Mothers Day, The Pruett's, Barbies Clothes, Daughters Clothes
Hello all!
First on the blogging to do
list this morning is....
To all you beautiful moms, be it
with human kids or fur babes.
I have touched on the subject of
Jeanne Pruett before.
She lived three doors up from me
when I was a little girl.
Her daughter was a yr to two
older than me but her and I used to
sit on their front porch and play
Barbies.
I ran across this write up on
a page on FB yesterday.
By the time Jeanne and Jack Pruett moved to 3814
Bonnacreek Drive in Hermitage in May 1961, Jack
had been playing guitar in Marty Robbins' road
band for several years. He'd already played on albums
like "Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs" —
"El Paso," "Big Iron,"
the whole album cut in a single session at
Bradley Studios in April 1959.
Jeanne was home raising two kids. She was also
writing songs. In 1963, Jack brought some of her
material to Robbins, who signed her to his publishing
company and got her a recording contract with RCA
Victor. Her first single, "Just a Little After Heartaches,"
came out the same week Patsy Cline was killed in a plane crash.
"I'm sure my song release was so overshadowed
by the shocking news of their death that the only
two people who heard and remembered my song was
Grant Turner and me," she wrote in her 2018
autobiography, "Miss Satin Sheets: I Remember."
Her RCA singles went nowhere.
She went back to writing.
In August 1965, the family moved a short
distance to a brand-new house at 397 Bonnavale
Drive. From here, Jeanne kept writing for Robbins'
publishing company — he recorded her "Count Me Out"
in 1966 and took it to No. 14 on the country chart. She
signed a new recording contract with Decca in 1969 and
finally started charting in 1971. By 1972, her self-penned
"Love Me" had cracked the Top 40, and Robbins would later
record it himself and take it into the Top 10.
On December 29, 1972, Jeanne walked into Bradley's
Barn in Mt. Juliet and recorded a song called "Satin Sheets."
The single came out in February 1973.
To promote the single, Jeanne Pruett sat down
in her Hermitage house and cut 1,600 pieces of pink
satin fabric by hand. She mailed them to radio
programmers across the country.
"Satin Sheets" hit No. 1 on the country chart that
May and crossed over to No. 28 pop. The album topped
the country albums chart for eight weeks. In June, Dolly
Parton introduced Jeanne as the newest member of
the Grand Ole Opry — the last artist inducted while
the Opry was still at the Ryman Auditorium.
After Jeanne and Jack divorced in 1982,
Jack kept the house on Bonnavale Drive.
Now I will cont. what I know of the
story after Jack moved back from
the big house in Brentwood TN back to
the streets of Hermitage TN.
Yes, I lived on Bonnavale for years.
After Jack Jr. graduated out of
high school and started on his
musical career, he moved in with his
dad.
Mr. Pruett was still living on Bonnavale
upon his passing. Many years later, prob
around 2019 or do, Jack Jr. moved across town
to Hendersonville. Jack Jr. and I remained friends
via FB. He was several yrs older than I was,
but I have all ages of friends on my page.
Thinking that does not surprise you!
Any, years ago before I retired while I
was dating Chris, the dude with the pigs,
Jack contacted me and said he had two
go carts and I want them for the farm.
So, Chris and I loaded up the trailer
and went to pick them up.
I bet by now you are wondering why
I was contacted about go carts!
Chris worked for metro water but he had
a side gig where he repaired mowers,
week eaters and etc. Jack Jr. saw
our videos that I posted on us trying out the
repaired mowers as we had mower races!
LOL.....again, sure that you are
not totally surprised on us
having mower races.
We had some fun. At Chris's
house is where I also tried my hand at
driving a zero turn, that was a site,
I was all over the place.
Anyway, I have never seen or heard
from Jeanne, or her daughter Jael since
they moved back in the early 70's. I however,
had contact with Mr. Pruett and Jack Jr.
Jack Jr. passing a few years ago,
around 2021 or 2022.
Assuming Jeanne is still living in
Brentwood.
This is the first house that
the Pruett's lived at in
the late 60's,
And the one they lived in
three doors up from where I lived.
and that porch outlined in blue,
this is where Barbie would play
from time to time!
See, the girls around me,
Jael, Dana (bestie on the street) and
her sister loved to play Barbies with me,
I had the coolest clothes for
Barbie, even some Ken outfits.
My mom sewed and she was great
at it. I had an old suitcase full of handmade
Barbie clothes.
If you are interested in reading
about the clothes and see some
pics here is a link
I did in 2017.
My mom was amazing at sewing.
She made a lot of my dresses, shorts
and skirts when I was a child.
She also made Mark and Ray's button
down shirts.
Amber comes along, first grandchild,
and mom made almost everything she wore.
As years went by, she took on sewing crafty stuff.
Working at UPS she was always able to take
orders and sell her great work.
BUT~
Friends, this is a challenge I could never
master. I can sew, basic, nothing cool really.
For sure I could never sew such little
items and Barbies dresses.
Mom made teddy bears, long ear bunnies in long dresses,
that slipped over your vac cleaner,
she sewed covers for photo albums, pot holders,
Raggedy Ann and Andy, stuffed clowns and so
much more.
I only wished that I had pis of
all those amazing items she made.
I do have a couple of clothes
she made for Amber.
The dress and pinafore which
was a cute.
The top.
simple sundresses.
Anyway, sewing was her thing.
I can knit and pearl which mom
could not do, however we both
could crochet.
But a lot of the crafty things I
do, mom did not do.
In her later years she
made curtains for my kitchen,
shower curtains out of sheets and
did mostly mending of things.
Well, its Sunday, hoping you have
a great day,
Pam
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