If You Love The ‘Steppin’ Out’ Country Classics, You’ll Love ‘Yes, Mr. Peters’
Don't you miss the great cheatin' songs?
No, I don't mean the stuff out these days, the gettin' drunk on the tailgate of your truck, taking some, uh, scantily clad young lady out on the gravel roads, playin' the song as loud as you can (then louder) and have sex. No, I don't mean that...noise.
I mean a good old fashioned cheatin' song. You know, the slippin' around, lovin' on back streets, nighttime friends kind of thing. The kind of song where you can actually hear every word. It might be a lost art.
Let me give you a good example.
Country music is filled with legendary duo's and duet's. Porter and Dolly, George and Tammy, Conway and Loretta. With that being said, Roy Drusky and Priscella Mitchell are not a legendary duo. But they had one whale of a great cheatin' classic!
It was 1965 when they released a single called 'Yes, Mr. Peters' and it topped the country music chart. So, what is 'Yes, Mr. Peters about?
The song discusses a love triangle with a married businessman (Drusky in the hit version) taking a phone call from his girlfriend (Mitchell). As only the listener is able to hear the girlfriend's side of the conversation -- for instance, asking when she can expect to meet her boyfriend -- and that presumably others cannot hear her end of the conversation, the businessman is able to disguise the conversation through responses that lead others to believe he is headed to the office for a meeting with "Mr. Peters."
The song was Drusky's only time at #1 and Priscilla Mitchell never hit the Top 40 again.
But what a great 'ol classic cheatin' song.
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