Hoyt Axton

Age: 61 (passed away Oct. 26th, 1999)
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Birth Place: Duncan, Oklahoma, USA
Born: Mar. 25th, 1938

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Hoyt Axton's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
The Rousters	Cactus Jack…

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

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TRIVIA:

Formed his own record label, Jerimiah Records, in 1978.
Father of 'Mark Axton' (qv).
Wrote "Joy To The World" and "Never Been To Spain" for Three Dog Night.
In November of 2007, the Oklahoma born-and-raised singer/songwriter was inducted posthumously, along with his mother, to the Oklahoma Country Music Hall of Fame in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Axton spent a significant amount of time struggling with alcohol and cocaine addiction and several of his songs, including "The Pusher," "Snowblind Friend," and "No-No Song," chronicled his drug problems.
He served in the US Navy aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5), before pursuing a music career. After his discharge, he began singing folk songs in San Francisco nightclubs.
Never quite recovered from a stroke suffered in 1995.
Best known country hits included "When the Morning Comes" and "Boney Fingers" (1974) and "Della and the Dealer" (1979).

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