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Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is Later with Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast
More what You Hear Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Been a fan of his from some of the great
rock and roll hits that he's cranked out, like Way
Down Yonder in New Orleans, Transistor, Sister Palisades Park, and
many many others. Freddie Boom Boom Cannon is back and
he's back with a Halloween record call Hey Spoolie, and
he's joining us now. Freddie Boom Boom Cannon, Greetings, Thank.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
You, Lee, thank his nice to be here with you
on the show. And I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Been playing your music on the air for years and
years and years. But I gotta start with the title
of your new song. Sven GOOLEI just who is Sven Gooley?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Seven? Gooley is a A He's the host of a
TV show on Saturday nights for Place Horror Movies. And
I watch his show because I like the old universal
you know, Frankenstein, a Wolfman and all those movies, and
that gave me the inspiration when I watched him to
write this song called Hey Fengoli and I when I
(01:13):
when I had a subject to write it, I said
you know, don't see how god this goes? Well? I
finished the song. I wrote it in July, cut it
in now August, and it came you have it? Now
what I did? We send it over to me TV
in Chicago. That's why they he does this television show
on Cable network. And they were they weren't nuts, they
(01:36):
weren't crazy. They loved it so much. And that's now
they're making the video. So I don't know who's in
this video, but they got people calling up, you know,
actors and singers and everybody wants to be on this video.
And uh, what can I say? It's a Freddie Cannon
rocker and a sing along. So I'm happy that all
(01:57):
this is going on. And thanks to the IT guys
like you helping helping me. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, okay, so so Ben Goolie, I guess it's kind
of our local We have a local version of that.
We had Count greg Or in Oklahoma City and then
in Tulsa it was Gaylor Sartagne and Gary Busey's Doctor
Mazippa Pampa zoidis UNCA Film Festival in Camp Meeting, right.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, but I'm sure that that's been going along for
a long time.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, so that's and but sveng Gooli still at it.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
He's still at it. Yeah, okay, it show is doing
very well. Oh yeah, it's like his forty fifth anniversary.
They're gonna debut this song, Hey, sveng Gooli probably Saturday
night on next Saturday Night, and we'll see what happens.
You know, they've got the videos gonna come and it's
gonna be a big, big entourage of craziness on there.
(02:51):
So he's pretty funny. So uh, it's gonna be good.
And uh and I'm sure your listeners that listen to Uli,
we'll get a kick out.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Of it, and they get a kick out of you.
Freddie Boom Boom Cannon. It's kind of a modern version
of our own monster mash, just in time for Halloween.
In preparation for the debuting of Hayes be Gooli later
this month on Me TV. Let's talk about your career
a little bit. You your music was always good, fun
party music.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah. I was happy that I did that kind of music,
and you know, it came to me easy to sing.
When I wrote Tallahassee Lassie, which is my first song
in nineteen fifty nine. My mom and I wrote that together.
My mom wrote a poem you know that that started
(03:45):
all of this. And I put the melody to Tallahassee
Lassie in this song, and that was a type of
hell I was doing. I had a little band in Massachusetts.
I've lived in Revere, Massachusetts, little bit and we used
to do record hops for other stations around around Boston.
(04:05):
So yeah, so we did the record hops and I
would sing this song and it hadn't been recorded yet,
and I would do a bunch of Chuck Berry records,
and I would do Chuck Berry because to me, Chuck
Berry is really the king of rock and roll. He's
he he was, He was the greatest artist, and I
worked with him so many times. But it was it
(04:28):
was my my feeling was I could sing and rock
with this kind of music and and I fit in.
So that was that was great.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
One thing about Chuck Berry he was a very good
businessman too. He took it seriously and he was not
it was nobody's fool behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
That's true, You're right, he was and I saw, you know,
I worked with him when he was in his uh
and as young he is, and man. He would take
the house down, that guy. And I learned a lot
on for on stage, in front of in front of
a crowd from him. Watching him taught me a lot.
So you know that's that's what I'm saying. Oh yeah,
(05:09):
he's he was.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Great talking to Freddie Boom Boom Cannon. You know him
from Tallahassee Lassie fame way down yonder in New Orleans
Palisades Park and his newest out now is an ode
to Spin Goolie, a cable TV horror movie host. It's
called uh, it's called Hay Spin Gooley and we're gonna
sample it in just a minute here on the on
(05:31):
the drive, uh, getting back to Palisades Park. I'm always
amused that that was written by Chuck Barris. What uh did?
