Massachusetts native Freddy “Boom-Boom” Cannon, born on this day in 1939, has no obvious connection to New Orleans. But his raucous, brassy 1959 recording of “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans,” a song ...

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January 1959, just shy of his 16th birthday Arlington-native Brehon Herlihy got tipped off by his pal Myles Connor, (yes, that Myles Connor, art thief extraordinaire), about an upcoming recording ...

(CBS 11) - The summer of 1965 was a cool one for me and a lot of other American youth. Rock n' roll was definitely here to stay and the British Invasion was in full force. But one guy stood out that ...

"Last night I took a walk after dark/ a swingin' place called Palisades Park/ to have some fun and see what I could see ..." — "Palisades Park" Did you ever wonder why, with all of the amusement parks ...

Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon is a lot of things: singer, songwriter, rock ’n’ roll survivor. Just don’t call him a teen idol. Even though the 1950s singer often gets lumped in with people from the era ...

STUDIO CITY (CBS) — Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon visited KCAL9 Tuesday to talk about his autobiography, Where The Action Is! Cannon, the singer of '50s and '60s hits such as "Palisades Park," ...

Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon first met Chuck Barris 41 years ago, before Barris worked for Dick Clark on “American Bandstand,” before he created and produced “The Dating Game” and “The Newlywed Game,” ...

When rock ‘n’ roll was young, Joe Nardone & The All Stars backed up Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon at Sans Souci Park in Hanover Township. That was June 29, 1962. Fifty-five years later, Nardone is ...

Jack DeNoyelles remembered when the songs from acts such as Freddy Cannon, Frankie Ford and the Diamonds were top jukebox hits. “I’m 51,” he said, standing near the bar of Little Darlin’s Rock ‘n’ ...