A Number One pop and country hit for Jeannie C. Taylor uses so much ice when her husband's out of town.
His best work was charged with literary irony but unfolded with the ease of spoken language, as when the mini-skirted heroine of 'Harper Valley P.T.A.' struts into the local junior high and exposes small-town hypocrisy by asking why Mrs.
Hall was an English major who said he learned to write songs by osmosis, soaking up everything from Dickens to Hemingway.