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