I didn’t even know Boston’s “Boom Boom” Cannon was alive, but I adored his 1962 #3 smash, the “Gong Show” Chuck Barris-written “Palisades Park” (for the famed 1898-1971 Fort Lee, NJ amusement park I joyously visited in childhood!). Teenaged, I loved L.A.’s Gears’ 1980 punk ’n’ rockabilly classic, Rockin’ at Ground Zero. 51 and 33 years on, their unexpected team-up is inspired, as The Gears are to Cannon what The Ramones were to The Ronettes: punked up progenies! Cannon aces their Rockin’ shuffle “Keep Movin’”—not unlike Dead Kennedys’ “Police Truck,” also from 1980—with the same mannered aplomb at 72 he showed at 21; he also yelps Hank Williams’ magnificent “Move It On Over” as if The Gears were X. Pressed on red vinyl with a four color glossy sleeve.
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