Hall began to record his own compositions as well, signing with Mercury Records in 1967 and joining the Grand Ole Opry in 1971 as he was beginning to pile up hits under his own name. Hall’s first Number One came in 1965 with Johnnie Wright’s version of “Hello Vietnam.” After returning to civilian life, Hall was working as a radio DJ in Virginia when a publisher heard his song “D.J. He joined the Army in 1957 and sometimes performed on the Armed Services Radio Network while stationed in Germany. Hall on May 25th, 1936, in Olive Hill, Kentucky, Hall began playing music at a young age and performed with a bluegrass band, the Kentucky Travelers, while he was a teenager. (In January 2022, the Williamson County Medical Examiner’s office confirmed to Rolling Stone the manner of death was suicide.)īorn Thomas T. Hall’s son Dean confirmed his father’s death. Hall, the Country Music Hall of Fame member known as “The Storyteller” for his detailed narrative songs like “Harper Valley P.T.A.,” “I Love,” and “That’s How I Got to Memphis,” died Friday at his home in Franklin, Tennessee.
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