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.
Look
Gary Paxton Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Look' by these artists:
A Smith Moving on Living now Working on and check it out Standing up…
A-3 Look at us now Look at us now We so dope Look at…
Aidonia Nuh mix Nike wid 'Didas Off-White full a features Weh mi seh…
Alice in Chains It's brought up without a clue Tied up in a cell Withdrew…
Andrew Kamen Take a stroll Through the trenches On a roll Maybe in some o…
Axty Now I know Look what I've become…
Beach Boys/Brian Wilson Maybe not one Maybe you too Wondering Wondering who Wo…
Beth Nielsen Chapman For all the tears, all the times I got lost For…
BlocBoy JB Drake Tay Keith, fuck these niggas on Yeah yeah (woo!) Yeah (6 God…
Bounty Killer People ah dead (people ah dead), dead That's what I've said …
Boyz N Da Hood Look, look, look, look Look, look, look, look You can catch…
boyzndahood Look, look, look, look Look, look, look, look You can ca…
Dave M.Sanchez Let me break it down for ya Look at me livin…
Demetrix Been the realest I don't have to fake it Aint no…
Doss You see me on my own Myself, on my own You see…
E.B Biatch What's happenin', what's happenin'? You got to love …
Earl Sweatshirt Uh, look at you (Woo) , look at you Look at…
Elephant Man [Intro:] Crowd a people Crowd a people Crowd a people Cr…
Epic.G Aye Aye (Step up in the spot and I’m a boot this…
EUT I can turn things around What's been said has made you…
Evans Blue I'm not gonna lie you're dangerous This heart I've got is…
Father iLoveMakonnen & Key! Yeah, yeah, yeah look at God! Yeah, yeah, yeah look at…
G.R. อกเอ๋ยหัวอกลูกจ้างอย่างเรา ชีวิตมีแต่เศร้า เป็นบ่าวคนเขามองผ…
gainz Look at me nigga I got cash on me And I love…
GEM We sail, Past and future memories gone by You relive them Th…
GOT7 어딜 봐 여길 봐 내가 앞에 있잖아 딴생각하는 게 다 눈에…
HALCALI "Me wo tojite ukabu sekai watashi dake no mono yo"…
Hargon Look where I'm at (yeah) Look where I been, look where…
Hose.Got.Cable 어딜 봐 여길 봐 내가 앞에 있잖아 딴생각하는 게 다 눈에…
Houdini (Verse 1) Good heart gets done wrong this thing is tradition…
J.J. Soul Band Look at us now Look at us now We so dope Look at…
Jean-Michel Pilc Oh honey you look brand new Saw you standing there from…
Joe 90 I saw you there Looking like you used to You were standing…
Johnson & Johnson Mother, mother ocean I have heard you call Wanted to sail …
Johnson&Jonson Come on, wake up How late were you up? Late enough to…
K-One Hold tight用力爱 Open你的eyes 剧情变得越加精采 抓住爱别放开 请你仔细看 one 要送你完美的承诺 …
K.A.A.N. He hustle til the bone sore That's what he known for When…
K.A.A.N. & Ski Beatz Hold tight用力爱 Open你的eyes 剧情变得越加精采 抓住爱别放开 请你仔细看 one 要送你完美的承诺 …
K.A.S.T Look Look Look they got a nigga fucked up Aye they shouldn'…
King a Shit This the hook, nigga I'ma buy the hood, then I'ma write…
Kxng Izem Look weh it do Pot pon stove and shoes pon…
League Of Starz And when it come down to Block everybody gonna look Everybod…
Leikeli47 Ponytail, dragging We up in this bitch, what's cracking? Min…
Lil B Biatch What's happenin', what's happenin'? You got to love …
Lil' LOOK AT ME MAN! LOOK AT ME MAN! DO YOU…
Litany. Did I just realise For the first time in my life As…
Livingmore I don't want to let go Because then we'll have to…
Luxor Однажды эта с*ка, всему наперекор Заставит мои руки вырвать…
Main Sequence feat. Loc Thiese & Ro Baby, baby, babe, ooh-ooh-ooh, oh Ooh-oh, oh-oh Hmm-hmm, hmm…
Makeup and Vanity Set You keep talking and you won't shut up I've heard enough…
Mark A. This is the time I want to have my day Everyone…
Mehdi Saki يلتمِشَنْ اثنيوينْ، حِطَنِي ثَالِثْ حِطَنِي ثَالِثْ لا خَرمش…
Mike and The Ravens I never knew What I can do Till I tried It took a…
Money For Rope LOOK J.McKenzie We left our suitcases at the lava hotel we'r…
Mr. Tube And The Flying Objects Taylor Look at the problems you have caused Take a look at…
Mr.Violet You Know, Growin Up In The Hood, Is Gon' Do All…
Muhsinah I'm the river that flow to the hood, To the woods,to…
Mz. Bossy Wosho katike shako Dahhh dah dah you Look Good Tonight…
Nadia & Fragile I want you to tear your bones out! But then you'll…
