Posted on 08/20/2021 7:36:14 PM PDT by hoagy62
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tom T. Hall, the singer-songwriter who composed “Harper Valley P.T.A.” and sang about life’s simple joys as country music’s consummate blue collar bard, has died. He was 85.
His son, Dean Hall, confirmed the musician's death on Friday at his home in Franklin, Tennessee. Hall, known as “The Storyteller” for his unadorned yet incisive lyrics, composed hundreds of songs.
Along with such contemporaries as Kris Kristofferson, John Hartford and Mickey Newbury, Hall helped usher in a literary era of country music in the early ’70s, with songs that were political, like “Watergate Blues” and “The Monkey That Became President,” deeply personal like “The Year Clayton Delaney Died,” and philosophical like “(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine.”
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RIP
You beat me to it!
His song “I Like Beer” still rings in my head once and a while, due to performing on the same card with him and his band once.......very autobiographical....
Great song !
Shoeshine man ...damn I loved him ...my dad’s favorite singer
You could easily claim it’s one of the greatest songs in pop music history.
It deputed at #81 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and then jumped to #7 the following week - the biggest one week jump in the chart’s history. Then it knocked The Beatles “Hey Jude” out of the #1 spot, and of course it was #1 on the Country chart as well.
Pretty hard to beat that! And both Tom T. Hall and Jeannie C. Riler were newcomers to the business, and she didn’t even like the song at first.
I’m the Guy who didn’t marry, pretty Pamela Brown...
Leaves in the wind, pictures of my friends
"Harper Valley PTA" was a great song, so I'm glad it knocked out "Hey Jude". The whiny-voiced McCartney songs of The Beatles' last couple of years I could do without ("Lady Madonna" being an exception). Of course, I thought "Rubber Soul"/"Revolver" was their peak, but that's just me.
Great songster... Much too young to die...
It makes me a jolly good fellow.
🙏RIP ❤
Never heard of him before today.
What We're Fighting For--Dave Dudley (1965)
RIP.
Amen. RIP TOM and thanks...
My favorite is “Ballad of Forty Dollars “
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