| Team Hoyt - Father of the century |
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How do you define a father? It's simple. You
take Dick Hoyt's picture in the dictionary
and let the rest of the world follow his
lead. When he was told by doctors to put his
son Rick in an institution, he refused.
Instead Dick an Rick have spent their
lifetimes together travelling the world and
inspiring everyone the meet. Father of the
century? No question about it.
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Durée : 346 s |
| My Redeemer Lives - Team Hoyt |
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Incredible video about the relationship
between a father and son.... and God\'s
relationship with us.
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Durée : 275 s |
| HOYT AXTON-WILD BULL RIDER |
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THIS BIOGRAPHY WAS TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Hoyt was born in Duncan, Oklahoma and was
raised in Comanche, Oklahoma. His mother, Mae
Boren Axton, had her own spot in popular
culture history and co-wrote the classic rock
'n' roll song "Heartbreak Hotel", which
became the first major hit for Elvis Presley.
Some of Hoyt's own songs were also later
recorded by Elvis. Hoyt served in the US Navy
aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5), before
pursuing a music career.
After his discharge from the Navy, he began
singing folk songs in San Francisco
nightclubs. In the early 1960s he released
his first folk album titled The Balladeer
(recorded at the legendary Troubadour), which
included his song Greenback Dollar, a 1963
hit for The Kingston Trio. Axton released
numerous albums well into the 1980s, changing
somewhat with the times but always retaining
an honest, down-home and fairly "country"
approach to his music.
Hoyt Axton on the TV show HootenannyAxton had
many minor singing hits of his own, such as
"Boney Fingers" ("Work your fingers to the
bone, what do you get? Boney fingers, boney
fingers"), "When the Morning Comes", and
1979's "Della and the Dealer" (which he sang
in a guest appearance on WKRP in Cincinnati).
His vocal style was notable for its
distinctive baritone and for its use of
characterization: at times gritty and
defiant, other times exceptionally mellow,
occasionally deliberately cartoonish. One
song, "Officer Ray," is styled in
self-parody, as Hoyt softly croons curses at
a sadistic police officer that would seem
more likely to come from the narrator of "The
Pusher": "Officer Ray / .... / May you have a
bad day / May your wife run away/ With a
hippie."
But his most lasting contributions were songs
made famous by others: "Never Been to Spain"
(Three Dog Night), the previously mentioned
"Greenback Dollar" (Kingston Trio), "The
Pusher" (Steppenwolf), and "No-No Song"
(Ringo Starr) and for an array of others,
including Joan Baez, John Denver, and Waylon
Jennings. Axton also sang a couple of notable
duets with Linda Ronstadt, including Lion in
Winter and When the Morning Comes (a top 40
country hit). His most popular and signature
song, "Joy to the World" (Three Dog Night),
was No. 1 on the charts for six straight
weeks in 1971, making it the top hit of the
year.
Axton first appeared on television in a David
L. Wolper ABC production of The Story of a
Folksinger in 1963. In 1965, he appeared in
an episode of Bonanza, then followed with
other TV roles over the years. As he matured,
Axton as an actor specialized in playing good
ol' boys on television and in films. His face
became well-known in the 1970s and 1980s
through many TV and film appearances to the
movies Gremlins and The Black Stallion. He
sang the jingle "Head For the Mountains" in
the Busch beer commercials in the 1980s (He
also sang The Ballad of Big Mac touting the
recently released McDonalds hamburger the Big
Mac on screen in a 1969 commercial he filmed
for the hamburger franchise).
Hoyt Axton on Austin City Limits in 1978Axton
spent some time struggling with alcohol and
cocaine addiction and several of his songs,
including "The Pusher," "Snowblind Friend,"
and "No-No Song," partly reflect his negative
drug experiences. He had been known as an
opponent of drug use for many years when, in
February 1997, he and his wife were arrested
at their Montana home for possession of
approximately 500 grams of marijuana, about a
pound. His wife explained later that she
offered Hoyt marijuana to relieve pain and
stress following a 1995 stroke; both were
fined and given deferred sentences.
Hoyt never fully recovered from his stroke,
and still had to use a wheelchair much of the
time. He died of a heart attack in Victor,
Montana, on October 26, 1999, at the age of
61. Axton had suffered a severe heart attack
two weeks earlier and experienced another one
while undergoing surgery in Montana.
November 1, 2007 proved to be another credit
to the influence he had on country music. He
was inducted, posthumously, along with his
mother, to the Oklahoma Country Music Hall of
Fame in Muskogee, Oklahoma. [1][2]
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Durée : 210 s |
| El equipo Hoyt |
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Impresionante historia de un padre y su hijo
paralÃtico cerebral unidos por el deporte y
el afán de superación. Más información
sobre ellos en
http://enlarioja.com/content/view/99/38/
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