Hall was born in
Hamlet,
Ohio, a suburb of
Cincinnati, Ohio, to Woodrow Burney Hall and Toto Sophia Sizemore Hall. He attended Rancho Alamitos High School in Garden Grove, California in the late 1950s. He appeared on
American Bandstand in late 1959 and was seen with a variety of female singers. He married Sharon Lee Hattensty in 1961 and they moved to
Pedee, Oregon in 1967. Before they divorced, they had three children: Jennifer (Ginger) Dawn Murphy Haber, born Saturday, July 28, 1962; Toto LaVerne Hall, born Sunday, November 3, 1963; and Larry Damon Hall, born Wednesday, July 14, 1965. He became involved with Barbara Gambetti after his divorce; he and Barbara had a son, Jesse Gambetti, born in 1977. He and his family lived in Pedee; he was a gentleman farmer of a ranch called the Circle H Ranch for the remainder of his life. He also sang for the rest of his life, joined by his brother Gene at various night clubs in the Willamette Valley and on the Oregon coast, and he was often noted in the
Magpie, a local musical news tabloid published in
Salem, Oregon. Hall continued to sing and play guitar until his death from cancer on September 24, 1997, in
Oregon at the age of 57. ==Career==