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.
Tick Tock
Gary Paxton Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Tick Tock' by these artists:
2 Steps North Tick.tock staring at my window Remind me of how fast time′s…
24kGoldn Clean Bandit Mabel Tick tock, tick tock Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Tick to…
3388 Shut my eyes And playback the memories Was it really that…
A.K.A. Pella Tick Tock on the clock but the party never stops…
Aldous Harding Oh, the dirty of it Ripped the label You were chosen man Hol…
Alex And I'm like who're you? Sometimes i wana be alone i…
Arabella Touching me, Touching you We'll be free I crave you Tonight …
Art Nation Tick Tock It's been so long since you heard the…
B.B. King & Buddy Guy Alright, are you ready now? I'm not scared of dangerous time…
Baylin Jessie I know nothing of that clock, tick tock sounds game I…
Beverley Craven She wakes every morning with him on her mind can't seem to…
Black My Heart i ripped through the pages of your life and saw…
Boza Yeah, Boza je m'appelle Boza je m'appelle Y las babie', hmm …
Carike Keuzenkamp Tick tock, the sound of the clock, how could we…
Chris Rice Got our heels dug in But time is draggin' us toward The…
Chuey Tread Tread carefully Dread All through the week 'Cause I'…
Clean Bandit Tick tock, tick tock Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Tick to…
Conveyor Sounds To stay up Walking down with you Looking on my side…
D.E.O. Tick tock chậm lại Bao câu yêu thương anh được nhận…
DAY6 밥은 먹었니 오늘 힘들었니 일상적인 대화마저도 지금의 우리에게는 사치로 느껴져 서로 말을 아끼고 아껴 대화…
Death in June "This is a story about people who like to waste…
Deponeye Sometimes, you get it wrong, decisions you should not have…
E SENS 아직 제대로 맛도 못 봤어, 내 귀에 딱지 앉은 성공 확실히…
Ellienort Tick tock Tick tock Spin it round the wall again Drip drop D…
Eo She must've got that move from her man's Rollie I bet…
Eugy Eugy Official Pre-Chorus: Gyrate, Gyrate Shake your body gi…
Gazpacho Oceanside Ends the ride Then you fall The skies fly by …
Giggs Bayoz Music! Tick tock, man's tip top The fed's rolled up, …
Glad Rags Take a good look in their eyes Take a good…
Haley Azzopardi Hemm ħoss ‘il-bogħod, smajtu minn hawn ħsibtu arloġġ, ma na…
Hall Pam Tick tock You got my heart keep banging and it won't…
Heat vs. Light I can see those words on the tip of your…
Hush Are you going out mama, You washed and combed your hair Ar…
Jack Conte What a combination Skin that rots with time and Time that ro…
Jessie Baylin I know nothing of that clock, tick tock sounds game I…
Jimmie Vaughan Eric Clapton Bonnie Raitt Robert Cray B.B. King Buddy Guy Dr. John Art Neville Alright, are you ready now? I'm not scared of dangerous time…
Jnr Choi Tick tock, na, na-na-na Push up on the ting, make me…
Joji Yeah (oh) Tick tock Heavy like a Brinks truck Looking like …
June April 許してくれるかな ママの大事なリング どこかになくしてしまったの ごめんなさい メアリー どこにいるの まさか 私のリ…
Just B Alright, are you ready now? I'm not scared of dangerous time…
K-Modo Tick Tock on the clock but the party never stops…
Kaluma Tick tock, tick tock Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Tick to…
Ke$ha feat. P. Diddy True happiness come within Money ain't gone make you happy d…
Ke$ha ft Pitbull Wake up in the morning, feelin' like P. Diddy (hey,…
Kesha (ft. P. Diddy) True happiness come within Money ain't gone make you happy d…
Kesha Feat. P Diddy Wake up in the morning, feelin' like P. Diddy (hey,…
Kesha/P. Diddy True happiness come within Money ain't gone make you happy d…
Kyle Pearce Tick tock, tick tock Waiting all my life for you To feel…
Lemar I gotta leave again I don't wanna go Things can be so…
LemonLight Productions Come along, my children Come and sing with me Telling time i…
Les Fleur De Lys Tick tock, it's twelve o' clock I'm going out tonight Tick…
Lil Crazed Here is a story about a dude name Steve Everybody and…
Lil Toe Ayy, ayy (Run that flow back) Ayy, yeah, ayy, yeah, ayy,…