National Skyline I stole the little kids And we ran away I see autumn…
Nature It's useless Tangled up in your excuses Falling short, With …
Nejmin AB Surrounded by the darkness Tryna stay above it Where they st…
Nelly Problem & Tyga And when it come down to Block everybody gonna look Everybod…
Neverknown Your life is in my hands I could snap your fucking…
nico t A deep and close beginning Always Always makes me fear Searc…
Nikki M. James Gimme a shot Click, boom What do you want? I'm digging a hol…
Nine Blind Men and the Tiger We've gotta look a little, look a little, look a…
NU'EST Uh (check) 오늘은 너 너 너 너와 아! 름다운 밤이 되면 자연스레 꽃…
Onuka LOOK One day. Once more. One way to somewhere. What are you…
P.Cock หมู่เฮาคือลูกอีสาน น้ำจิตน้ำใจเฮาใสติ่งหลิ่ง มาอาศัยเมืองอื่…
Pallett نگاه کن که غم درون دیده ام چگونه قطره قطره آب…
Polarkreis 18 Me, confronting me,I mean it all You've got nothing tight…
Rachael Sage I look around at all my friends And what their hearts…
Red Velvet Oh ah oh oh ah Oh ah oh oh ah ooh…
Roshan Prince ਓ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਬੋਲੇ ਨਾ ਓ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਬੋਲੇ ਨਾ ਤੇ ਮੈਂ English ਵਿਚ…
Rye Rye & Doss Oops I want to bash my head into a wall…
S.U.N. (Scientific Universal Noncommercial) Seen this shit so many times Don’t even try To work a…
Sã©bastien Tellier Details of your look, like your touch Killing me by shot,…
Scott Alan Dead on my feet But I party all night long My heart's…
Sébastien Tellier Details of your look, like your touch Killing me by shoot,…
Sébastien Tellier Sébastien Tellier Details of your look, like your touch Killing me by shot,…
Sébastien Tellier Details of your look, like your tights Killing me by shoot,…
Shane Sounds Anatomically you all dudes is comedy Ain't got the balls, th…
Shirley & the Shirelles Don't need your touch Hot sun, rising up your collar like…
Silent Stream of Godless Elegy When you fly – like a bird – like a…
Slipknot feat. Jonathan Davis Each time I pull it apart I get disgusted, can't do…
Sol 하루에도 몇 번씩 널 보며 웃어 난 수백번 말했잖아 You're the…
Stephen Shutters The idea is that, you know, you have to be…
Stimela The look in your eyes Tells me that you lonely (Lonely…
Supa Bwe (Ooo, Sup-) Sup-sup-sup-sup-supa (Here's Jimmy!) Woo-woo-woo…
Swede and Skogen Hello, my friend I keep hanging around with you I pretend to…
Sιbastien Tellier Details of your look, like your touch Killing me by shot,…
T.V. Killers People ah dead (people ah dead), dead That's what I've said …
Terence Ryan I was black-holed Shower running Fruit flies No dryer hooke…
The Beach Boys Child, child, the child Child, child, the child Child, chil…
The Meters อกเอ๋ยหัวอกลูกจ้างอย่างเรา ชีวิตมีแต่เศร้า เป็นบ่าวคนเขามองผ…
The Rays Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey mama look at little sis Out…
The Revolution Feel excited knowing those Who can find you On your telephon…
The Rooks Star white Bright light Headlight Car light Goodnight Moonl…
Thelma Aoyama こっち向いてよ with your look, look, look, look もっと深く with your loo…
The Beach Boys Maybe not one Maybe you too Wondering Wondering who Wo…
Timati & Kristina Si Предпоследний этаж Moscow city А она на Неве, где разводят м…
To-Ya See the tear in your eyes Let it fall from the…
Trash I keep on falling I keep on Falling Stand up again…
Tyler The Creator & Domo Genesis & Earl Sweatshirt Uh, look at you (Woo) , look at you Look at…
v.u.d. When you look at the world What is it that you…
Vay There's a feeling that I get when something is right And…
Watashi Wa I've thought about it, about the layers of life, the…
Yong $ice Young to the ice 우린 너무 차이나 날 따라와봐 따라올 수…
Zay Blaze Alright i think I got it this time I got some…
Zulfi Look, baby, look what you did to me You left…
¡Ack-Ack! Look up at the sky All I see is white All I…
뉴이스트 (NU`EST) Uh (check) 오늘은 너 너 너 너와 아! 름다운 밤이 되면 자연스레 꽃…
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Mother-In-Law The worst person I know, mother-in-law, mother-in-law She wo…
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