Chuck Barris 1929-2017
You’ve like heard by now that Chuck Barris passed away Monday at the age of 87. Barris is most known as the creator and host of The Gong Show, though he is also remembered for...
Tagged: Freddy Cannon
It Happened 50 Years Ago: Freddy Cannon “Action”
Massachusetts-born singer Freddy Cannon has hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart eight times, all between 1959 and 1965. Cannon scored the last of those Top 40 hits with “Action,” from the television...
Palisades Park
Massachusetts-born singer Freddy Cannon scored three top 10 hits in his career, with all of them coming between 1959 and 1962. One of them, “Tallahassee Lassie,” peaked at number six in 1959, and the...
