Freddy Cannon

A major star in the early '60s, singer/guitarist/songwriter Freddy Cannon broke big with two million-sellers: "Tallahassee Lassie" (#6, 1959) and an updated version of a 1922 jazz hit, "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" (#3, 1960). Cannon was discovered in 1957 by a Boston disc jockey; two years later he recorded "Tallahassee Lassie," a song his mother had written.

He toured internationally during...