籃球轉播常聽到 "Alley Oop” 這個名詞,球迷都知道意思是空中接吊球第一時間投籃,其實在熱門歌壇”Alley Oop”是曾得過排行榜冠軍的暢銷曲。
本名Larry Wayne Stevens的 Gary S. Paxton 七月16日病逝 (77歲),他1990年開始即為C型肝炎所苦,Gary
S. Paxton其實是 "Alley Oop”這一首歌的單人演唱者和共同製作人,後來他用Hollywood Argyles合唱團的名字,這首歌讓他成名。之前他是Skip and Flip二重唱的一員,曾經有暢銷曲"It Was
I" (#11-1959) 及 "Cherry Pie" (#11-1960)。
Gary
S. Paxton出生於肯薩斯州Coffeyville,在亞利桑那州長大,14歲時就組過一個樂隊,後來乾脆輟學去當歌手,他在鳳凰城加入Clyde "Skip" Battin沒多久又搬到好萊塢,他製作了
Bobby "Boris" Pickett的"The Monster
Mash" ,the Association的"Along
Comes Mary" 及"Cherish" 還有Tommy Roe的"Sweet Pea" 及 "Hooray For Hazel" 這些知名的暢銷曲。
Gary
S. Paxton後來又搬到加州Bakersfield去搞鄉村歌曲,他被一位他曾協助製作歌曲的藝人所雇的槍手槍擊三次,有二次差一點在手術台死去。他因而離開音樂圈,近八年後,才回頭製作與演唱福音歌曲。
Gary
S. Paxton 以1975年的一張專輯獲得Grammy最佳福音歌曲演唱獎,1999年他獲選進入鄉村鄉村福音歌曲名人堂。
THE
HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES
"Alley-Oop"
(Dallas
Frazier)
[The
Hollywood Argyles is really just Gary Paxton]
[Lyrics
in (parentheses) sung by backup group only]
(Oop-oop,
oop, oop-oop)
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
There's
a man in the funny papers we all know
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
He
lives 'way back a long time ago
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
He
don't eat nothin' but a bear cat stew
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
Well,
this cat's name is-a Alley-Oop
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
He
got a chauffeur that's a genuwine dinosawruh
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
And
he can knuckle your head before you count to fawruh
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
He
got a big ugly club and a head fulla hairuh
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
Like
great big lions and grizzly bearuhs
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
(Alley-Oop)
He's the toughest man there is alive
(Alley-Oop)
Wearin' clothes from a wildcat's hide
(Alley-Oop)
He's the king of the jungle jive
(Look
at that cave man go!!) (SCREAM)
He
rides thru the jungle tearin' limbs offa trees
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
Knockin'
great big monstahs dead on their knees
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
The
cats don't bug him cuz they know bettah
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
Cuz
he's a mean motah scootah and a bad go-gettah
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
(Alley-Oop)
He's the toughest man there is alive
(Alley-Oop)
Wears clothes from a wildcat's hide
(Alley-Oop)
He's the king of the jungle jive
(Look
at that cave man go!!) (SCREAM)
Thair
he goes,
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
Look
at that cave man go
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
He
sure is hip ain't he
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
Like
what's happening
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
He's
too much
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
Ride,
Daddy, ride
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
Hi-yo
dinosawruh
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
Ride,
Daddy, ride
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
Get
'em, man
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)
Like--hipsville
(Alley-Oop,
oop, oop, oop-oop)