Freddy Cannon - Palisades Park
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2019
- Stereo effect Freddy Cannon sings one of my favourite songs with "Palisades Park", from 1962. Transcribed directly from the second vinyl LP I ever bought. Note the faux stereo effect which comes to the fore as the rollercoaster pans between ears in the chorus break.
My band "The River City Rock Band" was backing Freddy at "The Pit" in Kenosha County, WI, in 1969 and this really pretty girl tried to climb up on the stage and touch him. I had to push her down but later, i talked to her. We were married the following September and have been married now for almost 54 years. She is still the prettiest girl in the room!!
Nice story, and hats off to Freddy (and The River City Rock Band)! Hoping your wife likes this song.
COOL!!!
BRING BACK THE 60'S !
Well... maybe not ALL the '60s! 😢
I've loved this song for 62 years now!💕🤸♂️
Me too !!!!
@@CarolinePost Me three!!!!!!!
❤️ this super great 1960s song
Bless u❤
Would someone mind telling where the happy music and vibes from this era are in my generation... you boomers entire generation is filled with happiness and innocence. WTF happened to mine....
👍 I was also born too late, so I guess I'm living it through the music and movies of the time.
You're right about one thing, the world was a better place to live in back in my day! It was far more free and people more tolerant. We didn't take ourselves so seriously and encouraged each other to better ourselves.
Generally, people were happier than now (at least the people I knew and know). This positive vibe filtered through to the good and happy music you're referring to, in addition to the technology you and your generation are using. Even though there were many problems, life was generally simpler and far more affordable.
Nowadays, everyone is so uptight and far less tolerant. People seem less forgiving and are quick to blame others without looking at themselves first. Really it is up to all of us to try and make this world a better place to live in, in particular, the younger generation who should have the drive, motivation and energy to create a happier and more harmonious environment for all!
Sooo sorry. You sound like you belong back there with us! Youre cool! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Easy. You decided to throw away the values of this country. Rap is your choice. You choose poorly. Now, there is no going back.
@@deni00767 Understood. At least the music was better though. But I get what you mean.
Chuck Barris gave us a lot more than game shows.
For instance? How is he related to this song or park?
@@ToyotaGuy1971 He wrote it.
@@tippimail1 Oh okay, thanks. ✌
@@tippimail1 ToyotaGuy1971 must be a youngster not knowing, LOL
@@paulrobilotti9294 I just learned it here.
What a great place was Palisades park. Took my new lady there in high school and we stopped at the top of the ferris wheel like the song says. The view of Manhattan was breathtaking, and the kiss was special as well. Now its gone, and its been replaced by condos. Its like the other old song says, they have torn down paridise and put up a parking lot. They called it progress.
* it's
* It's
* paved [not 'torn down']
* paradise
Wow - actually stopped at the top of the ferris wheel! What a memory.
They call it progress. The same thing happened to Playland-at-the-beach in San Francisco. Wonderful oceanside amusement park for over 50 years, then demolished in 1972 for condos!!!!! 😱
The overdub of the rollercoaster was pure musical genius. You can't underestimate how hard it was to have that sound age so well.
It does it for me - love it!
We used to only worry about love. Now everything is hate. Take me back in time lord. I want to be happy again.
No need - just keep polishing those rose-tinted specs and pretending that 50s/60s America was a utopia
If you were a white male it was a great time. Minorities? Not so much...lol.
Wish. I had. Been. A. Teenager. In. The. 50 s. Love. The. Music.
Spectacular song! It is my unofficial anthem for Kennywood
Kennywood Park Pgh? If so, I'm from a suburb of Pgh
How funny..my dad just had me look up this song. He asked me what song does it remind me of. I said Kennywood Park!!!! Down at Kennywood Park!😄
@@Liansz1yep, that's because Freddy Cannon re-recorded the song as "Kennywood Park" for a commercial in the '80s.
I grew up a bus ride away from the park that dropped us off at the main entrance many fun filled days were spent there and you could get in for free if you had the matchbook picture of “Pal”(found behind the strike pad on some matchbooks). Great memories 1:14
'Palisades' seems to mean a lot to many people - especially if you only lived a bus ride away!
