What book did the writer of the song "Palisades Park" write?
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Palisades Park (Freddy Cannon song) "Palisades Park" is a song written by Chuck Barris and recorded by Freddy Cannon. A tribute to New Jersey's Palisades Amusement Park, it is an up-tempo rock and roll tune led by a distinctive organ part. The track also incorporates amusement park sound effects, including the sounds of screaming riders on the roller coasters, and the quoting of a slower version of the "March of the Clowns", played on an organ imitating a Hurdy Gurdy or Caliope. In the song, the singer takes a walk after dark and discovers Palisades Park, where he meets and falls in love with a girl. Among the list of rides and attractions listed in the song are: "Shoot the Chute, Rocket Ship, Roller Coaster, Loop the Loop, Merry Go Round, Tunnel of Love, and the Ferris Wheel.
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Chuck Barris Charles Hirsch Barris (June 3, 1929 – March 21, 2017) was an American game show creator, producer and host. Barris was known for hosting "The Gong Show", and creating "The Dating Game" and "The Newlywed Game". He was also a songwriter, who wrote "Palisades Park" for Freddy Cannon. Barris wrote an autobiography titled "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", which was made into the film of the same name directed by George Clooney.
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Park Benjamin Sr. Park Benjamin Sr. (August 14, 1809 – September 12, 1864) was well known in his time as an American poet, journalist, editor and founder of several newspapers.
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Jon Stebbins Jon Stebbins is a Los Osos, California-based musician and author of four books about The Beach Boys, as well as two other books.
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Misfortune (novel) Misfortune, is the 2005 debut novel by Wesley Stace. The "Victorian" novel revolves around a cross-dressing heir/heiress. The book was one of the "Washington Post"'s Books of the Year and chosen by Amazon.com as one of the Ten Best Novels of 2005. It was also nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. The author, better known as singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding, recorded the traditional ballads and folk songs in the book on the The Love Hall Tryst's 2005 album "Songs of Misfortune".
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Up in Central Park Up in Central Park is a Broadway musical with a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and music by Sigmund Romberg. The musical was Romberg's last stage work produced during his lifetime.
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Utopia (Child novel) Utopia (ISBN  ) is the first solo novel by Lincoln Child published in 2002. It is set in a futuristic amusement park called "Utopia", a park that relies heavily on holographics and robotics. Dr. Andrew Warne, the man who designed the program that runs the park's robots, is called in to help fix a problem. But when he gets there, he finds out that the park is being held hostage by a mysterious man known as John Doe.
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Saraswati Park Saraswati Park is a 2010 drama novel written by Anjali Joseph. Set in Mumbai, the book follows the story of Mohan Karekar, a pensive letter-writer living in the fictional housing complex of Saraswati Park. When his gay nephew, Ashish, moves in with him and his wife, Lakshmi, their mundane life goes through several changes.
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American Rhapsody (book) American Rhapsody is a 2000 book by Joe Eszterhas about the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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Alice Randall Alice Randall (born May 4, 1959) is an American author and songwriter of African-American descent. She is perhaps best known for her novel "The Wind Done Gone", a reinterpretation and parody of the popular 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind".
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Mary Q. Steele Mary Quintard Govan Steele (May 8, 1922 – July 6, 1992) was a noted American author and naturalist. She wrote over twenty books: some adult-style, but mostly children's books. One of her books, "Journey Outside", was a Newbery Honor Book. Steele sometimes wrote under the names Wilson Gage and J. N. Darby.
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Carol Beach York Carol Beach York (January 21, 1928 – April 26, 2013) was an author of juvenile novels. She is best known for novels in the mystery/suspense genre, and for the Butterfield Square Series, which includes ""Good Charlotte"" from which the pop rock band Good Charlotte took its name.
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Carson Parks Clarence Carson Parks II (26 April 1936 – 22 June 2005), often known as C. Carson Parks, was an American songwriter, music publisher, musician and singer, best known for writing the hit song "Somethin' Stupid". His younger brother is the composer Van Dyke Parks.
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The Bridge to Never Land The Bridge to Never Land was written by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry and published by Disney-Hyperion in 2011. It is the fifth book in the Peter and the Starcatchers series but unlike the others is set in the present day. The main characters in the story are two young Americans, Aidan and Sarah Cooper.
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John Darnielle John Darnielle ( , born March 16, 1967) is an American musician and novelist best known as the primary (and often solitary) member of the American band the Mountain Goats, for which he is the writer, composer, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist.
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Beach Music (novel) Beach Music is Pat Conroy's novel of Jack McCall, a South Carolina native who flees the South with his daughter Leah after his wife commits suicide. This novel explores the Vietnam War-era, the Holocaust, and coming of age in the 20th century. It was published in 1995.
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Gretchen Phillips Gretchen Phillips (born 1963) is an American singer-songwriter known for her humorous and topical songs. Phillips has been openly gay throughout her life and her lesbianism has inspired much of her material.
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Sarah May Sarah May (born 1972 in Northumberland) is an English author. Her first book, "The Nudist Colony" (1999), was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Her other books include "Spanish City" (2002), "The Internationals" (2003), and "The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia" (2006). A reviewer in "The Guardian" wrote of "Spanish City": "the world conjured into view by May's slanted approach to scene and dialogue is peculiarly charged and vivid."
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Clinton Heylin Clinton Heylin (born 8 April 1960) is an English author who has written extensively about popular music and the work of Bob Dylan.
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Gwen Davis Gwen Davis (born May 11, 1936) is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, songwriter, journalist and poet.
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My Own Home "My Own Home" is a song from the Walt Disney film, "The Jungle Book", from 1967. The song was sung by Darleen Carr playing the part of "Shanti, the human girl". The song was written by Disney staff songwriters, Robert and Richard Sherman. This song serves as the basis for the Sarah Brightman song "On the Nile" and was sampled in the Slum Dogz song "The Jungle Book".
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Dream Park Dream Park is a 1981 novel written by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes set in a futuristic amusement park of the same name. It was later expanded into a series of books.