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<v Speaker 1>This is Later with Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast

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<v Speaker 1>More what You Hear Weekday Afternoon's on the Drive.

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<v Speaker 2>Been a fan of his from some of the great

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<v Speaker 2>rock and roll hits that he's cranked out, like Way

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<v Speaker 2>Down Yonder in New Orleans, Transistor, Sister Palisades Park, and

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<v Speaker 2>many many others. Freddie Boom Boom Cannon is back and

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<v Speaker 2>he's back with a Halloween record call Hey Spoolie, and

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<v Speaker 2>he's joining us now. Freddie Boom Boom Cannon, Greetings, Thank.

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<v Speaker 3>You, Lee, thank his nice to be here with you

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<v Speaker 3>on the show. And I appreciate that. Thank you.

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<v Speaker 2>Been playing your music on the air for years and

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<v Speaker 2>years and years. But I gotta start with the title

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<v Speaker 2>of your new song. Sven GOOLEI just who is Sven Gooley?

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<v Speaker 3>Seven? Gooley is a A He's the host of a

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<v Speaker 3>TV show on Saturday nights for Place Horror Movies. And

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<v Speaker 3>I watch his show because I like the old universal

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<v Speaker 3>you know, Frankenstein, a Wolfman and all those movies, and

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<v Speaker 3>that gave me the inspiration when I watched him to

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<v Speaker 3>write this song called Hey Fengoli and I when I

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<v Speaker 3>when I had a subject to write it, I said

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<v Speaker 3>you know, don't see how god this goes? Well? I

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<v Speaker 3>finished the song. I wrote it in July, cut it

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<v Speaker 3>in now August, and it came you have it? Now

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<v Speaker 3>what I did? We send it over to me TV

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<v Speaker 3>in Chicago. That's why they he does this television show

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<v Speaker 3>on Cable network. And they were they weren't nuts, they

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<v Speaker 3>weren't crazy. They loved it so much. And that's now

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<v Speaker 3>they're making the video. So I don't know who's in

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<v Speaker 3>this video, but they got people calling up, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>actors and singers and everybody wants to be on this video.

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<v Speaker 3>And uh, what can I say? It's a Freddie Cannon

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<v Speaker 3>rocker and a sing along. So I'm happy that all

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<v Speaker 3>this is going on. And thanks to the IT guys

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<v Speaker 3>like you helping helping me. I really appreciate that.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, okay, so so Ben Goolie, I guess it's kind

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<v Speaker 2>of our local We have a local version of that.

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<v Speaker 2>We had Count greg Or in Oklahoma City and then

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<v Speaker 2>in Tulsa it was Gaylor Sartagne and Gary Busey's Doctor

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<v Speaker 2>Mazippa Pampa zoidis UNCA Film Festival in Camp Meeting, right.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but I'm sure that that's been going along for

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<v Speaker 3>a long time.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so that's and but sveng Gooli still at it.

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<v Speaker 3>He's still at it. Yeah, okay, it show is doing

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<v Speaker 3>very well. Oh yeah, it's like his forty fifth anniversary.

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<v Speaker 3>They're gonna debut this song, Hey, sveng Gooli probably Saturday

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<v Speaker 3>night on next Saturday Night, and we'll see what happens.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, they've got the videos gonna come and it's

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<v Speaker 3>gonna be a big, big entourage of craziness on there.

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<v Speaker 3>So he's pretty funny. So uh, it's gonna be good.

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<v Speaker 3>And uh and I'm sure your listeners that listen to Uli,

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<v Speaker 3>we'll get a kick out.

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<v Speaker 2>Of it, and they get a kick out of you.

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<v Speaker 2>Freddie Boom Boom Cannon. It's kind of a modern version

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<v Speaker 2>of our own monster mash, just in time for Halloween.

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<v Speaker 2>In preparation for the debuting of Hayes be Gooli later

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<v Speaker 2>this month on Me TV. Let's talk about your career

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit. You your music was always good, fun

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<v Speaker 2>party music.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. I was happy that I did that kind of music,

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<v Speaker 3>and you know, it came to me easy to sing.

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<v Speaker 3>When I wrote Tallahassee Lassie, which is my first song

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<v Speaker 3>in nineteen fifty nine. My mom and I wrote that together.

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<v Speaker 3>My mom wrote a poem you know that that started

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<v Speaker 3>all of this. And I put the melody to Tallahassee

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<v Speaker 3>Lassie in this song, and that was a type of

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<v Speaker 3>hell I was doing. I had a little band in Massachusetts.

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<v Speaker 3>I've lived in Revere, Massachusetts, little bit and we used

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<v Speaker 3>to do record hops for other stations around around Boston.