This is pure happiness, no selfies, tiktokers on sight
😄
Yeah, just racism, sexism, homophobia and gun nuts
It's iconic that you use the Internet to criticize people who use the Internet 😄
@@dfrm23 🤣🤣🤣
Exactly only thing this video is lacking is marijuana 😂
Always loved this song .Happy carefree times
...it all looks very inviting.
Where have all these great songs gone. Stuck in time!
...they've ended up on You Tube!
When life was a lot nicer and friendlier !
I went to Palisades Park a few times in the early '60s but after the record was released, the last time the circus was there and there was a big fire in a large apartment building and I saw a number of circus entertainers there watching the fire including Emmet Kelly Always loved that song and started bothering my dad to take my brother and me to Palisades Park I still have the 45 of Palisades Park
Nice memories - and hang onto that 45!
😢😢 Sad watching this , so idyllic. ❤❤❤
Fun video !!😃 Always loved the way he sings "TUNNEL OF LOVE !!" ❤️💓💕❤️💓💕❤️💓💕💗💗💗💗💗👄💗💗💝
Delighted with your enthusiastic welcome for this! Enjoy!!
What an amazing ride back in time. Crazy let's go to a ride dressed up in Sunday's best
....he did take his hat off for the rollercoaster ride, though.
Sweet youth! Takes me back many years! Days of innocence and precious moments!
...sounds like good times.
A happy song with a happy video clip, you definitely know your songs sir.
A song which has had a claim to be all-time favourite at times.
Nice 👍👍👍 when people were people and kids were allowed to be kids... -_- why can't we have this again? I wasn't even born until the 90's.. but this was gold! Love this song.
it's a great sound that conjures up good times and warm memories.
We can but the first and foremost thing to do is rid the country of radical liberalism and commies. Just stating facts…
Great oldie! Love the film scenes here too. I am a bit too young for to had been able to go to Palisades Park, which closed in the early 70s. But my dad used to go often as a teen, in the 50s/early 60s
Thanks, and nice to hear from someone with a connection to Palisades.
@@SirBasildeBrush oh ya, my dad used to tell me about taking his dates there...family lived (and still lives) in upper Manhattan, so it was a logical choice to go back then. I just wished I had been able to! lol
@@SundaeExpress how sweet, thank you for trying to correct us. It's actually spelled "Palisades" though
After stumbling across this video I later watched the film State Fair, (1945 version), and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Delighted to hear that. You''ll recognize this, then... ua-cam.com/video/9uvXwwPW3D4/v-deo.html
I always say I was born 10 years too late: 1968. I just missed growing up without AIDS. I just missed being able to legally drink at age 18. I missed, by less than a decade, my company’s public stock offering that would’ve made me very wealthy. Not to mention all those ridiculous bonuses they were handing out to managers in the 1980’s when I was only a teenager. By the time I was in a good job position and ready to share the wealth in the late 90’s, companies were already drastically cutting back rewards for middle management to make way for the big global explanation. And….I was only two years old when Palisades Park closed. 😫
Yes, I was also born in the sixties. But at least you're 10 years younger than you would otherwise be 😉
@@SirBasildeBrush- Facts 👍
Im with you on this one
You got to grow up in the 80s. You lucky bastard.
Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon was born on December 4, 1936, therefore he is celebrating his 85th birthday today December 4, 2021. He is an American rock and roll singer, whose biggest international hits included "Tallahassee Lassie", "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", and "Palisades Park" UPDATE: He celebrated his 87th birthday on December 4, 2023 (Palisades Park was released in July 1962 and reached #3 on Billboard Hot 100 charts. It was his biggest hit).
....and #20 on the UK charts. Belated Happy Birthday Freddie!
Thanks for the History facts.
Don't forget "Action" from 1965. It was the theme song for Dick Clark's "Where the Action Is" show.
1940*
A wonderful, happy song that perfectly captures the "zeitgeist" of the early 1960's and the fun of taking a girl to an amusement park. I never tire of hearing this song.
These scenes are from the movie State Fair with Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain. One of my faves. Always loved him. Best Years of Our Lives and Laura are my favorite movies of his. State Fair was good as well.
Well, you certainly know your movies! 'Laura is classic film noir, although 'Night of the Demon' is my favourite. And his brother was in some great ones as well.
@@SirBasildeBrush My favorite Dana Andrews tole was the terminally ill Dr Sorenson in "Crack in the World". Nothing's more dangerous than a mad scientist with nothing to lose!
