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"Louie Louie" is a rhythm and blues song written and composed by American musician Richard Berry in 1955, recorded in 1956, and released in 1957. It is best known for the 1963 hit version by the Kingsmen and has become a standard in pop and rock.
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- Richard Berry’s “Louie Louie”
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The production “values” (or near complete lack thereof) of the Kingsmen’s record were such that lead singer Jack Ely’s vocal came out rather muddied and garbled. This led to millions of kids across the country to somehow read “dirty” lyrics into the recording. Fifty years later the prestigious New Yorker magazine addressed this record with an artic...
Here are the lyrics to “Louie Louie” as Richard Berry recorded in 1956. Both sides of the record (Flip 254 and 321) are credited to Richard Berry and The Pharaohs. For this record, the Pharaohs were one of several vocal groups that Berry was working with, At the time the record was made, the group consisted of the following members (listed alphabet...
While Jack Ely’s crazed vocal gets almost all of the attention, the Kingsmen were a group that played their own instruments and sang. At the time the record was made, the group consisted of the following members (listed alphabetically): Lynn Easton, drums Jack Ely, rhythm guitar Don Gallucci, keyboards Mike Mitchel, lead guitar Bob Nordby, bass gui...
Reader Jim Miller posted a comment (which you can read in its brief entirety below), in which he reminded me that many people heard part of the second verse as “Every night at ten, I laid her again. I fucked that girl all kinds of ways.” According to the New Yorkerarticle (above), others heard that same line as being, “At night at ten, I lay her ag...
Although Berry’s record reputedly got some playing time and some sources claim it sold more than 100,000 copies, it did not reach any of the national best-selling surveys. But despite all the brouhaha surrounding the Kingsmen’s record, Louie Louie was a huge hit! It spent two weeks at #1 on the Cash Boxin January 1964. Louie Louie was the last char...
In their entry on Louie Louie, the contributors to Wikipedia state, “Total sales estimates for the single range from 10,000,000 to over 12,000,000 with cover versions accounting for another 300,000,000.” As the source for the first figure, they list the liner notes by Peter Blecha for the Rhino Records compilation The Best Of Louie Louiefrom 1983. ...
Oct 31, 2023 · "Louie Louie," recorded by the Kingsmen, began climbing the pop charts 60 years ago. It's a song almost everybody can recognize, but almost nobody understands the words to.
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Lyrics for The Kingsmen's most famous song: Louie Louie, from the 1963 album "The Kingsmen in Person".Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright...
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A rock & roll band from Portland, Oregon, the Kingsmen's one big hit "Louie, Louie" defined the garage-band style and became one of the all-time classics.
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Oct 22, 2023 · This year is the 60th anniversary of the Kingsmen's recording, "Louie Louie." The song has a surprising backstory. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Sixty years ago, a song began climbing the pop charts ...