Hoyt Axton was born on March 25, 1938, in Duncan, Oklahoma.
His mother, Mae Boren Axton, co-wrote Elvis's monster smash
Heartbreak Hotel with Tommy Durden, giving Elvis his first
major hit record. Prior to becoming a Nashville music
industry legend, however, Mae was a school teacher, a
mother of two sons and wife to their father, John T. Axton,
also a teacher and high school athletics coach. "Every
weekend at our house," Hoyt recalls of his childhood, "we
either won, lost or got rained out."
Under his father's guidance, Hoyt became a sixty minute
football player at Robert E. Lee High in Jacksonville,
Florida, playing both offense and defense. His athletic
ability was such that he made All State and won a football
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