Gary Sanford Paxton (born Larry Wayne Stevens; May 18, 1939 – July 16, 2016… Read Full Bio ↴Gary Sanford Paxton (born Larry Wayne Stevens; May 18, 1939 – July 16, 2016) was an American record producer, recording artist, and Grammy and Dove Award winning songwriter. Paxton was a member of Skip & Flip and The Hollywood Argyles and was the producer of two number one Billboard Hot 100 singles, "Alley Oop" for The Hollywood Argyles in 1960 and "Monster Mash" for Bobby "Boris" Pickett in 1962.
Born in Coffeyville, Kansas, Paxton was adopted at age three and raised in rural poverty on a farm. He endured a troubled childhood, molested at age seven and afflicted by spinal meningitis at eleven. His family moved to Arizona when he was twelve, and he started his first band by fourteen, playing country and rock 'n' roll. He spent his middle teenage years touring the American Southwest with this and other forgotten bands.
Early stardom came as "Flip" in the pop duo Skip & Flip (with Clyde "Skip" Battin), courtesy of a million-selling 1959 smash the two cut in Phoenix, Arizona, "It Was I". In what became a pattern in Paxton's early career, the song was recorded first and the group assembled second: after successfully shopping their demo to a label owner, Gary became "Flip" and Clyde became "Skip", after the man's pet poodles, a "group" put together just to have a name on the record. According to Paxton, he was up picking cherries on an Oregon farm when he heard the song on a transistor radio and realized it had become a hit. The duo made television appearances, toured with superstar deejay Alan "Moondog" Freed, and soon followed their success with another hit, "Cherry Pie". After this second chart appearance, the pair split up.
By 1960, Paxton was living in Hollywood, California and was involved in a number of projects, collaborating with others as a performer, writer, producer, label owner, and audio engineer. He played a major role in the making of two novelty hits in the early 1960s and worked with artists like The Association, Paul Revere & the Raiders, The Four Freshmen, and Tommy Roe.
His work throughout this early-'60s period is scattered over various labels, mostly his own, which he seemed to open and close on a constant basis, making regular use of the five studios he owned. Over the years, Paxton built a reputation as an eccentric figure in the recording industry. Brian Wilson was known to admire his talents, and Phil Spector to fear him. His creativity and knack for promotion were legendary, but could also run to excess: once, after a local radio station dismissed one of his records ("Elephant Game (Part One)" by Renfro & Jackson) as "too black", he assembled a protest parade down Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, consisting of fifteen cheerleaders and a live elephant pulling a Volkswagen convertible. He was arrested after the elephant got scared and began to defecate in the street.
In the later 1960s, he gradually turned to the burgeoning Bakersfield sound in country music. By 1967, he had relocated entirely to that city, where he ran a variety of businesses and founded the label Bakersfield International. He moved on to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1970, and in 1971, following his partner's suicide and his own long struggles with drugs and alcohol, he converted to Christianity. He turned his talents to gospel music, becoming part of the hippie countercultural Jesus movement, and has worked in gospel ever since, while maintaining an interest in country.
On December 29, 1980, Paxton was shot three times by hitmen hired by a country singer he was producing, putting him out of the music world for eight years and nearly ending his life. After the trial, he visited the men in prison and forgave them. Paxton left Nashville in 1999 and lived in Branson, Missouri with his fourth wife, Vicki Sue Roberts. He suffered from hepatitis C and almost died from the disease in 1990. Paxton made it very clear that his name is Gary S. Paxton, not "Gary Paxton".
Beyond his early work as part of Skip & Flip, Paxton is best known for his involvement in two novelty hits: the 1960 No. 1 smash "Alley Oop" — written by Dallas Frazier and cut quickly with a group thrown together by Paxton's roommate Kim Fowley, The Hollywood Argyles — and a 1962 No. 1 hit inspired by the Mashed Potato dance craze, "Monster Mash", which Paxton produced and recorded with its author Bobby "Boris" Pickett and another assembled group billed as The Cryptkickers.
In 1965, he produced "Sweet Pea", a hit for Tommy Roe, and "Along Comes Mary", a hit for The Association, winning a Grammy nomination in engineering for his efforts. The following year, he produced another hit for The Association, "Cherish", and another for Roe, "Hooray for Hazel". As Paxton moved toward the Bakersfield sound in the late 1960s, he scored his first country hit in 1967 with "Hangin' On" by The Gosdin Brothers.
