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From the late-1960s through the mid-1980s, Tom T. Hall was one of country music's most reliable hitmakers, earning success as a chart-topping solo artist and as a songwriter for others. He was born in Olive Hill, Kentucky, on May 25, 1936, and served time in the US Army before working as a radio DJ in West Virginia and Kentucky. He also began writing songs for artists like Jimmy Newman, who scored a Number 1 country hit with Hall's "DJ for a Day" in 1963, and Johnnie Wright, whose version of "Hello Vietnam" became a chart-topping country single in 1965. Now living in Nashville, h...