• Mae Boren Axton (September 14, 1914 – April 9, 1997) was known in the music industry as the "Queen Mother of Nashville." She co-wrote the Elvis Presley...
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    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...
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  • Boren who was political operative, humorist, and author. Lyle Boren's sister was Mae Boren Axton, a notable composer who worked with Elvis Presley, Mel Tillis...
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  • Presley's first on his new record label RCA Victor. It was written by Mae Boren Axton and Tommy Durden, with credit being given also to Presley. A newspaper...
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    renamed in 2021. His sister was the "Heartbreak Hotel" songwriter Mae Axton. Boren was graduated from East Central College at Ada, Oklahoma, in 1930....
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  • Harlan Boren was born in Wheatland, Oklahoma in 1925 to James B. and Una Lee Boren (née Hamilton); he was a nephew of Lyle Boren and Mae Boren Axton and...
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    When he was 17, while staying at the house of Arlo Guthrie, he met Mae Boren Axton, who invited him to Nashville to record with Jack Clement. Ron Goldstein...
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  • Axton (1938–1999), American country music singer-songwriter, and actor. John T. Axton (1870–1934), First U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains Mae Boren Axton...
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    2018. Burke, Bob. "Boren, David Lyle." Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Accessed August 29, 2018. "Axton, Mae Boren (1914–1997)". Oklahoma...
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    presented Urban with both the Jim Reeves International Award and the Mae Boren Axton Award, in recognition of "outstanding contributions to the acceptance...
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