Massachusetts native Freddy “Boom-Boom” Cannon, born on this day in 1939, has no obvious connection to New Orleans. But his raucous, brassy 1959 recording of “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans,” a song ...
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"Last night I took a walk after dark/ a swingin' place called Palisades Park/ to have some fun and see what I could see ..." — "Palisades Park" Did you ever wonder why, with all of the amusement parks ...
Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon is a lot of things: singer, songwriter, rock ’n’ roll survivor. Just don’t call him a teen idol. Even though the 1950s singer often gets lumped in with people from the era ...
When rock ‘n’ roll was young, Joe Nardone & The All Stars backed up Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon at Sans Souci Park in Hanover Township. That was June 29, 1962. Fifty-five years later, Nardone is ...