Gary S. Paxton

Gary S. Paxton was one of several young songwriters and producers to emerge from the Los Angeles pop scene of the late '50s. Half of the duo Skip & Flip, alongside future Byrds member Skip Battin, Paxton then joined Kim Fowley in the Hollywood Argyles, and scored a U.S. number one with the novelty disc "Alley-Oop" in May of 1960. The two entrepreneurs then put a series of faceless groups together in an attempt to repeat the success, while Paxton also founded several record labels, including Garpax, on which Bobby "Boris" Pickett's million-selling "Monster Mash" was first issu...