1969 Tom T. Hall Country Music Interview - 4-Page Vintage Article

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1969 Tom T. Hall Country Music Interview - 4-Page Vintage Article
Original, vintage magazine article
Page Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each page
Condition: Good
CSR: How did you originally get interested in
Country Music?
T. H. Well, I grew up in the country in Ken-
tucky. I always did like it and I played the
guitar, I always played some kind of a musi-
cal instrument some kind of a guitar or banjo.
Something like that since I’ve been a little
kid. My origin is country music for country
people.
CSR: Did you start as an entertainer or writing
songs?
T. H. Well, actually it was a song I wrote that
got me into the business where at first I be-
came primarily an entertainer. I wrote a song
for a Flour Company and I guess they liked
the song so well that it got us a 13 week ra-
dio show in the days when the radio was the
big thing. I had a small country band and we
played over WMOR Morehead, Kentucky. At
that time I think we worked there for about a
year and a half or maybe two years. And that s •
how I got my start in the business. When the 1
band broke up I stayed on as a disc jockey.
CSR: How long was it before you had what ;
would be considered a hit?
T. H. Well, I had been a disc jockey all these
years and then I joined the Army. In 1957
I went to Germany and I wrote songs because
I couldn’t get a hold of the new songs from
the states and I was entertaining at clubs and
service clubs so I wrote “36 Months of Lone-
liness,’’ 36 months is the tour of duty for a
volunteer in the Army. Then I wrote one called
the “Gasthaus Rock” that’s G-A-S-T-H-A-U-S.
That’s a night club in Germany. They were
smashes with the G. I.’s there so I enter-
tained and I wrote all my songs there and...
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