According to author Albert Goldman, Axton made writing Presley's first big hit one of her ambitions.

In 1975 Larson auditioned for Hoyt Axton who was producing Commander Cody with the result that Larson also performed with " Hoyt Axton and The Bananna Band " during their gig opening for Joan Baez on the 1975 " Diamonds and Rust " tour and accrued her first recording credit on the 1975 Commander Cody album Tales From the Ozone: Larson would also provide background vocals for Commander Cody albums in 1977 and 1978.

His mother, Mae Boren Axton, co-wrote the classic rock ' n ' roll song " Heartbreak Hotel ", which became the first major hit for Elvis Presley.

When the song hit # 1 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1971, Axton and his mother, Mae Axton, became the first mother and son to each have written a number one pop single in the rock era.

Mae Axton co-wrote Heartbreak Hotel which was the first number one hit for Elvis Presley in 1956.

George Wirt, the academy's first administrator, patterned the curriculum after curricula in Germany, a leader in reforestation, just as Dean Bernhard Fernow of Cornell had tried to implement German forestry methods on the Axton tract near Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks.

Reporter Susan Clark ( Susan Shaw ) arrives with a camera crew to interview Hollis for a story, interviewing his PR Manager and brother-in-law Michael Fox ( Stone ) first, then actor in Hollis ' movie Hoyt Axton, and finally catching up to Hollis, as he gives Kelly an early birthday present, a horse.

Axton played the demo to him in his room at the Andrew Jackson Hotel on November 10, 1955.

Axton was actively involved with selecting and developing the artists on the label, who included Rufus Thomas, Otis Redding, Booker T & the MGs, and Isaac Hayes.

Axton graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in 1956 and left town after Knauer's Hardware burned down on graduation night, a prank gone wrong.

Axton had many minor singing hits of his own, such as " Boney Fingers ", " When the Morning Comes ", and 1979's " Della and the Dealer ", as well as " Jealous Man " ( the latter two he sang in a guest appearance on WKRP in Cincinnati ).

As he matured, Axton as an actor specialized in playing good ol ' boys on television and in films.

Hoyt Axton on Austin City Limits in 1978

Hoyt Axton died of a heart attack in Victor, Montana, on October 26, 1999, at the age of 61, after suffering a severe heart attack two weeks earlier.

They draw on the earlier work of Marie Axton, who argued that Elizabeth herself is both birds, in her monarchical and human aspects, but that the human aspect ( the Turtle ) also includes the body of the people as a whole.

* Hoyt Axton on Hard Travelin ( 1986 )

His group had created the Racquette River Railroad on April 25, 1895 for the purpose of building a rail route between Tupper Lake and Axton Landing.

Among the non-Monkees Colgems roster were Sally Field ( star of Gidget and The Flying Nun ), Jewel Akens, Sajid Khan ( star of the short-lived NBC / MGM series Maya ), Paula Wayne, P K Limited, The Hung Jury, Fountain of Youth, The Lewis & Clarke Expedition ( whose members included Michael Martin Murphy ), Hoyt Axton ( who went on to write " The Pusher " for Steppenwolf and " Joy to the World " for Three Dog Night ), Alex Keenan and comedian Rich Little.

* Former teacher Mae Boren Axton was instrumental in launching Elvis Presley's singing career by interviewing him on the radio in Jacksonville on July 28, 1955.

Hoyt Wayne Axton ( March 25, 1938 – October 26, 1999 ) was an American country music singer-songwriter, and a film and television actor.

During the 1970s, Kaylan and Volman continued to do session work, lending their trademark harmonies to T. Rex, John Lennon, Roger McGuinn, Hoyt Axton, Ray Manzarek, Stephen Stills, Keith Moon, David Cassidy, Alice Cooper, Tonio K, Blondie, Bruce Springsteen, The Knack, The Psychedelic Furs, Sammy Hagar, Livingston Taylor, Burton Cummings, Paul Kantner, Duran Duran, the Ramones and others.

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#" The No-No Song " ( Hoyt Axton / David Jackson ) – 3: 31

#" No No Song " ( Hoyt Axton, David Jackson ) – 3: 28

#" The No-No Song " ( Hoyt Axton / David Jackson ) – 3: 20

* 1938 – Hoyt Axton, American singer-songwriter and actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1914 – Mae Boren Axton, American songwriter ( d. 1997 )

** Hoyt Axton, American actor and singer-songwriter ( b. 1938 )

Like Miller, the Creedence and Axton lyrics probably use the word " Kalamazoo " as an oblique reference to Gibson Guitars, which made various models named " Kalamazoo ", all prominently adorned with the city's name as their origin.

Greenwood, built by Col. Joseph Martin, son of Joseph Martin ( general ) | General Joseph Martin, namesake of Martinsville, Virginia | Martinsville, at Axton, Henry County, 1808 – 1810

It was written by Tommy Durden and Mae Boren Axton.

Axton subsequently presented the song to Presley in November 1955 at a country music convention in Nashville.

The song was written in 1955 by Mae Boren Axton, a high school teacher with a background in musical promotion, and Jacksonville based singer – songwriter Tommy Durden.

Axton and Durden give different accounts of how the song was written.

Durden's account is that he had already written the song and performed it with his band the Swing Billys before he presented it to Axton.

They were interrupted by the arrival of Glen Reeves, a local performer who had previously worked with Axton.

Reeves returned, and after hearing the song he was asked to provide a voice demo for Axton in the style of Elvis Presley.

Axton, however, agreed a publishing deal with Buddy Killen, a young Nashville bass player, who had recently set up his own publishing company called Tree Publishing.

With a publishing deal in place, Axton arranged through Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker to present the song to Presley at the annual Country Music Disc Jockey Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was to be named the most promising male country star of 1955.

Axton had been hired earlier in the year to publicise the Hank Snow Jamboree concerts at the Gator Bowl Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, which included Presley in the line up.

During one concert Axton observed the reaction of the audience to Presley's performance, in which a crowd of screaming fans chased him back to his dressing room and ripped his clothes off to take as souvenirs.

Axton followed Presley's career closely after this incident, and met him at a July 28 concert in Jacksonville, this time interviewing him for the local media.

* Axton Landing – A hamlet in the south part of the town by the Raquette River and south of NY-30.

* Coreys – A location in the south part of the town, north of Axton Landing.

Estelle Axton, the co-founder of Stax Records, was born in Middleton, before moving to Memphis.

Tiffany was singing at a Los Angeles club named El Palomino when she was discovered by Hoyt Axton and his mother Mae Axton.

from the German by Axton D. B. Clark.