Cherry Hill Now:
Cherry Hill Park

February 13, 2019

Listen to a song whose inspiration was Cherry Hill.  According to the description with the song on YouTube, “Recorded by Billy Joe Royal and penned by Robert Nix and Billy Gilmore, ‘Cherry Hill Park’ reached the #15 spot on both the Cash Box and Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1969. The song is a suggestive story about the morals of a local girl and those of the guys that ‘idolized’ her. Some radio stations refused to play it, and the song did indeed raise the ire of the residents of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. During a later interview, Royal was asked about the inspiration for the song and said a friend of his visited Philadelphia where looked over and saw Cherry Hill in the distance and casually commented: Hey, Cherry Hill, ‘merry’ hill.”

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The photograph and video are provided courtesy of the 60s70sTheBest YouTube Channel, Uploaded to YouTube 2013.