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Roy Hall (of its true name James Faye Hill) is a singer and pianist of American Rockabilly and Country music (May 7th, 1922, Wise, Virginia - March 2nd, 1984, Nashville, Tennessee). It is known to have composed the traditional one of the Rock “roll Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' One , popularized by Jerry Lee Lewis.

Biography

Roy Hall grew in Big Stone Gap where he learned the piano near the bluesman Smith Carson. It founds Cohutta Mountain Boys in 1943 with which it records four individual for the label Fortune Records in 1949, of which Dirty Boogie . In 1950 it accompanies with the piano the singers country Skeeter Davis, Marty Robbins, Hawkshaw Martin or Webb Pierce and occurs regularly with the Grand Ole Opry. It opens then a nightclub with Nashville, Musician' S Hideaway. In 1954, it returns the young person Elvis Presley after only one evening, judging it “completely no one”. It is at that time that it composes, with Dave Curly Williams, the song Whole Lotta Shakin' Going Home , under the pseudonym of Sony David. First of all recorded by Big Maybelle in 1955, Hall the piece at Decca Records leaves the same year. It will be then taken again in 1957 by Jerry Lee Lewis, which had occurred a few weeks in the club of Roy Hall in 1954 (it will be its first tube).

Until 1956, it engraves some discs at Decca, in particular See You Alligator , Blue Sweden Shoes and Diggin' The Boogie . He works follows for Pierce, Hi Q, and for Sun Records in 1958. He repurchases the Judd discs where he sings Gospel, thanking God for having moved away it from the bottle. In 1980, it records the album Rockabilly Or Else . Little time before dying, at the 61 years age, it occurs for cruisings of the third age.

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