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Refimprove|date=May 2011Infobox musical artist|image= ||name = Tom T. Hall||caption =|image_size =|background = solo_singer|birth_name = Thomas Hall|alias =|birth_date = Birth date and age|1936|5|25|origin = Olive Hill, Kentucky , U.S. |instrument = Vocals , guitar |genre = Bluegrass music|Bluegrass , Country music|country , outlaw country |occupation = Singer , songwriter |years_active = 1963& ndash;present|label = Mercury Records|Mercury , RCA Records|RCA , Columbia Records|Columbia http://www.bluecirclerecords.com Blue Circle|associated_acts = Dave Dudley , Patti Page , Johnnie Wright , Roger Miller , Johnny Cash |website = Thomas "Tom T." Hall (born May 25, 1936, in Olive Hill, Kentucky|Olive Hill , Kentucky ) is an United States|American country music singer-songwriter. He has written 11 #1 hit songs, with 26 more that reached the Top 10, including the pop (music)|pop Crossover (music)|crossover hit " I Love ", which reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 . He became known to fans as "The Storyteller," thanks to his storytelling skills in his songwriting.
Biography
As a teenager, Hall organized a band called the Kentucky Travelers that performed before movies for a traveling theater. During a stint in the U. S. Army|Army , Hall performed over the Armed Forces Radio Network and wrote comic songs about Army experiences. His early career included being a radio announcer at WRON (AM)|WRON , a local radio station in Ronceverte, West Virginia|Ronceverte , West Virginia . Hall was also an DJ|announcer at WVRC-FM|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." Soon, Hall moved to Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville , and within months, he had songs climbing the charts. Hall has been nicknamed "The Story Teller," 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 ," was recorded in 1968 by Jeannie C. Riley , sold over six million copies, and won both a Grammy Award and Country Music Association|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 #23). Hall's recording career took off after Ms. Riley's rendition of the song, and he had such hits as " 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) ", and many others. He is also noted for his children-oriented songs, including "Sneaky Snake" and " I Care (song)|I Care ," the latter of which hit #1 on the country charts in 1975.
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 (Tom T. Hall album)|Greatest Hits, Volume 2 .
He also hosted the Television syndication|syndicated country music TV show Pop& #33; Goes the Country in 1980.
His 1996 song " Little Bitty ", from the album Songs from Sopchoppy , became a #1 single that year when it was recorded by Alan Jackson for the album Everything I Love .
In 1998, his 1972 song "Old Dogs and 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 ."Eagles' Hotel flys to top of poll", Birmingham Post, Dec 8, 1998; p. 16
His song "I Love", in which the narrator lists the things in life that he loves, was used, with altered lyrics, in a popular 2003 TV commercial for Coors Light . http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? res=9906E5DE1130F935A15752C0A9659C8B63 THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 1-26-03: PROCESS; How to Write a Catchy Beer Ad, Chris Ballard, The New York Times
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 February 12, 2008, Hall was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame .
Discography
Main|Tom T. Hall discography
Books written by Hall
How I Write Songs, Why You Can (1976), Chappell Music Co.
''The Songwriter's Handbook (1976), Rutledge Hill Press
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.
See also
:Category:Songs written by Tom T. Hall
:Category:Tom T. Hall songs
:Category:Tom T. Hall albums
References
reflist
Allen, Bob. (1998). "Tom T. Hall". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music . Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. pp.& nbsp;224–5.
External links
http://www.tomthall.net Tom T. Hall official website
Allmusic|class=artist|id=p1641|pure_url=yes Tom T. Hall page at allmusic.com
http://www.bluecirclerecords.com Blue Circle Records
http://www.goodhomegrownmusic.com Good Home Grown Music Publishing
http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/site/inductees.aspx? cid=2449 Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
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