Freddy Cannon, born December 4, 1940, is an American rock and roll singer.

Born Frederick Anthony Picariello in Revere, Massachusetts, he grew up in the North Boston suburb of Lynn. He learned to play guitar as a boy and in high school formed a band. Singing vocals, he emulated the hard-driving style of singing star Little Richard. Picariello eventually signed with Swan Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a recording studio in which master music promoter Dick Clark had an interest and who brought him national exposure through numerous appearances on the television program, American Bandstand.

In 1959 and the early 1960s, singing under the stage name, Freddy Cannon, and dubbed "Boom Boom" because of his thundering musical renditions, he had three top ten hits.

He played himself and performed one of his songs in the final episode of the teen soap opera Never Too Young on June 24th 1966.

A resident of Tarzana, California, Freddy Cannon continues to put on a rollicking performance at assorted concert venues.

Partial discography (singles):

• Tallahassee Lassie
• Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
• Palisades Park
• Chatanooga Shoeshine Boy
• Muskrat Ramble
• Abigail Beecher
• Transistor Sister
• Humdinger
• For Me & My Gal
• Everybody Monkey
• Okefenokee
• Let Me Show You Where It's At
• Hanky Panky
• The Boom Boom Man

1939 births | Living people | American male singers | American rock guitarists | American rock singers | Italian-Americans | People from Massachusetts

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