Groupe Doo Wop US, les Hollywood Argyles comprenaient Gary Paxton (Lead), Norm Davis, Kim Fowley et Sandy Nelson puis Ted Marsh, Derry Weaver, Marshall Leib, Gary "Spider" Webb, Bobby Rey et Ted Winters.

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 had already produced a number of short-lived groups -- including the Paradons and the Innocents -- 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 Skip & Flip, and scored two Top 20 hits in 1959, "Cherry Pie," (number 11 Pop) and "It Was I" (number 11 Pop). 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.
In 1960, this "group" actually topped the charts with the number one smash hit "Alley Oop," a flagrant Coasters ripoff that had been written and performed by future country artist Dallas Frazier a few years earlier in 1957. It was based on a popular newspaper comic strip character at the time. Fowley and Nelson, drunk as skunks, bashed empty bottles and wastepaper baskets. As the group weren't merely anything more than a collection of Fowley's music-making associates, they didn't have a follow-up, and Fowley and Paxton moved on.
In October of that same year, the two signed a production deal with Bob Keene's Del-Fi Records, recording a follow-up called "Alley Oop Cha Cha Cha," while Paxton drawled out the very same lyrics to the "Alley Oop" hit. It was credited to the Prehistorics.

Style musical : Doo Wop, Rock 'n' Roll

Alley Oop (1960) Gun-Totin' Critter Called Jack (1960) Hully Gully (1960) SO FINE (1960) You Been Torturing Me (1960)

Years in activity :

DISCOGRAPHY

Singles

09/1959	SP BRENT 7004 (US)	.	THE ARGYLES - Vacation Days Are Over / It Take Time
05/1960	SP LITE L-5905 (US)	.	Alley Oop / Sho' Know A Lot About Love
08/1960	SP LUTE L-5908 (US)	.	Gun-Totin' Critter Called Jack / The Bug Eyed Man
11/1960	SP LUTE L-6002 (US)	.	Hully Gully / So Fine
12/1960	SP PAXLEY P-752 (US)	.	You Been Torturing Me / The Grubble
12/1961	SP FINER ARTS FA-1002 (US)	.	See You In The Morning / Morning After
04/1963	SP FELSTED 45-8674 (US)	.	Bossy Nover / Find Another Way
09/1965	SP ChatTahoochie CH-691 (US)	.	Long Hair, Unsquare Dude Called Jack / Ole
11/1965	SP Kammy K-105 (US)	.	New Hollywood Argyles - Alley Oop '66 / Do The Funky-Foot
1974	SP GOLDIES 45 D-2628 (US)	.	Alley-Oop / Sho' Know A Lot About Me
1977	SP SURPRISE JTU 783 (GER)		Alley Oop (HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES) / You'll Come Back (Buddy BRENT)
1979	SP GOLDISC G 3075 (US)	.	Alley Oop (HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES) / Loop De Loop (Johnny THUNDER)
1986	SP ERIC 298 (US)	.	Alley Oop (HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES) / Mr. Custer (Larry VERNE)
????	SP ERA 011 (US)	.	Alley Oop / Hully Gully
????	SP WHAM 7037 (US)		Alley Oop (HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES) / C C Rider (Phil FLOWERS)
????	SP COLLECTABLES C 3118 (US)	.	Alley Oop (HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES) / Liar, Liar (The Castaways)
????	SP MCA MCA D-2628	.	Alley-Oop / Sho' Know A Lot About Love

Unissued Tracks

Album

2002

CD MAR Music 120 (?)

The Hollywood Argyles - Alley Oop / Hully Gully / Honky Tonk / Yakety Yak / Sho' Know A Lot About Love / The Bug Eyed Man / The Way I See It / You're Runnin' My Gladness / So Fine / You'll Always Be My Darling / Gun-Totin' Critter Called Jack / The Lost Ranger / Every Time You Smile / Moonbeam / Long Hair, Unsquare Dude Called Jack / Find Another Way / Bossy Nover / Two Hump, Dual Bump Camel, Named R.E. Lee / Your Past Is Back Again / Teen Angel / Kansas City / Stop Twisting Baby / Alley-Oop Was A Two Dab Man / Teen Age Crush / Mother In Law / It Had To Be You / Do The Funky Foot / Alley-Oop / It's My Way (Of Loving You) / Goin' Through The Motions / It's So Funny I Could Cry / We're Going Back Together

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