Skip & Flip

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Skip & Flip
General information
Genre (s) Rock and roll
Current occupation
Clyde Battin ("Skip")
singing
 Gary S. Paxton ("Flip")

Skip & Flip were an American pop duo that had two top 20 hits on the Billboard charts in 1959 with It Was I (# 11) and in 1960 with Cherry Pie (# 11) .

Band history

Skip Battin (born February 18, 1934 ) and Gary S. Paxton met at the University of Arizona and realized that they were musically on the same wavelength. In 1957 they founded their first group, the Pledges . They released the single Betty Jean (Rev Records), which did not reach a high chart position, after which the name Pledges was dropped again.

They recorded other songs that they released on the Shad label. They changed their band name with each release, including Chuck & The Chuckles , Clyde Gary & His Orchestra and Gary & Clyde . Two more singles were released under the latter name: 1958 Why Not Confess? (Rev Records) and 1959 The Twister (May Records).

In 1959, Gary Paxton and Skip Battin changed their group names again. Now they called themselves Skip & Flip . The very first single under this name, It Was I , made it into the Top Twenty of the US charts, and the follow-up single Fancy Nancy also made it into the charts at position 71. In the following year, the band was able to repeat the success of the first single with Cherry Pie , a cover version of a song by Marvin & Johnny from 1954, and again placed itself at position 11. A few more singles subsequently appeared, but they were not granted commercial success. The duo then broke up.

After the dissolution

After Paxton and Battin split up, Paxton joined the band Hollywood Argyles , who had a number one hit with alley-oop in 1960. He was also successful as a music producer (including for Bobby "Boris" Pickett's world hit Monster Mash ).

Skip Battin formed several smaller, mostly insignificant bands before joining the groups The Byrds , The New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Flying Burrito Brothers as a singer and bassist .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
It Was I
  US 11 06/22/1959 (16 weeks)
Fancy Nancy
  US 71 11/02/1959 (5 weeks)
Cherry pie
  US 11 04/04/1960 (15 weeks)

Singles

  • It Was I / Lunch Hour (1959 Brent Records 7002), # 11 Billboard Hot 100
  • Fancy Nancy / It Could Be (1959 Brent Records 7005), # 71 Billboard Hot 100
  • Cherry Pie / (I'll Quit) Crying Over You (1960 Brent Records 7010), # 11 Billboard Hot 100
  • Hully Gully Cha Cha Cha / Teenage Honeymoon (1960 Brent Records 7013)
  • Betty Jean / Doubt (1960 Time Records 1031)
  • Green Door / Willow Tree (1961 Brent Records 7017)
  • Over the Mountain / One More Drink for Julie (1961 Brent Records 7028)

EPs

  • Skip & Flip (1961)

Albums

  • 1957–1961: The Very Best of Skip & Flip (Collectables Records COL-CD-5919)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allmusic (English)
  2. ↑ Top Pop Singles 1955-2006 by Joel Whitburn , Record Research 2007, ISBN 978-0-89820-172-7