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Friday, February 12, 2010

Hoyt Axton, Part 1

My earliest encounters with singer/songwriter Hoyt Axton were in my college days — late 60s — when he played at folk music clubs like Cosmos (in Seal Beach, CA) and The Golden Bear (in Huntington Beach, CA).¹

As a quick aside, his mother, Mae Boren Axton, co-wrote the early rock 'n' roll song Heartbreak Hotel: Elvis Presley's first hit.

Like his mother, he was a songwriter much in demand. His hits were performed by

• The Kingston Trio
  
  • Greenback Dollar
    


• 3 Dog Night
  
  • Joy to the World ("Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog...")
  • Never Been to Spain
  
  
• Steppenwolf
  
  • The Pusher (think: Easy Rider)
  • Snowblind Friend
    


• Ringo Starr
  
  • The No-No Song
    
  
  
• Singing with Linda Rondstadt
  
  • Lion in Winter
  • When the Morning Comes
    
  
  
• Hoyt's Solo hits
  
  • Boney Fingers ("Work your fingers to the bone, what do you get? Boney fingers, boney fingers")
    
  • Della and the Dealer
  • Jealous Man
    
  • Officer Ray ("Officer Ray / May you have a bad day / May your wife run away / With a hippie.")
    
    
  and many more, performed by such notables as Joan Baez, John Denver, and Waylon Jennings...

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Comments:

Yes, but Hoyt, even to this day, has never been given the credit due. I see artists who cover his songs and Hoyt's own version is far better. And Hoyt has done other artist's songs as well as they can be done but never any air play. Just look at his version of 'Lay Lady Lay' (Bob Dylan), or 'The yellow rose of Texas'...and the list goes on and on - now really.
Garn

# posted by  garn : February 12, 2010 9:08 AM

 

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