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Alley Oop's name was most likely derived from the French phrase allez, hop! In the 1933 press release that accompanied the launching of the strip with its new distributor NEA , Hamlin was quoted as saying "I really can't recall just how I struck upon the name 'Alley Oop', although it might be from the fact that the name is a French term used by ...
A variant of Alley Oop called Ollie Oop was written by Paul T. Clark and Gary S. Paxton. The song was a tribute to Col. Oliver North, again performed by Gary S. Paxton while Paul was part of the background singers. The record was released as a single and was played in some major markets, but it never quite took off.
"Alley Oop" was the first song played on WLS-AM Radio in Chicago on May 2, 1960, when it changed format from farm programming to rock and roll. "Alley Oop" charted for 15 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number one for the week of July 11, 1960. [1] The song sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. [4]
Fowley first scored big in 1960 with “Alley Oop,” a song inspired by a comic-strip caveman. Two years later, he had another hit with “Nut Rocker,” a rock version of Tchaikovsky’s “March of the Wooden Soldiers.”
In Perry, Hamlin thought about those dinosaurs and started drawing a comic strip titled The Mighty Oop. He was not pleased with his creation, and he destroyed it. A year later, he tried again, submitting Alley Oop to a small syndicate, Bonnet-Brown, which launched the strip as a daily, beginning December 5, 1932. A few months later, Bonnet ...
Beyond his early work as part of Skip & Flip, Paxton is best known for his involvement in two novelty hits: the 1960 No. 1 smash "Alley Oop" — written by Dallas Frazier and cut quickly with a group thrown together by Paxton's roommate Kim Fowley, the Hollywood Argyles — and a 1962 No. 1 hit inspired by the Mashed Potato dance craze ...
Utah State's Max Shulga may be the only basketball player to have a half-court shot counted as two points, however briefly. Shulga's half-court heave turned into a bizarre rulebook controversy on ...
Despite her busy schedule, De Laurentiis makes spending time with her kiddo, Jade, a top priority. But the single mom reveals being divorced makes it especially difficult.