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July 5, 2020: The ACTION NEVER STOPS!
Action Park is hard to explain. That will not stop me from trying. Featuring an interview with Andy Mulvihill, son of the park's founder and co-author of Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park
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XTC | Statue of Liberty | Civics 91.1: Therese's 2016 Premium | WFMU Premium 2016 | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | ||
Count Five | Declaration of Independence | Psychotic Reaction | Double Shot Records | 0:02:36 (Pop-up) | ||
Sad13 | A Fine Day for a Parade | Saving for a Custom Van | Father Daughter Records | Tribute to Adam Schlesinger, all proceeds benefit MusiCares COVID Relief Fund | * | 0:04:24 (Pop-up) |
The Hollies | Sandy (4th of July, Asbury Park) | Single | Polydor Records | 0:08:26 (Pop-up) | ||
Violent Femmes | American Music | Add It Up (1981-1993) | Slash/Reprise Records | 0:12:30 (Pop-up) | ||
Solomon Burke | None of Us Are Free | Don't Give Up on Me | Fat Possum Records | 0:16:14 (Pop-up) | ||
Tom Scharpling with Gregg from Philadephia | Tom talks Action Park with the Greggulator | The Best Show on WFMU, March 29, 2011 | WFMU Archives | 0:21:33 (Pop-up) | ||
Shellac | Dog and Pony Show | At Action Park | Touch and Go Records | No relation to NJ's Action Park, but still... | 0:23:04 (Pop-up) | |
Unknown | Action Park Commercial | via YouTube | No Label | 0:26:59 (Pop-up) | ||
Melissa F. from Vernon, NJ, former Action Park Ride Attendant | Turkey, TURKEY!!! | No Label | 0:28:14 (Pop-up) | |||
Unknown | 1988 Action Park Commercial | via YouTube | No Label | 0:30:19 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: The B-52's |
Follow Your Bliss |
Cosmic Thing |
Reprise Records |
0:30:56 (Pop-up) |
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John Hodgman speaks with Therese | Action Park Memories... | via Skype | No Label | 0:36:34 (Pop-up) | ||
Unknown | 1983 Action Park Commercial | via YouTube | 0:56:56 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: The B-52's |
Follow Your Bliss |
Cosmic Thing |
Reprise Records |
0:57:28 (Pop-up) |
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Andy Mulvihill speaks with Therese | Andy discusses his new book, Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusment Park | via Skype | No Label | 0:59:01 (Pop-up) | ||
Unknown | 1982 Action Park Commercial | via YouTube | No Label | 1:33:22 (Pop-up) | ||
Music behind DJ: The B-52's |
Follow Your Bliss |
Cosmic Thing |
Reprise Records |
1:33:54 (Pop-up) |
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Danny P. from Los Angeles, former host of the Jungle Challenge | All Hell Breaks Loose at the Jungle Challenge | No Label | 1:38:06 (Pop-up) | |||
Music behind DJ: The B-52's |
Follow Your Bliss |
Cosmic Thing |
Reprise Records |
1:44:24 (Pop-up) |
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The Hooters | And We Danced | Nervous Night | Columbia Records | The Hooters performed at Action Park at least once. | 1:50:03 (Pop-up) | |
Fleetwood Mac | You Made a Hit | Don't Go, Please Stay/You Made a Hit | Hyperion Books/ Warner Special Projects | from a single tucked into the back cover of Mick Fleetwood's book, "My 25 Years in Fleetwood Mac." | 1:54:20 (Pop-up) | |
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs | Who Knows Where the Time Goes? | Under The Covers, Vol. 1 | Shout! Factory | 1:57:32 (Pop-up) |
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Listener comments!
mariano:
Therese:
slugluv1313:
hiya Therese and Billiy Jam and Skeletons and Mariano!
just signing in, got totally confused by the playlist mystery :)
(hah! well, Mercury and like four other planets ARE in Retrograde! and, i hear the Moon will be hanging out with Saturn and Jupiter later tonight)
SO looking forward to this ACTION PARK special! Therese, i had no idea that you actually worked there, HOW did i miss that!
chresti:
lukavino:
Therese:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63Chan7:
ami ad:
lukavino:
Jett:
Michael in Montclair:
SoCal Denis:
Hyperskee:
BH:
Franco Twinkie:
radioronan:
www.esquire.com...
ami ad:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
queems:
Jett:
Therese:
tracy in LA:
slugluv1313:
Jett:
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Jett:
Ken From Hyde Park:
suzyhotrod:
lukavino:
Peter in tappan:
Peter in tappan:
Choggie:
Therese:
Kim:
So glad I caught this show!
