{"id":4151,"date":"2013-08-18T14:46:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T19:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2013-08-18T14:46:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T19:46:17","slug":"effie-smith-teenage-world-pts-12-harper-valley-pta-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4151","title":{"rendered":"Effie Smith – Teenage World Pts 1&2\/ Harper Valley PTA Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download Effie Smith – Teenage World Pts 1&2<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download Effie Smith – Harper Valley PTA Gossip<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope the new week finds you well.<\/p>\n

The tunes I bring you today are artifacts of (the end of) a time when an artist could settle themselves in a niche and ride it for all it was worth.<\/p>\n

I picked up Effie Smith\u2019s<\/strong> \u2018Harper Valley PTA Gossip\u2019 years ago (pre-portable) and when I got it home I was pleasantly surprised to discover a sassy old lady engaged in a telephone conversation. The rap was based (see title\u2026) on Jeannie C Riley\u2019s<\/strong> 1968 mega-hit \u2018Harper Valley PTA\u2019, and it was groovy in an \u2018Aunt Esther goes funky\u2019 way.<\/p>\n

Flash forward about half a decade, and I\u2019m down in DC spinning (and digging, natch) at a record show and what do I turn up but a whole album of Effie Smith telephone raps!<\/p>\n

The thought of a performer working a gag so thoroughly hasn\u2019t been in vogue since the crest of the Bill Seluga<\/strong> \u2018You Can Call me Ray\u2019 wave, and I had to admire her persistence.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, Effie Smith had been working it out in the world of jazz and R&B since the 1930s (?!?), working with Lionel Hampton, Benny Carter<\/strong> and Johnny Otis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is important to note that Effie was also mother to the one and only producer\/songwriter Fred Smith<\/strong>, a very familiar name to fans of LA soul.<\/p>\n

The first track I bring you today will be familiar to those of you that listen to the Funky16Corners Radio Show<\/strong>, from my use of a drop from \u2018Teenage World Pts 1&2\u2019 (1965). The voice of the husband was provided by Effie’s real life spouse, \u00a0John Criner.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second track is the aforementioned \u2018Harper Valley PTA Gossip\u2019, which grazed the R&B Top 40 in November of 1968.<\/p>\n

Effie Smith passed away in 1977 at the age of 63.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the tracks, and I\u2019ll see you all on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

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