Cherry Hill Park

For Billy Joe Royal's album of the same name, see Cherry Hill Park (album).

"Cherry Hill Park" was written by Robert Nix and Billy Gilmore, and sung by Billy Joe Royal. The song was arranged by Buddy Buie, James Cobb, and Emory Gordy, Jr.; and produced by Buddy Buie and Bill Lowery. It was a hit in 1969 reaching #15 on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Cash Box chart. It came off his 1969 album Cherry Hill Park. The subject of the song is Mary Hill, a woman who has sexual liaisons with various men at Cherry Hill Park (located in Cherry Hill, New Jersey^[1]), as noted in the barely disguised double entendre lyrics. However, she "marries away" to a "man with money".

References

1. ^ Interview with Billy Joe Royal