Cherry Hill Park

"Cherry Hill Park" is a song that was written by Robert Nix and Billy Gilmore, arranged by Buddy Buie, James Cobb, and Emory Gordy, Jr. and produced by Buie and Bill Lowery. Its original by Billy Joe Royal was a hit in 1969 reaching #15 on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart^[1] and the Cash Box chart. It was on Royal's 1969 album Cherry Hill Park. Buie also produced its cover version performed by the Classics IV which was released by United Artists Records in 1971. He and the Classics IV's manager Paul Cochran were two of the four owners of Studio One. The cover was actually marketed with its title combining the first two words of the original's ("Cherryhill Park").^[2]^[3]

Content

The subject of the song is Mary Hill, a girl who has sexual liaisons with various boys at the titular Cherry Hill Park, as noted in the barely disguised double entendre lyrics. However, she "marries away" to a "man with money". As a result, she stopped coming to Cherry Hill Park.

Royal came up with the song's title after a friend described seeing Cherry Hill, New Jersey on a visit to nearby Pennsylvania.^[4]

Mixes

Different mixes of this song exist, some with additional background vocals in the song's bridge, others in varying lengths, the longest version available being 3:17, with an extended finale running 33 seconds longer than the common single version.

References

↑ "Billy Joe Royal - Chart history". Billboard. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
↑ Billboard. Books.google.com. 1971-01-30. p. 4. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
↑ Billboard. Books.google.com. 1971-07-03. p. 76. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
↑ "Celebrity Interviews - Celebrities, Actors, Musicians, Authors, Artists, TV, Film". Popculturemadness.com. Retrieved 2016-10-02.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Billy Joe Royal

Studio albums	Billy Joe Royal Down in the Boondocks Billy Joe Royal featuring Hush Cherry Hill Park Billy Joe Royal Looking Ahead The Royal Treatment Tell It Like It Is Out of the Shadows

Other albums	Greatest Hits The Very Best Of Billy Joe Royal - The Columbia Years (1965-1972)

Singles	"Down in the Boondocks" "I Knew You When" "I've Got to Be Somebody" "It's a Good Time" "Heart's Desire" "Campfire Girls" "Yo-Yo" "These Are Not My People" "The Greatest Love" "Hush" "Storybook Children" "Cherry Hill Park" "Every Night" "Tulsa" "Poor Little Pearl" "Under the Boardwalk" "Burned Like a Rocket" "Boardwalk Angel" "I Miss You Already" "Old Bridges Burn Slow" "Members Only" (with Donna Fargo) "I'll Pin a Note on Your Pillow" "Out of Sight and on My Mind" "It Keeps Right On Hurtin'" "Tell It Like It Is" "Love Has No Right" "Till I Can't Take It Anymore" "Searchin' for Some Kind of Clue" "A Ring Where a Ring Used to Be" "If the Jukebox Took Teardrops" "I'm Okay (And Gettin' Better)" "Hard Rock to Roll"

B-Sides	"Oh, What a Night" "Steal Away" (A-Side) "You Make Me Feel Like A Man" "Don't Wait Up For Me Mama" (A-Side) "Deep Inside Me" "Should I Come Back" "We Tried" "Bed Of Roses" "Watching From The Bandstand" "Just Between Me And You" "Helping Hand" (A-Side) "The Lady Lives To Love" "Lonely Loving You" "Boardwalk Angel" "Another Endless Night" (A-Side) "A Place For The Heartache" "I Was Losing You" "Cross My Heart And Hope To Cry" (A-Side) "How Could You Leave Me"

Cover Songs	"Amanda" "Bring It On Home to Me" "Child of Mine" "Crying" "Funny How Time Slips Away" "I'm Sorry" "Kiss and Say Goodbye" "Making Believe" "Save the Last Dance for Me" "Solitary Man" "Spanish Harlem" "Stand by Me" "To Love Somebody"

Related articles	Discography Atlantic Records

Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Neighborhoods

Former CDPs	Barclay-Kingston Erlton-Ellisburg

Education

Primary & Secondary Schools	Cherry Hill Public Schools Cherry Hill High School East Cherry Hill High School West Cherry Hill Alternative High School Camden Catholic High School The King's Christian School Politz Day School

Other education	Cherry Hill Public Library Camden County College Cherry Hill Campus

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"Cherry Hill Park"

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