@jamesgordonakacrazylegs8222]

That's a good one and she is very interesting!

[@edcarrill8409]

Ode to Billy joe a must

[@mamabear10]

Harper Valley PTA was written by Tom T. Hall, who is known as The Storyteller.. he wrote some brilliant songs in his career...Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine is a classic.. you like stories, you might love this one. My favorite is The Year Clayton Delaney Died. Oh, and I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew.. that one is as true today as when it was inked in the early 60s. You can't miss with Tom T. Hall.

[@artfisk3]

what she said !

[@a.grimes4202]

Don’t forget _Sneaky Snake_ .

[@mamabear10]

@@a.grimes4202 Such a fun song..

[@a.grimes4202]

@@mamabear10 I know. My dad told me I used to dance to it when I was very young.

[@mamabear10]

@@a.grimes4202 I remember dancing with my dad to a Lawrence Welk program. I was maybe five or six. #goodmemories

[@barrycohen311]

That was the South in the mid 1960s. Nailed it...

[@sweetbeach29]

Great song . I love seeing your reactions . I really enjoy watching you .

[@tracilmoser1677]

I was fortunate to see Jeannie C Riley in person. This song is a great story, Thank you

[@abracadabra3033]

Thank you 🙏

[@donjenkins3861]

Wow. I just could have imagined! 🤗

[@teresacox2511]

@@abracadabra3033 it was a movie and a TV show. I think it was called Return to Harper Valley, it was in the 70’s. But this was small town life. Everybody knew everybody’s business. My momma was a single mom at the time of 7 children. I was the baby. She had to escape a violent alcoholic situation with my daddy. My teachers referred to me as the girl without a father in first grade. The other kids laughed. Divorced parents weren’t heard of like today. But my sweet little Christian momma went to the school and told that bit*h off. Miss you momma. 😢♥️

[@tracythehippiechick]

Ha ha my cousin actually infiltrated and shut down the PTA at her children's school... Also my grandma turned heads at the school refusing to wear dresses..she wore jeans and beautiful fitted shirts.. ♡ It's almost always other envious women that cause a problem with other ladies...they just can't seem to stand it...

[@abracadabra3033]

😂😂😂

[@richardmodglin3900]

Fun fact..... "Sock it to me" was a catchy term used back then when this song came out.

[@stevebryant6483]

Made famous by the TV show Rowan & Martin's "Laugh In"

[@HelynnHeels]

I remember when Richard Nixon went on LAUGH IN and said "Sock it to me." He delivered the line well, too. Funny stuff.

[@lisarainbow9703]

@@stevebryant6483 you bet your bippy!!

[@stevebryant6483]

@@lisarainbow9703 Veddy interesting.

[@andya857]

Sock it to me...came from Ruth Buzzi in Rowan and Martins ..Laugh in show...

[@morganrussell6783]

Short but straight to the point, awesome reaction.

[@Aaronacer]

I love this song. Literally heard it for the first time last year on the radio driving through the mountains of Austria. And I grew up and live (now) in Georgia, USA. Surreal to say the least.

[@abracadabra3033]

I'm in Georgia also and i have been to Austria , the few years I lived in Germany

[@jacqueline4514]

Fun! Love the twang too!!

[@abracadabra3033]

Indeed

[@LivaLafay]

Love your reaction ❤

[@abracadabra3033]

Thank You, ✌🏾🙏🥂

[@davebeach2343]

An absolute gem of a song. Really love that guitar opening. She was the first woman to win entertainer of the Year in country music. This song went to number one on the pop charts. Maybe react Dusty Springfield "Son of a Preacher Man".

[@calliedavila2517]

Ohhh as soon as I seen this Title, I couldn't wait to click on it & watch your reaction to this song, Abra!!!! I KNEW you was gonna love this one & how that Mama socked it to the Harper Valley PTA!!!! Hell yeah!!! Fuck them hypocrits!! I'd a'done the EXACT same thing!!!! What clothes you wear has absolutely NOTHING to do with how you mother your children!!!! My own Mama LOVED this song & used to play it almost every day while I was little on up! This song would DEFINITELY have to be included if there was ever a Soundtrack to my life made!!! I just love it & Nobody could sing it as good as Jeannie C did!!! LOVED your reaction to this song, brotha!!! It was SPOT-ON!!!!!😊❤️😊

[@abracadabra3033]

😁✌🏾, love this story , I like the sassy

[@TracyfromNC]

Good story about a mama confronting hypocrisy and crap judgement by crappy folks...the south for real.

[@TracyfromNC]

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[@PHILPOP2]

Classic. What a doll

[@abracadabra3033]

Indeed

[@vickymiller2496]

You mentioned the guitar in this video. Once again, you should check out Stevie Ray Vaughn, Texas Flood. When it comes down to making a guitar "'talk'' he's the G.O.A.T!!