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<v Speaker 3>So yeah, so we did the record hops and I

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<v Speaker 3>would sing this song and it hadn't been recorded yet,

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<v Speaker 3>and I would do a bunch of Chuck Berry records,

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<v Speaker 3>and I would do Chuck Berry because to me, Chuck

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<v Speaker 3>Berry is really the king of rock and roll. He's

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<v Speaker 3>he he was, He was the greatest artist, and I

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<v Speaker 3>worked with him so many times. But it was it

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<v Speaker 3>was my my feeling was I could sing and rock

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<v Speaker 3>with this kind of music and and I fit in.

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<v Speaker 3>So that was that was great.

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<v Speaker 2>One thing about Chuck Berry he was a very good

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<v Speaker 2>businessman too. He took it seriously and he was not

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<v Speaker 2>it was nobody's fool behind the scenes.

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<v Speaker 3>That's true, You're right, he was and I saw, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>I worked with him when he was in his uh

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<v Speaker 3>and as young he is, and man. He would take

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<v Speaker 3>the house down, that guy. And I learned a lot

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<v Speaker 3>on for on stage, in front of in front of

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<v Speaker 3>a crowd from him. Watching him taught me a lot.

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<v Speaker 3>So you know that's that's what I'm saying. Oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>he's he was.

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<v Speaker 2>Great talking to Freddie Boom Boom Cannon. You know him

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<v Speaker 2>from Tallahassee Lassie fame way down yonder in New Orleans

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<v Speaker 2>Palisades Park and his newest out now is an ode

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<v Speaker 2>to Spin Goolie, a cable TV horror movie host. It's

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<v Speaker 2>called uh, it's called Hay Spin Gooley and we're gonna

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<v Speaker 2>sample it in just a minute here on the on

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<v Speaker 2>the drive, uh, getting back to Palisades Park. I'm always

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<v Speaker 2>amused that that was written by Chuck Barris. What uh did?

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<v Speaker 2>What was your interaction with him?

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<v Speaker 3>I didn't know him, uh Lee At that time he

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<v Speaker 3>was friends with the owner of Swan Records, and he he.

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<v Speaker 2>Called I don't think anybody knew him at that time.

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<v Speaker 3>Right, And he called up he called up on Records

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<v Speaker 3>to talk to He knew Bernie Bennet, the owner, and

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<v Speaker 3>he said, Bernie, I got a song I just wrote,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, I said, can you tell me it was

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<v Speaker 3>the phone number of Dilon. He wanted Dlon to sing

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<v Speaker 3>this song, and Bernie Bennick told him, now, I don't

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<v Speaker 3>have the phone number, but I got an honist named

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<v Speaker 3>Freddie Cannon here. What kind of a song? Is it?

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<v Speaker 3>A sass song? Up tempo? He said yeah, he said,

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<v Speaker 3>well send it over. He send it over, and Bob Crewe,

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<v Speaker 3>who did the Four Seasons Records, changed the title. The

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<v Speaker 3>palis These Park and the rest is history. I mean

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<v Speaker 3>the record the song became such a giant, monstrous record.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean it was. It went crazy. I was everywhere,

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<v Speaker 3>you know.

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<v Speaker 2>And so did Chuck Barris later hosting The Gong Show.

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<v Speaker 2>He was a big TV producer, and I did he

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<v Speaker 2>play as well? I mean every now and then you'd

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<v Speaker 2>see him playing on the Gong Show. But I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>know if he was really playing. Do you know if

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<v Speaker 2>he played.

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<v Speaker 3>You mean the guitar? Yeah, yeah, I think he played

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<v Speaker 3>a little bit. I'm not sure. I never heard you.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you questioned like that.

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<v Speaker 2>That's unusual, Yeah it is.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you had a good question there. I think he

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<v Speaker 3>might have, but you know, I can't quote and say

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<v Speaker 3>he did. Uh. He just see he likes real lyrics.

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<v Speaker 3>He would like real lyrics enough. He had to write

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<v Speaker 3>the melody, so I don't know how he did it. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I could talk to you all day, but we've

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<v Speaker 2>got to listen to your newest hits. It's called Hayes

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<v Speaker 2>van Gholie. Freddy Boom Boom Cannon. Here we go, sixty

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<v Speaker 2>five years after his Billboard top ten hit Tallahassee Lassie,

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<v Speaker 2>just in time for the season. We thank you for

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<v Speaker 2>joining us and for all the great music. Freddy Boom

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<v Speaker 2>Boom Canon.

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you, Thank you so much.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee

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