Despite being from the Boston area, he did songs about life elsewhere. His biggest hit, written by native Philadelphian Chuck Barris, was about the joys of going to the long gone New Jersey amusement park known as Palisades Park. While Freddy Cannon’s stardom was somewhat brief, Chuck went on to be the king of the game shows and even had a movie made about his life.

Dick Clark, who was part owner of Swan Records, brought his career back to life briefly in 1965 when Freddy’s song “Action” became the theme song for Dick Clark’s “Where the Action is”. Despite his decline in popularity, “Boom Boom” continued to tour all around the world. It was during that time period that I met Freddy by accident. I went into a record store in Upper Darby looking for a particular hard to find disc and there was the former Swan artist doing an in store appearance to promote his latest record. The name of that single escapes me, but it wasn’t a hit.

Unlike many artists, all of his songs are property of Freddy Cannon and he has released a CD that is available through his website www.freddycannon.com.

On that same website you can checkout Freddy’s other love. He has done drawings of many other rock stars and they are presented in a gallery on the website. Also on the website is an interview.