@@tuttt99 Don't think I've seen that one, yet.
Thank you. I recognized Dana Andrews but not the movie, and it was driving me crazy. 'Best Years' is the movie I always tell people they have to see if they don't know it.
good ole N.J.
Man, what a great record! You just find music this good these days. The 1950s and 1960s had some of the best music such like Danny and the Juniors, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, even Freddy Cannon with Palisades Park! Long live the 1950s and 1960s music rather than a lot of today's trash!
Seems we both like the same era. Simply the best in music.
@@SirBasildeBrush Oh yeah. The 1950s and 60s was the best era of rock and roll. There was Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper, and much more. I'm an oldies listener for life! Long live the 1950s and 1960s music!
@@SirBasildeBrush Wasn't this written by Chuck Barris, who created the Gong Show and claimed to assassinate people for the CIA. There was a movie and book about it. However, some claim he is a liar and fabricated the whole thing.
Cleverly done! Was 15 and into music!
Shortest 45 Record in Rock n Roll History! Anyone else remember Cousin Brucie?
Songs from my childhood played today on a local radio station. The Raven. 89.3 FM #YEG
...hope it brings back good memories.
We listened to KOMA at nighttime in S. Mn. 1961, very uplifting song. Written by Chuck Barris of the Gong Show.
I just love this song 🎵 ❤
...me too!
My mother always said that she had a good time at paiisades park..:)
hmm - lucky mum...
what a great song! Masterpiece.
...truly!
Keep coming back to watch this every day . Watched the movie “State Fair “ recently 😂😂😂😂
Welcome back! I'm often back here, too. A song that had a claim to be my favourite during my teenage years - and maybe still does.
@@SirBasildeBrush Many great tunes from then . Hard to pick one ☝️ 🤣🤣
@@larryramone7400 ...truly!
@@SirBasildeBrush Days of melody 🍻🍻🍻✨
I've always liked this song but I never knew until yesterday that Chuck Barris of Gong Show fame wrote it.
My LP sleeve notes say he sang it over the phone to the record company who accepted it immediately.
Didn't Chuck work for the FBI or CIA undercover also? The true Renaissance man: game show host, songwriter, spook. What a guy!
The song and video are so fresh and amazing that I am speechless 🙊. Bravissimo ❣❣❣ you are the master!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you, delighted you're enjoying this posting so much! A song I was rather obsessed with during my teenage years.
I know the guy is Dana Andrews. Who is the gal?
Excelent song. Excelent video. I like it very much.
Many thanks - delighted you like this one.
@@SirBasildeBrush greetings from Argentina.
Wow! What can be said? Great backdrop
...enjoy the ride!
Cambio el año 2021 por los años 50 . 😊
RAMONES DID A GREAT
COVER
Love this tune!!!! Fun video you made :D
Thanks, and delighted to know others are enjoying this one.
Freddy " Boom Boom " Cannon!
😊
Thank you Chuck Barris!
Good vidéo and beautifull Jeanne Crain
Delighted - thank you. Enjoy Jeanne!
What a nice surprise to be in the mood to hear this favorite of mine today & see you're here with an excellent video ! I shouldn't be surprised though, you have great taste in classic songs & the memories that go with them. Happy New Year amigo - JB
Thanks for the kind words, and delighted to surprise you with this one. A very special song. All the best for 2020.
@@SirBasildeBrush Thank you my brother in music - keep those cool classics coming !!
X-Men First Class brought me here. Try to stay sad or unhappy after listening to this.
Me too bro I love First Class
Palisades Park Amusement Park, NJ!
Unfortunately, the Park is no longer there!
...Just good memories.
Great video! Really works!
Excellent job!
Love this song!
Took me a while to figure out where the footage is from.
You marched it perfectly.
Like it was meant to be.
Thanks for the kind comments and encouraging words for this posting - much appreciated. Enjoy!
Where IS the clip from? State Fair?
@@benoitpellet1657 Yes, from the 1945 version of State Fair. Works great with the song. Great editing to match it up.
@@danielmapp6577 Thanks!
Thanks for uploading the video brother..I couldn't find the video of this song anywhere on yt
Pleased to help out - enjoy!
