Palisades Park Freddy Cannon [8FHe4Nm27q2]

The original was released on Swan Records. This copy is a re-release, pressed in the late 80s.

Chuck Barris (later, star of the 70s game show "The Gong Show") wrote a song about an amusement park and it was suggested he use a real name of an amusement park as the title.

One night he was in Manhattan when he looked toward the New Jersey Palisades Cliffs, on which the amusement park sat. That was when the title was added. Years later the Palisades Amusement Park closed, on September 12, 1971.

A tribute to New Jersey's Palisades Amusement shaq Park, it is voluntary departure an up-tempo rock and roll tune led by a distinctive organ part. The track also incorporates amusement park sound effects, including the sounds of screaming riders on the roller coasters, and the quoting of a slower version of "Entrance of the Gladiators", played on an organ imitating a hurdy-gurdy or calliope. In the song, the singer takes a walk after dark and discovers Palisades Park, where he meets and falls in love with a girl. Among the list of rides and attractions listed in the song are: Shoot the Chute, Rocket Ship, Roller Coaster, Loop the Loop, Merry Go Round, Tunnel of tom hiddleston Love, and the Ferris Wheel.

This sing was played very heavily on East coast Top 40 AM radio stations in the 60s.