What was your interaction with him?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I didn't know him, uh Lee At that time he
was friends with the owner of Swan Records, and he he.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Called I don't think anybody knew him at that time.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Right, And he called up he called up on Records
to talk to He knew Bernie Bennet, the owner, and
he said, Bernie, I got a song I just wrote,
you know, I said, can you tell me it was
the phone number of Dilon. He wanted Dlon to sing
this song, and Bernie Bennick told him, now, I don't
have the phone number, but I got an honist named
Freddie Cannon here. What kind of a song? Is it?
(06:18):
A sass song? Up tempo? He said yeah, he said,
well send it over. He send it over, and Bob Crewe,
who did the Four Seasons Records, changed the title. The
palis These Park and the rest is history. I mean
the record the song became such a giant, monstrous record.
I mean it was. It went crazy. I was everywhere,
(06:39):
you know.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And so did Chuck Barris later hosting The Gong Show.
He was a big TV producer, and I did he
play as well? I mean every now and then you'd
see him playing on the Gong Show. But I didn't
know if he was really playing. Do you know if
he played.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You mean the guitar? Yeah, yeah, I think he played
a little bit. I'm not sure. I never heard you.
Thank you questioned like that.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That's unusual, Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, you had a good question there. I think he
might have, but you know, I can't quote and say
he did. Uh. He just see he likes real lyrics.
He would like real lyrics enough. He had to write
the melody, so I don't know how he did it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, I could talk to you all day, but we've
got to listen to your newest hits. It's called Hayes
van Gholie. Freddy Boom Boom Cannon. Here we go, sixty
five years after his Billboard top ten hit Tallahassee Lassie,
just in time for the season. We thank you for
joining us and for all the great music. Freddy Boom
Boom Canon.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee
Matthews Podcast, and remember to listen to The Drive Live
weekday afternoons from five to seven and Ihearts Media presentation
This is Later with Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast
More what You Hear Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Been a fan of his from some of the great
rock and roll hits that he's cranked out, like Way
Down Yonder in New Orleans, Transistor, Sister Palisades Park, and
many many others. Freddie Boom Boom Cannon is back and
he's back with a Halloween record call Hey Spoolie, and
he's joining us now. Freddie Boom Boom Cannon, Greetings, Thank.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
You, Lee, thank his nice to be here with you
on the show. And I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Been playing your music on the air for years and
years and years. But I gotta start with the title
of your new song. Sven GOOLEI just who is Sven Gooley?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Seven? Gooley is a A He's the host of a
TV show on Saturday nights for Place Horror Movies. And
I watch his show because I like the old universal
you know, Frankenstein, a Wolfman and all those movies, and
that gave me the inspiration when I watched him to
write this song called Hey Fengoli and I when I
(01:13):
when I had a subject to write it, I said
you know, don't see how god this goes? Well? I
finished the song. I wrote it in July, cut it
in now August, and it came you have it? Now
what I did? We send it over to me TV
in Chicago. That's why they he does this television show
on Cable network. And they were they weren't nuts, they
(01:36):
weren't crazy. They loved it so much. And that's now
they're making the video. So I don't know who's in
this video, but they got people calling up, you know,
actors and singers and everybody wants to be on this video.
And uh, what can I say? It's a Freddie Cannon
rocker and a sing along. So I'm happy that all
(01:57):
this is going on. And thanks to the IT guys
like you helping helping me. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Well, okay, so so Ben Goolie, I guess it's kind
of our local We have a local version of that.
We had Count greg Or in Oklahoma City and then
in Tulsa it was Gaylor Sartagne and Gary Busey's Doctor
Mazippa Pampa zoidis UNCA Film Festival in Camp Meeting, right.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, but I'm sure that that's been going along for
a long time.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, so that's and but sveng Gooli still at it.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
He's still at it. Yeah, okay, it show is doing
very well. Oh yeah, it's like his forty fifth anniversary.
They're gonna debut this song, Hey, sveng Gooli probably Saturday
night on next Saturday Night, and we'll see what happens.