In the wake of his conversion to Christianity, Paxton focused his efforts on gospel music. He still kept one foot in the world of secular country during the early 1970s — writing and producing "Woman (Sensuous Woman)" for Don Gibson (a Grammy nominee and a million-plus seller in three different versions) along with two other country-chart hits, and at one point signing with RCA Records as a solo country artist — but gospel was now his chief priority. In 1973 he wrote and produced "L-O-V-E" for The Blackwood Brothers, who took home the Grammy for Best Gospel Performance. In 1975, Paxton won the Best Inspirational Grammy for his album The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Different World of Gary S. Paxton, which contained his oft-recorded devotional song "He Was There All the Time". Appearing on his gospel album covers in a halo of facial hair and a tall-top cowboy hat, Paxton infused his religious work with the same eccentricity, individuality, and hippie humor that had characterized his 60s material in Los Angeles: acting the role of the Jesus freak, likening himself to "an armpit in the body of Christ", and crafting song titles like "When the Meat Wagon Comes for You", "Will There Be Hippies in Heaven?", "I'm a Fool for Christ (Whose Fool Are You?)", and "Jesus Is My Lawyer in Heaven".
Paxton's gospel work was released through NewPax Records, another in his long series of labels, founded in 1975 as an outlet for his new ideas in songwriting and engineering. NewPax was closely linked with Paragon Associates, with which it eventually merged. Paxton was inducted into the Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1999 on the basis of his innovation and accomplishments in the field and his production and writing for numerous noted artists in the industry.
Paxton passed away at his home in Branson, Missouri on July 16, 2016, at the age of 77. No cause of death was announced.
Discography
Studio albums
1975 - The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Different World of Gary S. Paxton
1977 - More from the Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable Gary S. Paxton
1978 - Terminally Weird/But Godly Right
1979 - Gary Sanford Paxton
1979 - The Gospel According to Gary S.
Compilations
1980 - (Some Of) The Best Of Gary S. Paxton (So Far)
2006 - Hollywood Maverick: the Gary S. Paxton Story
2009 - "Grandpa Rock, Volume 1" - 50 years of Gary S. Paxton hits.
2011 - "Vote 'Em Out Boogie" - LuPax CDs. Duet with Jim Lusk.
2014 - "AARP Blues" - LuPax CD's. Duet with Jim Lusk.
Born in Coffeyville, Kansas, Paxton was adopted at age three and raised in rural poverty on a farm. He endured a troubled childhood, molested at age seven and afflicted by spinal meningitis at eleven. His family moved to Arizona when he was twelve, and he started his first band by fourteen, playing country and rock 'n' roll. He spent his middle teenage years touring the American Southwest with this and other forgotten bands.
Early stardom came as "Flip" in the pop duo Skip & Flip (with Clyde "Skip" Battin), courtesy of a million-selling 1959 smash the two cut in Phoenix, Arizona, "It Was I". In what became a pattern in Paxton's early career, the song was recorded first and the group assembled second: after successfully shopping their demo to a label owner, Gary became "Flip" and Clyde became "Skip", after the man's pet poodles, a "group" put together just to have a name on the record. According to Paxton, he was up picking cherries on an Oregon farm when he heard the song on a transistor radio and realized it had become a hit. The duo made television appearances, toured with superstar deejay Alan "Moondog" Freed, and soon followed their success with another hit, "Cherry Pie". After this second chart appearance, the pair split up.
By 1960, Paxton was living in Hollywood, California and was involved in a number of projects, collaborating with others as a performer, writer, producer, label owner, and audio engineer. He played a major role in the making of two novelty hits in the early 1960s and worked with artists like The Association, Paul Revere & the Raiders, The Four Freshmen, and Tommy Roe.
His work throughout this early-'60s period is scattered over various labels, mostly his own, which he seemed to open and close on a constant basis, making regular use of the five studios he owned. Over the years, Paxton built a reputation as an eccentric figure in the recording industry. Brian Wilson was known to admire his talents, and Phil Spector to fear him. His creativity and knack for promotion were legendary, but could also run to excess: once, after a local radio station dismissed one of his records ("Elephant Game (Part One)" by Renfro & Jackson) as "too black", he assembled a protest parade down Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, consisting of fifteen cheerleaders and a live elephant pulling a Volkswagen convertible. He was arrested after the elephant got scared and began to defecate in the street.
