Ep. 67 - TOM T. HALL ("Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine")
b'Tom T. Hall was named by\\xa0Rolling Stone\\xa0magazine as one of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time.\\xa0Known as \\u201cThe Storyteller,\\u201d the Grammy winner landed 35 songs in the Top 10 on\\xa0Billboard\\u2019s country chart between 1965 and 1996. Many of those featured Hall as both writer and artist, including \\u201cHomecoming,\\u201d \\u201cMe and Jesus,\\u201d \\u201cRavishing Ruby,\\u201d \\u201cThat Song is Driving Me Crazy,\\u201d \\u201cI Like Beer,\\u201d and the #1 hits \\u201cA Week in a County Jail,\\u201d \\u201cThe Year That Clayton Delaney Died,\\u201d \\u201c(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine,\\u201d \\u201cCountry Is,\\u201d \\u201cI Care,\\u201d \\u201cFaster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet),\\u201d and \\u201cI Love,\\u201d which also became a hit on the pop chart. \\xa0 Tom T. Hall songs that hit the Top 5 for other artists include \\u201cHello Vietnam\\u201d by Johnny Wright, \\u201cHow I Got to Memphis\\u201d and \\u201c(Margie\\u2019s at) The Lincoln Park Inn\\u201d by Bobby Bare, \\u201cIf I Ever Fall in Love (With a Honky Tonk Girl)\\u201d by Faron Young, \\u201cPool Shark\\u201d by Dave Dudley, \\u201cYou Always Come Back (To Hurting Me)\\u201d by Johnny Rodriguez, \\u201cI\\u2019m Not Ready Yet\\u201d by George Jones, \\u201cLittle Bitty\\u201d by Alan Jackson, and \\u201cHarper Valley P.T.A.,\\u201d which Jeannie C. Riley took to the #1 spot on both the country and pop chart, making her the first woman to achieve that feat.\\xa0 \\xa0 Hall was named NSAI Songwriter of the Year in 1972, was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1978, joined the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008, was honored with the Academy of Country Music\\u2019s Poet\\u2019s Award in 2010, and earned the prestigious BMI Icon award in 2012.'