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B. Mae Boren, 14 September 1914, Bardwell, Texas, USA, d. 9 April 1997, Hendersonville, Tennessee, USA. Axton’s contribution to popular music was dwarfed by a singular piece of work.
Mae Axton. Singer, songwriter. In 20 minutes in 1955, songwriter Mae Axton assured her position in the pantheon of rock 'n' roll royalty. Taking the solitary line from an unidentified man's suicide note, "I walk a lonely street," Axton imagined the destination for the protagonist: Heartbreak Hotel.
Early life. Born in Duncan, Oklahoma, Axton spent his preteen years in Comanche, Oklahoma, with his brother John. His mother Mae Boren Axton, a songwriter, cowrote the song "Heartbreak Hotel", which became a major hit for Elvis Presley. Some of Hoyt's own songs were later recorded by Presley. Axton's father John Thomas Axton was a naval officer stationed in Jacksonville, Florida, where the ...
The AXTON family Musical Legacy started in the summer of 1956 when my grandmother, Mae Boren Axton, a full-time English teacher and part-time public relations maven, met a young man named Elvis Presley. She promised to write him a “hit” song and a short time later that came true, ...
9 de abr. de 1997 · Mae Boren Axton died at her Tennessee home on April 9, 1997 at the age of 82, and was posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame in Muskogee in 2007. Discover Mae Boren Axton's Oklahoma roots and walk in her footsteps on the Oklahoma Music Trail through her bio, discography, photos, music, videos, trivia game and more.
21 de abr. de 1997 · Mae Boren Axton, co-writer of ''Heartbreak Hotel,'' the hit that catapulted Elvis Presley to stardom in 1956, was found dead on April 9 at her home here, a medical official said. She was 82.
19 de oct. de 2022 · Estimated reading time is 7 minutes.. THE HANDWRITTEN LYRICS to Heartbreak Hotel by Mae Boren Axton from October 1955 were up for sale recently. There are f ew songs in the history of rock & roll that are more important to the genre’s development as the world’s most popular music during the post-war 20th century and none have a better origin story.
