Boston(My Home Town)/Kansas City/Sweet Georgia Brown/Way Down Yonder In New Orleans/St Louis Blues/Indiana/Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy/Deep In The Heart Of Texas/California Here I Come/Okefenokee/Carolina In The Morning/Tallahassee Lassie
High energy US rock & roller Freddy Cannon topped the UK album chart with his Explosive! LP. Includes the US and UK top three hit single Way Down Yonder In New Orleans, and an alternative version of his UK hit Tallahassee Lassie. The fickle tastes of the public would deny him any further album chart success. (UK:1)
“Freddy was never Elvis, Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry, nor do I think he so intended. What he did was to make a series of radio-friendly fun records, a bit off beat. Some try to dismiss him as a 'novelty' artist, but that's not true.”
“Freddy 'Boom Boom' Cannon was a regular contributor to the East coast rock and roll scene of the late 1950s and early 60s. The driving tunes are not deep and profound but are simple, exciting teenage fare from back then.”
“Freddy didn't have the greatest voice, but his energy and delivery were highlighted by the fantastic band that backed him up. This LP really allows you to appreciate how good those musicians were and adds to the total enjoyment of hearing these songs. The ending of Way Down Yonder In New Orleans has to be one of the best horn fade outs of all time.”
“Freddy reverberated energy. He was known for energetic carefree music. His larger than life sound of 'the big bass drum-sound' on his records earned him the nickname ‘Boom Boom’.”
“When a Cannon song plays you just have to move and there's ample proof of a whole lot of shaking going on.” “Cannon had two indelible trademarks, a penchant for inserting a shouted ‘Whoo’ and a crashing drum beat in all his late 50s/early 60s hits.”
“Explosive is possibly Freddy’s best LP which featured names of US places. The version of Tallahassee Lassie is not the single hit version.”
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