![]() ![]() You ought to try to break out of it sometime." Or, as he said at the 2010 Country Radio Seminar in Nashville: "People say breaking into the business is hard. They often worked from their Williamson County home, Fox Hollow - a name Hall also adopted for his kindly 1974 album "Songs of Fox Hollow: For Children of All Ages."Īs Hall wrote, recorded and occasionally performed the music synonymous with his home state, what he once called "retirement" wouldn't stick. In the 21st century, Hall focused on shepherding bluegrass music with his late wife, Iris "Miss Dixie" Lawrence Hall. His singing and songwriting career reached commercial heights in the 1970s, as Hall eventually topped country airplay charts a dozen times and penned more than two dozen songs that reached the top 10. So, being a big Sinclair Lewis fan, when I wrote 'Harper Valley,' I incorporated elements of 'Elmer Gantry' into the song."Ī decade later, a film inspired by the song - starring Barbara Eden - was released. As a young man, I read Lewis' novels 'Babbitt' and 'Elmer Gantry,' which is about hypocrisy. 'Babbitt' is, of course, about the social structure of the small town. "I wrote the song 30 years later," he told country music website The Boot in 2016. Well, her daughter came home one afternoonĪnd she said, "mom, I got a note here from the Harper Valley PTA" The song begins: "I wanna tell you all a story 'bout ![]()
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