[@bryanhale5254]

Yeah that slide guitar that's the bomb I love that stuff that guy did I don't know if he is playing a dobro or but he could really rip on that yeah I remember both of those songs the I can't think of the name of it the Tallahassee bridge song and the Harper Valley PTA they all came out about the same time you know that was pretty cool I was in grade school but I'm old now man but yeah you know how it is certain songs are just timeless

[@julietenning7981]

That is a great song..always will be And you called it all..that was funny, how right on you were..

[@abracadabra3033]

✌

[@karensealy9782]

Thankyou 🎉

[@rocksonline2]

Awesomeness dude.. I loved this song when I was little. Most Excellent choice👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥👊😎🤘Rock On

[@abracadabra3033]

Thank you ✌🏾

[@Aprilmomof2]

THANK YOU for reacting to this one. I have always loved this one and how hypocrisy isn't new. It's an awesome song.

[@estellasreyes6847]

I'm LUVIN IT, Heard Bobby Gentry n Jeannie C Riley in one day, BOTH good story tellers

[@abracadabra3033]

Indeed

[@lnetscoutnshelby5691]

Mrs. Taylor ice reference is back then, many people had their ice delivered, so the implication was that she was fooling around with the delivery man 😆

[@rubbersole79]

People always think old hard country's lame, when in reality it had a lot of balls. Check out some Loretta Lynn, Johnny Paycheck, Hank Jr, or David Alan Coe!

[@abracadabra3033]

Gotcha

[@kodywithak3117]

Don't forget Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson

[@vickybrackin7483]

You gotta remember the time this was written! This happened ALOT back in the day!!

[@Uriahjw]

It seems strange that stuff actually happened that way. But according to my mom that stuff really did happen back in the day. My mom lived in Pawnee city Nebraska and it was exactly like that. the snobs of the city were all hypocrites. I loved this song growing up. You will also like Donna Fargo's Happiest girl in the USA. great song, we use to hear it all them time coming home from our fishing trips when I was just 4 years old.

[@kenweeden5639]

You got it 100

[@sallyg.125]

I think they did make a tv movie about this song. BTW, just love your channel!

[@abracadabra3033]

Thank You Sally

[@sharonconstable4483]

There are still old country music you have just started I remember watching a TV show when that came out it was on TV every Sunday night at 7pm

[@pamacree3890]

My childhood in a song, my badass widowed mom raising us in the 70's working two jobs and getting her degree in short shorts and levis and t shirts!

[@pageribe2399]

Loved your reaction!

[@abracadabra3033]

Thank You 🙏🏾

[@christinawoolley6206]

This was a crossover song! Big deal back in the day. I remember it playing on the radio in the car. My Momma liked it because she grew up in a small town. It's the ultimate fantasy of a single Mom, clean your own house first people! 😹

[@abracadabra3033]

Exactly 😁

[@christinawoolley6206]

@@abracadabra3033 😻

[@sharonconstable4483]

Thank you some one has gone back to my time of country music

[@theresacavallaris2251]

Love this song because she tells them like it is!!!!!

[@abracadabra3033]

Absolutely

[@RJ-os1je]

😎🌞🌵 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Fantastic song and a truthful reaction about hypocrisy no matter where you go 👏👏👏 Love it but it’s the same no matter where you go 👏👏 Great reaction and truthful analysis 👍👍 Next time Big Bro 👍☝️

[@abracadabra3033]

Indeed, and thank you

[@stevenanderson2555]

I love how you branch out to all genres or music

[@abracadabra3033]

Thank you

[@stevenanderson2555]

You're welcome brother

[@ThomasAldredge]

There was a movie & sitcom based on the song starring Barbara Eden.

[@MrDiddyDee]

She got one sassy momma fighting her corner! Great reaction BTW

[@abracadabra3033]

Thank you

[@steveharris2309]

This is the way life is usually the first one to point out anothers faults is doing so to keep people from looking at them

[@abracadabra3033]

Absolutely

[@jamesgordonakacrazylegs8222]

I just thought of one you might want to check out! Ode to Billy Joe, written and sung by Bobbie Gentry! Check out the live one from 68 on the BBC! She's very interesting to, worth checking her bio

[@abracadabra3033]

Gotcha

[@kierstenridgway4634]

I love that you went way back. Trust me, my hands shook the first time I signed up for the PTA. 🤣

[@lisamorrison2149]

I remember seeing Jeannie C. Riley on the Ed Sulivan show doing this song. A TV movie starring I Dream of Jeannie Star Barbara Eden later followed. Such a great song and story. Hypocrisy at it's best! Loved your reaction and viewpoint..🌞

[@abracadabra3033]

Thank you

[@bocephus124]

Great music, thank you so much sir

[@abracadabra3033]

✌🏾

[@andya857]

Groovy ,country vibe , Thank you my Man...

[@kareng4658]

Love this song!

[@lindamaemullins5151]

Things used to be like that back in the day🤔🤨😂😂yep she lined them out verbally quit nicely 😉🥰

[@62impalaconvert]

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone".

[@abracadabra3033]

Right lol , my mind went blank

[@johnmetzger3404]

Spot on react! When I heard this as a kid on the radio my mom had the same reaction (she took NO shit).

