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Released by Swan Records as a B-side to "June, July and August," "Palisades Park" broke in when a Flint, Michigan, radio DJ played it by mistake. It peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 23–30 June 1962. [3] On the Hot R&B Sides chart, the song went to #15. [4] "Palisades Park" was the biggest hit of Cannon's career. [5]
"Palisades Park" is a 2014 song released by Counting Crows on Capitol Records as the lead single from the album Somewhere Under Wonderland. Adam Duritz has said that the song is "about the best thing I've written in my life. It's an epic story of two kids from New York in the late '70s and their lives in Basin Park.
The first two songs were released on "Swan" 45 rpm records, and the third released on a "Decca" LP record: "Summertime Guy" (Eddie Rambeau; an instrumental version of this song was used as the theme for The Newlywed Game) "Palisades Park" (Freddy Cannon) "Love Sickness" (Milton DeLugg)
In 1962, Chuck Barris composed and Freddy Cannon recorded a song about the park entitled "Palisades Park". The song was an up-tempo rock and roll tune initiated by a distinctive organ part. The song incorporated amusement park sound effects. "Palisades Park" received nationwide radioplay and increased the park's fame even more. The "Palisades ...
Also in 1965, Slay acquired Cannon's Swan recordings and sold them to Warner Bros. [11] He appeared, along with the Beau Brummels, in Village of the Giants, a teen movie with early film appearances by Beau Bridges and Ron Howard, and played himself, performing one of his songs, in the final episode of the teen soap opera, Never Too Young, on ...
Palisades Interstate Park Commission, joint New York and New Jersey commission to oversee parks along the Palisades on the west bank of the Hudson River; Palisades Interstate Parkway, highway running north from the George Washington Bridge in Bergen County, New Jersey to Rockland County and Orange County in the state of New York
9 Songs is a 2004 British art romantic drama film written and directed by Michael Winterbottom.The film stars Kieran O'Brien and Margo Stilley.The title refers to the nine songs played by eight different rock bands that complement the story of the film.
The jingle was used until the park closed in 1971, rhyming "Palisades Amusement Park" with "swings all day and after dark." [ 1 ] [ 4 ] Shelley also wrote the theme song for the Little Miss America pageant, which debuted at Palisades Park in 1961 as a children's version of Miss America for girls aged 5 to 10.