Now available at WFMU is Daniel Johnston's call-in appearance on The Music Faucet show on February 4, 1990.The band will be playing the Montalvo Center for the Arts in Saratoga CA on August 13 as part of the Bleeding Edge Festival.The band has finally released the best of WFMU fundraising marathon CD aptly titled Yo La Tengo is Murdering the Classics.Read about it here, here, here, and here. The band will be appearing on the May 9 airing of Gilmore Girls as a band auditioning to be Neil Young's opening act.Expect a new Yo La Tengo release this September.You may notice most links on this page don't work, I'm still working on that. Sunsquashed is back up and my email is working - if something has bounced in the past week, please re-send it. But my advice is never, ever, ever do business with webhostplus or. The details are lengthy and not worth rehashing (you can read all about it here if you have the stomach for it). Sunsquashed has been down for a week due to a total lack of competence of 's part (AKA webhostplus AKA my ex-webhoster).

Like Deja Vu All Over Again (Happy Birthday Yogi) My tradelist, the complete list of setlists, and the discography are back up for those seeking them. James McNew plays bass on Jennifer O'Connor's new album.Yo La Tengo in Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig.Live+Photos on BBC6 (show may only be available for one week! Thanks Tim).I'm assuming it will be on their webcast as well. YLT will be on KEXP in Seattle on at 3PM (assuming Pacific time). I've listened to this interview, and it's excellent. The streaming interview is available here. James McNew is interviewed at Iceberg Radio. The interview/performance starts a minute or so in. The Oct 24 KEXP show mentioned below is available right here. Was the refusal of the cast of 'The Times They AreĪ-Changin'' to take part the last straw? Really, is there anything to Just wouldn't be able to put together a lineup as Hanukkahriffic as We have concluded that our touring schedule is such we Reluctantly decided not to play the eight nights of Hanukkah this yearĪt Maxwell's. More recently 'Palisades Park' appeared in the films Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, picturing Barris' life, and X-Men: First Class, during a scene set in 1962, the year of the song's initial release.In answer to the most FA'd Q of the last few months, we have It was issued as a limited edition 45 vinyl single.Ĭannon also used a version of the song as a jingle for Boston's Oldies station WODS-FM, Oldies 103, in the 90's. In 1987, Cannon recorded 'Kennywood Park' (which, unlike Palisades Park before it, is still in operation), a reworking of the song about the Pittsburgh amusement park of the same name. New York City garage punk band The Devil Dogs covered the song for its 1990 album, Big Beef Bonanza. However, the group only recorded by the track on a live album released in 1994. as Frederick Picariello) beginning in the late 1970s. (Freddy Cannon's home town, although Freddy was born in Swampscott, Mass. In addition, the song was performed live by The Stompers, a Boston-based band with members from Lynn, Mass. Though never officially recorded and released, the song was also performed by Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band on their Tunnel of Love Express Tour in 1988. The song was covered by Shelley Fabares on her 1962 album The Things We Did Last Summer, Jan & Dean covered this song on their album Jan & Dean's Golden Hitsin 1962, Gary Lewis and the Playboys on their 1965 album A Session With Gary Lewis And the Playboys, The Beach Boys on their 1976 album 15 Big Ones, and The Ramones on their 1989 album Brain Drain. It peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 23–30 June 1962, the biggest hit of Cannon's career. Released by Swan Records as a B-side to 'June, July and August,' 'Palisades Park' broke in when a Flint, Michigan radio DJ played it by mistake.

Years later the Palisades Amusement Park closed, on September 12, 1971. That was when inspiration hit and the title was added. One night he was in Manhattan when he looked toward the New Jersey Palisades Cliffs, on which the amusement park sat.

The track also incorporates amusement park sound effects.īarris wrote a song about an amusement park and it was suggested he use the name of an amusement park as the title. A tribute to New Jersey's Palisades Amusement Park, it is an up-tempo rock and rolltune led by a distinctive organ part.

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

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