I'm lovin' it , this song was originally called New Jersey Park but they made him change it to Pallisades Park
Hadn't heard that. A wise switch.
This is FUN 😊
...enjoy the ride!
Saw Freddie at Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender 💕😬
Nice! I saw him in 2001, but he never sang this.
@@SirBasildeBrush was at Viva in 2019! Yes he’d sang this song 🎶 😬
@@frankmartinez4856 ...I'm jealous.
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Ah! That's why it's such a popular video.
Yup
Everyone looks so nice going to the amusement park ❤
..and they're happy!
Haven't played this in some time . If only it were longer . Great old song 😊Sydney Australia 🦘 5/6/2024
Glad you've reconnected with this great song. Always loved Sydney, greetings back from England.
Cheers to england . Listened to some of his other songs i like them 😊
listen to it 2x if you want it longer. It’s a fast song, it’s gonna be short.
Bravo!
those were the days boy
superbly done...
Delighted! Thanks.
Last night I took a walk after dark
A swingin' place called Palisades Park
To have some fun and see what I could see
That's where the girls are!!
I took a ride on a shoot-the-chute
That girl I sat beside was awful cute
After we stopped she was holdin' hands with me .....
My heart was flyin'
Up - like a rocket ship
Down - like a roller coaster
Back - like a loop-the-loop
And around - like a merry-go-round
We ate and ate at a hot dog stand
We danced around to a rockin' band
And when I could I gave that girl a hug
In the tunnel of love
You'll never know how great a kiss can feel
When you stop at the top of a Ferris wheel
When I fell in love .....
Down at Palisades Park
We ate and ate at a hot dog stand
We danced around to a rockin' band
And when I could I gave that girl a hug
In the tunnel of love
You'll never know how great a kiss can feel
When you stop at the top of a Ferris wheel
When I fell in love
Down at Palisades Park
Down at Palisades Park
You know it's Palisades Park
Down at Palisades Park
Thanks for the lyrics.
I was ON That Tornado with my future wife 1966. She lost her fall.😂😢❤
...nice.
Still Mafia 3 vibes😅
Ah!.. so SWEET!!!..😄..😉.
Yehhaaaaaaaaaaaa back when there is value in dating
This is such a cool song
I watched the documentary and I was totally blown away by the fact that this song and several others that were number one hits were actually written by a CIA secret agent that was the creator and host of over 200 TV prize shows.
In the documentary they talk about this song in particular and how before the guy went to work for the CIA he was dating underage girls and constantly on the prowl for them and he found all these carnivals in New Jersey that had all of these girls these high school girls that would be there alone or with friends and he would have sex with them in the amusement park or carnivals.
It was an incredible documentary. It was during the height of the Cold War and I remember watching these different game shows and I could never understand why in the world they would go to places like West Germany for a trip as the prize and all these other places that were our enemy.
Now it all makes complete sense
There is so much of this that happens where people in Hollywood are recruited as secret agents
Also in the media the reporters are recruited to be spies and I remember with Saddam Hussein they caught one of our reporters that was spying and Saddam had him hung and I don't think that ever was released to the public I don't think anyone ever covered that story because it was classified
The whole secret agent is really interesting to me because they have a job that many times is real they actually work for a huge corporation and the CIA communicates with the CEO of the company and tells them we need to place this person in this position and they're going to be on your payroll but we're paying you to pay them and basically they show up when they show up and they don't when they don't and whatever they say you agree with it you back them up and these people are able to travel the world and appear to be just regular workers for these different companies and I've seen several people including somebody in my family that would never admit that's what they do but also my best friend her husband I'm sure is a secret agent because he goes to places and then those places are overthrown and I see him come back and I say how was your trip and I just laugh cuz I know he's a secret agent
And they're always low-key people they're always calm quiet people that you would not suspect
I would have loved to be a secret agent
Now I'm old and sick and dying and I don't have anybody and I'm very depressed and all I have is UA-cam and that's most of my day laying in bed watching UA-cam when I'm not in too much pain
I understand now why people settle and get married and why they stay together in horrible marriages because nobody wants to die alone
That's an interesting story, new to me.
Sad to hear this! But interested in your story. Thank you for sending it! I pray better health to you!
Written by Charles Hirsch Barris (1929-2017), aka Chuck Barris of "The Gong Show" fame.
