"Palisades Park", Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon (1962)

Remembering Palisades Park, and this great song!

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[areubaked]

I have a yellow WMCA Good Guys sweatshirt framed and hanging on the wall. A trophy from one of New York's most celebrated radio stations. Go Gary Stevens!

[jaemel1]

@areubaked Cool! I probably would do the same thing if I had an original one!

[chucksterberg]

Did anyone happen to catch " Cousin Brucie " in one of the pictures. I listened to him "forever" on abc and one day he came to my high school and I couldn't believe that he had lost his hair. Don't know why, but I guess I thought the number one guy in music should have hair...LOL...jb

[jaemel1]

@chucksterberg Ha! I actually went to the same HS he did-James Madison, but he was there before me :~)

[lawdog490]

AND AGAIN ON MEMORY LANE...WHO REMEMBERS THE YELLOW WMCA GOOD GUY SWEATSHIRTS...YOU HAD ONE OF THOESE ...WOW YOU WERE SOMEONE SPECIAL

[jaemel1]

@lawdog490 Oh, I sure do remember them, I was always trying to win one but never could :~( I DID manage to acquire a button, which I still have to this day!

[byrdsmaniac]

Wow. I must have been on one of the last rollercoaster rides there.

The ascent was the scariest one I've ever experienced.

[miketheshanmanmangan]

Bruce Morrow live on Musicradio 77 WABC what a great show from Palisades Park.Did Chuck Barris take the money he made from writing this and put it into The Gong Show years later How about this being the signature song from Freddie Boom Boom Cannon,and while were talking amusment parks how about Clay Cole at the Moon Bowl in Freedomland and go down the road towards Philly and listen to Hy Lit on WIBG at Willow grove Wow what great summertime Memories !!

[FyJstudios]

buenisima cancion, me recuerda a Emma Frost

[25FIREBALL]

in st.louis we had the highlands,,comit coaster and all,,i was there the day it burned to the ground...it had clowns or gorgiles(sp?) on the entrance way,,as we drove past flames were coming out their mouths,,that image is burned in my mind

[25FIREBALL]

i wore this freaking record out

[Benayrunyon]

This song was written by Chuck Barris

[jpringle1979]

Up here in the midwest we have Cedar Point... it has alot of old rides too from the Palisades Park era...

[BeatlesFetish09]

love this song---has such a happy note

[therealjoebloggs]

@sparkle11231 Sadly, though, it would have happened eventually; from the Bridge to the Lincoln Tunnel, now you have all these condo developments. Hoboken and Jersey City have gentrified in the last 25 years. Weehawken and West New York are going to hold a Formula 1 car race! Any town on the Hudson River was going to look to cash in. It so happens that the developers of PAP's site were ahead of their time. You might even argue they started the whole thing.

[sparkle11231]

@therealjoebloggs -- wow. That absolutely blows. I believe you're right. I hope those lovely intolerant "neighbors" saw that they deprived their kids of a fun, memory-making place as much as they deprived us all.........but then again, people like that have no conscience.