Clayton delaney biography
Clayton delaney biography
The Story Behind The Song:... - Classic Country Music Stories.
Tom T.
Hall
Tom Hall Becomes Tom T. Hall
Encouraged to record his own songs by producer and Mercury Records executive Jerry Kennedy, Hall signed with the label in 1967, taking on a middle initial to separate himself from other performers with similar-sounding names.
That summer, Mercury released his first single, “I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew.”
Although Hall’s recording career started slowly, it hit full stride as the ’60s gave way to the ’70s. Hall’s #1 hits, all self-penned, included “A Week in a Country Jail” (1970), “The Year That Clayton Delaney Died” (1971), “(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine” (1973),” “I Love” (1974), “Country Is” (1974), “I Care” (1975), and “Faster Horses (the Cowboy and the Poet)” (1976).
He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1971.
Penning Songs for Others, and for Himself
As his singing career got underway, Hall continued to provide hit songs for other artists, chief among them “Harper Valley P.T.A.,” for Jeannie C.
Rile