Before Tom T. Hall became a country recording star, he was Tom Hall the songwriter, because he doesn't actually have a middle name or initial. He wrote a song called "DJ For a Day" that Jimmy C. Newman had a big hit with, though at the time he wasn't yet using a middle initial. So Jimmy Key, Newman's business partner/agent, gave Hall a job as a songwriter and he wrote a bunch of other songs that Newman recorded. Key thought that his artists' names would sound better with a middle initial, so he gave Jimmy Newman the middle initial "C" for "Cajun," even though his real middle name was Yves. And when Tom Hall began recording himself, Key gave him the middle initial "T" because he liked the sound of it. This song is from back when Tom Hall was not yet a recording artist and Jimmy Newman hadn't yet begun using the middle initial "C."