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 ...

A kid from Revere singing about a girl from the capital of Florida? It worked in 1959, when Freddy Cannon took “Tallahassee Lassie” to the national Top 10. Singing about places far from home continued ...

Freddy Cannon’s new autobiography, “Where the Action Is!” chronicles the fascinating career of one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most charismatic performers. Born Frederick Anthony Picariello Jr. in Lynn, Mass., ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...