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.
Frankenstein
Gary Paxton Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Frankenstein' by these artists:
22 Pistepirkko It was a boring day in that big whitehouse White wearing…
A$AP Rocky & Swedish House Mafia (A$AP Rocky) Mr. Frankenstein Oh, Victor Frankenstein (ooh)…
Aimee Mann (I still have the shake in my voice And I'm going…
Alice Cooper "Yes, yes, I know you're hungry Ah, and here comes dinner" …
Ancillotti What sad situation, on the day I was born …
Angus Maude It was just a party Don't say you love me It was…
Antony and the Johnsons I am falling into a chasm I'm falling with you in…
Arson City Well you creep and crawling You rip apart my seams Your glas…
Babytron Wockhardt, hey Wockhardt got me walking, fuck Wockhardt got …
Blaze & Twiztid Frankenstein! [Chorus] I'm not a clone, I'm a Frankenstein…
Bobby O Frankenstein Frankenstein Frankenstein Frankenstein Fr…
Chisu Tarvitsen vain yhden valion. Malliksi mun oman Julion. Lii…
Cibelle You Conclude I'm functioning correctly So rest your heart …
Claire Rosinkranz I′m so sick of all these pretty boys tryna act…
Clutch How would you like to go bobbing for apples the…
Colton Grundy Frankenstein! [Chorus] I'm not a clone, I'm a Frankenst…
David & Jad Fair I made a man out of my hunger and my…
Der Wahnsinn Diese alte Geschichte ist immer wieder aktuell Neue Technolo…
Derek Sherinian [INSTRUMENTAL]…
Die Ärzte Das Ding ging wieder in die Hose, obwohl ich alle…
Disco Inc. & fredo disco Staring at the wall Spacing out is one of my specialties You…
DJ T.CONTS Vi kjører opp og med Du vet Larvik er vårt sted Chuger…
DMX Started off in the dark and the child I'm playing…
Dobbeltgjenger Pop my head up on a spine A complete design Lay…
Edgar Winter Instrumental…
Editors Come on to talk, why don't we stop? Just wasting time Wherev…
France Gall (Serge Gainsbourg) Fallait un cerveau aussi grand qu'Eins…
Frankenstein She's alive screamed Dr. Frankenstein From his laboratory, t…
Gene Moss And The Monsters Look Mom, no more brains At least not today. I wish I…
He Is We I told you all my secrets hoping you'd be gold…
i.am.orange Cheio de cicatriz tu parece o Franklin Einstein Tua gang e…
Ical Mosh Yeah Apa yang kau kejar, apa kau cari Semua tercicir bila s…
Iced Earth A mastermind in the old watchtower Prying eyes must never fi…
Jack Howard I got stitches all over my body My feet are too…
Jad and David Fair Something must have happened over Manhattan Who can expound…
Jairo Soy un monstruo con ojos de acero Fabricado en mi taller Y…
JusHunnit Oh Lawd Stanley, Whoo! I just walked inside the spot and…
Lansdowne Sinking slowly in this watery grave There's no forgiveness …
Lenny Kravitz A lie he broke and beaten And better have alive My heart…
Lo-Fi Chill Panda Aguanten a frankenstein Uhahahahaha Llego el murcielago …
Los Suaves El drama del horror ha terminado. De qué puede servir que…
Louis Chedid Entre le jour et la nuit, A l'heure où tous les…
Lu Baby I bring the freaks out, yeah, I bring the freaks…
Marco Masini Eri fin da piccolo il più brutto del quartiere Ti chiamavi…
Mercanti Di Liquore Ringraziando dio, signor Frankenstein, qui nessuno sa di me …
Miguel Luna Como no existías te inventé Fui armándote pieza por pieza Ju…
Musti Jeg vil bare hjem hjem La meg tjene noe spenn spenn…
New York Dolls Something must have happened over Manhattan Who can expound …
Niemand My heart has darkness Darkness I can't pour out I hold it…
nonemu Żywe zwłoki ja to nie żywe zwłoki Zmęczone oczy moje zmęczon…
OmenXIII SESH omenXI I I Drip-133 Bitch, I feel like fucking Bones '…
Outcasters You are amazing, you are my bride I taste my…
Pollyanna Walking with his fake legs in the street Watching with his…
Raw-n-Free Yeah I'm addicted to your love I might just O.D. off it Even…
Rina Sawayama Put me together Thread a needle So I'm like other people Wit…
Roland Gerbeau Frankenstein est le grand ami de Fantômas Fantômas est le gr…
S.M. Dorsey High School Jazz Workshop Cheio de cicatriz tu parece o Franklin Einstein Tua gang e…
Saints & Sinners I hear a voice in the distance And it sounds…
Stitched Up Heart There's a skeleton Key That lies on the stairs I should ha…
Swedish House Mafia (A$AP Rocky) Mr. Frankenstein Oh, Victor Frankenstein (ooh)…
T.Y. No se porque de Frankenstein estoy enamorada. ¡Me siento tan…
The Birdwatchers Out of sight, out of mind More to compartmentalize Make the …
The Edgar Winter Group (Instrumental)…
The New York Dolls Something must have happened over Manhattan Who can expound…
Timoria I wanna live my life With the juice, The juice of Frankens…
TK & The Holy Know-Nothings God pursed his lips to kiss the hips of our…
Tokyo & the Boy You want a boy toy I could be yours Do you remember…
Tokyo Police Club Catch your breath Take your time It's a goldmine But that…
Tramp I am not what you want me to be. Uncle Sam…
Treewax I was trained just to find All the rats here on…
Twiztid Frankenstein! [Chorus] I'm not a clone, I'm a Frankenst…
Twiztid / Blaze Frankenstein! [Chorus] I'm not a clone, I'm a Frankenstein…
Twiztid feat. Colton Grundy Frankenstein! [Chorus] I'm not a clone, I'm a Frankenst…
Tyler The Creator & ASAP Rocky (A$AP Rocky) Mr. Frankenstein Oh, Victor Frankenstein (ooh)…
Vixen Jest północ burza za oknem Półmrok zasłania dwie twarze okro…
Willoughby Out on a limb it’s not any colder Then it is in…
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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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bruzote
Bill Paxton is remembered HIGHLY favorably by many people, as is the movie's director John Hughes . Hughes had an amazing output of hit movies that people fondly remember until this day, but he is also remembered for being a fantastic guy.
Jacob Jones
The flat top hairdo literally made me fall off the couch laughing.. Still my fave Bill Paxton moment.. RIP Bill, you were a good guy, and a talented, versatile player..
CoffeeTroll
Loved Bill's work
Every movie I saw with him in it reminded me of how funny he was in this.
Rest In Peace Bill
rick valentino
He was perfect in this movie. And I mean that in the best way. He was a jerk but it was so over the top we all loved it. What a great actor.
RossDiamondThief
“You’ve nagged him, harassed him, suppressed him, kept him in fear of you and extorted money from him!”
“It’s done outta love”
Jeff Zebert
If that's Chet's idea of love, I DON'T want to see his idea of hate!
Karine Audet
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Mark Betancourt
His laugh and expression is what gets me
paulie walnuts
Sounds like what democrats say..
Anitra Orso
It comes to show you that you should not treat your kid brother and his friend like that or you'll end up like Chet.