Handy Haversack:
Franco Twinkie:
Choggie:
suzyhotrod:
Choggie:
Therese:
Choggie:
Peter in tappan:
suzyhotrod:
Kim:
Therese:
Therese:
Siobhan:
Jett:
Ken From Hyde Park:
BH:
efd:
Therese:
mariano:
efd:
Martinibomb:
Kim:
Therese:
Franco Twinkie:
Kim:
Chud:
Franco Twinkie:
Martinibomb:
Sean:
Chud:
efd:
mariano:
BH:
Franco Twinkie:
chresti:
chresti:
Handy Haversack:
We alpine slid in Vermont once, YEARS ago ... maybe 2004?
chresti:
Franco Twinkie:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Kim:
Therese:
Joe R.:
(oh, and we just ordered the book too :D)
Therese:
Franco Twinkie:
Therese:
Chud:
slugluv1313:
BH:
Joe R.:
Therese:
Franco Twinkie:
Tome:
Cannonball Loop, the infamous looping water slide, was only opened for brief periods in Action Park's existence.
In the mid-1980s GAR built an enclosed water slide, not unusual for that time; in fact, the park already had several such slides. On this one, however, they decided to build a complete vertical loop at the end, similar to that of a roller coaster.[43] The resulting slide, called the "Cannonball Loop", was so intimidating, that employees have reported they were offered $100 (equivalent to $238 in 2019) to test it. Fergus, who described himself as "one of the idiots" who took the offer, said, "$100 did not buy enough booze to drown out that memory."[39]
The slide was opened for only one month in summer 1985 before it was closed at the order of the state's Advisory Board on Carnival Amusement Ride Safety, a highly unusual move at the time.[3] One worker told a local newspaper that "there were too many bloody noses and back injuries" from riders, and it was widely rumored, and reported in Weird NJ, that some of the test dummies sent down before it opened had been dismembered and decapitated.[3] A rider also reportedly got stuck at the top of the loop due to insufficient water pressure, and a hatch had to be installed at the bottom of the slope to allow for future extractions.[3]
The ride supposedly reopened a few more times over the years. In the summers of 1995 and 1996, it was opened for several days before further injuries forced its permanent shutdown.
Tome:
BH:
Just remembered a much more recent situation around where I live involving the world's tallest/fastest water slide... which ended with it killing a kid (the park shut down shortly after). It's possible lessons still need to be learned for non-dangerous water slides?
Peter in tappan:
Peter in tappan:
John from Madison:
northguineahills:
It wasn't until I moved to NYC 20 years later that I was told about the notoriety of the Action Park.
Franco Twinkie:
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
northguineahills:
Franco Twinkie:
Dave Miss:
northguineahills:
Franco Twinkie:
northguineahills:
lukavino:
Therese:
Pauly from Clifton:
lukavino:
Therese:
slugluv1313:
Siobhan:
HexFamChan:
Therese:
northguineahills:
efd:
Handy Haversack:
slugluv1313:
Franco Twinkie:
lukavino:
HexFamChan:
Franco Twinkie:
Therese:
Jett:
efd:
neil quarantino:
efd:
Franco Twinkie:
lukavino:
chresti:
Handy Haversack:
We're going off on a walk to the pond. Thanks, Therese!
WHOA. Hooters!
Aitch:
Bootsie:
slugluv1313:
mariano:
Therese:
Therese:
Therese:
lukavino:
mariano:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
efd:
Erik Brynildsen:
Leon:
Handy Haversack:
mariano:
slugluv1313:
CleanShirt:
Ken From Hyde Park:
radioronan:
northguineahills:
slugluv1313:
gorgeous version -- i adore Judy Collins' version too, and of course the original Sandy Denny *chills*
PeterD:
HexFamChan:
Jett:
Franco Twinkie:
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Ken From Hyde Park: