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Happy Days Jukebox (Album) by Hollywood Argyles

Artist Biography For Hollywood Argyles

The Hollywood Argyles Were An American Musical Ensemble Assembled For Studio Recordings By The Producer And Songwriter Kim Fowley And His Friend And Fellow Musician Gary Paxton. They Had A US Number One Hit Record "Alley Oop" Lute Records 5905 In 1960. According To Paxton – Who At The Time Was Half Of Skip & Flip – "Alley Oop" Was Written By Dallas Frazier As A Country Tune "As For The Name Kim Fowley And I Were Living In A $15-A-Week Room In Hollywood.... Since I Was Still Under Contract To Brent Records As 'Flip ' I Couldn't Put My Name On 'Alley Oop.' Seeing That The Studio Was On The Corner Of Hollywood Blvd. And Argyle Street I Decided On Hollywood Argyles... Richard Podolor's Studio American Recording Company In The Hollywood Palladium Building Is Where The Song Was Recorded... Other Than Myself There Were No Actual Hollywood Argyles. Everyone Else On The Track Was Either A Friend Or A Studio Musician Who I Paid $25 Apiece For The Session. When 'Alley Oop' Suddenly Took Off And People Wanted To Book Us For Concerts There Was No Such Group." The "Alley Oop" Session Was Produced By Kim Fowley Sandy Nelson Was The Percussionist. He Recalled That "all The Participants Were Hopelessly Drunk On Cider By The Time They Recorded The Song...." According To Some Reports The Lead Vocalist On The Track "Alley Oop" Is Norm Davis. He Was Paid A One-Time Fee Of $25 For His Work On The Single. He Is Currently A Poet In Rochester New York. "Alley Oop" Was The First Song Played On WLS-AM Radio In Chicago On May 2 1960 When It Changed Format From Farm Programming To Rock And Roll. The Song Sold Over One Million Copies And Was Awarded A Gold Disc By The RIAA. According To Jerry Osborne Two Other Groups Dante And The Evergreens Madison 130 US #15 And The Dyna-Sores Rendezvous 120 US#59 Had A Version Of "Alley Oop" On The Charts At The Same Time. Frazier Is Perhaps Best Known For Writing The Song "There Goes My Everything " A Hit Song For Jack Greene In 1966 And Engelbert Humperdinck In 1967. Frazier Also Wrote And Recorded "Elvira" Which Became A 1981 Country Hit For The Oak Ridge Boys. Paxton Later Formed Garpax Records And Became A Gospel Artist. Fowley Soon Produced The Murmaids' 1963 Hit "Popsicles And Icicles" US #3 . He Also Helped Bring Together The Runaways In 1975 14 As Well As The Orchids Not The Glaswegians But Another American All-Girl Band . Their 1980 Album The Orchids Was Released On MCA Records As MCA-3235. Discography
"Alley Oop" / "Sho Know A Lot About Love" 1960 Lute 5905 "Gun Totin' Critter Named Jack"* / "The Bug Eyed Man" 1960 Lute 5908 "Hully Gully" / "So Fine" 1960 Lute 6002 "You've Been Torturing Me"* / "The Grubble" 1961 Paxley 752 Credit Gary Paxton And The Hollywood Argyles "Long-Hair-Unsquare Dude Called Jack" / "Ole" 1965 Chatahoochie 691 "Alley Oop '66" / "Do The Funky Foot" 1966 Kammy 105 — * Note Some Songs Are Covers Of Four Young Men E.G. Crest 1076

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