Inducted 1997

Connor Hall's musical career began as a minister of music in his native Greenville, South Carolina, Church of God during the 1930s. With a distinctive tenor voice and a mind for promotion, he decided to launch a full-time career in gospel music. He formed the Homeland Harmony Quartet in 1942 and, over the next decade, turned it into one of the most successful groups in Southern Gospel Music. 

Headquartered in Atlanta, the group sang on radio through the mid-1950s-providing transcription recordings to as many as 55 different stations. 

In 1961, Hall entered a long, productive career as Music Editor of the Tennessee Music and Printing Company-one of the most important publishers and preservers of shape-note materials in the South. After the company purchased the Vaughan Music Company in the mid-1960s, he revived an interest in singing conventions and served as editor of the Vaughan Family Visitor for the next two decades. Hall also served as President of the National Singing Convention in 1968.