![]() Cherry Hill Park is the third studio album by Billy Joe Royal released in 1969, four years after his hit album Down in the Boondocks. Although the lyrics deal almost entirely in innuendo, there's little left to the imagination about Mary Hill, who was "such a thrill after dark," and the sort of "games" she got up to in the titular greensward. The song 'Cherry Hill Park' hit 15 on The Billboard Hot 100. ![]() Billy Joe Royal Format CD Release Year 2016 Release Title CHERRY Hill Park Genre Country Dimensions Item Length 5.06 in Item Height 0.40 in Item Width 4.90 in Item Weight 0.26lb. The album landed on The Billboard 200 chart, reaching 100 in 1970. What's fascinating about this song is that unlike a lot of very similar character studies from the period, there's not an overtly moral twist in the last verse. In fact, other than a line about how all the other girls in town criticized her (itself quickly countered with the rejoinder "But all the boys, they idolized her"), the overall tone is simply one of fond remembrance of the town hussy, one who didn't come to a bad end, but who simply married a rich guy and moved away. The song became Royals breakthrough single, reaching number nine on the pop charts and briefly making the vocalist into a teen idol. ![]() Musically, the song is slick, horn-driven soul-pop along the lines of the Classics IV or Blood Sweat and Tears' poppier moments, just the sort of thing that had its chart heyday around this time. ![]()
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