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.

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.

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.

* Record Store: While Stewart ran the recording studio where the auditorium was, Axton ran the Satellite record shop where the refreshment stand had been.

She moved to Memphis as a school teacher, married Everett Axton, and was working in a bank when, in 1958, her brother Jim Stewart asked for help to develop Satellite Records, which he had set up to issue recordings of local country and rockabilly artists.

Axton never fully recovered from his stroke, and still had to use a wheelchair much of the time.

Axton wanted to convince his record producers to record a new melody he had written and the producers asked him to sing any words to the tune.

Nevertheless, Fernow had a long railroad spur built from Axton to Tupper Lake in order to deliver logs to the Brooklyn Cooperage Company facility.

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.

The original film had a soundtrack that included some rare rock & roll tracks including " Let's Put the Fun Back in Rock & Roll " by Freddy Cannon and The Belmonts, " Shake it Sally " by Cannon and the Belmonts with Bo Diddley, and " James Dean and the Junkman " by Hoyt Axton.

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.

From that point, the Delaware & Hudson had planned to extend their Adirondack Railway that terminated at North Creek to Axton landing under the Adirondack Extension Railroad charter.

Together, they had three children: Miles Axe IV, Aeson Armstrong and Axton Emerson.

* Hoyt Axton, a country singer / songwriter lived for many years in Glide

Axton approached the popular singing duo The Wilburn Brothers, and offered them the chance to record " Heartbreak Hotel ".

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

Other early session singing credits for Larson were for Hoyt Axton and Guy Clark in 1976 and in 1977 for Mary Kay Place, Rodney Crowell, Billy Joe Shaver, Jesse Colin Young, Jesse Winchester and Gary Stewart.

* 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.

WOXR was known for playing uncensored versions of songs such as Steppenwolf's recording of " The Pusher " ( written by the late Hoyt Axton ) and Country Joe and the Fish's recording of the " I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin '- to-Die Rag.

* " Jeremiah was a bullfrog ", in " Joy to the World " ( Hoyt Axton song )

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.

They encouraged young songwriters including Hoyt Axton (" Greenback Dollar "), Rod McKuen (" Ally Ally Oxen Free ", " The World I Used to Know ") and Billy Edd Wheeler (" Reverend Mr Black ").

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

Axton spent some time struggling with cocaine addiction and several of his songs, including " The Pusher ", " Snowblind Friend ", and " No-No Song ", partly reflect his negative drug experiences.

* " The Pusher ", a rock song by Hoyt Axton

Axton also sang a couple of duets with Linda Ronstadt, including " Lion in Winter " and " When the Morning Comes " ( a top 40 country hit ).

When they were finally able to get a record made, Axton's mother Estelle Axton convinced the group to change their name and they chose The Mar-Keys.

When Hoyt Axton performed the song to the group, two of the three main vocalists – Danny Hutton and Cory Wells – rejected the song, but Chuck Negron felt that the band needed a " silly song " to help bring the band back together as a working unit.

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.

Axton released numerous albums well into the 1980s.

While Stax is renowned for its output of African-American music, the label was founded by two white businesspeople, Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axton ( STewart / AXton = Stax ) and featured several popular ethnically-integrated bands, including the label's house band, Booker T. & the M. G.

Accordingly, in September 1961, Satellite permanently changed its name to " Stax Records ," a portmanteau of the names of the two owners of the company: Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton.

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.

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.

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.

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 first appeared on television in a David L. Wolper ABC production of The Story of a Folksinger ( 1963 ).

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

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 )

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.