Lil Xan (Xanarchy) I'ma just do concepts Tick tock, yeah Ayy, yeah H…
Link Yeah, uh, haha I don't think they're ready for this one Uh,…
Loren Kate I am standing on the edge The highest hill, the tallest…
M.I.K Tick Tock on the clock but the party never stops…
Mabel Clean Bandit 24kgoldn Tick tock, tick tock Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Tick to…
Mariya Yaremchuk I believe that I've loved you Since the first time that…
Mayestron Time is running fast baby, Time is running out baby, I…
Mayo & B. White Alright, are you ready now? I'm not scared of dangerous time…
Mexican Knives Gonna get ready Ready for you Tick tock, tick tock Nail u…
MFMF. Tick tock I’m staring at the clock When is it time…
Mimi & Teft Another great night I'm feelin so right When I see you in…
Mira I need to know I need to know I need to…
Mizz B.I.S. Won two Won two Won two Tick tock Tick tock Tick tock Tick…
Mobb Deep / Nas Uh, yeah, yeah, yo, it goes tick tock This is for…
Molotov Jukebox Verse 1: Tick tock we all know the sound, Times never ther…
Mountain Men You can hold yourself together You can hang your head and…
Nas and Mobb Deep Uh, yeah, yeah, yo, it goes tick tock This is for…
Nina Söderquist Tick tick tock, tick tock, that’s the sound of my…
Pacific Lights I can see those words on the tip of your…
Palace Pier Here's another night under blood red skies TV dinner and a…
Palmy มันบังเอิญว่าฉันไม่มีใคร พอเธอดีกับฉันเลยดีใจมาก ความรักเลย…
Palmy & T-Bone มันบังเอิญว่าฉันไม่มีใคร พอเธอดีกับฉันเลยดีใจมาก ความรักเลยม…
Pam Hall Tick tock You got my heart keep banging and it won't…
Papi K You know i want you forever You know you got me…
Paul Simon Tick tock tick tick tock tick tock tick Tick tock tick…
Pixel Neko Tick tock chậm lại Bao câu yêu thương anh được nhận…
Pusha T RZA Razor Execution The devil is a lie You ain't broke brea…
Pusha T Raekwon Joell Ortiz & Danny Brown RZA Razor Execution The devil is a lie You ain't broke…
Pusha T;Raekwon;Joell Ortiz;Danny Brown RZA Razor Execution The devil is a lie You ain't broke brea…
Raphael Saadiq You see, baby I ain't goin' nowhere, no I'm just gon' wait…
Revir (Boy, I don't want you) (Bo-boy, I don't want you) (Boy, I…
Rita Baloche Wake up in the mornin' feelin' like P- Diddy (Hey…
RZA RZA Razor Execution The devil is a lie You ain't broke brea…
ScHoolboy Q Tick tick, tock tock This is for my niggas on The Fig…
Sevens and Sixes the closer we go to the farther we are…
STEFY-K Tick Tock on the clock but the party never stops…
Stevie Ray Vaughan "One night while sleeping in my bed I had a…
Sunset Sons The clock's down, there ain't no sound You stare into the…
Thalia Farina & Sofía Reyes (Thalía) (Sofía) (La nena) Hey, dime lo que quieres porque …
The Alchemist feat. Nas & Prodigy (Intro - Nas) Uhh yeah yeah yo It goes Tick Tock this…
The Celibate Rifles Snap crackle pop it's nine o' clock Radio's tuned to John …
The Familiar Small snakes Inhale, slowly intake Falling into dreams While…
The Tiger Lillies Tick tock goes the clock tick tick tick tick tick…
The Turtle Project Fucking tick, fucking tock Fucking tick, fucking tock Fuckin…
The Vaughan Brothers One night while sleeping in my bed I had a…
Tjern Listen close; you'll hear the bells have tolled Nothing left…
Tom Misch Five, four, three, two, one We have a liftoff 32 minutes…
TWICE Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock 時間はずっと Tick tock, tick tock…
U-KISS It's cold outside It gets so hot in here The boys and…
Walking On Cars Arms by my side, heart on my sleeve, The chandelier falls…
Young Thug Yeah, Spider (slime) Yeah, okay, shit, I just woke up in…
YUC'e 胸の奥で静かに刻むリズム 体中を駆け巡って加速させてる Oh yeah 夜を飾る色鲜やかなメロディー まるで夢を見てるみ…
Zitter TICK TOCK Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock I’m not …
จินนี่ ธัญชนก Tick tock tock tick tick tock tick tock tick tock…
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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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