THE HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES Featuring GARY PAXTON • 1960 PROMO LP LUTE 101
$
250
$ 250
Sold For
Oct 4, 2015
Sold Date
Sep 27, 2015
Start Date
$ 50
Start price
2
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France
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Description
• ALLEY OOP • HULLY GULLY • HONKY TONK • YAKETY YAK • SHO´ KNOW A LOT ABOUT LOVE •
• THE BUG EYED MAN • SO FINE • YOU´RE RUININ MY GLADNESS • THE WAY I SEE IT •
• YOU´LL BE ALWAYS MY DARLING • GUN-TOTIN´ CRITTER CALLED JACK • THE LOST RANGER •
“THE HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES” WERE A QUICKIE ACT THROWN TOGETHER BY PRODUCERS
KIM FOWLEY AND GARY PAXTON AND FEATURING SANDY NELSON. FOWLEY MADE HIS FIRST
RECORDINGS WITH DRUMMER NELSON DURING THE LATE ’50s AND FOUND HIS FIRST TASTE
OF SUCCESS BY PRODUCING A HANDFUL OF SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS BY ARIZONA SCHOOLMATES
GARY (“FLIP”) PAXTON AND CLYDE (“SKIP”) BATTIN, WHO PERFORMED UNDER THE NAME OF
“SKIP & FLIP”, AND SCORED TWO TOP 20 HITS IN 1959, “CHERRY PIE” AND “IT WAS I” (N°11).
IMMEDIATELY AFTER DISSOLVING “SKIP & FLIP”, PAXTON AND FOWLEY CREATED A NOVELTY
DOO WOP-INSPIRED GROUP -- A ONE-OFF COLLECTIVE OF LOCAL MUSICIANS AND VOCALISTS --
AND CALLED THEM “THE HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES”. THIS DEEP GROOVE ALBUM WAS RELEASED
IN 1960 AND HERE OFFERED IN LOVELY SHAPE WITH BRIGHT AND HARDLY PLAYED VINYL
RECORD... THE JACKET HAS SMUDGES ON THE BACK AND SMALL PORTION OF PAPER LEFT AT
BOTTOM OF THE SPINE , MINOR EDGE WEAR.