Roller coaster song??

millrace said:
""Nobody has yet mentioned Freddy Cannon's "Palisades Park" "

Look again ;)

millrace, look at the time on your post and on mine. You got yours posted while I was typing mine. :)

Personally, "Spinning Wheel" reminds me more of a ferris wheel. Actually, it reminds me of a pinwheel but a pinwheel is closer to a ferris wheel then a carousel."

What goes up must come down
Spinning wheel got to go 'round
Drop all your troubles by the riverside
Catch a painted pony on the spinning wheel ride

Since when can you catch a painted pony on a Ferris wheel? :)

Then there's "Red Rubber Ball" by The Cyrkle:
The roller coaster ride we took is nearly at an end
I bought my ticket with my tears, that's all I'm gonna spend

spewey, refresh my memory for a moment...aren't the Bottle Rockets also the group that brought us Radar Gun? When performed in Studio A at WCBE, the percussion was played on a cardboard box...:)

(Seriously. I was running the board; I had to mic that box. Would have been ca. 1995, I guess.)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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It still reminds me of a pinwheel. Chalk it up to some bizarre childhood experience I guess. :)

How about the Scooby Doo theme song? That always reminds me of amusement parks.

Last summer I was waiting for a fellow coaster nut to get his token ride on Top Cat's Taxi Jam at Kings Island...come to think of it, it might have been ARROW GUY...and I suddenly realized that I was hearing an oddball arrangement of the Scooby Doo theme over the park PA system. It sounded at first hearing like your typical corporate PA music, but it was in fact the Scooby Doo theme.

On another visit I was wandering through Rivertown at PKI when I heard another song on the park PA and realized suddenly that "Scooby Doo Theme" = "Simon Says."

--Dave Althoff, Jr

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It reminds me of a time when I was waiting in a line near a rather annoying game kiosk. Players competed to shoot a stream of water at a target to make a Scooby Doo figure spiral up. They played the dang theme everytime the game was played. I must have heard it about 3 dozen times.

There's also the popular notion that a large number of episodes seem to take place inside an abandoned amusement park.

RideMan - yepper, that woulda been the Bottle Rockets, from 1994's "The Brooklyn Side". From what I know of them, I'm not at all surprised they would use a cardboard box as percussion. In fact, if the box was big enough, they probably spent the night in it after the gig.

I can't think of any pertinent amusement park songs but there is the group "The Coasters."

The Ramones mention Coney Island in "I Love Her So"

Then we went down to Coney Island
On the coaster and around again
I know theres nothing that could tear us apart Because she's my sweethart

I just wonder if he's talking about the girl or the coaster? :)

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The Ramones also covered Palisades Park.

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Phantom's Revenge in 2001!

Thought of another one: Jonathan Richman's Roller Coaster By The Sea about the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Giant Dipper.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

I can't believe no one has mentioned "Rollercoaster" by B-Witched! ;)