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Freddy Cannon

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Frederick Anthony Picariello Jr. (born December 4, 1936), known as Freddy Cannon, is an American rock and roll singer, whose biggest international hits included "Tallahassee Lassie", "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", and "Palisades Park". [1]

91 relations: Album, Alex Chilton, AllMusic, American Bandstand, Bass drum, Beau Bridges, Big Joe Turner, Big Star, Billboard Hot 100, Bob Crewe, Bobby Vee, Boston, Buddah Records, Buddy Johnson, California, California, Here I Come, Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy, Chuck Barris, Chuck Berry, Claridge Records, Concert, Cub Koda, Danny & the Juniors, David Gates, Demo (music), Dick Clark, Disc jockey, Film, For Me and My Gal (song), Frank Slay, Frankie Valli, Glen Campbell, Guitar, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Human voice, James Burton, Johnny Tillotson, Kid Ory, Lead guitar, Leon Russell, List of acts who appeared on American Bandstand, List of guests appearing on The Midnight Special, List of Italian-American entertainers, List of rock and roll performers, Little Richard, Los Angeles, Los Straitjackets, Lynn, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, MCA Records, ..., Music recording certification, Muskrat Ramble, National Guard of the United States, Never Too Young, Overdubbing, Palisades Park (Freddy Cannon song), Philadelphia, Recording Industry Association of America, Revere, Massachusetts, Rhythm and blues, Rhythm guitar, Rock and roll, Roller coaster, Ron Howard, Singing, Sire Records, Soap opera, Song, Stateside Records, Swan Records, Tarzana, Los Angeles, Teen film, Television show, The Beau Brummels, The Belmonts, The Box Tops, The Explosive Freddy Cannon, The Four Seasons (band), The G-Clefs, The Gong Show, The Junkman, The Rank Organisation, Trumpet, UK Albums Chart, UK Singles Chart, United Kingdom, United States, Village of the Giants, Warner Bros. Records, Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, Where the Action Is. Expand index (41 more) »

Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Alex Chilton

William Alexander "Alex" Chilton (December 28, 1950 – March 17, 2010) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, best known as the lead singer of The Box Tops and Big Star.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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American Bandstand

American Bandstand is an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer.

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Bass drum

A bass drum, or kick drum, is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.

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Beau Bridges

Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III (born December 9, 1941) is an American actor and director.

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Big Joe Turner

Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri.

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Big Star

Big Star was an American rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1971 by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, and Andy Hummel.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bob Crewe

Robert Stanley Crewe (November 12, 1930 – September 11, 2014) was an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer.

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Bobby Vee

Robert Thomas Velline (April 30, 1943 – October 24, 2016), known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer, songwriter and musician who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Buddah Records

Buddah Records (later known as Buddha Records) was an American record label founded in 1967 in New York City.

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Buddy Johnson

Woodrow Wilson "Buddy" Johnson (January 10, 1915 – February 9, 1977) was an American jump blues pianist and bandleader active from the 1930s through the 1960s.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California, Here I Come

"California, Here I Come" is a song written for the 1921 Broadway musical Bombo, starring Al Jolson.

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Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy

"Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" (also known as "Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy") is a popular song written by Harry Stone and Jack Stapp and published in 1950.

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Chuck Barris

Charles Hirsch Barris (June 3, 1929 – March 21, 2017) was an American game show creator, producer and host.

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Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.

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Claridge Records

Claridge Records was an American independent record label, owned by Frank Slay.

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Concert

A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience.

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Cub Koda

Michael "Cub" Koda (October 1, 1948 – July 1, 2000) was an American rock and roll singer, guitarist, songwriter, disc jockey, music critic, and record compiler.

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Danny & the Juniors

Danny & the Juniors are a doo-wop and rock and roll vocal group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania originally consisting of Danny Rapp, Dave White, Frank Maffei and Joe Terranova.

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David Gates

David Ashworth Gates (born December 11, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer, best known as the frontman and co-lead singer (with Jimmy Griffin) of the group Bread, which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s.

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Demo (music)

A demo (from "demonstration") is a song or group of songs recorded for limited circulation or reference use rather than for general public release.

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Dick Clark

Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1957 to 1987.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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For Me and My Gal (song)

"For Me and My Gal" is a 1917 popular standard song by George W. Meyer with lyrics by Edgar Leslie and E. Ray Goetz.

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Frank Slay

Frank C. Slay Jr. (July 8, 1930 - September 30, 2017) was an American songwriter, A&R director, record producer, and record label owner.

