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Tom T. Hall: 50 Greatest Hits (2-CD)

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Tom T Hall is often called ‘The Nashville Storyteller’ – a tribute to his contribution to revitalising the storytelling style in Country Music across decades. Signed to Mercury Records in Nashville in 1967, Tom T Hall quickly started racking up the country hits – the first in 1968 with Ballad Of Forty Dollars. 

Dozens of Top Ten hits followed. He has delivered 35 albums in his career with over 50 country charting singles, and with the exception of a handful of albums for RCA, all were recorded for Mercury. 

This collection gathers together all the Mercury singles and a handful of great tracks with which Tom T Hall is associated. Songwriting is what Tom T Hall is all about, and all but a couple of these tracks are self-written. He remains one of the most prolific and successful of all country songwriters!

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Hall, Tom T. - 50 Greatest Hits (2-CD) CD 1
01 I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew Tom T. Hall
02 Ain't Got The Time Tom T. Hall
03 The World The Way I Want It Tom T. Hall
04 Ballad Of Forty Dollars Tom T. Hall
05 Cloudy Day Tom T. Hall
06 Home Coming Tom T. Hall
07 Strawberry Farms Tom T. Hall
08 Shoeshine Man Tom T. Hall
09 A Week In A Country Jail Tom T. Hall
10 I Miss A Lot Of Trains Tom T. Hall
11 Day Drinkin' Tom T. Hall
12 Salute To A Switchblade Tom T. Hall
13 Chattanooga Dog Tom T. Hall
14 Ode To A Half A Pound Of Ground Round Tom T. Hall
15 One Hundred Children Tom T. Hall
16 Old Enough To Want To (Fool Enough To Try) Tom T. Hall
17 I Can't Dance Tom T. Hall
18 The Year That Clayton Delaney Died Tom T. Hall
19 Tulsa Telephone Book Tom T. Hall
20 It Sure Can Get Cold In Des Moines Tom T. Hall
21 Second Handed Flowers Tom T. Hall
22 Me And Jesus Tom T. Hall
23 The Monkey That Became President Tom T. Hall
24 Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine Tom T. Hall
25 More About John Henry Tom T. Hall
Hall, Tom T. - 50 Greatest Hits (2-CD) CD 2
01 Ravishing Ruby Tom T. Hall
02 Spokane Motel Blues Tom T. Hall
03 Candy In The Window Tom T. Hall
04 Don't Forget The Coffee Billy Joe Tom T. Hall
05 Watergate Blues Tom T. Hall
06 I Love Tom T. Hall
07 Country Is Tom T. Hall
08 That Song Is Driving Me Crazy Tom T. Hall
09 Sneaky Snake Tom T. Hall
10 I Care Tom T. Hall
11 Deal Tom T. Hall
12 I Like Beer Tom T. Hall
13 Faster Horses (The Cowboy and The Poet) Tom T. Hall
14 Negatory Romance Tom T. Hall
15 Fox On The Run Tom T. Hall
16 It's All In The Game Tom T. Hall
17 Your Man Loves You, Honey Tom T. Hall
18 A Bar With No Beer Tom T. Hall
19 Hello, We're Lonely (with Patti Page) Tom T. Hall
20 The Last Of The Drifters (with Johnny Cash) Tom T. Hall
21 Shoes And Dress That Alice Wore Tom T. Hall
22 Redneck Riviera Tom T. Hall
23 Ships Go Out Tom T. Hall
24 Bill Monroe For Breakfast Tom T. Hall
25 The Way I've Always Been Tom T. Hall
Tom T. Hall May 25th 1936 - † August 20th 2021 TOM T. HALL OBITUARY  ... more
"Tom T. Hall"

Tom T. Hall

May 25th 1936 - † August 20th 2021

TOM T. HALL OBITUARY

 

Tom T. Hall did not gladly embrace the flashy role of a country music superstar as so many of his Nashville peers did, although by any standard he certainly qualified in that category. Hall was a warm, unapologetically low-key vocalist, not showy in the slightest when he was onstage. He was also a master storyteller, a thoughtful and observant songwriter who could legitimately lay claim to the handle of poet, and was uncommonly prolific on both fronts. Hall posted his first hit as a singer in 1968 and was still going strong on those charts close to two decades later, although he didn’t keep what’s probably his best-known song for himself.

 

Thomas Hall didn’t particularly chase fame and fortune as a young man. Born May 25, 1936 in a log cabin outside of Olive Hill, Kentucky, he grew up loving bluegrass, just as a great many Kentuckians did. He picked a little guitar in his youth and dropped out of school at 15. Hall spent time on the airwaves of WMOR radio in Moorhead, Kentucky before entering the Army in 1957 for a four-year hitch (he and Elvis were stationed in Germany concurrently). Back in the states, Tom reverted to deejaying until some of the songs he’d been writing in his spare time found their way to the offices of Jimmy Key, who ran Newkeys Music in Nashville in cahoots with singer Jimmy C. Newman. 

 

Hall relocated to Music City in 1964, invited to hisliving as a songsmith at Newkeys. Success didn’t happen overnight, but Johnny Wright made Hall’s Hello Vietnam a 1965 C&W chart-topper, and Tom’s Billy Christian received plenty of exposure as the flip side of The Statler Brothers’ blockbuster Flowers On The Wall that same year. Hall also wrote extensively for truck drivers’ favorite Dave Dudley, a mainstay presence at Newkeys (Dave cut Tom’s droll Mad in 1964 and had a hit with Hall’s patriotic What We’re Fighting For the following year). It was Key’s idea to add the middle ‘T.’ to Hall’s moniker, just to add a little pizzazz.