In the later 1960s, he gradually turned to the burgeoning Bakersfield sound in country music. By 1967, he had relocated entirely to that city, where he ran a variety of businesses and founded the label Bakersfield International. He moved on to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1970, and in 1971, following his partner's suicide and his own long struggles with drugs and alcohol, he converted to Christianity. He turned his talents to gospel music, becoming part of the hippie countercultural Jesus movement, and has worked in gospel ever since, while maintaining an interest in country.
On December 29, 1980, Paxton was shot three times by hitmen hired by a country singer he was producing, putting him out of the music world for eight years and nearly ending his life. After the trial, he visited the men in prison and forgave them. Paxton left Nashville in 1999 and lived in Branson, Missouri with his fourth wife, Vicki Sue Roberts. He suffered from hepatitis C and almost died from the disease in 1990. Paxton made it very clear that his name is Gary S. Paxton, not "Gary Paxton".
Beyond his early work as part of Skip & Flip, Paxton is best known for his involvement in two novelty hits: the 1960 No. 1 smash "Alley Oop" — written by Dallas Frazier and cut quickly with a group thrown together by Paxton's roommate Kim Fowley, The Hollywood Argyles — and a 1962 No. 1 hit inspired by the Mashed Potato dance craze, "Monster Mash", which Paxton produced and recorded with its author Bobby "Boris" Pickett and another assembled group billed as The Cryptkickers.
In 1965, he produced "Sweet Pea", a hit for Tommy Roe, and "Along Comes Mary", a hit for The Association, winning a Grammy nomination in engineering for his efforts. The following year, he produced another hit for The Association, "Cherish", and another for Roe, "Hooray for Hazel". As Paxton moved toward the Bakersfield sound in the late 1960s, he scored his first country hit in 1967 with "Hangin' On" by The Gosdin Brothers.
In the wake of his conversion to Christianity, Paxton focused his efforts on gospel music. He still kept one foot in the world of secular country during the early 1970s — writing and producing "Woman (Sensuous Woman)" for Don Gibson (a Grammy nominee and a million-plus seller in three different versions) along with two other country-chart hits, and at one point signing with RCA Records as a solo country artist — but gospel was now his chief priority. In 1973 he wrote and produced "L-O-V-E" for The Blackwood Brothers, who took home the Grammy for Best Gospel Performance. In 1975, Paxton won the Best Inspirational Grammy for his album The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Different World of Gary S. Paxton, which contained his oft-recorded devotional song "He Was There All the Time". Appearing on his gospel album covers in a halo of facial hair and a tall-top cowboy hat, Paxton infused his religious work with the same eccentricity, individuality, and hippie humor that had characterized his 60s material in Los Angeles: acting the role of the Jesus freak, likening himself to "an armpit in the body of Christ", and crafting song titles like "When the Meat Wagon Comes for You", "Will There Be Hippies in Heaven?", "I'm a Fool for Christ (Whose Fool Are You?)", and "Jesus Is My Lawyer in Heaven".
Paxton's gospel work was released through NewPax Records, another in his long series of labels, founded in 1975 as an outlet for his new ideas in songwriting and engineering. NewPax was closely linked with Paragon Associates, with which it eventually merged. Paxton was inducted into the Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1999 on the basis of his innovation and accomplishments in the field and his production and writing for numerous noted artists in the industry.
Paxton passed away at his home in Branson, Missouri on July 16, 2016, at the age of 77. No cause of death was announced.
Discography
Studio albums
1975 - The Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable, Different World of Gary S. Paxton
1977 - More from the Astonishing, Outrageous, Amazing, Incredible, Unbelievable Gary S. Paxton
1978 - Terminally Weird/But Godly Right
1979 - Gary Sanford Paxton
1979 - The Gospel According to Gary S.
Compilations
1980 - (Some Of) The Best Of Gary S. Paxton (So Far)
2006 - Hollywood Maverick: the Gary S. Paxton Story
2009 - "Grandpa Rock, Volume 1" - 50 years of Gary S. Paxton hits.
2011 - "Vote 'Em Out Boogie" - LuPax CDs. Duet with Jim Lusk.
