Miss Peaches
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- For the comic strip, see Miss Peach.
Miss Peaches was the stage name of Elsie Griner Junior, a comic monologist. Although Miss Griner was white, Miss Peaches spoke in a broad African-American dialect. She did not perform in blackface, however.
Her most notable recording was "Calling Moody Field," which described the lives of African-American airmen at Moody Air Force Base near Valdosta, Georgia. "Calling Moody Field" was a regional rhythm and blues hit in the late 1950s. In the performance, Miss Peaches is talking to the base telephone operator and trying to reach her boyfriend: "You doesn't know Cathead. Well, honey, just stick yo head out the window and holler for Cathead. He'll come."
Miss Griner usually performed with her brother, blues pianist Geunie Griner.
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