![]() ![]() “Suddenly, it was the talk of the country,” Hall told The Associated Press in 1986. The story was so popular it even spawned a movie of the same name and a television series. It sold millions of copies and Riley won a Grammy for best female country vocal performance and an award for single of the year from the Country Music Association. ![]() The song about a mother telling a group of busybodies to mind their own business was witty and feisty and became a No. His breakthrough was writing “Harper Valley P.T.A.,” a 1968 international hit about small-town hypocrisy recorded by Jeannie C. The middle initial “T” was added when he got his recording contract to make the name catchier. Newman, Dave Dudley and Johnny Wright, but he had so many songs that he began recording them himself. Hall settled in Nashville in 1964 and first established himself as a songwriter making $50 a week. ![]() He turned to writing when he got back stateside and was discovered by Nashville publisher Jimmy Key. Army in 1957 for four years including an assignment in Germany. Hall began playing in a bluegrass band, but when that didn’t work out he started working as a disc jockey in Morehead, Kentucky. He started playing guitar at age 4 and wrote his first song by the time he was 9. Hall, the fourth son of an ordained minister, was born near Olive Hill, Kentucky, in a log cabin built by his grandfather. ![]()
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