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Tom T Hall, Country Singer Who Wrote ‘Harper Valley PTA,’ Dies at 85

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Dean, broke the news on Twitter, writing, “With great sadness, my father, Tom T. Hall, died this morning at his home in Franklin, Tennessee.

Our family asks for privacy during this difficult time.”As a teenager growing up in Olive Hill, Kentucky, Hall pulled together a band called the Kentucky Travelers, who would perform before movies for a traveling theater.

Shortly thereafter, he joined the Army and occasionally performed on the Armed Services Radio Network while stationed in Germany.Upon returning to civilian life in the States, he worked as a radio DJ in Virginia, where he’d sometimes play songs he had written.

One such time, a publisher happened to be listened and heard his song “D.J. for a Day,” loved it and brought it to Jimmy C..

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