2014 - "AARP Blues" - LuPax CD's. Duet with Jim Lusk.
Everlasting Love
Gary Paxton Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Everlasting Love' by these artists:
07. U2 Hearts go astray, keeping hurt when they go I went away…
8-is You and me Arguing about the fact That I believe In everlas…
Alisa Durbrow 青い空浮かぶ雲白く 咲き満ちた思い出の花 過ぎ去りし幾多の輝ける 睦まじく語らう日々 頬撫でゆく やわらかな風に やさし…
Andy Gibb I've been here all your life Watching your crying game You w…
Angela Bofill These clouds outside my window And tears are falling, I can'…
Barbara Pittman Don't wanna be your party doll Don't want a guy that's…
Barcera Hearts go astray Leaving hurt when they go You went away Jus…
Ben DJ girl if I ever reach your shore I know you got…
Ben DJ feat. Hiisak Caught up in this Caught up in this Girl, if I'd ever…
Beverley Craven You fill my heart with desire And I would give my…
Blank & Jones He wasn't looking for a pretty face She wasn't searching for…
Buck Owens and the Buckeroos It's deeper than the ocean and higher than the sky Longer…
Carl Carlton Hearts go astray Leaving hurt when they go I went away Just …
Carola Try to fight the night As you go When the time is…
CeCe Winans Where there is grief, there will be hope And if ever…
Chaka Khan When I feel you dreaming I think of sunsets How high my…
Chris Eaton I have been deceived I have been misled Out in stormy seas…
Clay Aiken Hearts gone astray Leave me hurt when they go I went away …
Cliff Thomas Ed And Barbara Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
Club 8 You and me Arguing about the fact That I believe In everlas…
Colin Blunstone I have been deceived I have been misled Out in stormy seas I…
Commissioned In this life there are many disappointments The problems we …
Countdown Mix Master Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
Countdown Mix Masters Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
dan-y I'm still remember you 잊지 않을 거야 This my heart belongs to…
Daniel Johnston I had a welcome mat But you never came around I left…
David Essex Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
DJ Antoine There's a feeling inside of me That's holding on and won't…
DJ Jackie Christie Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
Donald Eva, eva, eva (uh) Oh, eva, eva, eva (Fifth Harmony, baby) O…
Donna Cruz I used to be so unhappy and so lonely Never come…
Doug Parkinson Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
Dupree I wanna hear what you say You seem so far away Then…
Enter the Worship Circle Like a beggar's plea, Held out hopelessly Like shadows fade,…
F.I.R. [Biggie's mom] Lets say there are many times as i looked…
fifth Eva, eva, eva (uh) Oh, eva, eva, eva (Fifth Harmony, baby) O…
Gentleman We got something special girl We've been together so long Ho…
Gerard Joling It looks like heaven to see you walk To see the…
Gloria Estefan Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go I went away…
Glória Estefan Hearts gone astray, leaving hurt when they go I went away,…
GTS (Feat. Mink) Every moment that I spend alone with you I know I′m…
Hendrickson Family and Friends You make me feel like dancing You make me feel that…
Hiisak girl if I ever reach your shore I know you got…
Howard Jones He wasn't looking for a pretty face She wasn't searching for…
I.O.YOU Hearts go astray, keeping hurt when they go I went away…
ISU 둘 곳 없던 내 맘이 웃었다 미친 듯이 가슴은 뛰었다 숨 막히게…
Jamie Cullum Hearts gone astray Deep in her when they go I went away Just…
Jay B. Clay Hearts go astray Leaving hurt when they go I went away just…
Jones Howard He wasn't looking for a pretty face She wasn't searching for…
Kerry Norton Heart's gone astray Deep in hurt when they go I went away Ju…
Knight Robert Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go I went away…
Labrador 100 A Complete History Of Popular Music Vol.1 [Biggie's mom] Lets say there are many times as i looked…
Lizzie C Need a love to last forever Need a love to last…
Louise Mandrell Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
Love Affair Hearts gone astray, leaving hurt when they go I went away,…
Love Affair (Steve Ellis) Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
Love Affair feat. Steve Ellis Hearts go astray Leaving hurt when They go I went away Just …
Lovestruck Cast Hearts go astray, Leaving hurt when they go, I went away, Ju…
Mac Gayden Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
Mary J. Blige When I feel you dreaming I think of sunsets How high my…
