Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon was born Frederick Anthony
Picariello, December 4, 1936, in the Revere, Massachusetts, and moved
to Lynn, Massachusetts as a child. He learned to play the guitar as a
boy and in high school and formed a band. He eventually signed with
Swan Records in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a recording studio in which
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 10 hits.
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