[@d.t.r.8036]

Lol! I just suggested this on your Bobby Gentry reaction. Good to see the viewers that found you long before I did were already on the ball in getting this one on your radar. Oh, and yes, I second the sentiments of the person I saw suggesting Tom T. Hall -- his 💩 is amazing!

[@WhySilverWhyNow]

I don’t think I’ve heard that song in 40 years. Loved it

[@abracadabra3033]

😎✌

[@elevenbucks5682]

Reminds me of the note I wrote for my son missing a day of school, I wrote....Please excuse the absence of my sons presence as a pernisious virus invaded his intestinal tract rendering him a lifeless mass of immobile protoplasm.

[@abracadabra3033]

😁

[@tekay44]

the slide guitar is great.

[@jamesgordonakacrazylegs8222]

Great song and it doesn't hurt if you look like her! I'm not worried about you reacting to anything I recommend, just sharing my love of music! Are you familiar with Loretta Lynn, she does a song that came out in 75 titled The pill. Very controversial at the time! She's definitely worth checking out! Her whole life story is interesting! Peace Boogie Woogie

[@michelleareton8314]

Great song suggestion. Love Loretta.

[@abracadabra3033]

On my list coming up , Loretta Lynn , not woman enough to take , a few suggestions so definitely

[@abracadabra3033]

She was beautiful

[@sharonburcham25]

Hahahah I know this one by heart since I was little bitty!! Wow! Thanks for sharing brought back a ton of memories!! ❤️Tennessee

[@MsLogjam]

I love those times you anticipated what she was going to say next.

[@Boatzilla2]

Fantastic. Such a song for the times.

[@somethingyousaid5059]

Lol, I liked your reaction commentary while the song was playing.

[@abracadabra3033]

😁😁

[@lynnsmith3976]

Oh my Abra, this song is a hoot. Thanks for this Mommy socking it to them memory.

[@abracadabra3033]

😁😁😁

[@Veronica-dk8xd]

New sub here. Listening to things I haven't seen other people react to. And it's music I've listened to forever that most people my age didn't so it's exciting to see others listening to it too.

[@abracadabra3033]

Thank you Veronica

[@kenwelch198]

Yeah I remember when this came out. It was the beginning of the hippie movement that changed the world. We would call out bs when we saw it. It was a new world and we were going to be at the front.

[@t.r.1708]

Thx! And how bout that slide guitar! Tasty drums too!

[@dianenewcomb4765]

I came across your videos on You Tube and this 60 year old white woman is a huge fan of yours now!!!!

[@abracadabra3033]

😁, i am touched , thank you

[@stevedahlberg8680]

I know this is from a long time ago but man I just came across it but yeah man what a great reaction. You nailed it all the way around I think.

[@brettsmith724]

"Ode To Billy Joe" Bobby Gentry

[@abracadabra3033]

Just did it this morning, will be up in the morning

[@antonybrent6232]

Love this song bruv. Thanks for reacting to it 👍👏👏👏👏

[@abracadabra3033]

✌🏾✌🏾

[@antonybrent6232]

Try. Kasabian Club foot 🔥🔥

[@richardlong419]

GREAT REACTION!

[@markbishopmusic]

A true musical time capsule

[@cbilky2914]

Love songs like that..back then they all told a story! should check out Loretta Lynn's song ''fist city'' another Country Music Queen of that era, with many story songs.

[@abracadabra3033]

Loretta Lynn definitely coming soon , alot of request for her

[@cbilky2914]

@@abracadabra3033 ❤❤

[@moniqueleroux2198]

A little Rock-a-Billy for the soul .

[@jewls9697]

You're right. It was used in the series Harper Valley PTA. It starred Barbara Eden from I dream of Jeannie.

[@madogmedic]

I remember it from when it was new. It's still a great tune.

[@joycemcgovern4167]

I am 65 and my mom love this song

[@loribrooks7273]

Re watching and I'm pissed off all over again 😤. 😆

[@nisipici]

Lol, so good.

[@gailturnage4394]

It’s a great song though it never gets old

[@carlah1021]

Jeannie C. Reilly is 75 now. She was absolutely beautiful and stunning here!

[@TwistedSither]

The guy playing the dobro was wearing it out!

[@rufscooby1]

keep the channel goin! thanks for the channel!

[@brandymccoyslone700]

I still jam to this love this🔥❤Kentucky gal here

[@terrieb13]

Love your reactions! ♡

[@abracadabra3033]

Thank you

[@lynnieiapichino1121]

☮️💙!

[@Kvile-zx4sk]

You just earned yourself a sub. Great reaction

[@maryroberts9233]

Great song....classic country....Loretta Lynn wrote some very controversial songs as well..

[@abracadabra3033]

I will be reacting to Loretta soon

[@AncientWisdomTeachingsLLC]

Always one of my favs! They did make a movie about it. And that slide guitar... 🔥

[@robertshrum6493]

They made a movie from this song starring Barbara eden