Freddy Cannon
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Freddy Cannon (born Frederick Anthony Picariello, December 4, 1939, in the North Boston suburb of Lynn, Massachusetts) is an American rock and roll singer.
He learned to play guitar as a boy and in high school formed a band. Singing vocals, he emulated the hard-driving style of singing star Little Richard. Picariello eventually signed with Swan Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a recording studio in which master music promoter Dick Clark had an interest, and who brought him national exposure through numerous appearances on the television program, American Bandstand.
In 1959 and the early 1960s, singing under the stage name, Freddy Cannon, and dubbed "Boom Boom" because of his thundering musical renditions, he had three Top 10 hits.
He played himself, and performed one of his songs, in the final episode of the teen soap opera, Never Too Young, on June 24 1966.
A resident of Tarzana, California, Cannon continues to put on a rollicking performance at assorted concert venues.
Partial discography (singles):
- "Tallahassee Lassie"
- "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans"
- "Palisades Park"
- "Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy"
- "Muskrat Ramble"
- "Abigail Beecher"
- "Transistor Sister"
- "Humdinger"
- "Action"
- "For Me & My Gal"
- "Everybody Monkey"
- "Okefenokee"
- "Hanky Panky"
- "The Boom Boom Man"
[edit] References
- Guinness Book of British Hit Singles - 16th Edition - ISBN 0-85112-190-X
- Guinness Book of British Hit Albums - 7th Edition - ISBN 0-85112-619-7
- The Book of Golden Discs - 2nd Edition - ISBN 0-214-20512-6
