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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.
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 ...
Cannon made his recording debut as a singer in 1958, singing and playing rhythm guitar on a single, "Cha-Cha-Do" by the Spindrifts, which became a local hit. He had also played lead guitar on a session for an R&B vocal group, the G-Clefs, whose record "Ka-Ding Dong" made No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1956. [3]
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)
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
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. [5]
"Palisades Park" — 33 — Somewhere Under Wonderland "Scarecrow" 7 — 64 ... * Though a soundtrack for Rounders was released, this song was not included.