Michael Ball Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
Mr. Groove Intro: Ah ah ah Traba, traba Baby make me sharp Baby take m…
Mysterio Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
Ophélie Winter I'm gonna love you tonight You turn me on so relaxed Tell…
Rachel Sweet Hearts go astray Leaving hurt when they go I went away Ju…
Rex Smith Hearts go astray Leaving hurt when they go I went away Just …
Robert Knight Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go I went away…
Robin Zander Move over Yeah Everlasting love (I don't want it, I d…
Romain Virgo Lets get together Stay together Stay forever {1} Everywher…
Ruffin David Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
Rufus When I feel you dreaming I think of sunsets How high my…
Sabrina Claudio You became mine In the strangest time On my life 'Cause baby…
Sandra Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
Scooter Do it how you want Out to the tuff Like…
Seventh Avenue Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
Seyi Shay Prince Ton The game is over yeah My love is real and…
SeYUN itoshisa de afureru mirai o mitsuketa ne dakiatta mama de ch…
Simon Take me to the edge of everlasting love Where I might…
Skoop Owari no nai ai wo motome Hito wa ate no nai…
slowbrew Everlasting Love INSTRUMENTAL 1 Everlasting Love INSTRUMENTA…
Spoken Love I've been waiting alone This is the time when I come home Ju…
Steve Ellis Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
Steve Michaels Everlasting Love Written By Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden Heart…
The Anix I'm not ok, I don't belong I'm not the same, I…
The Company I used to be so unhappy and so lonely Love…
The Drifters Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
The Fortunes Everlasting love Everlasting Hearts gone astray, leaving he…
The Kendalls Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
The Love Affair Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
The Town Criers Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
The Vibrations You are my everlasting love My everlasting love My everlasti…
Tony Terry Yeah...hea... It's been a long day I'm gonna take it kind o…
Toshi 清らかに 微笑み浮かべ そっと ぬくもりに 抱かれて眠る 君は まるで無邪気な少女 やすらぎと戲れるように 遠い記憶を …
Town Criers Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
U2 Hearts go astray, keeping hurt when they go I went away…
U2 - Topic Hearts go astray, keeping hurt when they go I went away…
Vanessa Williams When I feel you dreaming I think of sunsets How high my…
Various Artists Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they goI went away…
Vaughn Benjamin Ever, Ever, Everlasting Love…
Worlds Apart Hearts go astray Leaving hearts when they go You went away J…
Y2K I'm still remember you 잊지 않을 거야 This my heart belongs to…
Yadah Ooh ooh, owe owe Ooh ooh, owe owe Ooh ooh, owe owe Ooh…
ソ・イングク Kanashii yume nante bokura ni wa Mienai yo sekai wa I'm craz…
有紗 青い空浮かぶ雲白く 咲き満ちた思い出の花 過ぎ去りし幾多の輝ける 睦まじく語らう日々 頬撫でゆく やわらかな風に やさし…
麗美 Won't you be my Girl Won't you be my Girl Won't you…
Sandra Hearts go astray, leaving hurt when they go. I went away…
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It Had To Be You It had to be you, it had to be you. I…
Mother-In-Law The worst person I know, mother-in-law, mother-in-law She wo…
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Sana Hussain
Nikita was insane in this, he went above and beyond with his character portrayal & an incred choreo too 🤩
Clara?
@Abbie Campfeild I'm just a kid, he's not a good dancer
Abbie Campfield
@Clara? it’s called having fun, you should try it some time
Clara?
AmyBackster no way I'm so glad they went out did you see there dance off routine he stripped his top off !
tauresa ttauresa
@Clara? Nothing like it lol
tauresa ttauresa
Loved it.
HeartCoils
Tilly did so well! Nikita’s choreography was incredible and really suited her. Halloween dances really benefit from great storytelling and that was so effective here. She improves all the time and this is a big step up from her jive which was her last faster Latin. They definitely bring that younger fun part to the show :)
Bethany Foden
Tilly has improved so much both with her confidence and dancing! Her legs and movements in this were amazing! 😱👏🏻
Sheree darby
I think Nikita is a really good addition to the show. He honestly cracks me up every week and he's such a good dancer. Love these two ❤
Amy Backster
I hope he’s there for a long time