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.
When A Man Loves A Woman
Gary Paxton Lyrics
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Aaron Neville When a man loves a woman Can’t keep his mind on…
Ace Cannon Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love so…
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Art Garfunkel When a man loves a woman, Can't keep his mind on…
B. Midler When he held me in his arms, When he held me…
Ben E. King Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love so…
Ben Saunders When a man loves a woman, Can't keep his mind on…
Billie Holiday Maybe he's not much Just another man Doing what he can But w…
Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra Maybe he's not much, just another man Doing what he can But…
Billy Walker When a man loves a woman the way that I…
Blonker Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love s…
Bob & Earl When a man loves a chicken He can't keep his mind…
Bolton When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
BRYAN ADAMS-ROD STEWART-STING He wakes up in the morning like a newborn baby The…
Burton Cummings When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind…
CALVIN LEWIS When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Chris Blue When a man loves a woman, Can't keep his mind on…
Cummings Burton When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind…
Daniel T. Coates WOMAN LOVES A MAN Verse 1: Wars taking men,…
Danny Wright When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Dinah Washington Maybe he's not much Just another man Doing what he can But w…
Don Dixon When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind…
Dr. Alban When you're in love with a beautiful woman, it's hard When…
E.G. Kight When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Eddie Harris Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love so…
Floyd Cramer And His Orchestra Maybe he's not much, just another man Doing what he can But…
Frank Sinatra Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love so…
Garfunkel Art When a man loves a woman, Can't keep his mind on…
George Lam Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love so…
Gregorian When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind…
Hank Crawford Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love so…
Jack Kerouac Maybe he's not much, just another man Doing what he can Bu…
Jackie Gleason Love, to a man, is just a thing apart To take…
James & Bobby Purify Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love so…
James Brown When a man loves a woman, Can't keep his mind on…
James Galway Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love so…
Jan Garber & His Orchestra Maybe he's not much, just another man Doing what he can But…
Jerry Lee Lewis When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Jessie Hock Orchestra When a man loves a woman Can′t keep his mind on…
Jillian Edwards When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Jimmy Barnes When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Jody Watley When a man loves a woman They say she could do…
John Berry Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love so…
Johnny Gibbs and his Orchestra Maybe he's not much, just another man Doing what he can But…
Johnny Rivers Lewis-Wright When a man loves a woman Can't keep his min…
Joshua Ledet When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Karaoke - Ameritz Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love so…
Karen Dalton When a man loves a woman He can do no wrong He'd…
Kay Starr Love, to a man, is just a thing apart To take…
Kenny Rogers When a man loves a woman He can't keep his mind…
King Curtis Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love so…
La academía When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Louis Armstrong Maybe he's not much, just another man Doing what he can Bu…
Love Pearls Unlimited When a man loves a woman Can′t keep his mind on…
Luba When a man loves a woman, Can't keep his mind on…
Marvin Gaye When a man loves a woman, Can't keep his mind on…
Mateusz Ziółko When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Michael Lynche When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Michael Stephenson Can't keep his mind on nothin' else He'd trade the world…
Michael-Bolton When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Midler Bette When he held me in his arms, When he held me…
Mikael Rickfors When a man loves a woman, Can't keep his mind on…
O.V. Wright When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Paul & Will When a woman loves a man it’s stronger than the…
Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra Maybe he's not much, just another man Doing what he can But…
Peggy Lee Maybe he's not much Just another man Doing what he can But w…
Percy When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Ray Goodman & Brown When a man loves a woman, Can't keep his mind on…
Robert (Intro) (Vic.O)...... (Nero Sparkz on the beat). Whooooooo..…
Rod Stewart He wakes up in the morning like a newborn baby The…
Ronnie McDowell When you're in love with a beautiful woman, it's hard; When…
Sam & Dave She plays her cards close to the vest To hide the…
Scott Shirley Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love so…
Sledge When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Solomon Burke When a man loves a woman Can’t keep his mind on…
SONNY & BARBARA Maybe he's not much, just another man Doing what he can But…
Stefano Langone Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love s…
Tahta Menezes When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Teddy & Continentals Maybe he's not much, just another man Doing what he can But…
Teddy Pendergrass & Friends When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
The Elgins Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love so…
The Holidays Maybe he's not much Just another man Doing what he can But w…
The Romantic Strings and Orchestra Maybe he's not much, just another man Doing what he can But…
The Spencer Davis Group When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind…
The Starlite Orchestra & Singers When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Wes Montgomery Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love s…
Winwood Steve and Spencer Davis Group Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love so…
Wright When a man loves a woman Can't keep his mind on…
Wes Montgomery Everybody loves somebody sometime Everybody falls in love s…
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Mother-In-Law The worst person I know, mother-in-law, mother-in-law She wo…
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@aasth
Stranger Things, best sound track ever. !
@gmansi
Smallville was the first.
Stranger Things second :)
@200subswithnovidchallenge7
Nah bro it was when my nigga will got kidnapped by a masked tall black nigga.
@feliciapattinson9591
Season 2
@debralynnpaxton5238
Love it ! :D Bless the memory of my precious, talented father ♥
@topgyal8934
Woah! is that right..?
@RootsRockRebel
Did your father sing lead on Alley Oop?
@robin2012ism
@@RootsRockRebel Wikipedia infers that he did. Not sure if Fowley ever sang a lead, idk. Will look it up, tho.
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Bob and Joyce.
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Definitely Not Tommy Wiseau R.I.P Bob