Thanks for the info.
One of his BEST!
...his best, for me.
One of the greatest Twist songs ever produced! Fantastic !
...truly! A big favourite.
ITT: "Born in le wrong generation"
You were born in the generation where you can listen to this over and over wherever and whenever you want, in whatever tempo/pitch/audio quality you wish. I'd consider that grounds enough to be thankful for where fate placed you.
The scenes for Palisades Park are from the Rogers and Hammerstein's film State Fair.
Yep, you know your movies!
its very nice!
Delighted, thanks!
im going to an amusement park this weekend! this makes me pumped! very excited! 😁
- enjoy!
@@SirBasildeBrush thank you. I will!😃
Was it good?
@@soldierdoge6567 yes i had a lot of fun! :)
Did you fall in love
All thumbs up...!!!
Nice to see this one is popular.
Grew up going there cried when they torn it down 😢
...sad, but good memories.
California was the greatest place U can Grow Up In....The World Came To Us....AND Living There In the 60s and 70s...Long Beach Pike...and P O P in Santa Monica...The Drive In Movies..Wow
..sounds like good memories.
Check out Freddy Cannon's latest tune - 'The Svengoolie Stomp' - can be found on UA-cam. Freddy still has it.
I just did. Just as say, Freddy still has it.
HAPPY music
Parque de diverciones.....con el gran Freddy cannon.......
....a favourite artist.
This is a nice song
...and old, old favourite. Thanks.
@@SirBasildeBrush np
👍💕
Remember when society was happy? Just out of curiosity, what is the instrumentation playing the chords? I hear the percussion, the sax and bass, but in the background are those guitars or an organ channeled through a flanger? Whatever the case may be, its a great sound.
Good question. Not sure - sounds like the (more prominent) guitars on his 'Buzz Buzz A Diddle it'
The Ramones made me discovered that amazing song
Thumbs up to The Ramones.
*discover
The Ramones were the perfect band to cover Palisades Park. Originally released in 1962, this song packs a lot of punch into one minute and fifty seconds. Rock and roll would rarely be this fun and concise again until 1977, when The Ramones took us to Rockaway Beach.
@@GreenManalishiUSA Now that's one I remember.
Park closed for good on Sept 12th 1971. I was 15. Sad day
Yep, sad.
The good Ol days gone 😥
Trivia..: Chuck Barris of The Gong Show wrote this song.
I heard he sang it over the phone to the record company - and got it accepted!
GONGGGGggggg !
I always thought Freddy was singing “we ate an egg at a hot dog stand.”
...that works for me 😆
My childhood Amusement park officially closed 😢on September of 1972. When I was 13 years old.. Now sits the 3 large condominium complex, on the border of Palisades park & Fort Lee, New Jersey 🇯🇪.
Well, hope this brings back some good memories for you.
@SirBasildeBrush Yes, indeed it does, always..✌️💙
Palisades Park lived very close
...nice!
I have just recently played this on my Siri.
Mafia lll
Ramones brought me here , they picked some great songs to cover 🎉
Hats off to The Ramones!
@@SirBasildeBrush Let’s Dance , California Sun 🌞 and Surfin Bird just a few songs covered by the Ramones .
I'am from Jersey, how many times I went Palisades park, and other parks
...good memories!
Mafia 3 :)
Land just got too valuable and expensive - most of these places are long gone. Palisades is now a highrise apartment complex w stunning views of Manhattan - can't afford to use that land for the Tunnel of Love. :-(
I knew it was long gone, but never knew what replaced it. Thanks.
@@SirBasildeBrush do you remember (or know of) Freedomland in the Bronx? Same deal - it was only open for a few years in early/mid '60s (awesome place!) and then was also developed into an apartment complex.
@@LeftysLefty Not heard of Freedomland before, but I've spent some time reading up about it and watching clips on You Tube. Thanks.
Vito and Lincoln brought me here.
Today’s version would have gunfire in the background.
Mafia 3 brought me here.
This is kind of a cute little romantic song without being too saccharine. It seems that at the end, the girl falls in love with him too!
Glad you're enjoying it, certainly has a lot of energy.
Hey Sir Basil ... What do you call this place where the sun never shines? It's called England.
Well...it was nice and sunny today. It was overcast and rainy yesterday, however...