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Frankie Valli

Frankie Valli (born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio, May 3, 1934) is an American singer and actor, known as the frontman of The Four Seasons beginning in 1960.

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Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and actor.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop/Rap Songs is a record chart that ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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Human voice

The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, such as talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc.

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James Burton

James Edward Burton (born August 21, 1939, in Dubberly, Louisiana) is an American guitarist.

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Johnny Tillotson

Johnny Tillotson (born April 20, 1938 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Kid Ory

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Lead guitar

Lead guitar is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.

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Leon Russell

Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges; April 2, 1942 – November 13, 2016) was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling pop music records over the course of his 60-year career.

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List of acts who appeared on American Bandstand

List of acts who appeared on the television show American Bandstand.

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List of guests appearing on The Midnight Special

This is a partial list of guests who appeared on The Midnight Special.

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List of Italian-American entertainers

This is a list of Italian American entertainers.

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List of rock and roll performers

This is a list of rock and roll performers.

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Little Richard

Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known as Little Richard, is an American musician, songwriter, singer, and actor.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Straitjackets

Los Straitjackets is an American instrumental rock band that formed in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, in 1988.

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Lynn, Massachusetts

Lynn is the 9th largest municipality in Massachusetts and the largest city in Essex County.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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MCA Records

MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Muskrat Ramble

"Muskrat Ramble" is a jazz composition written by Kid Ory in 1926.

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National Guard of the United States

The National Guard of the United States, part of the reserve components of the United States Armed Forces, is a reserve military force, composed of National Guard military members or units of each state and the territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, for a total of 54 separate organizations.

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Never Too Young

Never Too Young is an American daytime serial that aired on ABC from September 27, 1965 to June 24, 1966 and was the first soap opera geared towards a teen audience.

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Overdubbing

Overdubbing (the process of making an overdub, or overdubs) is a technique used in audio recording, whereby a musical passage is recorded twice.

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Palisades Park (Freddy Cannon song)

"Palisades Park" is a song written by Chuck Barris and recorded by Freddy Cannon.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Revere, Massachusetts

Revere is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, located approximately from downtown Boston.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rhythm guitar

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Roller coaster

A roller coaster is a type of amusement ride that employs a form of elevated railroad track designed with tight turns, steep slopes, and sometimes inversions.

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Ron Howard

Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sire Records

Sire Records is an American record label that is owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Records.

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Soap opera

A soap opera or soaper is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction presented in serial format on television, radio and in novels, featuring the lives of many characters and focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama.

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Song

A song, most broadly, is a single (and often standalone) work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections.

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Stateside Records

Stateside ($tateside) Records is a British record label which initially released licensed American recordings and is now a reissue label.

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Swan Records

Swan Records was a mid-20th century United States-based record label, founded in 1957, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Tarzana, Los Angeles

Tarzana is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California.

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Teen film

Teen film is a film genre targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers and young adults, such as coming of age, attempting to fit in, peer pressure, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst or alienation.

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Television show

A television show (often simply TV show) is any content produced for broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, cable, or internet and typically viewed on a television set, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed between shows.

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The Beau Brummels

The Beau Brummels were an American rock band.

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The Belmonts

The Belmonts are an American doo-wop group from the Bronx, New York, that originated in the mid-1950s.

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The Box Tops

The Box Tops are an American rock band, formed in Memphis in 1967.

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The Explosive Freddy Cannon

The Explosive Freddy Cannon was the only number one album in the UK for Freddy Cannon.

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The Four Seasons (band)

The Four Seasons is an American rock and pop band that became internationally successful in the 1960s and 1970s.

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The G-Clefs

The G-Clefs were an American doo-wop/rhythm and blues vocal group, from Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States.

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The Gong Show

The Gong Show is an amateur talent contest franchised by Sony Pictures Television to many countries.

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The Junkman

The Junkman is a 1982 independent film which spent two years in production.

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The Rank Organisation

The Rank Organisation was a British entertainment conglomerate founded by industrialist J. Arthur Rank in April 1937.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Village of the Giants

Village of the Giants is a 1965 American comedy science fiction film with elements of the beach party film genre.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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Way Down Yonder in New Orleans

"Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" is a popular song with music by John Turner Layton, Jr.

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Where the Action Is

Where the Action Is or (WTAI) was a music-based television variety show in the United States from 1965–67.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Cannon

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