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Tom T. Hall
Hall in 1967
Background information
Birth name
Thomas T. Hall
Born
May 25, 1936
(age 85)
Origin
Olive Hill
,
Kentucky
, U.S.
Genres
Bluegrass
,
country
,
Outlaw Country
,
Folk
Occupation(s)
Singer, songwriter
Instruments
Vocals, guitar,
banjo
,
mandolin
, piano, saxophone
Years active
1963–2011
Labels
Mercury
,
RCA
,
Columbia
Blue Circle
Associated acts
Dave Dudley
,
Patti Page
,
Johnnie Wright
,
Roger Miller
,
Johnny Cash
Thomas T. Hall (born May 25, 1936) is an American
country music
songwriter, singer, instrumentalist, novelist, and short-story writer. He has written 12 No. 1 hit songs, with 26 more that reached the Top 10, including the No. 1 international
pop
crossover
smash "
Harper Valley PTA
" and the hit "
I Love
," which reached No. 12 on the
Billboard
Hot 100
. He is included in Rolling Stones list of 100 Greatest Songwriters. He became known to fans as "The Storyteller," thanks to his storytelling skills in his songwriting.
Early life and career
Hall was born in
Olive Hill, Kentucky
, United States.As a teenager, he organized a band called the Kentucky Travelers that performed before movies for a traveling theater. During a stint in the
Army
, Hall performed over the
Armed Forces Radio Network
and wrote comic songs about Army experiences.Following his time in the army he used the
G.I. Bill
program to enroll at
Roanoke College
, where he worked as a disc jockey. His early career included being a radio announcer at
WRON
, a local radio station in
Ronceverte
, West Virginia. Hall was also an
announcer
at WMOR 1330AM in
Morehead
, Kentucky. Hall was also an
announcer
at WSPZ, which later became
WVRC
Radio in
Spencer
, West Virginia, in the 1960s.
Hall's big songwriting break came in 1963, when country singer
Jimmy C. Newman
recorded his song, "DJ For a Day." In 1964, Hall moved to
Nashville
and started to work as a -a-week songwriter for Newkeys Music, the publishing company belonging to Newman and his business partner Jimmy Key, writing up to half a dozen country songs per day. Key suggested that he add the middle initial "T" to his name.Hall has been nicknamed "The Storyteller," and he has written songs for dozens of country stars, including
Johnny Cash
,
George Jones
,
Loretta Lynn
,
Waylon Jennings
,
Alan Jackson
, and
Bobby Bare
.
One of his earliest successful songwriting ventures, "
Harper Valley PTA
," recorded in 1968 by
Jeannie C. Riley
,
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hit No. 1 on the
Billboard
Hot 100
and
Hot Country Singles
charts a week apart, sold over six million copies, and won both a
Grammy Award
and
CMA Award
. The song would go on to inspire a motion picture and television program of the same name. Hall himself has recorded this song, on his album
The Definitive Collection
(as track No. 23). Hall's recording career took off after Riley's rendition of the song, releasing a number of hits from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Some of Hall's biggest hits include "
A Week in a Country Jail
", "
(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine
", "
I Love
", "
Country Is
", "
The Year Clayton Delaney Died
", "
I Like Beer
", "
Faster Horses (the Cowboy and the Poet)
", "
That Song Is Driving Me Crazy
" and many others.He is also noted for his children-oriented songs, including "Sneaky Snake" and "
I Care
", the latter of which hit No. 1 on the country charts in 1975. In 1979, Hall appeared on the
PBS
music program
Austin City Limits
during Season 4.
Hall has largely been retired from writing new material since 1986 and from performing since about 1994;his last public performance, which was also his first in several years, was in 2011.
