"Cherry Hill Park" was written by Robert Nix and Billy Gilmore, and sung by Billy Joe Royal

Billy Joe Royal

Billy Joe Royal is an American singer.-Biography:Born in Valdosta and raised in Marietta in 1942, Royal became a local star at Savannah, Georgia's Bamboo Ranch in the 1950s and 1960s...

. The song was arranged by Buddy Buie

Buddy Buie

Buddy Buie is a songwriter, producer, and publisher. He is most commonly associated with Roy Orbison, The Classics IV and The Atlanta Rhythm Section.-Biography:...

, James Cobb

J.R. Cobb

James Barney Cobb, Jr. is an American guitarist who has played with the Classics IV, who had a #3 US/#46 UK hit with "Spooky" in 1968. He joined the Atlanta Rhythm Section in early 1972. They had a #7 US hit with "So Into You" in 1977...

, and Emory Gordy, Jr.

Emory Gordy, Jr.

Emory Gordy, Jr., born December 25, 1944, in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American musician and music producer. Since 1989, he has been married to country music artist Patty Loveless. Gordy was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1992...

; and produced by Buddy Buie

Buddy Buie

Buddy Buie is a songwriter, producer, and publisher. He is most commonly associated with Roy Orbison, The Classics IV and The Atlanta Rhythm Section.-Biography:...

 and Bill Lowery

Bill Lowery

Bill Lowery was an American music entrepreneur.-Early successes:Lowery was born in Leesville, Louisiana. He studied radio dramatics at Taft Junior College and went on to a number of radio-announcing jobs...

. It was a hit in 1969

1969 in music

-Events:Perhaps the two most famous musical events of 1969 were concerts. At a Rolling Stones concert in Altamont, California, a fan was stabbed to death by Hells Angels, a biker gang that had been hired to provide security for the event...

 reaching #15 on both the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Hot 100 chart and the Cash Box chart. It came off his 1969 album Cherry Hill Park

Cherry Hill Park (album)

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.The song Cherry Hill Park hit #15 on The Billboard Hot 100...

. 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

Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Cherry Hill is a township in Camden County, New Jersey, in the United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township had a population of 71,045, representing an increase of 1,080 from the 69,965 residents enumerated during the 2000 Census...

), as noted in the barely disguised double entendre lyrics. However, she "marries away" to a "man with money".