Hall was born in
Avening,
Gloucestershire, and was educated at
Lancing College. After
National Service, he started working at the
Feldman Swing Club (later The 100 Club) in
Oxford Street,
London, where he became a regular host and met many of the leading
jazz musicians of the day. In 1952, he started working for
Jeffrey Kruger at the
Flamingo Club, and in 1954 started working as an
A&R man for
Decca Records. He soon took responsibility for reviving the subsidiary
Tempo label, and produced sessions by jazz players such as
Ronnie Scott,
Tubby Hayes,
Dizzy Reece and
Victor Feldman for the label. The Tempo label was discontinued in 1961. As part of his work for Decca, Hall also presented regular sponsored
pop music programmes on
Radio Luxembourg during the late 1950s and 1960s, and was one of the hosts on the
Oh Boy! TV show. ==References==