Fact #154153
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The Year That Clayton Delaney Died by Tom T. Hall reaches No1 in the Billboard country singles chart in the USA. The song is said to be based on Hall's memories of his childhood neighbor and boyhood hero, Lonnie Easterly.
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Tom T. Hall : Lonnie Easterly was his name. The way I got the name Clayton Delaney, it’s a good story. The hill he lived on was called Clayton Hill, and the people who lived next door to him were the Delaneys. So I didn’t want to move too much geography around and lose the feel of what I was writing about. So when I changed his name, I changed it to a hill and a neighbor. I kept everything on that hill, there in his neighborhood, to keep from losing that reality.
(Source : http://www.cmt.com/news/1506920/in-the-words-of-tom-t-hall/)
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