Skip & Flip

Skip & Flip were the Arizona-based pre-British Invasion pop duo comprised of schoolmates Gary Paxton ("Flip") and Clyde Battin ("Skip"). They scored two Top Twenty hits in 1959, "Cherry Pie" (number 11 pop) and "It Was I" (number 11 pop), produced by Kim Fowley, but their career as a duo was short-lived. Paxton became a successful producer and recording engineer, working with the Association (Paxton engineered, along with producer Curt Boettcher -- their Top Ten MOR-pop hit "Along Comes Mary," the number one hit "Cherish," and the hilarious pop-psych abomination "Pandora's Go...