 

Key convinced Mercury Records A&R man Jerry Kennedy to sign Hall as an artist in 1967. Hall decided he’d give it a try, cutting I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew as his Top 30 C&W debut with Kennedy producing. Yet Mercury wouldn’t profit from what was likely Hall’s most enduring composition of all. Singer Margie Singleton, wife of former Mercury honcho Shelby Singleton, asked Tom to write her a new number. He responded with the humorous Harper Valley P.T.A. 

 

Margie didn’t immediately commit the epic tale of a young woman successfully facing down her judgmental neighbors to tape, but Shelby, by then heading his own Plantation label in Nashville, had sassy young chanteuse Jeannie C. Riley belt the tune with none other than a moonlighting Kennedy adding musical punctuation on dobro. Not only did Harper Valley P.T.A. become a #1 1968 country juggernaut, it followed chart-topping suit on the pop hit parade as well, rendering Jeannie an instant star and earning Hall some enviable royalty checks. Tom T. was suddenly a hot commodity. 

 

1968 was also when Hall started scoring major hits of his own, his offbeat Ballad Of Forty Dollars going Top Five country. Homecoming followed suit the next year, and A Week In A Country Jail was his first chart-topper in early ’70. Each and every one of them told a fascinating real-life story, Hall’s keen eye for detail and subtle shading distinguishing his recordings from boilerplate weepy country fare. The driving Shoeshine Man and an ominous Salute To A Switchblade gave Hall more sustained 1970 success. The Year Clayton Delaney Died restored Tom T. to the peak of the country hit parade in ’71. 

 

The ‘70s brought Hall a string of mammoth country sellers. A touching (Old Dogs-Children And) Watermelon Wine soared to the top of the C&W hit parade in early ’73, and the spicy Ravishing Ruby, spiced with mariachi horns, sold very well later that year. Hall deemphasized his country content a bit on some of his top sellers during this period and found mainstream acceptance in the process; the slightly mawkish I Love, basically a laundry list of Tom’s favorite things counted off at a snail’s pace, not only sat atop the C&W listings, it just missed Top Ten pop status in late ’73, while That Song Is Driving Me Crazy, Hall’s first #1 C&W hit of 1974, incorporated a razzmatazz Dixieland horn section. More country chart-toppers—Country Is and I Care—soon followed. Hall’s jolly ’75 hit I Like Beer remains a beloved staple of polka bands worldwide to this day.

 

Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet) was Hall’s final #1 country entry for Mercury in 1976, though he continued to navigate the upper end of those charts with an unexpected bluegrass-drenched treatment of Manfred Mann’s Fox On The Run and his own Your Man Loves You, Honey. He defected to RCA in 1977 and enjoying more solid sellers with What Have You Got To Lose, The Old Side Of Town, and Jesus On The Radio (Daddy On The Phone), all Hall originals. After a brief early ‘80s stint on Columbia, Tom T. returned to his old Mercury stomping grounds and registered one last C&W Top Ten entry with his revival of the Tin Pan Alley chestnut P.S. I Love You, which harked back to a 1934 hit rendition by Rudy Vallee.

 

Not particularly enamored of tirelessly working the country oldies circuit to endlessly regurgitate his hits, Hall took it relatively easy in his later years, performing and recording only as much as he cared to. He passed away August 20, 2021 at the age of 85 in Franklin, Tennesseesecure in the knowledge that his was a unique songwriting talent. When it came to telling a mesmerizing story with clean, crisp precision that more often than not tugged at your heartstrings with a mellow, burnished pull, Tom T. Hall was an unalloyed master.

--Bill Dahl 



 

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Tracklist
Hall, Tom T. - 50 Greatest Hits (2-CD) CD 1
01 I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew
02 Ain't Got The Time
03 The World The Way I Want It
04 Ballad Of Forty Dollars
05 Cloudy Day
06 Home Coming
07 Strawberry Farms
08 Shoeshine Man
09 A Week In A Country Jail
10 I Miss A Lot Of Trains
11 Day Drinkin'
12 Salute To A Switchblade
13 Chattanooga Dog
14 Ode To A Half A Pound Of Ground Round
15 One Hundred Children
16 Old Enough To Want To (Fool Enough To Try)
17 I Can't Dance
18 The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
19 Tulsa Telephone Book
20 It Sure Can Get Cold In Des Moines
21 Second Handed Flowers
22 Me And Jesus
23 The Monkey That Became President
24 Old Dogs, Children And Watermelon Wine
25 More About John Henry
Hall, Tom T. - 50 Greatest Hits (2-CD) CD 2
01 Ravishing Ruby
02 Spokane Motel Blues
03 Candy In The Window
04 Don't Forget The Coffee Billy Joe
05 Watergate Blues
06 I Love
07 Country Is
08 That Song Is Driving Me Crazy
09 Sneaky Snake
10 I Care
11 Deal
12 I Like Beer
13 Faster Horses (The Cowboy and The Poet)
14 Negatory Romance
15 Fox On The Run
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17 Your Man Loves You, Honey
18 A Bar With No Beer
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20 The Last Of The Drifters (with Johnny Cash)
21 Shoes And Dress That Alice Wore
22 Redneck Riviera
23 Ships Go Out
24 Bill Monroe For Breakfast
25 The Way I've Always Been