You know, they've got the videos gonna come and it's
gonna be a big, big entourage of craziness on there.
(02:51):
So he's pretty funny. So uh, it's gonna be good.
And uh and I'm sure your listeners that listen to Uli,
we'll get a kick out.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Of it, and they get a kick out of you.
Freddie Boom Boom Cannon. It's kind of a modern version
of our own monster mash, just in time for Halloween.
In preparation for the debuting of Hayes be Gooli later
this month on Me TV. Let's talk about your career
a little bit. You your music was always good, fun
party music.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah. I was happy that I did that kind of music,
and you know, it came to me easy to sing.
When I wrote Tallahassee Lassie, which is my first song
in nineteen fifty nine. My mom and I wrote that together.
My mom wrote a poem you know that that started
(03:45):
all of this. And I put the melody to Tallahassee
Lassie in this song, and that was a type of
hell I was doing. I had a little band in Massachusetts.
I've lived in Revere, Massachusetts, little bit and we used
to do record hops for other stations around around Boston.
(04:05):
So yeah, so we did the record hops and I
would sing this song and it hadn't been recorded yet,
and I would do a bunch of Chuck Berry records,
and I would do Chuck Berry because to me, Chuck
Berry is really the king of rock and roll. He's
he he was, He was the greatest artist, and I
worked with him so many times. But it was it
(04:28):
was my my feeling was I could sing and rock
with this kind of music and and I fit in.
So that was that was great.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
One thing about Chuck Berry he was a very good
businessman too. He took it seriously and he was not
it was nobody's fool behind the scenes.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
That's true, You're right, he was and I saw, you know,
I worked with him when he was in his uh
and as young he is, and man. He would take
the house down, that guy. And I learned a lot
on for on stage, in front of in front of
a crowd from him. Watching him taught me a lot.
So you know that's that's what I'm saying. Oh yeah,
(05:09):
he's he was.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Great talking to Freddie Boom Boom Cannon. You know him
from Tallahassee Lassie fame way down yonder in New Orleans
Palisades Park and his newest out now is an ode
to Spin Goolie, a cable TV horror movie host. It's
called uh, it's called Hay Spin Gooley and we're gonna
sample it in just a minute here on the on
(05:31):
the drive, uh, getting back to Palisades Park. I'm always
amused that that was written by Chuck Barris. What uh did?
What was your interaction with him?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I didn't know him, uh Lee At that time he
was friends with the owner of Swan Records, and he he.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Called I don't think anybody knew him at that time.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Right, And he called up he called up on Records
to talk to He knew Bernie Bennet, the owner, and
he said, Bernie, I got a song I just wrote,
you know, I said, can you tell me it was
the phone number of Dilon. He wanted Dlon to sing
this song, and Bernie Bennick told him, now, I don't
have the phone number, but I got an honist named
Freddie Cannon here. What kind of a song? Is it?
(06:18):
A sass song? Up tempo? He said yeah, he said,
well send it over. He send it over, and Bob Crewe,
who did the Four Seasons Records, changed the title. The
palis These Park and the rest is history. I mean
the record the song became such a giant, monstrous record.
I mean it was. It went crazy. I was everywhere,
(06:39):
you know.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
And so did Chuck Barris later hosting The Gong Show.
He was a big TV producer, and I did he
play as well? I mean every now and then you'd
see him playing on the Gong Show. But I didn't
know if he was really playing. Do you know if
he played.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You mean the guitar? Yeah, yeah, I think he played
a little bit. I'm not sure. I never heard you.
Thank you questioned like that.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That's unusual, Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, you had a good question there. I think he
might have, but you know, I can't quote and say
he did. Uh. He just see he likes real lyrics.
He would like real lyrics enough. He had to write
the melody, so I don't know how he did it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, I could talk to you all day, but we've
got to listen to your newest hits. It's called Hayes
van Gholie. Freddy Boom Boom Cannon. Here we go, sixty
five years after his Billboard top ten hit Tallahassee Lassie,
just in time for the season. We thank you for
joining us and for all the great music. Freddy Boom
Boom Canon.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee
Matthews Podcast, and remember to listen to The Drive Live
weekday afternoons from five to seven and Ihearts Media presentation
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