Harper Valley PTA was the first female-created song to top the Hot 100 and U.S. Hot Country Singles charts until the 1980 song by whom?
Harper Valley PTA "Harper Valley PTA" is a country song written by Tom T. Hall that was a major international hit single for country singer Jeannie C. Riley in 1968. Riley's record sold over six million copies as a single. The song made Riley the first woman to top both the "Billboard" Hot 100 and the U.S. Hot Country Singles charts with the same song, a feat that would go unrepeated until Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" in 1981.
My Tennessee Mountain Home (song) "My Tennessee Mountain Home" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Dolly Parton. Using imagery from her rural childhood in Tennessee (holding hands on a porch swing, enjoying nature, walking home from church), the song served as the centerpiece of her 1973 concept album "My Tennessee Mountain Home." It was released as a single in early 1973, and reached number 15 on the U.S. country singles chart. The song has become one of Parton's best known compositions, and was later covered by Maria Muldaur on her 1973 eponymous solo album, and by Elisabeth Andreassen on the 2005 album "Short Stories". Dolly Parton herself re-recorded the song on her 1994 live album "".