New Music CD: Girls from Petticoat Junction!!! - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Ronny G · 11-11-2011, 09:49 PM

Great news for PJ fans! I just discovered on ebay and amazon that some company has released a new music CD compiling some of the songs sung by the Hooterville Honeys!

Here's the specs:
Album Features
UPC: 848064000129
Artist: Hooterville Honeys (The)
Format: CD
Release Year: 2011
Record Label: Razor & Tie Music
Genre: Easy Listening

Track Listing
1. If You Could Only Be Me
2. Wheeling, West Virginia
3. Goodbye Love
4. There's Got to Be a Word - (previously unreleased)
5. Rain - (previously unreleased)
6. I'm So Glad That You Found Me
7. Who Needs Memories of Him
8. Up, Up & Away - (previously unreleased)
9. Get Together - (previously unreleased)
10. Thirty Days Hath September
11. Pettitcoat Junction

Details
Playing Time: 29 min.
Producer: Jim Pierson (Compilation), Dan Schaarschmidt (Compilation)
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a

Album Notes
Audio Mixer: Ron Furmanek.Petticoat Junction was a comedy television series that ran for some 200 episodes between 1963 and 1970 on CBS, part of an interlocking trio of comedy TV shows, along with The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres, conceived by Paul Henning and drawing humor out of the cultural clash of country folks and city folks. Part of Petticoat Junction's appeal, at least to a part of the viewing population, was the trio of pretty ladies who played sisters on the show, Linda Kaye Henning, Lori Saunders, and Meredith MacRae. As the show progressed, the sisters became a singing group called the Hooterville Honeys, and recognizing a chance at a hit media crossover to radio in the heady '60s, Henning steered the trio into Liberty Recording Studios with producer Joe Saraceno. Saraceno brought in the famed Los Angeles studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew, and together they crafted ten tracks of period West Coast sunshine pop with the three actresses singing, enough for five singles (with B sides), all of which were released by Imperial Records. None really hit the radio and that was pretty much it for the Hooterville Honeys as recording artists, although the trio continued to work as a vocal act in clubs and on the county fair circuit. This set collects both sides of all five of those Imperial singles, along with a 1967 single ("Who Needs Memories of Him"/"Goodbye Love") from MacRae, and the Petticoat Junction theme sung by its co-composer and original vocalist, Curt Massey. The Hooterville Honeys? They could sing well enough to let the Wrecking Crew carry them, but none of the three was really a distinctive voice, so these tracks have a sort of generic feel to them, even as they sport a vintage mid-'60s pop sound on versions of the Beatles' "Rain" (that unfortunately loses most of the narcotic modal drone feel of the original), the Youngbloods' "Get Together," and Neil Sedaka's "Wheeling, West Virginia." So this is the collected recorded work of the Hooterville Honeys, and it is what it is, three pretty actresses from a TV show singing in front of a great band. ~ Steve Leggett

gilligan fanatic · 10-18-2012, 02:08 PM

I wish it was available digitally. Really like the album artwork

Jude The Obscure · 11-10-2012, 10:22 PM

I bought the CD about three months ago from Amazon. It is a pure delight!

cleverfun3000 · 11-11-2012, 09:35 PM

They ought to rename the album "The Petula Clark Trio". Their style and singing is just like Petula Clark times 3!

gilligan fanatic · 01-04-2013, 04:38 PM

I bought it with a gift card I got for Christmas and am listening to it now!

11-11-2011, 09:49 PM	#1
Ronny G Member Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 14, 2001 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 540	New Music CD: Girls from Petticoat Junction!!! Great news for PJ fans! I just discovered on ebay and amazon that some company has released a new music CD compiling some of the songs sung by the Hooterville Honeys! Here's the specs: Album Features UPC: 848064000129 Artist: Hooterville Honeys (The) Format: CD Release Year: 2011 Record Label: Razor & Tie Music Genre: Easy Listening Track Listing 1. If You Could Only Be Me 2. Wheeling, West Virginia 3. Goodbye Love 4. There's Got to Be a Word - (previously unreleased) 5. Rain - (previously unreleased) 6. I'm So Glad That You Found Me 7. Who Needs Memories of Him 8. Up, Up & Away - (previously unreleased) 9. Get Together - (previously unreleased) 10. Thirty Days Hath September 11. Pettitcoat Junction Details Playing Time: 29 min. Producer: Jim Pierson (Compilation), Dan Schaarschmidt (Compilation) Distributor: Sony Music Distribution ( Recording Mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a Album Notes Audio Mixer: Ron Furmanek.Petticoat Junction was a comedy television series that ran for some 200 episodes between 1963 and 1970 on CBS, part of an interlocking trio of comedy TV shows, along with The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres, conceived by Paul Henning and drawing humor out of the cultural clash of country folks and city folks. Part of Petticoat Junction's appeal, at least to a part of the viewing population, was the trio of pretty ladies who played sisters on the show, Linda Kaye Henning, Lori Saunders, and Meredith MacRae. As the show progressed, the sisters became a singing group called the Hooterville Honeys, and recognizing a chance at a hit media crossover to radio in the heady '60s, Henning steered the trio into Liberty Recording Studios with producer Joe Saraceno. Saraceno brought in the famed Los Angeles studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew, and together they crafted ten tracks of period West Coast sunshine pop with the three actresses singing, enough for five singles (with B sides), all of which were released by Imperial Records. None really hit the radio and that was pretty much it for the Hooterville Honeys as recording artists, although the trio continued to work as a vocal act in clubs and on the county fair circuit. This set collects both sides of all five of those Imperial singles, along with a 1967 single ("Who Needs Memories of Him"/"Goodbye Love") from MacRae, and the Petticoat Junction theme sung by its co-composer and original vocalist, Curt Massey. The Hooterville Honeys? They could sing well enough to let the Wrecking Crew carry them, but none of the three was really a distinctive voice, so these tracks have a sort of generic feel to them, even as they sport a vintage mid-'60s pop sound on versions of the Beatles' "Rain" (that unfortunately loses most of the narcotic modal drone feel of the original), the Youngbloods' "Get Together," and Neil Sedaka's "Wheeling, West Virginia." So this is the collected recorded work of the Hooterville Honeys, and it is what it is, three pretty actresses from a TV show singing in front of a great band. ~ Steve Leggett

10-18-2012, 02:08 PM	#2
gilligan fanatic Born to Be Bad Forum Fanatic Join Date: May 06, 2001 Location: down by the Lagoon Posts: 9,954	I wish it was available digitally. Really like the album artwork
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11-10-2012, 10:22 PM	#3
Jude The Obscure Retired Eternal Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Dec 10, 2006 Posts: 7,520	I bought the CD about three months ago from Amazon. It is a pure delight!

11-11-2012, 09:35 PM	#4
cleverfun3000 Member Senior Member Join Date: Sep 18, 2008 Location: Manhattan Posts: 1,685	They ought to rename the album "The Petula Clark Trio". Their style and singing is just like Petula Clark times 3!

01-04-2013, 04:38 PM	#5
gilligan fanatic Born to Be Bad Forum Fanatic Join Date: May 06, 2001 Location: down by the Lagoon Posts: 9,954	I bought it with a gift card I got for Christmas and am listening to it now!