Roy Hall
Sign in to saveAmerican musician, singer and pianist (1922-1984)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Choose Health, Choose Life
- Perfect Gentleman
- Roy Hall Story
- Servant
- Interactive 3D Graphics in Windows®
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1967
- Active to
- 2024-04
blue-eyed soulnew wavepoppop rockpop soulsoft rock
Discography
- Whole Oats1972
- Abandoned Luncheonette1973
- War Babies1974
- Daryl Hall & John Oates1975
- Bigger Than Both of Us1976
- Beauty on a Back Street1977
- Along the Red Ledge1978
- X‐Static1979
- Voices1980
- Private Eyes1981
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14,830
- Total plays
- 63,117
Tags
rockabilly50sRock and RollAllrhythm and blues
James Faye "Roy" Hall was born on May 7, 1922, in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. An old colored man taught him to play piano, and to drink. By the time Roy turned twenty-one, he knew that he was the best drunken piano-player in Big Stone Gap, and armed with the pride and confidence that this knowledge gave him, he departed the town of his birth to seek fame. Roy made it to Bristol and farther, pumping boogie-woogie in every Virginia, Tennessee, or Alabama beer-joint that had a piano. <a href="https://
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roy
- Family name
- Hall
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Wise
- Place of death
- Nashville
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- rockabilly
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Sun Records
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1922-05-07
- date of death
- 1984-03-03
- start of work period
- 1984-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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