John Joseph Hall is an American musician, activist, and was the U.S Representative for New York's 19th congressional district, serving from 2007 to 2011. Hall co-founded the 1970s band Orleans.
The Orioles were a successful and influential American R&B group of the late 1940s and early 1950s, one of the earliest such vocal bands who established the basic pattern for the doo-wop sound.