Awards
Hall won the
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes
in 1973 for the notes he wrote for his album
Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits
. He was nominated for, but did not win, the same award in 1976 for his album
Greatest Hits Volume 2
. He has been a member of the
Grand Ole Opry
since 1971
Together with his wife Dixie Hall he won the Bluegrass Song Writer of the Year award in 2002, 2003, 2004,2005, 2007,2008,2009,2010, 2011, 2013,2014, and 2015, awarded annually by the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America (SPBGMA).
Television
Hall succeeded
Ralph Emery
as host of the
syndicated
country music TV show
Pop! Goes the Country
in 1980 and continued until the series ended in 1982.
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He also composed the theme song for
Fishin' with
Orlando Wilson
.
In the mid-to-late 1970s, Hall was a commercial spokesperson for
Chevrolet
trucks.
Music
His 1996 song "
Little Bitty
", from the album
Songs from Sopchoppy
, became a No. 1 single that year when it was recorded by
Alan Jackson
for the album
Everything I Love
.
In 1998 his 1972 song "
Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine
" came in second in a
BBC Radio 2
poll to find the UK's favorite
easy listening
record, despite never having been a hit in the UK and being familiar to Radio 2 listeners mostly through occasional plays by DJ
Terry Wogan
.
His song "
I Love
", in which the narrator lists the things in life that he loves, was used, with altered lyrics and a hard rock arrangement, in a popular 2003 TV commercial for
Coors Light
,and also used in 2014 in a TV advertisement for Clipper Teas.
On July 3, 2007, he released the CD
Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T.
on his independent bluegrass label Blue Circle Records.
On June 1, 2014,
Rolling Stone
magazine ranked "
(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine
" No. 93 in their list of the 100 greatest country songs.
Hall of fame
Hall was inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame in 2002
On February 12, 2008, Hall was inducted into the
Country Music Hall of Fame
. In regard to Hall's longer-than-anticipated wait to be inducted, he attributed it to being somewhat reclusive and "not well liked" among the
Nashville music industry
, noting that he almost never collaborated with other songwriters and by the 1990s was largely out of step with the corporate style of country music.
In November 2018 Hall and his wife Dixie Hall were inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.
On June 13, 2019, Hall was inducted into the
Songwriters Hall of Fame
. Of all the honors he had received in his lifetime, he considered the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction to be his proudest moment and the pinnacle of his achievement, also stating he was taken by surprise for even being considered.
Personal life
Tom Hall was married to bluegrass songwriter and producer Dixie Hall from 1969 until her death on January 16, 2015. Dixie Hall was born Iris Lawrence in the West Midlands, England, in 1934 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1961.
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They lived in Franklin, Tennessee. Tom and Dixie met at a 1965 music industry award dinner she was invited to for having written (as Dixie Deen) the song "Truck Drivin' Son-of-a-Gun" which became a hit for
Dave Dudley
.
Hall has a son, Dean Hall, from his 1961 marriage to Opal "Hootie" McKinney from Grayson, Kentucky.In the early 1980s Dean Hall, who is a singer, musician and songwriter, worked for his father, first as a roadie and then as a guitar player, before joining
Bobby Bare
's band
Discography
Main article:
Tom T. Hall discography
In Search of a Song
(1971)
We All Got Together and...
(1972)
Places I've Done Time
(1978)
Song in a Seashell
(1985)
Books written by Hall
How I Write Songs, Why You Can
(1976),
Chappell Music
Co.
The Songwriter's Handbook
(1976),
Rutledge Hill Press
The Storyteller's Nashville
(1979),
Doubleday & Co.
; (Spring House Press, 2016),
ISBN
978-1-940611-44-0
The Laughing Man of Woodmont Coves
(1982), Doubleday & Co.
The Acts of Life
(1986), The
University Of Arkansas
Press
Homewords
(1986),
The University of Tennessee
Press
Christmas and the Old House
(1989),
Peachtree Publishers
, Ltd.
Spring Hill, Tennessee
(1990),
Longstreet Press
, Inc.
What a Book!
(1996), Longstreet Press, Inc.