Nancy Priddy (born January 22, 1941) is an American retired actress, singer and singer-songwriter. As an actress, she has appeared on many television series, including Bewitched, The Waltons and Matlock. She is the mother of actress Christina Applegate.
Early life Priddy was born on January 22, 1941, in South Bend, Indiana. She worked as a disc jockey at age 12, and majored in drama at Oberlin College and Northwestern University.
Career In the summers of 1961 and 1962, Priddy performed in musical revues as part of the Party-Liners group at the Peninsula Players theater near Fish Creek, Wisconsin. She was a member of The Bitter End Singers in 1964, a short-lived folksinging group along with Lefty Baker,Bob Koch, "Vinyl Cave: Catch and release with The Pilgrims, Cassius Clay, Don Covay, The Bitter End Singers, Hoagy Carmichael, and Bad Boy", Isthmus, April 4, 2010. Tina Bohlmann, Bob Hider, Norris O'Neill, and Vilma Vaccaro. In 1968, she released the album You've Come This Way Before, described by Billboard as "a minor classic of psychedelic folk" and by an Allmusic reviewer as "an off-the-wall singer/songwriter album drawing from both folk-rock and psychedelia". That same year she contributed backup vocals to Leonard Cohen's debut album Songs of Leonard Cohen.Richie Unterberger, Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock (Hal Leonard Corporation, 2003), , pp. 120–121. Excerpts available at Google Books. At one point she dated Stephen Stills and was the inspiration for his Buffalo Springfield song "Pretty Girl Why".John Einarson & Richie Furay, For What It's Worth: The Story of Buffalo Springfield (Taylor Trade Publications, 2004), , p. 261. Excerpts available at Google Books.
Discography
Under her name You've Come This Way Before (Dot Records, 1968) Christina's Carousel (Monte's Moolah, 2008) Mama's Jam (Monte's Moolah, n.d.) Can We Talk About It Now? (CD Baby, n.d.)
As member of The Bitter End Singers Discover the Bitter End Singers (Mercury Records, 1964) Through Our Eyes (Mercury Records, 1965)
As backup singer for Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia Records, 1967)
Television and film work In the 1970s and 1980s she had several appearances in comedy and drama television series and TV movies. She appeared in Mayberry R.F.D., Police Woman, The Waltons and Divorce Court, among other shows. She made multiple appearances as different characters in Bewitched, Cannon, Medical Center and Barnaby Jones.
In 2016 she appeared in the feature-length comedy Bad Moms as Christina Applegate's mother.
Family Priddy is the mother of actress Christina Applegate, and has appeared with her in several projects, including the television series Married... with Children and the film The Sweetest Thing. Like her daughter, Priddy is a breast cancer survivor.
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