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"Palisades Park" is a song written by Chuck Barris and recorded by Freddy Cannon. A tribute to New Jersey's Palisades Amusement Park, it is an up-tempo rock and roll tune led by a distinctive organ part. The track also incorporates amusement park sound effects. ==Background== Barris wrote a song about an amusement park and it was suggested he use the 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 inspiration hit and the title was added. Years later the Palisades Amusement Park closed, on September 12, 1971. 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, the biggest hit of Cannon's career.〔(Palisades Park - Mr. Freddy "BOOM BOOM" Cannon ) Epinions.com Accessed 28 October 2008〕 The song was covered by Shelley Fabares on her 1962 album ''The Things We Did Last Summer'', Jan & Dean covered this song on their album ''Jan & Dean's Golden Hits'' in 1962, Gary Lewis and the Playboys on their 1965 album ''A Session With Gary Lewis And the Playboys'', The Beach Boys on their 1976 album ''15 Big Ones'', and The Ramones on their 1989 album ''Brain Drain''. Though never officially recorded and released, the song was also performed by Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band on their Tunnel of Love Express Tour in 1988.〔(Bootleg DVD )〕 In addition, the song was performed live by The Stompers, a Boston-based band with members from Lynn, Mass. (Freddy Cannon's home town, although Freddy was born in Swampscott, Mass. as Frederick Picariello) beginning in the late 1970s. However, the group only recorded by the track on a live album released in 1994.〔(The Stompers Greatest Hits Live (album) )〕〔(1979 ''Boston Globe'' review (Stompers) )〕 New York City garage punk band The Devil Dogs covered the song for its 1990 album, ''Big Beef Bonanza''. In 1987, Cannon recorded "Kennywood Park" (which, unlike Palisades Park before it, is still in operation),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kennywood Park / With a Little Love )〕 a reworking of the song about the Pittsburgh amusement park of the same name. It was issued as a limited edition 45 vinyl single. Cannon also used a version of the song as a jingle for Boston's Oldies station WODS-FM, Oldies 103, in the 90's.〔(Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon - Oldies 103 WODS FM Jingle/Palisades Park )〕 More recently "Palisades Park" appeared in the films ''Confessions of a Dangerous Mind'', picturing Barris' life, and ''X-Men: First Class'', during a scene set in 1962, the year of the song's initial release. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Palisades Park (Freddy Cannon song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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